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Free firewood at Donkey Sanctuary

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/14/2015 - 12:04pm

The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth has teamed up with local woodland co-operative AxeWoods to offer local people the chance to collect free firewood for a limited period this month.

Recent coppicing operations at one of The Donkey Sanctuary’s farms in Sidmouth have produced a large volume of willow that the charity is offering to local people to collect for firewood on key dates at the end of January.

Events and Wildlife Manager for The Donkey Sanctuary, James Chubb, explains: “After coppicing an area of our willow beds we’ve now got a great stack of wood that we’d like to...

Serious collision in East Devon

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/14/2015 - 11:56am

Police are at the scene of a serious collision near Colyton.

A car and tractor were involved in the collision at Broad Down in Southleigh at around 11.35am today (Wednesday 14 January).

Highways have been informed, as well as the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit who will carry out an investigation of the scene.

The road is expected to be closed for some time.

Road closures have been put in place at Horse Shoes and Chelsdon Cross.

Any witnesses to the collision are asked to police on 101 quoting reference 290 of 14 January.

Updates as we...

New exhibition reveals the impact of the First World War on art and facial reconstructive surgery

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/14/2015 - 10:21am

A new exhibition exploring how facial injuries suffered by soldiers during the First World War have influenced artists and surgeons will open this weekend. The ‘Faces of Conflict’ exhibition is a collaboration between the University of Exeter and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, and brings together historical objects such as surgical instruments and masks and works by artists such as Otto Dix, Wyndham Lewis, René Apallec and Paddy Hartley. It is part of the European Union-funded project 1914FACES2014 led by Professor David Houston Jones from the University of Exeter and...

2014 a busy year for RAF veterans

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/14/2015 - 10:18am

The past twelve months have proved to be a busy time for members of the National Service (Royal Air Force) Association.

During 2014 members enjoyed a series of talks, trips, social gatherings and ceremonial events. The former covered a variety of topics such as the work of the South West Airfields Heritage Trust and the development of the Bristol Britannia. Members participated in the

Armed Forces Day event in Exeter which was linked with the 350th Anniversary of the Royal Marines and took part in parades at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas and at the Cenotaph in...

The Faces of Conflict

Event Date: 
19/03/2015 - 10:00am to 04/04/2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

New exhibition reveals the impact of the First World War on art and facial reconstructive surgery A new exhibition exploring how facial injuries suffered by soldiers during the First World War have influenced artists and surgeons will open this weekend. The ‘Faces of Conflict’ exhibition is a collaboration between the University of Exeter and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, and brings together historical objects such as surgical instruments and masks and works by artists such as Otto Dix, Wyndham Lewis, René Apallec and Paddy Hartley. It is part of the European Union-...

Exam Week DJ Showcase

Event Date: 
17/01/2015 - 10:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Exeter’s most popular student music collective returns for another eclectic night of electronic music across 4 rooms at Exeter Phoenix.

The Christmas DJ Showcase was quite the climax to a memorable term for underground nightlife in Exeter. Some of the hottest names in dance music performed at the Cavern, the Lemon Grove and Exeter Phoenix including Waze & Odyssey, Sigma, Star Slinger and DJ Zinc. These artists represented different genres in the dance music spectrum and the DJ Showcase aims to represent this diversity across the multiple rooms at Exeter Phoenix.

Hold It...

Score

Event Date: 
16/01/2015 - 8:15pm to 17/01/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Score is a musical play from Documental Theatre about friendship, dognapping and two-part harmonies. It’s inspired by the frank and funny accounts of parents using Bournemouth drug treatment services.

Hannah is an X Factor aficionado with a mile-a-minute mouth, a ten year-old daughter and a low-level Heroin habit.

Her childhood friend, Kirsty, who has never “picked up”, is pulled along in her slipstream days before giving birth.

Two years later they meet at a child contact centre. Hannah’s joined a choir to replace one kind of score with another, but she’s the last...

Parking permits for Exmouth residents affected by sewerage work

East Devon District Council is offering a temporary parking solution to Exmouth residents in Camperdown Terrace, Trinity Road and Point Terrace, who are potentially facing a shortage of on-street parking spaces over the next three months.

From January to March, while South West Water is undertaking a programme of sewerage works, residents in those roads can buy - for just £10 - a monthly temporary parking permit for either Imperial Road Recreational Ground Long Stay or Estuary Long Stay car parks.

Dates for the works being carried out are:

• Camperdown Terrace - 5...

280 bags of goods donated at BHF event

British Heart Foundation (BHF) shops are delighted to announce that 280 bags were donated to their Bag It. Beat It. event held at Princesshay. The donated items will now go on to be sold in local BHF shops and could generate up to £5,000to help fund life-saving research.

BHF shop’s Bag it. Beat it. campaign urged the public to donate bags of unwanted items. Every bag donated funds life-saving heart research, helping over 40,000 little heroes continue to fight congenital heart disease.

Before the BHF was founded, only one in five babies born with congenital heart disease saw...

Warning of risk of snow and ice on Devon's roads

People in Devon are being urged to take extra care when travelling later today and overnight, with widespread snow forecast.

Localised showers are expected to turn wintry from around 6pm tonight onwards, with The Met Office issuing a yellow alert for the risk of snow, particularly on higher ground and in the north of the county. However, snow may fall across any part of Devon.

Devon County Council, the Highways Agency, and Devon and Cornwall Police are advising motorists to check the weather forecast and road conditions before setting out.

The authorities have...

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