The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and the South West Equality Network have announced that the Human Rights Tour 2015 will be coming to Exeter on 6 October for a community day.
Now in its fifth year, the BIHR's Human Rights Tour partners with local groups from across the UK bidding to bring BIHR to town for free-to-attend pop-up community education and debate days to raise awareness about human rights.
This year the tour will stop by in Exeter to discuss and debate with local people about how human rights are relevant in our lives and what the future holds...
As a second year student at the University of Exeter you’d think I’d know a fair bit about the city we live in. Hmmm…. Maybe not. I know where the campus is – does that count?
There are a few essential things to do in Exeter that I can happily say I have ticked off my bucket list – like visit the Exeter Phoenix, Cavern, the Bike Shed, Northcott Theatre – I’ve even visited both Exmouth and Dawlish. Yet, when I see posts on the internet of ‘Fresher’s Bucket List’s and whatnot, I get quite embarrassed.
I’m afraid that in a little over 18 months’ time I will leave the...
Email mamacafe.exeter@gmail.com to book your free place! For pregnant mamas & mamas with babes under 1 xxx
PS There will of course be plenty of tea, coffee & croissants!
What is MamaCafe Exeter?
In our classes we want to put the power back into women’s hands, to increase their inner confidence in order to make real choices during pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
We encourage all parents to explore their instincts around choices...
Dr Pradnya Apte, Clinic Director, welcomed clients, guests and press to celebrate the launch at Sommerville House on September 17th. Guests enjoyed Champagne and canapés in the new, state of the art Mediclinic on Southernhay. revitalise rejuvenate Mediclinic is one of the first clinics in the Exeter area to offer Silhouette Soft, the non surgical facelift. Using threads and cones this procedure takes approximately 40 minutes, with no downtime and the effects can last up to 18 months. Dr Apte is also offering the latest anti ageing procedures including wrinkle reducing treatments and...
A three-month-old baby was rescued from a locked garage in Newton Abbot today.
Firefighters from Newton Abbot were sent to the garage in Jetty Marsh Road just after 11am, following a call reporting a car with a baby inside, which had been accidently locked in a garage.
Crews rescued the baby girl by gaining access to the garage via a ground floor window and used small tools to gain entry to the vehicle.
Spacex artist and independent curator Trevor Pitt is setting up Preston Street Union – PSU; an affiliation of artists from in and around Exeter that will come together over a five week period to explore collaboration as a strategy for artists. The event will take place from 13 October – 7 November 2015.
Educational charity Spacex works with artists and curators to enable access to contemporary visual art in the South West through a programme of projects and events that invite public participation and critical debate.
PSU will extend from elements of Pitt’s previous project...
A community fun day was held at Newcourt in Exeter recently to enable local residents to celebrate the opening of the station and to thanks them for their support during its construction.
The Newcourt Community Association organised the event with the help of Devon County Council. There was plenty of fun for all ages, with a BBQ, bouncy castle, and face painting, and with entertainment provided by the Lympstone Training Band.
The Travel Devon roadshow, Stagecoach and the Network Rail Safety Team were also on hand to give out information on rail safety, sustainable travel...
A partner of Honiton-based law firm Beviss & Beckingsale is preparing to assume command on stage, playing the Major General in a new production of “The Pirates of Penzance” starting in Exeter this week.
Solicitor Mark Ollier, who lives in Exeter, is reprising the role he’s played twice before, in Seaton for the Testudo Players and in Sidmouth for the town’s Arts Club Operatic Society.
Mark says: “Although I’m a lawyer by day, I love performing to an audience and strutting my stuff on stage. In this role I get to sing the well-known patter song "I am the very model...
Community organisations and residents who pledge to recycle and reduce food waste are in with a chance of winning prizes in a new initiative launched by Teignbridge District Council.
Teignbridge, which is rolling out its new waste and recycling service, has unveiled a Recycling Together Rewards scheme aimed at rewarding those who support recycling with cash prizes and drive up recycling rates even higher.
The scheme is supported by £40,000 from the Department for Communities and Local Government and is part of Teignbridge’s new bin and recycling collection service which...
‘Lost Alice’, the new collection from surrealist artist Peter Smith celebrating 150 years of Alice in Wonderland, launched at Castle Fine Art, Exeter on Friday 2 October. Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s famous children’s novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), the series of six new oil paintings and four sculptures feature familiar characters including Alice, the Hatter, the Caterpillar and the White Rabbit. Yet this ‘Wonderland’ is also unfamiliar – a place that is now under threat from Alice's last visit when she left behind seven sins...
