Exeter Chiefs welcome back Jack Nowell and Phil Dollman into their starting line-up for Sunday’s Aviva Premiership clash with Harlequins at Sandy Park (2pm).
Both Nowell and Dollman appeared off the bench in last week’s 25-22 win at Gloucester, but head coach Rob Baxter is keen to see the duo in action from the outset as the Chiefs look to record a third win in four starts this season.
England international Nowell has not started a league game since he injured a shoulder during Exeter’s defeat at Leicester Tigers last March, while Dollman has also had to sit on the...
A massive hoard of almost 22,000 Roman coins has been unearthed near Seaton in East Devon.
East Devon builder and metal detector enthusiast Laurence Edgerton discovered the hoard of 4th-Century copper-alloy coins in November 2013 while operating under licence on Clinton Devon Estates land near Seaton Down. The findspot is near to the Honeyditches site which includes a Roman villa and a possible Roman fort.
Exeter’s award-winning museum, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum is today (Friday) launching a bid to purchase the coins for public display in the city.
Rugby fans have just three days left to apply for Rugby World Cup 2015 tickets via the general sales application window before it closes at 1800 (BST) on September 29, 2014. The volume of interest in tickets is highly encouraging a year out from the Tournament, hosted in England and in Cardiff between September 18 and October 31, 2015. Fans can still apply for tickets for all 48 matches, including those that will go to ballot, up until the application window closes on Monday (September 29, 1800 BST). Whilst many matches will go to ballot there is still availability at venues across the...
Outside, a storm is raging. Inside, a darkened room preserves the fragments of a past underneath dust sheets. Sea-shells, voices, yellowing postcards: the flotsam and jetsam of a childhood spent beach-combing on the coast of Brittany. Stories emerge: of treasure found in tidal ponds, and women metamorphosing into serpents. But beneath the floorboards, the creaking groans of whales warn of unsettled futures.
In a sparkling one-woman performance that blends poetry with theatre, Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien navigates a shifting maritime landscape. Memory and myth from the Celtic...
One of the longest serving campaigners for a visitor centre in Seaton, Donald Campbell, joined with nine-year-old Seaton Primary School pupils, Aimee Kenworthy and Taylor Lee to ‘break the ground’ for Seaton Jurassic today (Friday 26 September).
They were joined by representatives from all the funding partners, local community campaigners, volunteers and schoolchildren to celebrate the official start on site for the building of £4 million visitor centre.
Earlier in the day pupils from the school helped the contractors move plants to make way for the construction to take...
A pioneering new study has shown that water found on Earth predates the formation of the Sun – raising hopes that life could exist on exoplanets, the planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy.
The ground-breaking research set out to discover the origin of the water that was deposited on the Earth as it formed.
It found that a significant fraction of water found on Earth, and across our solar system, predates the formation of the Sun. By showing that water is ‘inherited’ from the environment when a star is born, the international team of scientists believe other...
East Devon District Council’s Leader has welcomed the offer of a woodland at Cranbrook for use by students at the new education campus where building work is about to begin as “an excellent example of promoting health and wellbeing”.
Councillor Paul Diviani gave a short address to a members’ briefing at Knowle on Wednesday, called so councillors could hear about the latest proposals from the NHS Clinical Commissioning Group that covers Eastern Devon.*
As a County Council ward member for Honiton St Paul’s, Councillor Diviani also has an interest in Devon County Council’s...
A new bird study on Dartmoor reveals dunlin numbers have increased in response to efforts to restore the moor's famous mires.
The dunlin is a small wading bird. They breed across northern Europe, Russia and North America, but globally their most southerly breeding location is on Dartmoor. In the UK their population numbers 9,600 pairs and they are completely reliant on good quality blanket bog for breeding.
The Dartmoor Mires Project is a pilot scheme exploring the feasibility and effects of restoring degraded blanket bog on Dartmoor, and is being coordinated by Dartmoor...
Devon Hotels & Restaurants Association has reported a ‘perfect summer’ with bookings for many establishments seeing a healthy rise on last year’s figures thanks to the combination of two months of glorious sunshine, a renewed optimism in the economy encouraging spend and an increase in the corporate market.
All this with the careful planning and future forecasting of local hoteliers and restaurant owners has combined to safeguard the region’s highly respected tourism industry.
Mike Coombes, chair of Devon Hotels and MD of luxurious Mill End Hotel on Dartmoor commented...
