Due to its overwhelming success, RGB Building Supplies is delighted to be relaunching its Community Fund for a third year, but this time the local community will be given the opportunity to decide who receives £1,000 worth of building materials.
Having made donations to a youth group, animal welfare centre, charity that supports the homeless, a martial arts centre and an outdoor project in the last year alone, RGB is asking for different deserving groups to get in contact and explain how a donation of building materials would help.
Exeter Greens have accused Exeter City Council of pruning tree staff to the bare minimum and say that a lack of investment is leaving communities in the dark about when and why trees are being cut down.
Exeter Green Party has discovered that 150 trees have been cut down in conservation areas alone in the past year, with countless others lost across the city. Exeter’s tree cover stands at just over 22% and includes some rare, culturally and locally significant trees.
Joe Levy, Green Party Candidate in St Thomas, said: “Trees in Exeter are coming under severe pressure from...
Heart FM in the South West has signed up as the official media partner for Children’s Hospice South West’s 25th Anniversary Rainbow Run to be held on June 11 at Exeter Racecourse.
Richard Spencer, Managing Editor at Heart’s broadcast centre in Exeter said: "We’re delighted to be involved in this year’s Rainbow Run in Children’s Hospice South West’s 25th anniversary year. It’s such a feel-good event for a brilliant cause, and we love being part of it. We can’t wait for June!”
This flagship fundraising event for the hospice, sees hundreds of participants running and walking...
During the current football season, the Feniton U15 squad has been sporting new kit sponsored by local family-run garden centre, Otter Nurseries – which may have given them a boost for their impressive performance.
The team has given a near-flawless performance during this 18 game season; so far they have won 16 games out of 16. They have scored 158 goals, conceding a mere 18, with the best score being 20-0.
Top scorers are Oscar Walsh and Sam Ayers who have scored more than 80 goals between them. Having just won their latest match against Brixington Blues, the team is now...
Over two fifths of people in the South West have confessed to being so unfit they would get out of breath running for the bus, according to new statistics released as part of the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) brand new fundraising challenge MyMarathon. The BHF poll revealed well over half (52%) of adults in the South West said if they went running now the furthest they could manage is just half a mile or less. One in five (20%) felt they could only make it to 100 metres. Of those who could manage to run a mile, a third of people (33%) said the last time they did was over 10 years ago....
A new renewable energy league table reveals which counties have the most solar panels installed across England and Wales. The South West comes out top, with Cornwall taking first place and Devon hot on its heels. The renewables industry is an important source of jobs, with more than 10,000 in the South West, including 2,800 in the solar sector. There are 120,000 people employed in the industry across England and Wales. The league table is published just after Plymouth’s largest solar array went online. Constructed on a former landfill site in Ernesettle, energy generated from the 4.1MW...
Ruthless in it’s extreme, Exeter Chiefs fired an ominous warning shot to their Aviva Premiership rivals as they edged ever closer to a first-ever appearance in the end of season play-offs.
Rob Baxter’s produced arguably their best display in weeks to run in eight tries against in-form Worcester Warriors at Sandy Park.
The free-scoring Thomas Waldrom extended his lead at the top of the division’s try pile with his second treble of the season, while winger Olly Woodburn added three of his own alongside further scores from James Short and Ollie Atkins.
Dizraeli is a rapper, multi-instrumentalist and sometime singer taking hip hop to new terrains.
Having gone solo in 2009 to record his debut album Engurland (City Shanties), and then spent six years writing and touring with his band Dizraeli & The Small Gods, Dizraeli has gone solo once more to build a new sound.
A SKILLZ BARRY ASHWORTH DANCEFLOOR OUTLAWS OMC (BEN & LEX) HOSTED BY JAE TUNS We are pleased to welcome Bristol’s Ghetto Funk for their first visit to Exeter as a warm up for their Shindig Weekender near Bath at the end of May. Co-founder of Ghetto Funk, Will Lardner, will be playing under his Dancefloor Outlaws alias and is joined by two DJs that need no introduction to Beatz & Bobz. The party rocking, crowd surfing DJs Dub Pistol’s main man Barry Ashworth and scratch master A. Skillz who just happen to be two of the venue hosts for Ghetto Funk’s Shindig Festival, held near Bath...
The South West’s much loved physical comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete are back this season with their Sell Out successful take on the classic tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Join Dorothy and Toto on their fantastical and downright chaotic travels along the Road of Yellow Bricks meeting the usual (sort of) suspects along the way – an unbelievably idiotic Scarecrow, a Tin Man straight from under the Iron Curtain and a Lion whose West End dreams seem just Over The Rainbow – as well as some characters, you might not expect….
