Trill Farm, the 300 acre organic farm and education centre near Axminster, will be participating in this national event - Open Farm Sunday - for the first time in 2015, on Sunday 7th June between 11am - 4pm. Each year since 2006, Open Farm Sunday has seen hundreds of UK farms open up their gates to the public on the same day across the country. It’s a fantastic opportunity for the British public to get to understand the importance of farming and its connection to food production, something that is at the heart of The Trill Trust, the educational charity based at Trill. People can visit...
Join Dartmoor National Park at Devon County Show on 21-23 May 2015 in the Country Life and Woodland area.
At the Show this year DNP will be launching their new Granite and Gears cycling code, packed with useful information for those who love to cycle in the National Park.
You'll also be able to pick up two free Granite and Gears off road route guides to help you make the most of cycling on Dartmoor.
Andrew Watson, Head of Recreation, Access and Estates said: "The Devon County Show is a great venue to be launching the new Granite and Gears cycling code, developed...
Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF) is inviting visitors to the Devon County Show to drop in to the Otter Nurseries stand where they can ‘buy a brick’ and donate to the charity’s Chevithorne Appeal.
ELF Fundraiser, Alison Upton explained: “The Chevithorne Appeal will fund a family suite at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital so that critically ill and end of life patients can be together with their loved ones. By Buying a Brick, the general public can help us to achieve this goal.”
The charity is sharing the Otter Nurseries stand at the show – ELF is the garden centre’s Charity of...
Rob Baxter insists he and his Exeter Chiefs can ill afford to be distracted by events elsewhere in the Aviva Premiership today (Saturday) and instead focus their sole attentions on the visit of Sale Sharks to a sold-out Sandy Park (3:30pm)
With just one round of the scheduled season left to play, the Chiefs currently find themselves in unchartered waters, fourth in the standings and occupying the final play-off berth.
It's due reward for what has been a fantastic season for the Devon club, who have also notched up a second successive LV= Cup Final appearance, as well as a...
Dean Mumm insists he will have plenty of happy memories to take home to Australia once he brings the curtain down on his Exeter Chiefs career in the not too distant future.
After three seasons in Devon, the 31-year-old is set to run out for one final time at Sandy Park this weekend as the Chiefs prepare to welcome Sale Sharks in the Aviva Premiership.
A sell-out crowd will roar Mumm and his team-mates into battle this Saturday, but Exeter’s inspirational skipper doesn’t want his Westcountry experience to end just yet.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died in a road traffic collision on the old A30 in Exeter on Tuesday 12 May.
Officers along with fire, ambulance and an air ambulance attended the two-vehicle collision that happened shortly before 12.40pm on Tedburn Road, Whitestone, between Bakers Hill and Path Finder Village.
The driver of the silver Citroën Saxo, a 53-year-old man from Exeter, was pronounced dead at the scene. His family have been informed.
There were no other occupants in this car.
The three occupants of the green Vauxhall Astra were taken...
People are being invited to help play their part in decorating Exeter in the lead up to Rugby World Cup 2015.
Preparations are underway to clad the city in bunting and 'yarn bombing' in white, yellow, red, green and blue - the colours of the teams taking part in the Rugby World Cup 2015 games at Sandy Park.
To kick things off there will be a launch event at Exeter Corn Exchange on Monday (18 May), where people pop in between 2pm and 8pm to find out more about the initiative.
At Monday's event there will be a presentation as well as workshops, pick-up patterns and a...
Mattie Richardson, Bunyip Beads; James Clark, Marks & Spencer; Patrick Cunningham, Exeter Phoenix; Wayne Pearce, Princesshay; Helen Scholes, Stagecoach and David Goodchild, Exeter Cavern Club met this week for the first time as new board directors of the Exeter BID Company.
They will be joined at future meetings by fellow directors Echo editor Jon-Paul Hedge, Ben Barlaba, The LXS Centre Stage; Stephen Auty, Specsavers and Jonathan Boatfield, Cadastre as well as by stakeholder board members representing Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Exeter City Council and Devon...
Change of collection day for council’s waste and recycling services to affect half of Cranbrook’s households
All residents to receive letters and bin hangers confirming collection days and dates
In the course of its planned development, East Devon’s newest town, Cranbrook has already grown significantly, which not surprisingly has an impact on the services that we provide, such as the waste and recycling collections. Maintaining the efficiency of this service is one of our priorities – our objective is to keep Cranbrook looking good and to meet our customers’ requirements....
An Exeter College student has been busy organising events to raise funds to support a project that tackles poverty in South Africa.
Berenice Phillips, 18, will travel to South Africa in June this year to work on the development programme for 10 weeks.
She will team up with South African volunteers to tackle some of the problems facing the local community. She will live with a host family over the 10 week placement so will get to experience the countries true culture.
ICS allows young people aged 18-25 to contribute to long-term development projects in countries like...
