Volunteers at the Exeter Dissenters Graveyard have received £7,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) today, to begin drawing up plans to restore the historical site. The funding granted to the Exeter Dissenters Graveyard Trust will allow volunteers to begin a project to record, investigate and clean the site to preserve it for the future. The project will also eventually see plans drawn up for an overall restoration of the site following the initial work by the trust. Paul chant Secretary of the trust welcomed the funding award, he said: “This is the first stage of our project to...
Victorious Exeter Chiefs will parade the LV= Cup through Exeter city centre on Saturday, 5 April, the City Council has announced.
Rob Baxter's all-conquering team, together with staff and officials from the club, will travel from St James Park on an open-top double-decker bus.
The bus, provided by Stagecoach, will leave St James Park at 2.30pm, travelling down Sidwell Street and into the High Street, before arriving at the Guildhall at 3pm for a Civic Reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Cllr Rachel Lyons.
Crowds are expected to line the route in a similar...
An exhibition for start-ups, entrepreneurs, business owners and corporates wishing to raise brand awareness
Venue: Matford Centre, Marsh Barton, Exeter, EX2 8FD
Date: Thursday 5th June 2014
Time: 12 noon – 17.30
17.30 - 19.00 - After show networking party sponsored by Business Network (SW)
FREE ENTRY FOR DELEGATES
Call: 01392 349 130 for more information or to book a stand
The Devon Business Expo with headline sponsor Basepoint Business Centres, is a new and exciting event with over 100 exhibitors. Aiming to attract 1000...
A body has been found by search teams looking for missing Plymouth man Martin Hough.
The body was discovered by officers at midday near Burrator Reservoir. Officers, members of the Dartmoor Rescue Group and the police helicopter were in the area since Martin Hough, 53, was reported missing to police on Sunday at around 7.15pm. He was last seen at about 9.45am that morning at an address in Rocky Park Road, wearing jeans and a blue/black check shirt and black boots. The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared on behalf of the coroner.
Michelmores LLP has announced three appointments which further strengthen its nationally recognised agricultural litigation team.
Solicitor Rachel O’Connor joins Michelmores from TLT’s Bristol Office, while Victoria Howlett was previously a solicitor at Burges Salmon. They are joined in Michelmores' Bristol office by barrister, Adam Corbin. Adam was called to the Bar in 2011, then deferred his pupillage at Iscoed Chambers in Swansea for a year to work in the Legal Team for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Exeter City Council has set out a new action plan on how it maintains and manages housing in response to a £1 million overspend from the council’s housing revenue account (HRA).
The action plan could see some tenants prevented from transferring into a new council house or even face eviction or fines if their property is in a poor state of repair.
The council will also look to better understand the reasons behind the overspend ahead of a major restructure of the service due to begin later this year.
Cllr Rob Hannaford, Lead councillor for Housing and Customer Access...
Some 750 children from schools around Exeter have been working with education officers to create stunning banners on the theme of Reading the Cathedral.
Exeter Cathedral marks its 900th anniversary this year and the banners are on display in the nave.
The exhibition has been sponsored by the Exeter Episcopal Trust.
Education officer for the Diocese of Exeter, Tatiana Wilson, said it was wonderful how the Cathedral will still so important to young people’s lives in Exeter.
“It has been lovely to celebrate deep thinking and learning with children and their...
Entries are now open for the UK’s craziest, most colourful sponsored 5k event for all the family – the Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) Rainbow Run at Exeter Racecourse on Sunday 8 June.
You can run it. You can walk it. You can even skip it.
However you choose to do it – the organisers guarantee you will cross the finishing line a vision of colour and wearing the biggest smile.
Just make sure you wear a white t-shirt, and clothes you don't mind getting messy because as you pass through the five paint stations, you will showered with different coloured powder...
Thousands of children across the UK will be able to learn 11 basic phrases in British Sign Language thanks to a video created by a national charity.
On March 18th 2014, thousands of deaf people across the UK will celebrate the 11th anniversary of British Sign Language (BSL) being recognised as an official language in its own right.
National charity and the UK’s leading awarding body in deaf communication qualifications, Signature, is marking this day by calling for school teachers to take fifteen minutes out of their day to teach students 11 basic BSL signs. The charity has...
Egg-cellent local charity Hospiscare is looking for people to get involved with its Easter Extravaganza raising money to help people living with a terminal illness in Exeter, mid and east Devon.
The charity launched the Easter campaign last week, offering people the chance to win luxury Easter eggs as they fundraise for the charity this Spring.
Community Fundraiser Susie Healey said: “We’re inviting anyone from groups of friends and families to offices, factories, schools, pubs, restaurants, retail outlets and hair salons, to get involved with the Easter Extravaganza....
