SILVERTON has a timely mystery to solve, a 150-year case involving clocks, treachery, bungling police and mad-cap inventions!
The Victorian steampunk drama promises an alarming tale as Her Majesty’s finest investigators pit themselves against cunning criminals hell bent on deceit and fraud.
Silverton’s players, the Silverton Luvvies, have sharpened their senses in the countdown to the challenge of a new mystery – The Curious Case of the Clockmaker’s Daughter.
SILVERTON has a timely mystery to solve, a 150-year case involving clocks, treachery, bungling police and mad-cap inventions!
The Victorian steampunk drama promises an alarming tale as Her Majesty’s finest investigators pit themselves against cunning criminals hell bent on deceit and fraud.
Silverton’s players, the Silverton Luvvies, have sharpened their senses in the...
Exeter and East Devon based Bricks Finance has announced that the business has now been authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
The FCA is the UK’s financial regulatory body overseeing the conduct of financial firms that provide services to consumers and it regulates all conduct related to the marketing of financial products.
Bricks Finance, which made its first loan in May 2015, currently has a loan book of over £5 million and has made loan offers over its first two years of £14 million.
Exeter Central Library could save £70,000 in energy costs over the next 20 years, thanks to its roof-top solar panels.
The (29kW) solar (photovoltaic) array is just one of several community-owned sustainable energy projects that have been completed following help from Devon County Council (DCC).
Last autumn DCC was recognised at the Devon Environmental Awards as the public sector organisation that has done more than any other to support and promote sustainable community energy projects in the county.
DCC’s successes include supporting Exeter Community Energy (ECoE)...
Oscar Wilde, Grindr, Chinese underground queer cinema, and the experiences of homosexual sailors in the Royal Navy during World War I will feature as part of Exeter’s first LGBT history festival.
Film screenings, talks, exhibitions and performances will be used to tell the unique stories of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer communities of the South West and beyond.
Exeter has been selected as an official hub for The National Festival of LGBT History. Events across Exeter in February 2017 will showcase the diverse histories of LGBTQ+ people.
Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, is expressing its concern as mortgage cases listed at Exeter County Court rose by 20%; this is comparing the period ending 31st December 2016 to the same period in 2015. See below why this is of concern to Citizens Advice Exeter.
Across all housing sectors, there was an overall increase of 2.3% in the total number of cases listed. Where a Citizens Advice adviser has assisted those facing repossession, they have avoided repossession in over 95% of cases. Exeter City Council, in partnership with East Devon District Council, has...
Exeter School is pleased to complete this year's Oxbridge admissions process with the announcement that eight pupils have been offered places, two unconditionally.
In the last six years, 35 pupils have received Oxbridge offers. Exeter School has an excellent record of success in placing pupils in a range of leading universities.
At Cambridge, Jack Alderman has an offer to read Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) and Juliet Everson to read Natural Sciences at St Catherine's; Bertie Broomfield to read Modern and Medieval Languages (Spanish and Russian) at Fitzwilliam...
Families for Children, local adoption agency and charitable trust, are delighted to announce they have secured a Practice and Improvement Grant from the DfE for Adoption Support.
The grant, of just under half a million pounds, will enable the charity to provide vital new support services to meet the growing and diverse needs of adoptive families and children across Devon, Cornwall, Somerset , Dorset and the Isles of Scilly.
At a crucial time for Adoption in the UK, Families for Children will use the grant to develop a program of new support services to compliment and...
Residents and interested parties are invited to find out more about the construction of a scheme aimed at reducing the risk of flooding to over 2,900 properties around the River Exe.
The public drop-in session takes place on Thursday 26 January, 3pm to 8pm, at Mount Pleasant Inn, Dawlish Warren.
It will give residents the chance to find out about the £14 million Dawlish beach management scheme which gets underway this month, and how the Environment Agency and Teignbridge District Council are working together to complete the project by September.
Discover unseen parts of Knightshayes this January and February, as the house team get to grips with their annual deep cleaning of the house and collection while, outside, work is in full swing installing a new biomass boiler.
This time of year is the perfect chance to find out more about the behind-the-scenes work that goes into keeping the house and estate looking as good as it does throughout the rest of the year. Unusually, the Knightshayes team will be undertaking this crucial work in the public eye.
Traditionally, National Trust properties are closed during the winter...
