As he has proved for a number of years now, Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter isn’t afraid to put his trust in players from the Championship making the step up to life in the Aviva Premiership.
Today, the Chiefs leader has added his latest new face to the club’s playing ranks for next season with the signing of prop Harry Williams from Jersey.
The talented tight-head, who has agreed a two-year deal with the Sandy Park outfit, is Baxter’s seventh new addition for next term and his second is as many weeks from English rugby’s second tier.
A Teignbridge man, found guilty of offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, has been told by Exeter Magistrates Chair of the bench "you will not keep animals ever again."
Leslie Weatherill, 73, of The Hams, Ide, was found guilty at Exeter Magistrates Court in March, after failing to improve the squalid conditions that he kept ponies and dogs in.
The court had heard how Mr Weatherill kept his ponies on an area of scrub and woodland near Doddiscombsleigh which, according to a national expert on horses, was inadequate for their needs and so their welfare was severely...
Eight fire engines from Witheridge, Chulmleigh, Crediton, North Tawton, Exeter, Tiverton, Okehampton along with a water carrier, aerial appliance and an incident command unit were mobilised to reports of a thatched roof on fire at a property at Oldborough Cross near Morchard Bishop this morning (Thursday 16 April).
On arrival crews confirmed thatch roof involved in fire and are at work using hose reel jets and ladders to extinguish the fire.
At 12.45pm crews asked for a further two appliances. These were mobilised from standby at Exeter.
Westcountry icons The Wurzels will be performing at the Devon County Show for the first time, entertaining exhibitors and invited guests at an exclusive event on the first day of the show.
Leading Devon law firm Stephens Scown LLP has teamed up with the Devon County Show to bring The Wurzels to the Westpoint showground. The four-piece group will be playing its famous hits including Combine Harvester and I am a Cider Drinker at an exclusive event for livestock exhibitors and invited guests on 21 May.
Susie Murray, a partner in the rural services team at Stephens Scown in...
The number of properties coming onto the market continued to drop, pushing prices rapidly upwards in the South West, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.
In most parts of the country, the supply versus demand imbalance led to a rise in house prices in March and in the South West 36% more chartered surveyors reported a rise in house prices in March (up from 31% in February) and 16% more chartered surveyors expect prices to increase over the next three months in the region compared with 6% in February (albeit the results for both are significantly lower than in...
A leading Devon law firm has reached the shortlist for the inaugural Legal Innovation Awards for its ground-breaking iPhone App for clients.
Stephens Scown LLP, which is based in Exeter, launched its “My Lawyer” App in November 2014 as a way of allowing clients to keep track of their cases quickly and easily while they were on the move. The App allows clients to view documents, keep up to date with costs, pay bills online, diarise key dates and contact their lawyer.
Stephens Scown’s managing partner Robert Camp said: “We have embraced IT developments to improve our client...
Every Key Stage One and Foundation child in Exeter is to receive a free, specially commissioned book about Rugby as a part of Exeter’s Rugby World Cup 2015 Legacy commitment.
Active Devon, Exeter City Council and other partners have been guiding the legacy programme in Exeter and firmly put children and families at the heart of their work.
“As a host city for Rugby World Cup 2015, Exeter has an important obligation to make the rugby world cup experience not only exciting but lasting for local people” said Louise Evans, Exeter’s Development Coordinator from Active Devon....
“People were a lot more emotional and honest in those days. If they didn’t like life the way it was, they shot themselves” – Svetlana Alliluyeva
Struggling to cast off the shadow of one of the world’s most infamous, charismatic and terrifying leaders – her father – Svetlana moves to England and starts to piece together her fragmented life, her memories dominated in equal measure by her father’s tender love and his insatiable lust for power. Settling in Bristol in the nineties shortly after the fall of Communist Russia, she begins the challenging journey of reconciling her family’s...
A pub. Somewhere in the middle of England. Two locals return to off an old friend. Throw a few darts. Drown their sorrows. Try to make sense of it all. Just your average night down the boozer. Or not...
"Just breathe... from the guts... just breathe. Cos nothing's going to happen..."
Mugs Arrows is a surreal black comedy set in very ordinary surroundings. With rural areas being forever altered through commercial development and extreme weather conditions and locals disenchanted by a lack of jobs and the ever increasing allure of a life elsewhere, Mugs Arrows delves in to a...
