The Exeter City Supporters Trust has welcomed a massive boost to its plans for celebrating the history of St James Park, home of Exeter City Football Club since the early 20th century.
A bid to document, preserve and share the history of the ground, submitted by the University of Exeter working in partnership with the Trust’s History Group, has been successful in attracting grants of £29,100 with the main contribution coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
The wide ranging project will include:
The digitisation of documents and photographs held in
The Donkey Sanctuary is holding a spring family fun day and dog show on Sunday 15 May from 10am to 4pm.
Come and join The Donkey Sanctuary at their Spring Family Fun Day and Dog Show, for an action-packed and exciting day with a whole range of activities for all of the family to enjoy. There will be plenty of wonderful stalls with a wide assortment of different stands and goodies for two and four legged visitors.
Does your dog have the waggiest tail or the most appealing eyes? The Dog Show will be split over two parts of the day; the first from 11-12:30 and the second from...
Fans of Pink Floyd will be flocking to Exeter Corn Exchange on Saturday 28 May when UK Pink Floyd Experience visits the venue on a national tour.
UK Pink Floyd Experience was formed in 2008 and features top class musicians recreating the music and atmosphere of the great Pink Floyd in concert.
The band draws widely on the whole Floyd back catalogue performing songs from all of the iconic albums including Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Atom Heart Mother, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.
Ground-breaking Canon Anna Norman–Walker has been appointed the first honorary chaplain of the Devon County Show, which will be held on May 19-21 at Westpoint, Exeter. “It was a lovely surprise,” said Canon Norman-Walker, who is a passionate supporter of the countryside. “The Show champions the local and the sustainable, creating a vital platform to acknowledge the faithful work of our farmers who are all too often isolated and labouring against the odds. “For three days a community springs into life at Westpoint giving all who attend a taste of Devon and all that there is for us to be...
Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education English teacher, Deb Thomas is one of the top six teachers in the UK in line to win a Pearson Teaching Award for 2016 Teacher of Year.
Deb won the Silver Award for Excellence in Special Needs Teaching 2016 and now goes on to compete as a finalist for Teacher of the Year against hundreds of teaching professionals from schools across the UK.
The star-studded awards ceremony takes place in London and will be broadcast on TV in the autumn on the BBC2 programme ‘Britain’s Classroom Heroes’
Kimberly Wyatt could easily be mistaken for a Hollywood starlet in her latest shoot to launch Specsavers in Exeter’s search for the Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2016. The singer, dancer, MasterChef champion and mum has posed in a series of stunning shots oozing old-fashioned movie star glamour to encourage South West specs wearers to pucker up and enter Specsavers’ annual specs selfie competition. Proud specs wearers from every corner of UK can enter the competition to be in with a chance of attending the star-studded final in London and lifting the overall crown, along with £10,000 in...
The Donkey Sanctuary is holding a spring family fun day and dog show on Sunday 15 May from 10am to 4pm.
Come and join The Donkey Sanctuary at their Spring Family Fun Day and Dog Show, for an action-packed and exciting day with a whole range of activities for all of the family to enjoy. There will be plenty of wonderful stalls with a wide assortment of different stands and goodies for two and four legged visitors.
Does your dog have the waggiest tail or the most appealing eyes? The Dog Show will be split over two parts of the day; the first from 11-12:30 and the second from...
Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and a smash hit tour last year (packed with mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness) Avenue Q comes to Exeter Northcott Theatre at the end of May.
Featuring the naughtiest puppets in town, brought hilariously to life by an ensemble cast, Avenue Q is a Tony Award winning musical about growing up, dreaming big and finding your purpose in life.
Created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (Co-creator of Book of Mormon and writer of the songs for Disney’s Frozen) Avenue Q is an irresistibly charming musical...
A junk food diet can cause as much damage to the kidney as diabetes, according to a study published today in Experimental Physiology.
Type 2 diabetes is often associated with obesity and the number of cases are rising worldwide at an alarming rate. In type 2 diabetes, the body either doesn’t produce enough insulin or doesn’t react to it. This causes an accumulation of sugar (glucose) in the blood, which can have severe long-term consequences for organs, including the kidneys, where it can lead to diabetic kidney disease. Hence, finding a way to block glucose reabsorption in the...
The team at Hanlons Brewery had reason to celebrate twice in April having collected two awards at this year’s Tuckers Maltings Beer Festival.
The Festival, organised by SIBA, and now in its 24th Year, showcases the best beers from all over the West Country and beyond. Hanlons’ Port Stout won a Bronze Award whilst newly bottled Stormstay won a Gold.
Having recently been finalists in both the Exeter Living and Express and Echo business awards the team are rightly proud of their performance.
The Gold award means that Stormstay will be automatically entered into this...
