An RSPCA inspector is set to trek to Everest Base Camp to raise funds for animals in need.
Marije Zwager, an inspector based in Exeter, will be taking part in the trek this September with a group of like-minded animal lovers to raise much-needed funds for the RSPCA.
Everyday Marije experiences first-hand the cruelty that is inflicted on innocent animals and the work the RSPCA does to prevent this. She says this is why she is pushing herself to the limit to raise funds to help even more animals.
“I really enjoy the buzz I get from physical exercise and being in...
An Exeter law firm has taken another step in the battle against plastic pollution by working with one of the South West’s brightest community interest companies, Beach Guardian.
Stephens Scown LLP signed up to the Plastic Free Exeter pledge in late 2018 and has been taking action to cut down on its plastic use since then. This has included arranging a plastic collection along Exeter’s Quay, collecting all the plastic used in one week to assess where it comes from and looking at ways to reduce this as part of the firm’s ‘Giving Back’ program.
The picturesque estuary town of Topsham, just four miles from Exeter, will be celebrating the end of winter with Spring Forward Saturdayon the 30th March. Just before the clocks go forward to welcome warmer days the town will be buzzing with a fair-like atmosphere, with the majority of shops, cafés and restaurants taking part, and live music around the town.
The event is in its second year and is set to be a fabulous, vibrant day, full of offers from local businesses, Spring treats, children’s activities and foot-tapping sounds from talented local musicians.
A new fashion exhibition, the ‘Tree of Life,’ is celebrating the connection of the National Trust’s Killerton estate to the founding of the Forestry Commission in 1919.
It’s a little known fact that 100 years ago, Devon MP Francis Acland, whose family owned the Killerton estate, was one of the founding fathers of the committee which led to the creation of the Forestry Commission in 1919. To mark the centenary of his contribution, Killerton’s new ‘Tree of Life’ fashion exhibition explores the connection between trees and what we wear, including high-fashion pieces made from...
Exeter’s Scouts and Guides will be “Riding along on the crest of a wave” again this Easter as they take over the Barnfield Theatre from the 10th to the 13th April 2019 for this year’s Exeter Gang Show.
Bigger, brighter and louder than ever before, the 35thExeter Scout and Guide Gang Show is packed full of popular songs, dance and laugh out loud sketches and has everything to keep audience members of any age entertained.
The cast of over 80 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts, Guides, Explorers, Rangers and Leaders from across Exeter and the surrounding areas are swapping their hiking...
New presenters have joined the station’s popular team in a fresh sound that aims to reflect the whole county.
Breakfast Show presenter Gordon Sparks is now joined by Laura James, waking Devon up from 6am to 9am every morning with interesting chat, news, sport, weather and travel.
Laura is known to early risers for her BBC Radio Devon show from 5am to 6am, which she continues to present. Before joining the station she presented breakfast shows across the West Country for Heart and Breeze.
She has been co-hosting the breakfast show for the last few weeks and has now...
Your guide to What’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (15-17 March):
THEATRE
Ardal O’Hanlon: The Showing Off Must Go On
Friday, Exeter Northcott
Ardal O’Hanlon continues to tour his acclaimed stand-up shows worldwide. Because he loves it. And it’s a compulsion. And the world is a funny place. In an age of raging populism, MeToo, identity politics, the end of truth, the collapsing middle ground, peak avocado and £15 Gin and Tonics, and terrified of being on the wrong side of history, and desperate to prove that his gender, race, age and class don’t...
Exeter will strive to become a carbon-neutral city in just over a decade in an ambitious new vision adopted by the City Council.
Councillors recently backed a motion recognising the scale and urgency of the global challenge from climate change, and accepted that the City has a duty to act “quickly, collectively and concertedly” to avoid the worst of the predicted outcomes.
The bold commitment was made today (Friday 15 March) on a day of environmental protests across the country. Cllr Rachel Sutton, Lead Councillor with responsibility for the Low Carbon Task Force, met with...
When you ask a server in a restaurant where the scampi is from and you are given what amounts to a postcode, you know they know their stuff.
I was lucky enough to be invited to the launch of Rockfish in Exeter which, when it comes to the dining experience, (and here's the pun) is the plaice to be!
We were served with an array of delightful dishes including, spider crab croquettes, ceviche sardines, cuttlefish, oysters and scampi.
When the scampi tray came around, I was informed by the server that they would be the tastiest and juiciest I had ever experienced....
