Six new brightly coloured council homes set to providing sustainable and low energy housing for some of Exeter’s most vulnerable families.
New eco-friendly homes at Reed Walk, Newport Road will house six local families who have been waiting for a suitable place to live on Exeter’s Housing Register. The new three-bedroom homes, including one fully wheelchair accessible property, were completed in September.
The houses are noticeable due to their bright colouring, which were carefully developed to reflect typical natural building materials of the Exeter area like Devon...
Bishop Sarah has ordained four new priests, and in doing so became the first woman bishop in the Church of England to lead an ordination service.
Bishop Sarah ordained Leisa McGovern and Sheila Walker, in Ottery St Mary, and Glyn Lewry and Jill Purser in Sampford Peverell.
The four clergy have spent a year in the parishes as deacons but now they are ordained priests by Bishop Sarah, they will be able to take weddings and lead Communion services.
Dame Sarah Mullally was consecrated as the new Bishop of Crediton by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral...
A two-year project to restore an 18th-century maritime villa in Lyme Regis to its former glory is now complete and open to the public.
Belmont House, a Grade II* listed seaside villa, was rescued from decay in 2007 by The Landmark Trust. The villa was once home to world-famous author, John Fowles, author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman.
The two-year restoration project involving a raft of volunteers and specialist tradespeople began in late 2013 and was completed last month.
East Devon based company Fords were integral to the restoration project...
Almost three million homes could be released into the housing market if better incentives and information were offered to older home-owners, encouraging them to downsize into smaller properties, according to The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
The RICS Residential Policy Review published last week, sets out a number of recommendations on how Government could do more to tackle the UK’s housing crisis, including incentivising home owners to sell or rent out under-occupied family homes.
Jeremy Blackburn, Head of Policy at RICS said: “Britain’s older home-...
Chrysander Botha says he’s “excited” to be back at Sandy Park as prepares to line-up for Namibia in their latest Rugby World Cup encounter against Tonga today (4.45pm).
Not since October last year – when London Irish were the visitors in the Aviva Premiership – has the 27-year-old featured in a competitive fixture at the Exeter stadium.
A sickening broken leg and dislocated ankle, sustained whilst on international duty against Canada last November, cut short Botha’s maiden campaign with the Exeter Chiefs following a promising start.
“Plan your journey” is the message to rugby fans and commuters in Exeter, ahead of this Tuesday’s Rugby World Cup 2015 match at Sandy Park.
Tonga will be playing Namibia on Tuesday 29 September in the first of three matches to be hosted at the Exeter Chiefs’ stadium.
With the kick-off at 4:45pm on Tuesday, transport links in and around Exeter are likely to be congested, so match ticket holders are being urged to get to the ground in plenty of time. Commuters are also being reminded to be aware that public transport to Sandy Park is expected to be busier than usual at this...
The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England has published its final recommendations for new electoral arrangements for Exeter City Council.
Today’s publication follows an eight-week public consultation on its draft proposals and draws new boundaries for each council ward across Exeter.
The Commission’s final recommendations propose that Exeter should be represented by 39 city councillors in the future: one fewer than the current arrangement. The recommendations also propose that those councillors should represent thirteen three-member wards across the...
Hospiscare’s amazing fundraiser, Norman Croucher has done it again!
Over the summer, after chemotherapy,radiotherapy and a major operation resulting in a permanent colostomy because of bowel cancer, the 75-year-old double leg amputee has returned to the French Alps and climbed four mountains.
Norman is raising money for us and says this gives him a great sense of purpose; the total so far is nearly £8,000.
“Hospiscare is such a first class organisation,” he said. “I’m pleased to help. It’s nice that it looks after so many people in their own homes. I know several...
A university lecturer who founded the Care Homes Reading Project that supports hundreds of elderly people in Exeter has been named a Point of Light by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Dr Johanna Harris has worked as an English lecturer at the University of Exeter for almost five years.
When she joined in 2011, she wanted to give students the opportunity to make links with other people outside their lecture halls, universities and their own ‘generational bubble’. She decided to set up the Care Homes Reading Project where students volunteer to read to elderly people and...
The rugby world cup has well and truly kicked off, what better way to celebrate it than with Live Wire Theatre’s new stage production, Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot? Yes, Live Wire Theatre Company are back at The Barnfield Theatre with every rugby fan’s dream theatre show on 16th – 17th October.
Four actors from Live Wire Theatre Company swap roles at incredible speed to bring some of the greatest rugby players to life in this fast-paced comedy, full of song and physical theatre. Look out for the All-Black’s Haka and, of course, Jonny Wilkinson dropping that famous...
