Exeter

Family Day at Exeter Racecourse on Wednesday (March 30), sponsored by Finlake Holiday Park, will be a feast of education and entertainment that is free for all children aged 17 and under.

Two pony races begin the day’s action at 1pm followed by seven races. Interspersed with that will be a behind the scenes tour of the racecourse starting atnoon – meet outside the weighing room - led by Rob Bellamy of Racing To School. There will be a chance to stand beside a chase fence on the actual track, take part in a running race down the home straight and there’s a free Racebook for the...

A Mid Devon primary has been selected to become a National Teaching School and help train the teachers and education leaders of the future.

The Duchy School at Bradninch is just one of 54 schools to have been appointed this year throughout the country.

Teaching Schools take a leading role in recruiting and training new entrants to the profession.

They also identify and develop leadership potential, provide support for other schools and work to raise standards of teaching.

Last year, the Duchy was named as one of the best schools in the country after being...

Caravan owners are being encouraged to install smoke alarms after a family escaped from a fire which destroyed their mobile home at a caravan park near Sidmouth.

Two fire crews from Sidmouth attended the incident at Kingsdown Tail caravan park, Salcombe Regis, early in the morning of 20 March.

The family was asleep inside the caravan and the alarm was raised by a passer-by who saw smoke coming out. The occupants were unaware of the fire at the time as there were no smoke alarms installed.

Watch Manager Gareth Sydenham said: “Fortunately, no one was hurt on this...

Ever wondered how to create a global community of artists that help those in need while fostering their individual careers? It's really quite easy and Perform-ers shows you how to do it.

Perform-ers is a new platform for creative people who can set up an online profile to promote their music and art and enter global competitions. These competitions will not only enable artists to gain amazing prizes but they will also use part of their revenues to give to charities!

In a world where the DIY approach to promoting one's artistic careers is more common than ever before,...

The Chairman of East Devon District Council, Councillor Stuart Hughes was joined at Knowle in Sidmouth on Monday 14 March 2016 by 14 enthusiastic pupils from Sidmouth Primary School who came to watch the raising of the Commonwealth Flag in celebration of a partnership between Toilet Twinning and Fly-a-Flag for the Commonwealth. This joint initiative invites schools to help flush away poverty through toilet twinning - for a donation schools can choose to twin their own toilet with one in a Commonwealth country. The donations are used to provide a decent loo, clean water and hygiene...

Leading experts will be able to help people make an informed decision as they decide how to cast their vote in the UK’s referendum at an event in Exeter.

To remain or leave the EU is the most important political choice facing the UK for a generation.

A panel of specialists will answer questions from the public about Brexit and the UK remaining in the EU, at the “UK and EU: Ask the Expert” event, at Alumni Auditorium on the Streatham Campus on 25 April. The event is also shown via a video link to Lecture Theatre A at the Du Maurier Building on the Penryn Campus in Cornwall...

PATIENTS at North Devon District Hospital and community hospitals were given an opportunity to try different foods as part of Nutrition and Hydration Week 2016.

The global awareness campaign – from Monday 14 March to Sunday 20 March – aimed to highlight the importance of nutrition and hydration in improving the safety and outcomes of patients.

The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust ran different menu themes on each weekday:

• Monday – Oaty Breakfast • Tuesday – Supper-time Snack • Wednesday – Global Tea Party (cream tea) • Thursday – Thirsty Thursday • Friday –...

A blueprint to encourage more walking and cycling is being launched by the Government today (Sunday 27 March).

The new strategy has a clear ambition that by 2040 getting around by bike or on foot will be the natural choice for shorter journeys, or as part of a longer journey.

It includes ambitions to double cycling, reverse the decline in walking, reduce the rate of cyclists killed or seriously injured and increase the number of children walking to school.

This will be met through providing safe and attractive infrastructure to encourage journeys on bike and foot...

Children at Exminster Pre-school are thrilled to have raised £400 for Sports Relief 2016.

The children, all aged between 2 and 4 years, took part in a sponsored obstacle course organised by Pre-school staff; they carried 1 or 2 litre bottles of water around the obstacle course so they could start to gain an understanding of what some families in Africa have to do in order to get drinking water to their home.

All the money raised by the children at Exminster Pre-school will go to Sports Relief, helping some of the most vulnerable people in both the UK and the world’s poorest...

Superact's Exe-Arts programme is hosting an Open Pottery event on BBC Get Creative Day Everyone is welcome at the Exe-Arts Pottery Open Day on Saturday 2nd April at St David’s Community Centre pottery studio in Exeter.

Superact, a not-for-profit arts & wellbeing organisation based at the Community Centre, are BBC Creative Champions and the event is running as part of the BBC’s day celebration of all things creative. The Exe-Arts initiative has been running since September 2015, with a multitude of open community arts sessions including graffiti, lantern making and photography....