BBC presenter Dr Helen Czerski and Met Office Chief Scientist Professor Dame Julia Slingo will be among the world-leading climate change experts speaking at a family-friendly festival at the University of Exeter this weekend. The day-long event exploring extreme weather is being held on Saturday March 5 on Streatham campus in Exeter in collaboration with the Met Office and Weather Art and Music (WAM), an award winning special interest group of the Royal Meteorological Society. Throughout the day a series of talks, workshops, art and music under the title Extreme Weather and You will...
Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park has announced it is sponsoring Withycombe Rugby Football Club (WRFC) over the next two years. Members of the club came to celebrate the sponsorship with a special kick around at the Park accompanied by Buddy Bear.
The sponsorship has secured kit for the under 9’s, 10’s and 11’s at the local rugby club until 2018. The three teams, each a mix of boys and girls come together regularly to play at the Club’s grounds in Exmouth.
Chris Down, Managing Director of Devon’s Crealy said: ‘Supporting local groups that help keep children fit and...
A mother from Exeter who has leukaemia is appealing for people to register online as potential blood stem cell donors with Delete Blood Cancer UK.
The appeal is being made by 36-year-old mother of three Kate Barnett, who needs to find a matching donor to save her life. If a matching donor isn’t found for her, she will have to resort to receiving blood stem cells from her 17 year old son who is not a perfect match for her, which is a higher risk procedure than receiving blood stem cells from a perfectly matching donor.
Kate, who is from Whipton and works at Tesco, has three...
Devon and Cornwall Police along with local authorities have launched an appeal to help them locate a missing 12-year-old Devon girl who’s been taken to Bangkok by her father.
A High Court Judge has ordered the release of details of Arisara Miles, who is known as ‘Zara’, who travelled to Thailand with her father without permission.
Zara and her father, Trevor Miles, left their home in Exeter and flew to Bangkok on November 10 last year. Her whereabouts since then are not known.
Mr Miles failed to attend a meeting arranged by Devon County Council to address concerns...
The Maynard School’s recently launched advertising campaign has fended off international competition to be voted ‘Ad of the Week’ by The Drum Network. In an unprecedented success for an independent school in Exeter, the 40-second film and corresponding print, digital and outdoors advertising campaign was voted ahead of global giants such as L’Oreal, McDonald’s, Samsung, Renault, Ambrosia and Cancer Research UK.
“The Drum Network champions innovation and provides a huge platform to assist international advertising agencies in achieving their goals. It has a huge member network and...
The South Devon Link Road project is celebrating after winning a regional highways industry award.
Devon County Council, Torbay Council and Galliford Try won the 'Large Transportation Project Award' at the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) awards held last week.
The CIHT South West Awards – run by the UK’s leading transportation professional institution - are intended to recognise the best projects completed, substantially completed or having reached a significant milestone in 2015.
The shortlisted projects were selected based on entrants...
Police have released an Evofit image of a suspect wanted in connection with a burglary in Exmouth.
On Friday 12th February a man knocked on the door of a property in Greenpark Road, Exmouth at around 1pm. The man discussed tree cutting with the elderly resident who realised her property had been searched when he left.
A number of wallets were stolen containing more than £2,000 in cash.
The suspect is described as white man, around 5ft 6ins, of slim to medium build, with short dark hair and with wearing dark clothing. He spoke in a deep gruff voice with an Irish...
People in Exeter are being invited to tuck into a big Fairtrade breakfast on Saturday 5 March.
The event is being organised by Exeter Fairtrade City Steering Group to raise awareness of Fairtrade products and support farmers and suppliers from around the globe who often find it difficult to earn enough to feed their own families.
Fairtrade Fortnight starts on Monday (29 February) and runs until 13 March.
Martin Luther King once famously said, ‘before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world’ . Despite our dependence on...
WAM -Weather Art and Music, an award-winning Special Interest Group of the Royal Meteorological Society, is to hold its next event in Exeter.
In collaboration with the University of Exeter, Double Elephant Print Workshop, the Met Office and the Royal Meteorological Society, the WAM Extreme Weather Event will be a diverse day of exploration and interaction for all ages, and an evening of entertainment and discussion.
The Extreme Weather Event will look at our experience of extreme weather in Devon, and how it fits into a pattern of changing climate.
Someone paying rent for an average two bedroom home in the South West would have forked out £38,137 to their landlord over the last five years, new analysis by housing and homelessness charity Shelter reveals today.
This is just under the sum needed for a 20% deposit on the average first time buyer home in the region, which is currently priced at £195,672.
With millions of renters caught in a ‘rent trap’, paying sky high housing costs and unable to keep up with rocketing house prices, the research pulls out the areas where ‘generation rent’ are forking out the most....
