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Stagecoach SW, Devon County Council and Exeter City Council team up to improve customer experience with city wide CCTV

Stagecoach South West has this year, strengthened its partnerships with Devon County Council and Exeter City Council in relation to the joint efforts to prevent and tackle antisocial behaviour in and around Exeter’s bus station, improving safety and the overall customer experience by providing greater visibility and linking its CCTV system to the city-wide network.

This further integration means that all bus station footage is now monitored 24/7 by the Exeter City Council CCTV control team, ensuring a rapid response to any incidents. If an issue is detected, the appropriate...

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Vyshyvanka Day 2025: Standing Together for Culture, Memory and Freedom

📅 Saturday, 17 May 2025 📍 Bedford Square, Exeter | 14:00–15:00 🎨 Art Exhibition: 15:30–16:30 | 19 North Street, Exeter, EX4 3QS

In the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as the war continues to ravage cities and uproot millions, Vyshyvanka Day 2025 takes on urgent new meaning. The Devon Ukrainian Association invites the local community, Ukrainian diaspora, and friends of Ukraine to gather for a symbolic rally and cultural celebration in the heart of Exeter — to stand in unity, wear our heritage with pride, and declare that Ukrainian culture will not be erased...

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Exeter care home celebrates the 80th anniversaryof VE Day

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 7:47pm

Cumberland Grange in Exeter marked the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day in style by throwing a 1940s afternoon tea party to remember. The home was decorated in red, white and blue and residents and their families enjoyed an afternoon of live music and dancing.

Head chef Chris whipped up delicious cream teas and fruit platters, all washed down with pots of tea and celebratory jugs of Pimms to mark the occasion.

Residents observed the national two minute silence and listened again to Churchill’s iconic speech accepting Germany’s surrender and an address from the...

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New Photography Project Gives Voice to Young People's Mental Health Experiences

A thought-provoking new photography project is set to bring to life the mental health challenges young people experience. Images from the project, called (in)visible, will be exhibited in venues across Exeter and East Devon from May to November this year.

The project aims to challenge the familiar but limiting ‘head in hands’ image often used to depict mental health struggles.

Inspired by a call in a charity newsletter to rethink how mental health is visually represented, local photographer, Theo Moye - drawing from his own experience with anxiety - set out to create...

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Hats (On) For Headway

Authored by Presunlim
Posted: Sun, 05/11/2025 - 11:46am

Headway Devon the local charity, based in Exeter, that specialises in helping those rehabilitate from head injuries are asking people to wear their hats on May 16th.

Every year supporters of the charity come together for a hat-tastic fundraising day to help them improve the lives of people suffering with brain injury.

Ruth Wells, CEO at Headway Devon says, “supporters of the day are encouraged to make a donation, wear a hat, take photos and share them on social media using the hashtag #HatsForHeadway”.

Previous events have seen participants get really creative with...

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Westbank Community Health and Care commemorates the 80th anniversary of VE Day

Authored by Sharon Goble
Posted: Fri, 05/09/2025 - 10:48pm

A themed celebration has been held at Westbank Community Health and Care on the eve of Victory in Europe Day to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. On 8 May 1945 huge crowds took to the streets to sing, dance and rejoice after nearly six years of war against Nazi Germany. At Westbank’s Healthy Living Centre in Exminster today a group of staff, volunteers and regular service users, some of whom were small children when the war ended, gathered to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day and share their memories and thoughts about WWII.

The VE Day party...

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Westbank delivers hospitality with a heart

Authored by Sharon Goble
Posted: Thu, 05/08/2025 - 12:50pm

Devonwide charity Westbank Community Health and Care is expanding the Conferencing and Hospitality services it offers at its Healthy Living Centre in Exminster, near Exeter.

Best known for its wide range of preventative health initiatives to combat loneliness and social isolation, Westbank also brings people together by providing first-class Conferencing and Hospitality 'with a heart'. Profits made from these services are ploughed back into the charity’s numerous self-funded community initiatives to support the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities across Devon. These...

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Hospitality training programme for jobseekers to launch in Exeter

UKHospitality, in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is today announcing it will be running the new hospitality Sector-based Work Academy Programme (SWAP) in Exeter to help people into jobs in the sector and provide them with a Hospitality Skills Passport.

The new programme trains jobseekers with hospitality skills in a working environment and provides them with both work experience and a guaranteed interview with a choice of employers. The companies, operating both nationally and locally, are working with Jobcentre Plus and local training providers....

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Exeter’s Fore Street Flea Returns for 2025

May is here, and with it comes the much-anticipated return of the Fore Street Flea . Now in its ninth year, this iconic market has become a firm favourite in Exeter’s cultural calendar, drawing crowds to the heart of the city’s West Quarter for a day of discovery, community, and celebration.

Mark your calendars, for the Fore Street Flea dates for 2025:

  • Sunday 18 May
  • Sunday 13 July
  • Sunday 14 September
  • Sunday 23 November

First launched in 2016 as a grassroots initiative by local traders, the Flea has grown into one of...

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A musical journey back to Hollywood’s most iconic era performed by The Fulltone Orchestra

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 05/07/2025 - 11:58pm

The Golden Age of Hollywood

Exeter Cathedral | Friday 20th June 7.30pm

The Fulltone Orchestra go on a musical journey back to Hollywood’s most iconic era with their new concert, The Golden Age of Hollywood, at Exeter Cathedral on Friday 20th June. This very gorgeous event will feature the unforgettable music from some of the most beloved films in cinema history, promising a night full of nostalgia and great musical hits from an era that shaped the film world of the 20’s to 60’s.

The Fulltone Orchestra’s fifty strong orchestra will deliver a captivating...

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Southwest based Glanville Environmental acquired by Adler & Allan

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 05/07/2025 - 6:29pm

Specialist drainage, geospatial surveys, and civil engineering company Glanville Environmental, head-quartered in Devon, has been acquired by national environmental risk reduction services business, Adler & Allan.

Adler & Allan enable utilities, energy, and industrial infrastructure owners to overcome the biggest environmental challenges of the 21st century, reducing risk to the environment and their operation by managing assets compliantly while achieving commercial, ESG and Net-Zero goals.

This is Adler & Allan’s seventh acquisition in the utilities sector...

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