A former Nursing Sister who trained at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital during the Second World War has received a replica of a gold nursing medal which was tragically stolen from her during a burglary.
Eighty-nine year old Doris Sumption, from Spetisbury in Dorset, was devastated when her home was burgled three years ago and thieves took one of her most treasured possessions – a gold medal which she received for being top of her class during her nurse training at the RD&E in 1946.
Doris started her training with the RD&E, then based in Dean Clarke House in...
Honiton Gymnastics Club took 51 gymnasts to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the Next Dimension Gymnastics Academy (NDGA) Invitational last weekend, returning with five gold medals, seven silvers and four bronzes.
It’s the biggest team that the club has ever taken away to an invitational competition, and the occasion was made even more memorable by the fact that Honiton was the most successful club at the event.
With 51 gymnasts competing in 23 acrobatic partnerships, Honiton fielded gymnasts in a wide variety of levels, from Grade 1 (novice) through to ‘13-19’ junior...
The sun shone upon the crowds that flocked to day two of the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink today.
Hundreds of people enjoyed a packed line-up of activities including chef demonstrations, workshops, festival farmyard, cheese and wine masterclass, live music, Festival Question Time with BBC Radio Devon presenters as well as plenty of delicious regional food and drink to enjoy.
Tonight’s After Dark Music Festival at Exeter Castle features Electric Swing Circus, a 6-piece band which delivers a dazzling fusion of 20's swing and stomping beats, with support from...
It’s Hedgehog Awareness Week from Sunday May 1 and East Devon District Council’s Countryside team is giving top tips on how we can help them thrive.
The week is run by the Hedgehog Preservation Society and aims to highlight the problems faced by hedgehogs and encourage the public to help them.
The Countryside team has some great ideas on how we can all do our bit to help our prickly friends!
Hedgehogs are one of the UKs most loved animals, and are very important for our ecosystem, their numbers are in steep decline and according to hedgehog campaign group, Hedgehog...
The Devon and Somerset Young Enterprise ‘Company Programme’ Final is fast approaching.
The Company Programme, is the Young Enterprise flagship programme it is a unique nation-wide Business and Education partnership that offers young people, aged 15 to 19+ the opportunity to form and run their own company while still at school or college.
The students elect a Board of Directors, decide on a company name, raise capital, develop, market and sell their product locally at Trade Shows before liquidating their company at the end of the academic year.
East Devon Conservation volunteers have dedicated an amazing 1800 hours to help keep the countryside looking beautiful since they were established more than two years ago.
The volunteering group was established in September 2013 and since then the group has gone from strength to strength. There are now a number of regular volunteers who give up their time to play an important role in the development and conservation of the district's fantastic wildlife and habitats.
Under the guidance of Countryside Ranger, Nathan Robinson, the volunteers help with the practical management...
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has announced that an additional 5,000 places have been made available for their biggest ever grass roots initiative, Tennis for Kids in partnership with Highland Spring. The initiative was launched to establish a genuine tennis participation legacy, following Great Britain’s historic Davis Cup by BNP Paribas win. The Tennis for Kids initiative which initially aimed to inspire 10,000 children aged 5-8 to pick up a racket and play tennis for the first time has had such a positive uptake, with all 10,000 spaces filled in under a week, that an extra 5,000...
St George’s Day on Saturday April 23rd is not only the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare it is also the start of Great British Beef Week!
British beef was a firm favourite for theatregoers to Shakespeare’s famous Globe Theatre in London during the Elizabethan era.
It was a quick and easy convenience food, to be enjoyed ready cooked from a roasting spit of half an oxen between thick slices of bread.So it comes as no surprise that today the humble sandwich is still the staple of Britain’s mealtimes - breakfast, lunch and dinner, as an easy to make...
A pioneering new research centre in Exeter, which aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and prognosis of a range of common chronic health conditions using predictive mathematical models, will celebrate its official launch this month.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare will host a world-leading team of mathematicians, statisticians, and clinicians who will be working with a range of industrial partners, patients, and other stakeholders on diagnosing and treating conditions such as cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes,...
