A major United Nations report has revealed the international community has failed to halt environmental decline over the last 10 years. Now, new analysis from the RSPB has revealed the UK’s self-assessment is overly optimistic as high environmental ambitions have not led to real progress being made.
The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, published yesterday by the United Nations, contained no country-level breakdowns of how the UK has fared. Instead, an RSPB report ‘A Lost Decade for Nature’, has revealed our true performance.
With UK wildlife continuing to decline and vital...
Regional Adoption Agency Adopt South West and independent adoption charity Families for Children, join the coalition of National, Regional and Voluntary adoption agencies across the country, supported by the Department for Education (DfE), to launch a nationwide recruitment campaign to raise awareness of adoption.
In the UK, there are almost 3,000 children that are in need of an adoptive family and the number of adoptions in England has fallen by a third in four years. In response, the new #YouCanAdopt campaign will bust myths around who is eligible to adopt and explore what the...
The first service between Exeter and Newcastle took off for the first time today, as Loganair brings back connectivity between the two cities for business and leisure.
Operated using a 49-seat Embraer 145 regional jet, the service will see twice-weekly flights on Monday and Friday throughout winter with lead in fares of £54.99 each way.
The winter timetable has departures from Exeter at 11.50 on Mondays and 12.50 on Fridays, and from Newcastle at 09.50 on Mondays and 10.50 on Fridays.
Within the airline’s recently launched summer 2021 schedule, the route will...
A major roundabout on the outskirts of Exeter will undergo two weeks of overnight closures while resurfacing work is carried out from next week.
Overnight resurfacing work will be undertaken on the A376 Clyst St Mary roundabout and its approach roads (A376 Sidmouth Road, A376 Exmouth Road, A3052 Honiton Road) from Monday 21 September to Friday 2 October.
Both the roundabout and the approach roads will be closed each evening from 7pm through to 7am the next day. The road will be fully open during the daytime and at weekends.
Vue Exeter are boasting a slate of brand new content for cinema-lovers to enjoy this week.
Romantics will be looking forward to the love story of two young adults who must find out whether their love for one another is enough to overcome some unexpected differences. In After We Collided , the hotly anticipated sequel to the 2019 hit, After , viewers can watch as Tessa decides whether the man she fell madly in love with is still the same, after a bombshell revelation is dropped about the origins of their relationship.
This weekend, K-Pop sensations BTS offer a behind-the-...
Crowdfunder.co.uk & Theatres Trust have launched a nationwide crowdfunding campaign to help save theatres across the UK. The #SaveOurTheatres campaign was launched on 8th September with theatre fundraising pages going live up and down the country.
In Exeter and across the county, theatres are suffering. Cygnet Theatre is at the heart of our community: it is a place to come together, to be entertained and to be inspired. Training theatres like Cygnet are where our best-loved actors learn their craft. Cygnet has a long history of training ‘swans’ who go on to work in the West...
Three Exeter independents have launched the ‘Get Exeter Baking’ campaign to help local people enjoy the benefits and pleasure of making real bread at home.
Participants are provided with information and resources to help them learn the art of making real sourdough bread, and to take part in a competition to show off their creations for a chance to win baking-themed prizes.
The campaign is being run collectively by Emma’s Bread, The Real Food Store and The Sidwell Street Bakehouse to support the Real Bread Campaign’s Sourdough September initiative. Now in its eighth year,...
White Wall Yellow Door , an initiative which provides museums, galleries and theatres with resources for families, is delighted to announce its plans to launch in Exeter.
Sophy Rickett, Director of White Wall Yellow Door (WWYD) says: “Over the last four years, we have firmly established ourselves in London and have developed a diverse portfolio of projects with clients including Trinity Buoy Wharf, the Petrie Museum of Egyptology and the Freud Museum. We have had some fantastic feedback and now feel we are in a great position to expand outside London.”
New research released this week from Zoopla, the UK’s most comprehensive property destination, shows the demand for property in Exeter has more than doubled since the easing of lockdown restrictions and the introduction of a Stamp Duty holiday.
Zoopla’s Exeter House Price Index studies multiple local housing trends and prices on an annual basis. The data shows that the average price to buy any house in Exeter is now £243,000, with prices rising by 1.9% in the last 12 months.
Double demand
The demand for homes in Exeter area has experienced phenomenal growth,...
Exeter’s leisure centres are set to reopen in the coming weeks following extensive work to ensure they are safe to use.
A phased reopening will take place from September and each centre will be run under the direct management of the City Council rather than being outsourced to a private company.
The plan is to reopen the centres on the following dates, provided the necessary COVID security measures are complete:
ISCA Centre and Exeter Arena – 28 September
Wonford Sports Centre and Northbrook Swimming Pool – 5 October
