Join Sarah Pepper for a festive, fun charity evening in Broadclyst, watch her make a Christmas wreath then you can make one too.
Sarah, an acclaimed local florist who puts the fun into floristry with her relaxed chatty style, will be making a stylish Christmas door cone wreath for outdoors, indoors or it can be laid on a table. This takes place on Friday 5 December, 7pm at Broadclyst Victory Hall, with mulled wine and mince pies. Tickets at £16 includes all wreath materials, and need to be booked before the event. Tel 01392 966728 or email choicespregnancyexeter@gmail.com
Drivers are warned to take extra care as the Met Office issue a yellow warning for fog across the region tonight.
Patches of fog, locally dense, will develop through Wednesday evening across Cornwall and west Devon, whilst cloud will lower to give fog over hills further east, leading to locally poor driving conditions.
Later in the night, increasing cloud and breeze will lift the fog into low cloud with only the highest routes affected by poorer visibility.
A chief forecaster said: “A frontal system will continue to move slowly eastwards across southwest England...
Staff and volunteers at Lydford Gorge are organising a Winter Fayre on Sunday 30 November between 11am and 3pm, to encourage shoppers to buy local produce and gifts for the forthcoming Christmas season.
Sarah Hortop, Retail Manager at Lydford Gorge, says: "It’s very exciting – I have worked at Lydford Gorge for 27 years and this is the first time we have held an event like this. We hope it will encourage everyone to not only buy locally-grown seasonal produce that will add real quality to their Christmas, but also get out and about in the beautiful winter countryside."
Planning approval was secured yesterday (18 November) at East Devon District Council’s Development Management Committee for improvements to Mamhead Slipway and for the construction of a new building on Camperdown Terrace to be used by Exmouth Sea Cadets.
These decisions provide a major boost to the regeneration of Exmouth seafront and the start of the proposed development of Camperdown Creek.
The redevelopment of Mamhead Slipway follows its closure on safety grounds. The new, improved slipway will be realigned and enlarged with better vehicle manoeuvring.
Devon and Cornwall police has launched a murder investigation in Barnstaple.
A murder investigation was launched following the discovery of the body of a 59 year old woman at a property in Barnstaple, North Devon on Monday 17th November.
Officers attended a property in Sunflower Road, Barnstaple on Monday 17th November at 2.20pm after a call from the ambulance service.
The death was initially treated as unexplained but following enquires a 38 year old local man was arrested during the evening on Tuesday 18th November on suspicion of murder.
Britain's bass stocks have collapsed, with commercial fishermen and even recreational anglers facing drastic cuts in what they're allowed to catch. West Country boats are laid up after a total ban on fishing for skate — the latest evidence of our continuing failure to manage our seas properly.
But it is not all bad news. Tough decisions to slash cod quotas in the North Sea in recent years, vigorously opposed by the fishing industry at the time, have led to the stock beginning to recover. But still far too little is being done to ensure we have a healthy, sustainable marine...
There's still time for people in the catering business to book a place on a workshop looking at new legislation involving allergens in food.
New regulations become law from December for the way restaurants, pubs, cafes inform customers about the allergens contained in meals or snacks.
Exeter City Council is running a Food information for Consumers/Allergy Awareness workshop on Tuesday (25 November) from 10am to 12 noon. The cost of the course is £10 per delegate.
From 13 December there are new requirements for declaring allergens in foods. The Food Information...
Kay Transport, based in Cullompton, is to benefit from a new Digital Information Hub developed by Palletways Group, Europe’s largest dedicated network for the express delivery of palletised freight.
As one of 100 plus independent transport providers that make up the Palletways distribution network in the UK, Kay Transport will be able to take full advantage of a new digital system – an industry first - to greatly enhance operational efficiencies and the customer experience by optimising the use of live data.
The Digital Information Hub provides extensive operational and...
Twenty two students and staff from the University of Exeter made the journey to RAF St Mawgan to observe the Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) deployed on Exercise ARRCADE FUSION, 14 November 2014.
The post-graduate students are studying a range of political, civil, military, and diplomatic relations topics at Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute.
One aim of their visit was to see how policy at the strategic level begins to take shape in an operational headquarters in order to be implemented at a tactical level. Walking the ground and seeing how planning...
