Exeter Chiefs are excited to announce that X Factor 2013 star Shelley Smith will be performing at this weekend's Heineken Cup encounter with Glasgow Warriors at Sandy Park (3pm).
Exeter-born Shelley, who made it through as one of the 12 contestants to Live Shows working alongside mentor Sharon Osbourne, will be performing live on the pitch at half-time during our latest European fixture.
Bubbly Shelley, a white-van driver from Exeter, entered The X Factor in the hope she could one day make a difference to her and her daughter Madeline’s lives.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is celebrating a second orang utan birth in 9 months.
Bornean orang utan Chinta gave birth on Sunday 22nd December.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park Director of Operations and Curator of Mammals Neil Bemment said: “You wait 16 years and then two babies come along in nine months!” One of the Zoo’s other females, Mali, gave birth to a female baby named Tatau in April.
“Mother and baby have had time together in their off show den away from people and the wind and the rain, but they should have access to the show den in the Ape Centre from...
More funding needs to be directed towards river maintenance to ensure flooding problems do not get worse, and land in rural areas recovers as quickly as possible the NFU said today.
NFU Deputy President Meurig Raymond said flooding problems in parts of the country over the Christmas and New Year period had reinforced the need to ensure a balance between Government investment in larger capital flood defence projects that primarily serve urban areas and funding for river maintenance.
“Staff from the Environment Agency have done a fantastic job in hugely difficult...
Search and rescue helicopters from the Royal Navy have made more than 25 emergency journeys during the recent storms.
9 people were rescued in the West Country with helicopter crews from Royal Navy Station Culdrose battling with the extreme conditions.
These conditions made the journeys far more dangerous and saw 50knot (57mph) head winds triple the journey time of some flights requiring extra stops for fuel in North Devon.
Search and rescue helicopters from across the UK saw what the government described as “almost non-stop” activity during the storms as people...
Exeter based Absolute PR and Marketing rounded off a year of growth after securing a string of new account wins including a major national property developer and an award-winning Westcountry food producer and supplier.
In addition to its recent appointment as the communications consultancy for South West Lakes Trust, Absolute has now landed five new national and regional clients across the food and drink, tourism and leisure, engineering and property sectors.
Multi award-winning retirement property developer Urban Renaissance Villages has awarded the agency its national...
Forty young people from Devon have been honoured for achieving their Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award.
The young people have completed their Gold award and were presented with their awards by Deputy Lieutenant, Sir John Evans QPM DL LL.B at a ceremony at County Hall in Exeter.
The ceremony was attended by Helen Jenny MBE, Chair of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme in Devon, and Devon County Council's Head of Child and Adult Protection, Fiona Fitzpatrick
The DofE is a personal development programme undertaken as part of leisure time activities. It challenges young...
The future of three of Devon’s Children’s homes- including one at the centre of a sexual abuse investigation- are in doubt as the council reviews its care of vulnerable children.
The Birchen Road home in Tiverton currently closed after concerns were raised about the potential sexual exploitation of residents outside the home and the placements to the Rifford Road home in Exeter suspended due to a critical Ofsted report.
Blossom Corner in Exeter, the councils third children’s home has been rated good by Ofsted but it currently has only three young people living there despite...
More miserable weather to come as the Met office issues a further weather warning for Wednesday.
The Met Office has issued two further yellow weather warnings for rain in Devon but it is expected to clear quickly early Thursday morning.
The Met Office’s Chief Forecaster writes: “A depression will pass northeastwards across the UK on Wednesday and early on Thursday, its associated bands of rain bringing further wet conditions to many areas.
“In particular, 10 to 20 mm of rainfall will fall quite widely in parts of Wales and south west England, with perhaps 30 to 40...
Help us wake up the apple trees in our orchard for our next cider crop in the autumn. Bring something along with you to make a loud noise, featuring live music.
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