Following on from the success of Southernhay Clinic's May Make-Over earlier this year, this amazing Festive Make-Over, which is being organised by Southernhay Clinic in aid of Dream-A-Way, is aimed at helping you look and feel the very best you can for the festive season and into the New Year and beyond!
The afternoon event is to be opened by Exeter City director of football and former Tottenham Hotspur player Steve Perryman and Alan Gow, Exeter City player. Meanwhile, the evening event is to be opened by Judi Spiers!
The evening will feature a festive Fashion Show from...
Ever since it opened its doors, John Lewis has been abuzz with people coming from far across Devon to browse and shop. Kate Connock, branch manager, said: “Since we opened on Friday 12th October, we’ve continued to see customers come through the doors to see what John Lewis Exeter has to offer. As the festive season fast approaches, our Christmas shop has proved popular as shoppers get ready to decorate their homes and look for the perfect gift for loved ones. The fashion department has also continued to trade well and customers are really enjoying the new technology we introduced in the...
An Event Exeter venue, The Forum at the University of Exeter, will tonight host BBC Children in Need in the South West.
Starting at 1.30pm, there will be live feature broadcasts by the BBC Spotlight team on BBC1 as well as live links to the national TV network programme throughout the evening.
Opened by Her Majesty The Queen in May this year, the Forum is the newest venue in Event Exeter’s portfolio and boasts state-of-the-art technology and a range of attractive spaces suitable for any event.
Sarah Snow, Assistant Director for Campus Services (Sales & Events),...
The Met Office and PA Consulting Group last night scooped two awards at the prestigious UK IT Industry Awards - ‘Best use of cloud services’ and ‘IT project demonstrating most effective use of collaborative technology’ - for the Met Office’s Weather Observation Website (WOW).
The winning project, developed by the Met Office with teams at PA Consulting Group and Google, used the Google App Engine to build and host web applications exploiting cloud and collaborative technologies. This allowed the Met Office to launch the WOW service with zero up front infrastructure costs,...
Exeter City Football Club set a new record for the season against Fleetwood on Saturday – by raising a total of £969.77 for the Poppy Appeal during the half-time bucket collection.
The previous highest total for the current campaign was £926.43, which had been raised for the Adam Stansfield Foundation during the Grecians’ Capital One Cup tie against Championship side Crystal Palace.
St James’ Park hosted a Remembrance silence – which was observed immaculately both the home and away supporters – and an on-field ceremony by the Royal British Legion. The...
The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance has increased slightly by 195 claimants.
Between September and October claimants went up from 9,010 to 9,205. Despite this, the rate of the working age population claiming this out of work benefit remains at 2%. This bucks the UK trend, which has seen a slight decrease of 0.4% over the same period.
However more positively, for the third consecutive month the number of people claiming JSA is lower than a year earlier.
This follows the trend seen nationally although the yearly drop has occurred at...
“Alcohol is no excuse” is the theme of Domestic Abuse Awareness Week in Devon and Cornwall which runs from Monday 19th – Sunday 25th November 2012.
This year’s domestic abuse awareness week will coincide with alcohol awareness week for the first time and will focus on how alcohol can be a contributory factor in cases of domestic abuse, as well as highlighting the support available in Devon and Cornwall.
Research carried out by Devon and Cornwall Police in 2010 found that 56% of domestic abuse offences involved alcohol and/or drugs. During 2011-12 police...
This year’s Christmas show at Exeter Northcott looks set to be a winner with children and grown-ups alike.
Tall Stories, creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom , bring their latest production, The Snail and the Whale , to the theatre for a festive run on 12-30 December.
This charming play of bravery tells the story of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale. What an adventure the pair embark upon, as they journey together across the seas.
Exeter Farmers’ Market has been given a silver award in this year’s South West Flavour Awards organised by Taste of the West.
The market, which is organised by Exeter City Council, takes place every Thursday at the junction of Fore Street and South Street and opens for business from 9am until 2pm. Produce offered for sale includes meat, poultry, fish, organic vegetables, bread, cheese and eggs.
The judges praised the excellent service offered by the stallholders and were impressed by the atmosphere at the market.
The managing director from one of the South West’s leading housebuilders says he’s pleased with the performance of the business and believes it’s firmly on track to meet end of year expectations.
Simon Perks, managing director for Exeter-based Persimmon Homes South West says the autumn selling season has seen visitor rates rise six per cent ahead of this time last year and weekly private sales rates rise four per cent.
Speaking as Persimmon plc releases its Interim Management Statement which covers the period from 1 July 2012 to 12 November 2012, Simon said: “House buyers...
