Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival, which takes place on 29 & 30 April at Powderham Castle is aiming to create a little green oasis with trees and colourful Spring flowers in the centre of Princesshay Shopping Centre in Exeter in this Visit England ‘Year of the English Garden’.
Toby will be offering gardening advice and running a plant-problem surgery from his pop-up potting shed in the central square in an urban jungle of fantastic trees and plants created by Matford boys, Sam and Lee of Urban and Rural Plants.
This Bank Holiday at the festival, Toby will be talking about...
On Saturday 2 April, Exeter Friends For Animals (EFFA) in association with Fairfoods Catering will be launching their spring “Go Vegan” campaign at St Stephen’s Church in Exeter High Street.
Anyone interested in trying an animal-free diet, or simply curious about “what vegans eat”, is welcome to drop by between 11.30 am and 2.30 pm to browse the information stalls, pick up some recipe ideas, try some free food samples or stop for tea and cake or a snack.
At 2 pm, there will also be a talk on the health benefits of veganism by sports scientist Jack Childs. As a former...
MSM Software Solved, one of the UK’s leading software houses, together with RSA, one of the world’s leading multinational quoted insurance groups, have scooped the prestigious ‘Insurance Software Award’ at the ‘Commercial Insurance Awards 2016’.
The award is in recognition of the bespoke, innovative software solution – ‘RSAred’, developed in-house by the MSM Software Solved team of industry leading developers. This resulting risk engineering system, enables access to data on the move - with or without an internet connection - to provide real time visibility and management of risk...
Devon County Council is calling for nominations for this year’s Community Transport Awards to honour those who have gone the extra mile for their passengers.
The award ceremony, now in its 17th year and this year sponsored by the GM Coachwork Group, aims to recognise the outstanding service and dedication made by people involved in Community Transport across Devon.
Nomination forms are now available from the County Council and must be submitted by the closing date of Friday 22 April.
Anyone working or volunteering in the community transport sector can be nominated...
Starcross Primary School held a special launch last week for the publication of “The Seaside Train”, a book celebrating the unique and very scenic Riviera Line which links Exeter, Starcross, Newton Abbot and Paignton.
This book was inspired by the Citizens’ Rail train, a Class 153 single coach train which was given a special livery last year by Great Western Railway to celebrate the Citizens’ Rail project. This was an EU Interreg Project, led by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, which brought more frequent trains and station improvements to the Riviera Line and involved...
Work to upgrade more than 24,000 streetlights to LED lighting will continue across Devon next month (April).
The £10.2 million scheme, using Challenge Funding which Devon County Council received following a successful bid to the Department for Transport, will convert streetlights to lower wattage LED lighting, and around 5,000 columns will also be replaced as part of the project.
The replacement of streetlights, on mostly main (A and B) roads, got underway earlier this year in Barnstaple, where around 5,200 lights and 1,100 columns are being replaced, and Kingskerswell,...
There’s a special chance to learn about traditional lobster pot-making at Living Coasts on Friday April 1st.
Dave French is the fifth generation of his family to make crab and lobster pots from willow. He is one of only 10 people in the world who can make pots in this way. Clare Rugg, Operations Manager at Living Coasts, said: “It is wonderful to watch him at work – and it’s an important tradition.
The skill has been passed down through his family - each family has a design of their own. We have one of his pots on show as theming in our Local Coasts area.” The withy pots...
The Exeter Pound have been running a crowdfund campaign over the last few weeks to prepare the way for the community currency to go digital.
The campaign will come to an end next Monday 4th April with all money raised going towards the systems needed to create the digital currency.
So far the ‘crowd’ have pledged more than £6,000 to the project and in return will receive unique rewards such as a locally designed t-shirts and shopping bags or even the ‘Exeter Pound Mystery Box’. Exeter launched its own paper currency in September 2015 and its reach has been growing ever...
Goals from Jake Taylor and Ollie Watkins made it four away wins on the spin and seven unbeaten for Exeter City as the Grecians battled to a 2-0 victory over Crawley Town at the Checkatrade.com Stadium.
Taylor’s goal in the twenty-eighth minute was the least that City had deserved after a rampant first-half display. The hosts came stronger in the second period with Bobby Olejnik called into action several times, but the Grecians weathered the storm before Watkins sealed the points with sixteen minutes remaining.
There were three changes to the City team that made it six...
