Exeter

Visitors to Exeter’s Princesshay will be able to get their name printed on a bottle of Coca-Cola as the Share a Coke tour arrives on Wednesday 14 August.

Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero bottles with 250 of the nation’s most popular names on them have been flying off the shelves this summer with people searching for their name on the iconic bottles.

The tour, which is travelling across the country, will allow people to visit and receive a personalised Coca-Cola or Coke Zero bottle.

Wayne Pearce, Princesshay Centre Director said: “We’re delighted to welcome the Share a...

A contemporary new florist, Moka, has signed contracts with Princesshay, Exeter and will open its doors on Roman Walk on Friday 2 August.

Moka owner, Jonathan Murray, who already owns St Leonards Flowers on Magdalen Road, Exeter, brings this experience and success to his second venture of a city centre store. Jonathan Murray explains, “Moka will be a modern, stylish floristry offering distinctive ready-made and bespoke bouquets and plants with a very different feel to the country garden, village style of St Leonards Flowers. We are excited to be Princesshay’s only florist and will...

Five early career academics from the University of Exeter are celebrating receiving European Grants worth a total of €6.3 million to explore topics ranging from how states encroach on civil liberty; how stars build magnetic fields; and how data intensive science will change research in the digital age.

The funds are aimed at the cream of University researchers in Europe and support ground-breaking research by academics early in their career.

The funded ERC Starting Grant projects are:

Dr Claire Belcher (Geography): €1,519,640 for The Impact of Plant Evolution on...

Weather is a national obsession and in Exeter we are fortunate to have the National Meteorological Library and Archive on our doorstep.

Here you can view the national memory of the weather, including a wide range of fascinating instruments and artefacts.

On display is an early barometer which belonged to the founder of the UK Met Office Admiral FitzRoy and the first ever published newspaper weather forecast which appeared in The Times on 1 August 1861.

Other advances in meteorology including the use of weather ships right up to today’s aviation and satellite...

The National Trust's Collections and Engagement Archaeologist, Nancy Grace, will be at A la Ronde on Thursday 1 August between 11 am and 4pm.

Bring your discoveries for identification and see if you can stump the archaeologist. Learn how to use a sorting tray when on digs, have a go at recording your objects, find out how to draw recreations of whole objects from fragments; and get nose to nose with articles from the past 40,000 years.

This year A la Ronde was featured in ITV's Britain’s Secret Homes programme. Discover more about the collection of archaeological objects on...

Aspect Windows is the only windows solution company in the South West to offer its customers a Passive House Design service, following confirmation that director of sales and special projects, Andrew Seller, has passed an exam making him a Certified Passivhaus Design Consultant.

The course is written and taught by leaders in UK Passivhaus development and, as such, Aspect Windows has become the only, full solutions, window company offering a consultant certified in Passive House design in Devon.

After sitting the exam several weeks ago in Plymouth, Andrew was delighted to...

The summer holidays got off to a ‘flying’ start for local youngsters when EDDC’s Countryside Team joined other local organisations with a rural theme at the annual Natural Seaton Festival.

The event was organised by the Seaton Visitor Centre Trust to celebrate the geological and ecological wealth of the town.

The first EDDC Countryside event of the weekend was Meet the Bats led by Fiona Mathews, Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biology at Exeter University. Eleven of our 15 native species of bat have been recorded on the Axe Estuary Wetlands in Seaton, and electronic bat...