Exeter's Kam Powell has been selected for the Great Britain Men's under-19 water polo squad.
The team are ready to compete in the European Championships Qualifiers this week in Antalya where they will face Montenegro, Belgium and the hosts Turkey.
The four-team competition will take place at the Süleyman Erol pool from May 6th-8th and the top two sides will progress to this September’s showpiece tournament in Holland.
As part of Team GB’s preparations, the players have spent the past 12 months training intensively in the new 30m pool in Beswick, Manchester, and they...
The 121st Devon County Show was launched in style by The Countess of Arran and Show Secretary Ollie Allen at Southernhay House, Exeter.
In Spring sunshine the pair revealed a huge line-up of entertainment and the vital role Devon’s largest event plays in the life of the county.
“Every event likes to bill itself as having something for everyone, but few have quite such genuine appeal across the board as the Devon County Show,” said Ollie Allen.
“This is surely the only event that can cater for people who are interested in food, farming and having a lot of fun.”...
Experience a dinner with a difference by joining the East Devon District Council Countryside team and food foraging expert, Chris Holland for a Wild food forage and cook up from 6:30pm to 9pm on Friday May 13 at Holyford Woods and Thursday May 19 at Knapp Copse. Walk with Chris, who is a food foraging expert, through the countryside, looking out for various edible wild plants. Countryside Team Leader, Tim Dafforn said:
‘’What better way to earn your dinner than by foraging for it and preparing it yourself in the great outdoors of the East Devon countryside?’’ After you have enjoyed...
Nine well known members of the business community are going to be ‘jailed’ on Friday 13th May at Exeter Castle and will have to raise a bail of £999 for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) in order to be released. Each ‘prisoner’ has been charged with a fictitious crime and they will be held at the castle until they raise their bail money. Exeter Castle was the City’s former Law Courts and still boasts some original cells and Naomi Dymond, Corporate Fundraiser at CHSW said: ‘This is such a fun event and I’m delighted that so many members of the local business community have agreed to take...
Exeter School’s annual Founders’ Day Service was held at Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday 20 April.
The whole school, comprising boys and girls aged 7-18, staff and governors, gathered to give thanks to its founders in a beautiful service.
Revd Dr John Searle commented on how Exeter School and Exeter Cathedral shared over 1000 years between them.
The Reverend Bruce Kinsey, Chaplain and Welfare Officer, Balliol College, Oxford, gave an address at the school’s service about mindfulness. He spoke about the importance of feeling grateful in our lives and encouraged pupils...
The South Devon Link Road project has been presented with a major industry award for the third consecutive year.
Galliford Try, along with Devon County Council and Torbay Council, were awarded gold status at the prestigious Considerate Constructors Awards held in London.
Now known as the South Devon Highway, this is the third year that the project has been recognised at the awards. 2016 is the first time they received a gold award: the team was given a silver award in both 2014 and 2015.
The awards aim to improve the image of the construction industry: members of...
New data released today by the charity Asthma UK highlights that almost three quarters of people in the South West (70%) would not know what to do if someone were to have a potentially life threatening asthma attack.
Someone in the UK has an asthma attack every 10 seconds, yet many people wouldn’t know how to help someone if they were struggling to breathe.
The charity is particularly concerned that one in every 11 people (9% of respondents) don’t think that asthma attacks can kill.
Three children in every classroom have asthma, making it the most common long term...
Devon residents are being asked to record cuckoos seen or heard in the county as part of an ongoing conservation project that has received 2,000 reports of the species by the general public in the last two years.
April is the month when cuckoos will start arriving and breeding on Dartmoor and its surrounding areas, after wintering in the African Congo. The birds will spend as little as ten weeks in the UK before departing for warmer climes.
Along with the county’s bird society Devon Birds, researchers at the University of Exeter are asking people to help build a better...
Kier Construction Western and Wales wins national Gold Award and is runner-up to the UK’s Most Considerate Site for its Exeter school project Kier Construction Western and Wales has won a Gold Award, and was shortlisted for the Most Considerate Site, at the prestigious Considerate Constructors Scheme’s 2016 National Site Awards. Its award-winning St Leonard’s School project was to construct a new six-classroom building and ancillary teaching facilities to the rear of the large junior school in St Leonard’s Road. The award, presented at The Mermaid in London on Monday 18 April, was given...
During Deaf Awareness Week (2nd-8th May 2016), national charity Action on Hearing Loss is urging people in the South West to become more deaf aware to ensure people who are deaf or have hearing loss are not being excluded from everyday interactions that their hearing peers are taking for granted.
One in six people (11 million) across the UK are currently living with hearing loss, with the number set to rise to one in five by 2035. However for many of them going to work, managing money at the bank, using public services and taking part in social occasions can still pose an...
