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Another part of the FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Exeter is all set for a spooktacular opening on Halloween.

The popular Heavitree hub for bargain hunters closed in August for essential repairs and refurbishment.

One section re-opened on October 2 and another area will be back in business on Saturday October 31 with staff in fancy dress, hundreds of clothing items on sale for £1 and a bake sale.

“There’ll be plenty of treats and no tricks,” said shop manager Anna Heard. “We’re looking forward to gradually opening the remainder of the shop in the first week of...

There's a new performance concept in town and it's home-grown right here in Exeter!

JoJo Spinks of Interwoven Productions explains that “It's different from what we've come to expect of performance in a whole range of ways. Not only do we perform in the street but we perform about your street, about the landscape we all share – we grow the stories from the very ground beneath your feet!”

This Half-Term sees a new production from the Heavitree Squilometre Project, celebrating some of Heavitree and Wonford's most ancient and revered trees. The walking...

The FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Heavitree will partially re-open on Friday October 2.

The award-winning shop in Fore Street has been closed since August 21 for essential refurbishment work.

Contractors have been carrying out renovations including new roofing, some structural work, total rewiring and redecoration.

They have completed work on the furniture and book section of the shop, which will be re-carpeted early next week and re-stocked with a variety of items in time to welcome customers again on Friday.

“We’ll put a bit of everything in, including...

The award-winning FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Heavitree will close on Friday (August 21) for essential refurbishments.

Building work will begin on September 1 and the first phase is due to be completed in time for a partial re-opening in the first week of October.

Phase 2 should be done by the end of October so that the shop can fully re-open in early November.

Shop manager Anna Heard said: “It’s our last trading day this Friday. We have lots of clearance bargains going on including 10 CDs for a £1, all children's books 10p, adults’ books 40p and all clothes...

The FORCE Cancer Charity Shop in Heavitree’s Fore Street has again been named the best in the country.

It’s won the award as the most profitable in its category from the Charity Retail Association.

The news comes as FORCE announces that the shop is set to close at the end of August for approximately 10 weeks.

“We need to carry out some essential building work and we can’t do that without shutting the shop completely,” said manager Anna Heard.

But she reassured customers: “We won’t be doing anything to change the identity of our shop. It will still be the...

National sports charity ‘Tennis For Free’ has served up an ace for Exeter and the surrounding area by investing in a 50 week programme of free tennis lessons hoping hundreds of people across the area can make a racket at the city’s Heavitree Pleasure Ground courts.

The timing of the launch couldn’t be better as the World’s top players will be playing at the most famous tennis tournament of them all - Wimbledon. The charity, created by comedian Tony Hawks, has created a partnership with Exeter City Council, local professional tennis coach Jon Hamilton and the LTA to help provide...

A property in the Heavitree area of Exeter was badly damaged by fire last night

Fire crews received several calls for a house on fire in Sampsons Lane, shortly after 11pm.

Appliances from Danes Castle and Middlemoor attended.

On arrival, crews requested for further appliances to be mobilised and confirmed the property was well alight.

Additional appliances were sent from Danes Castle, Topsham and the Incident Command Unit from Honiton.

Fire crews got to work to extinguish the fire using two breathing apparatus, one hose reel jet and one main jet....

CityVets, a Veterinary Practice in Exeter, is using pioneering Adipose Stem Cell treatment on a four year old Siamese cat called Pharaoh who has been diagnosed with a previously untreatable disease called Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP).

Using Adipose stem cell therapy, a relatively new treatment that CityVets has been using for chronic arthritis in dogs, Veterinary Surgeon Ed Pattison has adapted this technique using Pharaoh’s own fat cells to create unique stem cells that are used in an attempt to stop the progression of FIP and prolong his life.

FIP in cats is a...

On the evening of Friday 21st March 1941 an RAF bomber of 49 Squadron crashed onto Hameldown, Dartmoor killing all four crew members on board. To commemorate the 74th anniversary of the crash a special event will take place at Higher Cemetery, Exeter on Saturday 21st March 2015. Two of the crew, Robert David Wilson (the Pilot), and the 2nd Pilot/Navigator Sergeant Richard Leonard Ashburton Ellis (who came from South Africa) are buried side by side at the Higher Cemetery. John Lowe, a former member of the RAF, has researched full details of the crew, the aircraft and the crash since he...