Exeter

We need your help – Go Team Relay!

Thistle Hotels are participating in one amazing relay challenge. Together as a team our employees will run, bike, and swim 1,400 miles from Inverness to London.

It's the opportunity of a lifetime and we're all in it together. We'll pass all 36 of our hotels up and down the UK, racing miles to raise smiles for some truly outstanding children's charities.

For more details go to http://www.liteatnite.co.uk/employee-hotel-relay.html

Please sponsor the Thistle Exeter Team who are cycling from Exeter to Poole on 4 September which...

Jenny Brown and Paul Colebourne are the first residents to move into their new home at Wyndham Place, Tisbury built by independent developer C G Fry & Son, well-renowned for their triple-award winning Wyvern Park in Exeter. Site manager Adrian White was recently awarded a Quality Award in the ‘Pride in the Job’ 2013 for the development organised by the National House Building Council (NHBC) for the South West region. A ‘Pride in the Job award’ is the highest industry accolade a site manager can receive.

Jenny together with partner Paul own a house in London and are looking to...

Westpoint Arena in Exeter is pleased to welcome back award-winning, “Ecobuild on wheels”, The Energy Efficiency Exhibitions incorporating Renewables Roadshow. The free, one-day event will bring local businesses up to speed with the big energy issues currently affecting the business climate, including Energy Company Obligation (ECO), Green Deal, Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and much more. The event includes a varied programme of informative and easy-to-digest presentations and demonstrations by industry experts which will be hosted in a series of special exhibition areas, including: the...

The former chief of chain stores Wickes and Iceland has claimed that 20,000 independent shops in the UK are at risk of closing, in an alternative report into the high street to be published this week.

Bill Grimsey has criticised a government report and high street rescue strategy overseen by 'Queen Of Shops", Mary Portas, as "little more than a PR stunt". Mr Grimsey has compiled an alternative report to be published on Wednesday (4 September) in which he will argue for a "holistic solution" to tackling the problems on our high streets.

Mr Grimsey has labelled Ms Portas'...

Organisers of the 8th Topsham-Turf swim are celebrating the annual event’s biggest number of participants, who are estimated to have raised over £8,000 so far with more sponsorship to be added over the coming weeks for a local charity.

The event, which has been staged by the Estuary League of Friends since 2005 and is now supported by Michelmores Solicitors, witnessed 133 swimmers start the mile long swim on Saturday 17 August at Topsham Ferryman’s Slipway on their way to the Turf Hotel.

Exeter St James resident, Nye Levett was first swimmer back with Laura Davies from...

Motivated by rising food and fuel costs and concerns over Genetic Modified crops, Bicton College has taken the ‘food fight’ into its own hands.

From melons, aubergines and grapes, to lemongrass and the highly profitable Thai Basil, Bicton College horticulturalists and volunteers are determined to produce high quality, chemical free fruit and veg.

Andrea Rye, a Horticulture Instructor at Bicton College is proud to promote natural growing. “We don’t use any chemicals in our growing and encourage natural growth so our food tastes just as it should and we are working towards...

Did you notice more shoppers hovering a bit longer near the freezer sections of supermarkets and in air conditioned shops? While attention was focused on the soaring temperatures, for some the thought of a possible chilly winter was uppermost.

Users of Exeter’s “Palace” the Palace Gate Centre (located in Palace Gate, off the bottom of South Street) were dismayed to discover that following an inspection the Centre’s heating plant was no longer fit for service, having been in continuous use since 1973, and without immediate replacement the prospect of a cold winter beckoned.

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South West Water is reminding those who commute between Exeter and Sidmouth to plan now for disruption when a project to replace ageing water mains in Newton Poppleford gets under way in October.

During the £500,000 scheme the water company will be upgrading 1,025 metres of old three-inch concrete water mains o address the issue of frequent bursts in the area. Work starts on Saturday 5 October and will take 19 weeks.

The A3052, between Venn Ottery Road and King Alfred Way, will be closed to traffic for three weeks from Saturday 5 October until Sunday 27 October. Clearly...