Exeter Phoenix’s annual short film festival, Two Short Nights, brought flocks of filmmakers, viewers and industry professionals to the city last week for a celebration of short film. Now in its sixteenth year, the festival featured more unmissable opportunities for emerging filmmakers alongside an extraordinary range and diversity of screenings for film fans than ever before, with a bumper two and a half days of cinema screenings, workshops and panel discussions. The festival’s opening day included the 48 Hour Film Screening, a collection of films written, shot and edited in just 48 hours...
Posting our plans on social media, leaving gift boxes we have bought in outside bins and forgetting to lock doors and windows… the simple mistakes that are inviting burglars into our homes.
As Christmas approaches, homes become filled with expensive gifts and gadgets. This sadly means that the festive season is also the peak time that domestic burglary increases due to opportunistic intruders.
New research from Verisure revealed it can take a long time to recover from a burglary. According to the research, 45% of victims felt angry for six months to over a year. A third...
Local charity Hospiscare is delighted to announce that Rob Baxter, Director of Rugby at Exeter Chiefs, will be the guest speaker at their fundraising dinner on 4th April 2018 at the University of Exeter.
This unique evening will feature a talk from Rob on ‘Maximising Potential’, during which he will explain how the principles used to improve results on the rugby pitch can also be used to improve results in the workplace. Regarded as one of rugby’s top coaches following the Chiefs recent LV Cup and Aviva Premiership successes, his thoughts are sure to be of interest to business...
Tech companies from across the region came together to celebrate and showcase the sector at a ‘Best of the West’ Tech South West event in Devon.
Held at Rockbeare Manor near Exeter Airport on Tuesday November 28, the event gave established and emerging tech companies from across the South West a platform to share their success stories with the tech community.
Acronyms IT, based at Plymouth Science Park, Dashboard from Exeter, YellowDog, Bristol and LimeCloud from Barnstaple were amongst those taking part.
Fifteen companies presented to the audience, and there were...
Congratulations to our winner, Nicky Brooks, whose name was drawn from the correct entries.
The correct answer to the question ‘When did the Exeter Chiefs first move into the Sandy Park Stadium?’ is of course 2006.
Thank you to everyone who entered.
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Exeter Chiefs will go head-to-head with Leinster Rugby, on Sunday (10 December) at 5.30pm, in the third round of the Champions Cup – and we have FOUR tickets to giveaway!
We are offering one lucky reader the opportunity to win FOUR tickets to the match at the Sandy Park...
Exeter and Cranbrook are jumping for joy after being chosen to trail-blaze new ways of getting people active for life. Sport England today (Tuesday 5 December) announced that Exeter and the East Devon new town of Cranbrook, are one of 12 places selected to work on a ground-breaking new approach to tackle inactivity in communities. Exeter and Cranbrook has been chosen by Sport England as a pilot area to work with on a bold new approach to build healthier, more active communities across England. Exeter and Cranbrook is one of only 12 places in England to be awarded Pilot status and the only...
One of Exeter’s historic attractions is opening its doors to visitors for free tours and cream teas.
Cricklepit Mill is the venue for the event which takes place between 10am and 12 noon on Friday 15 December. The historic watermill is home to the charity Devon Wildlife Trust and is located on Commercial Road close to the city’s Quay.
Visitors will get the chance to see the mill’s two waterwheels turning, while its team of volunteers will be on hand using traditional water-power to demonstrate the milling of grain into flour. Tours telling the story of Cricklepit Mill will...
South West favourites Joey The Lips will return to Sandy Park on March 23rd with their high energy funky soul, blues and disco revue.
The 10-piece band includes three vocalists, a driving rhythm section and a killer horn section and they have worked with Will Young and Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats and headlined many music festivals.
From ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ to Beyonce’s ‘Crazy in Love’, and ‘River Deep, Mountain High’ to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ with a heavy metal medley thrown in, the Joey The Lips set is well-known for being ‘fast, fun and furious’ and are guaranteed to...
This Saturday, 9th December 2017, the 501st UK Garrison Star Wars Costuming Club will be attendending a charity event in aid of Exeter Foodbank at John Lewis Exeter from 10.30am-4pm.
There are many myths surrounding hospices, one of the biggest misconceptions is that if you get admitted to one, it’s because you are about to die. That’s certainly the impression Bronia Rosier and her family had when she was referred to local charity, Hospiscare.
Bronia, 56, from Ottery St Mary, was diagnosed with a tumour two years ago. After a course of chemo and radiotherapy which was unsuccessful in shrinking the growth, she underwent surgery to remove it. However, the cancer had already spread to other areas of her body and Bronia was given the news that no further treatment...
