THIS half-term try learning a new skill and provide a home for birds to nest in your garden.
Join the countryside team on Wednesday, 19 February at the Axe Estuary Wetlands classroom between 10am and 1pm, and build a nest box from one of our easy-to-use kits – available for a range of common garden birds from blue tits to sparrows and starlings.
The Axe Estuary Wetlands officer and the countryside rangers will help you build your nest box and advise you on where to place it for the best results. You will be helping the conservation effort by encouraging biodiversity in your...
Digital agency, Rokk Media, based in Exeter, have created Animated Exeter's very own FREE iPhone, Ipod and iPad app to accompany the annual Animated Exeter Festival held on February 10th to 22nd. The app provides an easy and engaging guide to events throughout the festival and beyond, but the real appeal is the smart design and the addition of animated effects to make it a fun experience to use. Susannah Shaw, Festival Director, is delighted by the massive interest the app is generating, “Having our own dedicated app gives a terrific boost to marketing our festival, specially one that is...
Tenants in the South West of England feel they get the worst value for money from their rent than in other parts of the UK, according to a recent poll by the UK Association of Letting Agents (UKALA).
Just over half (57%) of tenants in the region rated their rent as ‘good’ or ‘very good’ when asked their opinion on whether it represented value for money. However, a third (33%) perceived their rent as ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’.
In comparison, the findings also show that tenants in Yorkshire and Humber derive the best value for money from their rent, with four in five (83%)...
This half-term try learning a new skill and provide a home for birds to nest in your garden.
Join the countryside team on Wednesday, 19 February at the Axe Estuary Wetlands classroom between 10am and 1pm, and build a nest box from one of our easy-to-use kits – available for a range of common garden birds from blue tits to sparrows and starlings.
The Axe Estuary Wetlands officer and the countryside rangers will help you build your nest box and advise you on where to place it for the best results. You will be helping the conservation effort by encouraging biodiversity in your...
Plans to construct a new short game practice golf area at the Sports Park on Streatham campus, have been unveiled by University of Exeter Sport.
Making use of the vacant space behind the University’s covered tennis courts; the 50m x 30m area will house two contoured, all-weather artificial greens and an eco-bunker. A 200m2 Pro-tour standard practice green will allow players to practice a full range of short game shots whilst a smaller 80m2 putting green gives golfers the ability to focus on short and medium range putts. The project, was ratified by the University last year...
For three nights only, The Met Office plays host to Bring The Happy Live, a theatre event mapping and celebrating happiness in Exeter.
An intimate and interactive evening somewhere between a wedding and a wake, Bring The Happy Live is a spectacular culmination of a project mapping moments and memories of happiness in Exeter and across the country.
The project will begin with artists, Invisible Flock, occupying a disused shop in Exeter High Street. Armed with giant maps of Exeter and stacks of tea, they will invite passers-by to come in and share a memory – a first kiss, a...
The UK must make “difficult choices” between protecting towns or countryside from future flooding according to Environment Agency boss, Lord Smith.
Lord Smith argued that there was no “bottomless purse” for flood defences and that current guidance which gives priority to lives and homes “involves tricky issues of policy and priority: town or country, front rooms or farmland?”
Writing to the Daily Telegraph newspaper Lord Smith offered his condolences to badly affected areas such as the Somerset levels but cautioned: “there are no quick fixes in the face of this kind of...
Don't make any plans for this weekend until you've checked out our guide to the best of What's On in and around Exeter:
THEATRE
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pantomime Friday & Saturday, Broadclyst Victory Hall Hi Ho ... Hi Ho ... It's off to the panto we go! Join Broadclyst Theatre Group for an exciting show with slapstick fun, singing, dancing and plenty of laughter. Whilst Snow White and her friends do battle with Evilena the wicked Queen, poor Muddles gets into lots of trouble. Tickets £8 adults, £5 children from Broadclyst Post Office or via the Box office on...
Tuesday 18 February will be a big day for CEDA, Exeter's local charity providing services for disabled people.
From 11am until 2pm the organisation will be showing off the achievements of its users from the past year along with giving all visitors to their BIG Challenge event the chance to try something different. Event organiser Howard Hoskins has assembled a great selection of participatory activities including Wildlife handling, Boxing, Trim Trail, DJ Skills and many more.
Activity Programme Manager Craig Bowden said "its great to show off the array of...
