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Ghostly Nights Named Paranormal Experience Provider of the Year for the South West

Ghostly Nights, the South West’s leading paranormal events company, has been officially recognised as the Paranormal Experience Provider of the Year for the South West, celebrating its authentic and immersive ghost-hunting experiences.

With autumn nights drawing in and Halloween around the corner, Ghostly Nights offers the perfect alternative night out. Guests can step inside historic venues - from manor houses to prisons - and take part in real paranormal investigations using professional equipment.

“This award is a huge honour” says Will Hodges, founder of Ghostly...

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1,320 kids to race through Exeter streets

A record number of 1,320 primary school pupils across Exeter are set to take to the stage, and complete their own half marathon challenge as part of Exeter’s Great West Run Schools’ Challenge, taking place on Sunday 18 October 2015. Schools from across the city signed up to the 12 week programme, which encouraged pupils to run the equivalent of a mile a week in the lead up to Exeter’s Great West Run. They will now complete their final mile on race day to make up their own half marathon distance, with a fantastic city finish in front of thousands of spectators! Taking place in association...

Exeter RWC Fanzone: 5 facts you should know!

If you plan to visit Exeter's Rugby World Cup 2015 Fanzone, you will find yourself in one of the most historic parts of the city.

Whether you are a tourist or a local, here are 5 things you should know about Northernhay Gardens:

1) Incorporating a good stretch of Roman wall and the only length of Saxon town wall to be seen in England.

2) The site of Northernhay Gardens was quarried in Roman times for stone from which to build the adjacent city walls.

3) The early park was destroyed in the Civil War when, in 1642 large new defensive ditches were dug...

Exeter schoolchildren celebrate RWC 2015

Rugby excitement gripped school children today with just one day until the start of the Rugby World Cup 2015. Primary aged children had their very own spectacular and colourful rugby world cup relay festival to mark the start of the tournament. The main festival site was at West Exe School but the fun wasn't only there!

Eight schools took part in the event which was organised by the RWC15 legacy group a partnership led by local primary schools, Mike Barratt, Active Devon, Exeter City Council, rugby clubs and other local partners.

“Having the rugby world cup come to Exeter...

Police ready to welcome RWC fans

With the Rugby World Cup 2015 just days away Devon and Cornwall is ready to welcome visitors from across the globe.

Rugby World Cup 2015 begins on September 18th and Exeter’s Sandy Park is one of the venues chosen to host matches.

As well staging three games the city is also hosting 13 Fanzone events in Northernhay Gardens.

Planning for the event has been ongoing for the past 18 months with officers from the Operation Blackjack command team working alongside Exeter Chiefs, Exeter City Council, Devon County Council, the Highways Agency, British Transport Police and...

Top ranking for Exeter law firm

A leading law firm in Exeter has been given a top ranking for three of its teams by independent guide to the legal profession, Legal 500 2015 – up from two top rankings in 2014. Stephens Scown LLP received tier 1 rankings for its family law team, inheritance and trusts disputes work, and commercial litigation. The firm’s family law team has received tier 1 ranking for eight consecutive years now. The head of the team Liz Allen, is described as being “very supportive of her clients, but will give good objective advice”, while Andrew Barton is recommended for his “good experience of...

Redrow staff go racing green

Eco-minded staff at Redrow (West Country) are to challenge each other in a ‘green’ race to the company’s Exeter head office using different forms of transport in a bid to raise awareness of the greenest, fastest and easiest way to commute to work.

The nine commuters will swap their cars for alternative methods of transport in a challenge which will see them set off from Central Station on Friday 25th September and travel the 4.3 miles to Redrow’s offices in Pynes Hill using either a road bike, electric bike, motorbike, electric car, taxi, bus, train, walking or running.

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Poldark cast members at Budlitfest

Two cast members from the hugely popular BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark have joined the line-up for the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival later this week.

Heida Reed and Ruby Bentall have announced that they will join the Poldark event on Friday evening at St Peter’s Church. Heida plays Elizabeth (once Ross Poldark's beloved who married his cousin Francis) and Ruby plays Verity Poldark (Ross Poldark's cousin).

Between the 2 Poldark productions, Heida filmed Toast (alongside Jon Hamm) and Icelandic mini-series The Cliff. Heida played the role of Scarlet in ‘...

All you need to know about the RWC Fanzone

Watching the matches and soaking up the atmosphere is going to be possible for everyone, even if you don’t have a ticket for the matches at Sandy Park, England or any other match.

Come and join in for FREE at the Exeter Fanzone. Located in Northernhay Gardens it will show live matches on a big screen, have a variety of events and entertainment for fans and families, a wide range of food stalls and a tournament buzz guaranteed. For days when Rugby World Cup 2015 matches are not being shown within Exeter Fanzone, ticketed events are being planned. A spectacular opening and closing...

Mantel shortlisted for BBC award

Budleigh Salterton-based Hilary Mantel’s controversial story ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ has made the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 with Book Trust. Unpublished stories by ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ author Mark Haddon, Jonathan Buckley, Frances Leviston, and Jeremy Page are also in the running for this year’s Award. The shortlist of five stories was announced yesterday evening (Wednesday 16 September) during BBC Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’.

Now celebrating its tenth birthday, the Award is one of the most prestigious for a...

Man, 22, killed in A38 crash

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died following a road traffic collision on the A38 southbound at Chudleigh, near Newton Abbot.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the fatal collision, involving a single vehicle, which happened just past the petrol station shortly after 12.15am on Wednesday 16 September.

The 22-year-old male driver of the silver Ford Focus, from Saltash, suffered serious head injuries following a collision with a tree and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver’s family have been informed.

The road was closed...

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Ghostly Nights Named Paranormal Experience Provider of the Year for the South West

1,320 kids to race through Exeter streets

Exeter RWC Fanzone: 5 facts you should know!

Exeter schoolchildren celebrate RWC 2015

Police ready to welcome RWC fans

Top ranking for Exeter law firm

Redrow staff go racing green

Poldark cast members at Budlitfest

All you need to know about the RWC Fanzone

Mantel shortlisted for BBC award

Man, 22, killed in A38 crash

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