A chance passing of a buoy on the ‘wrong’ side saved the life of a stranded swimmer, Exeter City Council has revealed.
The fortunate swimmer – who was suffering the early stages of hypothermia - was plucked out of the Exe Estuary one mile from shore by the City Council’s Harbour Patrol team. The rescue happened last Wednesday.
The team would have missed the swimmer, who was clinging onto the base of the navigational marker, if they had kept the buoy on the port (left-hand) side of the boat. Instead, skipper and Harbourmaster Grahame Forshaw decided to pass with the buoy...
On 1 September 2020, Professor Lisa Roberts becomes the new Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive at the University of Exeter. She takes over from Professor Sir Steve Smith who is retiring from the role and who has held the post since October 2002.
Sir Steve is amongst the longest-serving and most successful Vice-Chancellors of his generation and he has taken the University from strength to strength over a period of nearly 20 years. During his leadership the University secured Russell Group status and is now consistently ranked as one of the top 15 universities in the UK and the...
Linguist and philosopher, Noam Chomsky, will speak to Professor Robert Lamb from the University of Exeter, in a free online event.
Often called the ‘founder of modern linguistics’, Chomsky will answer audience questions, focusing on the topic of free speech, live from Tucson in the United States on 11 September.
He will be in conversation with Robert Lamb , Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute for Cultural Enquiry.
In July this year, Chomsky put his name to the ‘Letter on Justice and Open Debate’, which was...
Co-op is set to serve-up a new food store in Exeter this week following a more than £625,000 investment creating 13 local jobs.
The new convenience store, located in Belgrave Road at The Depot, will run on 100% renewable electricity and open between 7am-Midnight daily.
Opening on Friday, 4, September, the purpose-built new store includes: Costa coffee express, Amazon Lockers, and bakery alongside a focus on fresh, heathy produce, award winning wines, ready meals and pizzas, free-from and vegan products, Fairtrade, food-to-go and, everyday essentials.
Committed to showcasing ideas worth spreading within Exeter's student community, we are hosting Exeter's first ever TEDx Youth event this November. TEDx Youth Gandy Street is an independently organised youth conference arriving virtually in Exeter on November 21st, 2020. We are an event focused on spreading the innovative and pioneering ideas of young people throughout Exeter. Our goal is to ‘bridge the gap’ by creating a sustainable and collaborative future for generations to come.
Our event is an independently organised conference held on licence from TED. Organised and presented...
From 6th September Stagecoach has got various timetables changes across their south west network. These changes will see Stagecoach increase the frequency of our some of their Exeter city services including service A which will see a frequency increase to every 15 minutes during the day, Monday to Saturday. The uplift will also see the popular I & J services increased to every 20 minutes Monday to Saturday.
Stagecoach are also launching 3 brand new early morning buses that run 7 days a week. These special buses will operate as early as 03:45am, with connections made onto the...
Devon residents and businesses are encouraged to sign up for the fifth Cycle September in Devon and take part in the annual cycle challenge.
So far more than 1450 new riders have been encouraged to take up cycling by signing up to the scheme. In total, over 6.7 million miles have been clocked up by 7,254 riders since Cycle September first took place.
You can take part in Cycle September by following 3 easy steps:
1. Enjoy a ride. You can ride anywhere, anytime - to the shops, to work, or even a quick 10 minute ride around your local park is enough to take part...
A registered nurse and his family are looking forward to moving into their perfect home having been able to make use of Taylor Wimpey’s Care Worker Discount.
Humberto de Matos, 36, is buying a new home at Taylor Wimpey’s Riverside Walk development in Exeter with his wife Joana, 32, a dentist, and their six-month-old son. Having moved from Porto, Portugal, to a rental property in London, the couple were looking for a more permanent base close to the coast.
Humberto said: “We wanted a house we could simply move into, without doing renovations or worrying about problems that...
As Eat Out to Help out comes to an end, Phil Mills, head of food and drink at Exeter firm Old Mill says the scheme may have offered a short term boost, but thinks more needs to be done to help the sector going forward and has concerns that some businesses may have been lulled into a false sense of security by short term measures.
“While any initiatives put in place to help the country’s struggling pubs and restaurants are certainly welcome, I am not sure Eat Out to Help Out is offering the solution we need. Pubs and restaurants are usually pretty busy in August and with so many...
Aer Lingus Regional, operated by Stobart Air, has today (Friday) marked the beginning of its new route from Exeter to Belfast with the first flight due to depart at 12:10.
Beginning today, the airline will operate up to four weekly return flights from Exeter Airport to Belfast City Airport with fares starting from £34.99 one way including taxes.
This route is the only flight from Exeter to the island of Ireland with Aer Lingus Regional, a new airline at Exeter Airport. This route will improve connectivity between Devon and Northern Ireland, as well as connecting the...
