The ASK Italian Grand Tour came to Exeter last night. The programme, pioneered by the national Italian restaurant chain last October, consists of a series of fundraising events in order to raise £250,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
This year's Grand Tour began on Sunday 8 September and will end this Friday. Last night members of the public attended a Food Night as a part of the tour hosted by acclaimed chef Theo Randall. Randall was signing copies of the ASK Italian Cookbook, which was published in support of Great Ormond Street, and cooked for the restaurant's...
Exeter may never be seen in quite the same light again, according to a new local history project. It seems that this most ‘English’ of cities isn’t quite so English after all, according to a new chapter in the city’s history which has been produced by a mixed group of local volunteer researchers, over half of them from Exeter’s Black and Ethnic Minority community.
In what’s thought to be the most comprehensive local history project of its kind nationally, Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots , has taken 12 months to produce but really, the story has been 2,000 years in the making...
Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE JP, the Lord Lieutenant of Devon, visited the Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital in Wonford Exeter on Friday 20 September to help celebrate the hospital’s 50th anniversary.
Sir Eric met members of staff and was given a tour of the hospital by Matron Paula Winter.
He spoke to staff about the changes they had seen over the years and how treatments and medical procedures had advanced.
He spent time with students from Exeter Junior School who had helped with a project to fill a time capsule that will be opened in 50 years’ time, when the hospital...
The One Planet MBA, offered exclusively by the University of Exeter Business School, has come third in the world in the Global Green MBA Survey, announced today (September 23). It also scooped first place in the UK as well as coming top in the global rankings for ‘smaller’ programmes. Undertaken by Corporate Knights, this inaugural Global Green MBA survey is the definitive annual list that examines how universities around the world are faring at integrating sustainability into the academic experience. The survey, which had focused on Canadian schools over the past decade, was expanded...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter praised the character of his team as they claimed their first away victory of the season with a 29-23 success at London Irish.
Training 23-12 with just 20 minutes remaining, the Chiefs produced a sterling fightback thanks to tries from skipper Dean Mumm and Ben White to ensure they were able to follow up last week's home win over London Wasps.
Fly-half Gareth Steenson converted both those scores, as well as adding five penalties, to give him a 19 point haul that took past 1,000 league points for the Devon club.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators were left feeling “on top of the world” in Devon today (Friday 20 September) after joining The Tour of Britain’s 10th anniversary celebrations.
Stage Six of this year’s Tour, hosted by Devon County Council, started in Sidmouth on East Devon’s Jurassic Coast with a warm welcome from fans and the warmest weather of the race so far.
Huge crowds got to see some of the biggest names in cycling on the 85 mile (137 km) route, which took in Sidbury, Honiton, Willand, Tiverton, Exeter, Chudleigh, Moretonhampstead and Bovey Tracey.
Exeter Central Library, which is being refurbished by Mansell, a Balfour Beatty brand, will be opening its doors to the public on 27 and 28 September for the UK Contractors Group Open Doors Weekend. Open Doors Weekend aims to promote the diverse world of modern construction by giving the public access to selected construction sites around the UK. The initiative also aims to give young people an insight into careers in construction with advice to be provided on the day. The public can book their place by visiting: www.opendoorsweekend.co.uk
Honesty is the best policy. As it is in song, so it is in life for Mary Coughlan.
“If you don’t wash your own dirty linen, the press’ll do it for you,” she part roars, part giggles in an ‘I’ve got the measure of you, boy’ kind of tone. “But they can say what they like because they’ll never be able to say anything about me that anybody would be shocked about or that I would be ashamed of. Not any more.
Such a forthright preemptive strike is not untypical of a singer whose first album bore the title Tired and Emotional. At twenty-eight...
For the first time in eight years, Nick Hennessey, Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer re-combine as seriouskitchen to create a brand new show.
Drawing on the rich heritage of Scandinavian myths and stories, The Whispering Road is a show blending Nick Hennessey’s spellbinding storytelling with Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer’s renowned musicianship and their collective wealth of experience of Nordic traditional folk culture.
The Whispering Road tells the story of hope in the darkness, of two strangers bound by a ring and of the one who could not love.
