Women living in the Exeter and East Devon area are invited to Killerton estate, near Exeter, for the launch of a new cycling initiative. In conjunction with the British Cycling ‘Breeze’ campaign, the National Trust hopes to help local women feel more confident and comfortable about going on a bike ride.
The first of the free instructor-led rides starts on Friday 16 May at 10.30am and follows an almost entirely off-road route from Killerton to the 200 year old Clyston Mill in the neighbouring village of Broadclyst. Places on the ride can be booked at goskyride.com/Breeze.
Forecasters have warned that thunderstorms are likely to break out across the South West this afternoon potentially making driving conditions difficult.
The Met office have issued a yellow weather warning due to the risk of localised flooding, in particular surface water flooding, on affected roads.
Scattered heavy showers and thunderstorms are likely to break out across southern parts of England from around 12:45pm and remain until around 8pm this evening. A chief forecaster at the Met Office said: “A deeply unstable airmass covers much of southern England. As daytime...
English former football player and manager, Kevin Keegan OBE took time out from a ‘Southern Sporting Club’ lunch presentation held at Sandy Park to sign an official Exeter City football shirt. The footballing legend aged 63 was the keynote speaker at the sporting lunch hosted by David Duckham MBE, the former Coventry and England rugby player.
The Yorkshire-born striker played for several clubs including Liverpool and Hamburger SV as well as being an England favourite. A football superstar of the Seventies, Keegan was as famous for his 'bubble' perm as much as his skills on the...
A team of Exeter Junior School pupils has beaten off strong competition from pupils much older than themselves in a mind boggling competition. Team Omega, made up of Tom Harris-Deans, Bertie Hawkins and James Waddington, took part in the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition aimed at secondary school children up to year 11. Now in its third year, the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition is organised by the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester and celebrates the life of acclaimed mathematician Alan Turing, perhaps best known for his work breaking German codes during World...
Team members at the Wilko store in the Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter, are offering a helping hand to community groups and charities in the area who need extra support in 2014.
Whether the project benefits young people, families or the elderly, Wilko is appealing to anyone who is passionate about their local community to get involved and apply for a donation from the store’s Helping Hands budget.
People living within Exeter and the surrounding area can apply to the store for a monetary donation or Wilko products to help them with worthwhile projects.
Nominations for this year’s NatWest Venus Awards opened at a launch party in Exeter last night (Monday April 28).
The awards aim to celebrate and recognise the achievements of the county’s working women and entrepreneurs.
Devon’s first event was held last year and attracted almost 1,500 nominations. This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever before and will be launched at an evening ceremony at the city’s glamorous Amanda Marsden Lifestyle Salon.
Venus Awards Devon Regional Partner, Celia Delaney of SpeakingSuccess, paid tribute to on-the-night...
Exeter City Council has begun repair work to the wall at Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham, using money from the government's funds.
The repairs come after a large section of the coastal defence alongside the River Clyst frontage was severely damaged during the high tides and storm damage in January and February.
This resulted in a breach which allowed the high tides to overtop and flow into the protected land and inkland road behind it. These raised defences provide protection to the RSPB reserve at Bowling Green Marsh and a number of nearby properties and businesses.
A major new study has been published looking at the possibility of developing a walking, cycling and riding route from Sidmouth to Feniton.
The concept of the 16km multi-use route, known informally as the Otter Trail, has been around for many years but has now been explored in more detail by the sustainable travel charity Sustrans. The study has follows a community meeting last year which highlighted the need for the report as part of the legacy work of the construction of Coleridge Bridge in Ottery St Mary, which opened to the public in August 2011. The feasibility study found...
Football fever hit the Exeter Northcott Theatre last Sunday as rehearsals for the upcoming musical The Day We Played Brazil began.
Over 100 participants gathered at the theatre to begin rehearsing dialogue, songs and dance moves for the show that is set to be the biggest cultural event to hit Exeter.
The Day we Played Brazil will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the football match between Exeter City and the Brazil national team – the first-ever game played by Brazil. The play is based on the extraordinary true story of Exeter City FC’s tour to South America in 1914....
Fundraisers have smashed their target of raising £30,000 to help an Exeter mum who is the only person in the world with two rare terminal conditions.
Jo Smith (pictured, right) has a unique combination of diseases and doctors say the odds of suffering both is over five billion to one.
The 36-year-old suffers from pulmonary hypertension and lymphatic cancer. She is thought to be the first person in the world to suffer from these two different rare terminal diseases.
But doctors say she can't be put on a waiting list for the lifesaving organs - because she is also...
