To celebrate Exeter’s Host City status in the Rugby World Cup, Princesshay has invited eight local schools from across Exeter and surrounding villages to take part in its Rugby Team Scarecrow competition.
Each school has been designated a team which is playing at Sandy Park in the Rugby World Cup, plus England, South Africa and Wales. Pupils have been set a challenge to use that team’s colours to fashion a bright and colourful decorative scarecrow to represent their chosen team.
Andy Littlejohns, operations manager at Princesshay said: “We wanted to become involved with the...
Keziah Bell, 23, has written a recipe book to encourage healthy eating following news that a 5.5st child of three is the youngest person to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
A single mum of one from Exeter has written a recipe book to help parents cook healthy meals for their children following news that a three-year-old weighing 5.5st was the youngster person to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Experts believe that an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise made the US toddler, who has not been named, to balloon to twice the normal weight of a child of that age.
At Killerton, the National Trust estate near Exeter, the apple harvest is fast approaching. This year looks to be a bumper crop and the trees are heavy with fruit.
But now Killerton needs help to collect the fallen apples that make its award winning cider and apple juice and is inviting visitors to join the ‘Big Pick Up’ in Sparrow Park Orchard on the weekends of 3 and 4 or 10 and 11 October.
Armed with a trusty wheelbarrow, the volunteers will head into the orchard to collect their bounty. Andy Bramwell, Outdoor Visitor Services Officer, said: “Wheels will be spinning,...
A group of long-term unemployed people from Exeter, who recently qualified as barbers and are setting out on their new careers, have described how the training enabled them to develop confidence and transform their lives.
The 19-week course is funded by Learn Devon – Devon County Council’s adult education service – and delivered by Hair @ the Academy, a salon at the Exeter Deaf Academy that offers hair and beauty training to disengaged adults and young people. The course is free to unemployed adults who are drawing benefits in their own right.
The Great Crediton Jam Night is Crediton's most successful Jam night, which happens on the first Sunday of the month. Just 15-20 minutes drive from Exeter. This is a well equipped open mic/jam night, with guitars, amps, drum kit, p.a., keyboard. All types of music welcome, be it, folk, jazz, rock, punk, metal, what ever floats your boat, we even get a bit of poetry! All levels of ability welcome in this relaxed atmosphere, a great way to try out stuff to an audience. We are all about live music, so if you're a singer, you will need to bring a musician with you unless you're...
The Great Crediton Jam Night is Crediton's most successful Jam night, which happens on the first Sunday of the month. Just 15-20 minutes drive from Exeter. This is a well equipped open mic/jam night, with guitars, amps, drum kit, p.a., keyboard. All types of music welcome, be it, folk, jazz, rock, punk, metal, what ever floats your boat, we even get a bit of poetry! All levels of ability welcome in this relaxed atmosphere, a great way to try out stuff to an audience. We are all about live music, so if you're a singer, you will need to bring a musician with you unless you're...
Up and coming Exeter racing driver Richard Mitchell heads for iconic Brands Hatch circuit this weekend for the HSCC Historic Formula Ford 1600 Championship.
Racing newcomer Richard joined the Silverstone based Speedsport team this year with virtually no previous racing experience. Despite that, he was straight on the pace and has won four of the first nine races, with second place in the season’s opener at Thruxton Circuit - beating former F1 driver and TV’s FIFTH GEAR presenter Tiff Needell.
The title race for the HSCC Historic Formula Ford 1600 Championship is really...
Rugby's biggest prize, the Webb Ellis cup is coming to Exeter, and people have a chance to have their picture taken with it.
The Webb Ellis Cup will be in the official Rugby World Cup 2015 Exeter Fanzone in Northernhay Gardens on Tuesday (29 September) from 12noon to 1pm and will be welcomed by a schools music mini fest, with music from local schools, The Academy of Music and Sound, and Exeter College.
The cup will then travel to Sandy Park for the first Rugby World Cup 2015 match in Exeter - Tonga v Namibia - and will be located outside Sandy Park from 2pm to 3.30pm, then...
Baring-Gould Folk Weekend returns October 2015 sees the welcome return of the “Baring-Gould Folk Weekend”.
This intimate and family-friendly folk festival, hosted by Okehampton-based music organisation Wren Mu-sic, brings great local and national music and international dance, and blends them with locally-sourced food and drink and an electric atmosphere to create an unforgettable weekend out for the whole family.
Guest highlights this year include Lady Maisery, a fabulous female trio exploring vocal harmony to breath-taking effect, through their fresh interpretations of...
Residents along the river frontage in the estuary-side town of Topsham were full of praise for the flooding exercise that took place on Wednesday evening of this week.
The exercise was aimed at raising awareness of the risk of flooding in the town – which suffered from floods in the storms of February 2014 – which allowed residents to test their own property defences.
The exercise also tested the readiness of Topsham’s recently recruited Flood Wardens, 10 of whom were deployed across 5 sectors covering the town’s 1.5 mile river frontage, from the recreation ground through...
