Couples across the South West now have access to improved fertility services to help them achieve their dreams of starting a family thanks to the re-launch of an Exeter clinic.
Fertility Exeter combines the high quality NHS fertility services provided by the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) with the self-funded treatment provided by the independent Peninsular Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM).
The RD&E took over the successful PCRM clinic in June 2014, and has since undertaken extensive work to unify the two services. In recognition of this...
Exeter’s most experienced choirmaster will shed light on his life’s work with choirs over a busy career at a lunchtime lecture next week.
Andrew Millington has worked in Cathedral music for his entire working life and has been Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral since 1999. The lunchtime talk on 3rd June at 13.00 (part of the Cathedral’s Lunchtime Bite series) is a repeat of the sold-out event that took place in February this year, and will look back on a lifetime’s career in church music, with reminiscences of Worcester, Gloucester, Guildford and Exeter Cathedrals. There will be...
Ceri Sweeney may be heading back to where it all began in terms of his senior career, but the Welshman insists his time with the Exeter Chiefs has been something to savour and a great period in his distinguished career.
Signed during the summer of 2013 from Welsh region Cardiff Blues on an initial one-year deal, the 35-year-old loved life at Sandy Park that he was more than happy to extend his stay further when the offer came a year later.
Featuring alongside fellow playmakers Gareth Steenson and Henry Slade, the Glyncoch-born back not only helped the Devon club to back-to-...
A moggy mystery has unfolded at Hospiscare’s Exeter hospice – a stray ginger cat, who staff have nicked named Boris, regularly pops into to see nurses and patients.
Boris jumps in through open windows or ambles through open patio doors and is a regular sight in the offices and ward.
He enjoys cuddles from cat loving Hospiscare nurses and patients and sometimes snuggles up on staff chairs in the ward office but there are concerns that he might get locked in the numerous different rooms at the Dryden Road building. Also, Boris has recently lost weight.
Tourism Society Westcountry’s next meeting is on June 11th at Castle Drogo to discuss the ‘Gove effect’ and what can be done to address the huge loss of business now being seen in the region. The so-called 'Gove Effect' has had a huge impact on tourism in the Westcountry over the last 18 months, with changes to Education Regulations introduced by Michael Gove applying tighter restrictions on holidays in term time.
This has resulted in an £87 million loss of business to the visitor economies of Devon and Cornwall, stemming from families no longer booking term time trips and the...
After weeks of excitement the Tags-On Pop-Up came to Exeter for a night of discounted designer shopping.
Tags-On, which sells pre-loved designer fashion, came to Radiance MediSpa on May 21st for an exclusive evening of shopping.
The designer clothes, accessories, bags and shoes are sourced mainly in London by a professional celebrity de-clutterer and directly from the designers them selves. The hardly worn or brand new, high quality pieces are sold by Tags-On for a fraction of the original retail price with up to 85% off their original RRP’s.
Nestled amongst the green fields of the South Hams, overlooking the River Dart in South Devon, lies the beautiful Sharpham Estate. Already renowned for its award-winning wines and cheeses, there’s now another reason to visit. The new Anchorstone at Sharpham Vineyard café has just opened its doors, ready for the summer season ahead.
This new café will be run by the owners of the already well established and much loved Anchorstone in Dittisham. Clare Harvey and her daughter Jasmine, along with Will Froude, bring a bounty of knowledge and experience with them, built up from the last...
Exeter resident Josh Ellis has been awarded the title of the South West’s 2015 VQ Learner of the Year, in recognition of his outstanding achievement following a vocational qualification in Plumbing at Exeter College. Josh, 21, won the gold medal at the World Skills competition, with his work deemed ‘near perfect’ by the judges. Josh has since progressed to a Level 3 Plumbing qualification and become the main installer for his company due to the exceptionally high standard of his work. He is successfully juggling a very high demand for his work with his further studies at college. He has...
The largest ever survey into crime and anti-social Behaviour (ASB) in rural areas has been launched in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to find out how the police can better serve rural communities.
The survey, launched by the National Rural Crime Network (NRCN), is calling for people who work or live in rural areas to come forward and give their views on policing in their community, the impact crime and ASB has on them and their neighbours and to ultimately help shape the future of crime prevention and rural policing.
Anyone living or working in rural areas is being...
