Regus, the global workspace provider, is offering free workspace for Exeter professionals on weekdays when matches are being held at Sandy Park:
• Tuesday 29th September (Tonga vs Namibia) • Wednesday 7th October (Namibia vs Georgia)
Transport networks are expected to be busier than normal, with the M5 likely to be particularly affected. 4.3 million extra journeys are expected across the 44-day event and supporters and locals are being urged to plan ahead.
The Regus centre on Exeter Business Park will offer free business lounge access. Workers will be able to drop-...
Killerton Estate has won four national awards for its local produce in the Fine Farm Produce Awards which recognise the quality and sustainability of the food, drink and produce grown on National Trust land and farms.
Ashclyst Dairy, a tenant farm at Killerton, was the overall food winner in England and Wales for its organic natural yoghurt and Killerton estate itself also fought off stiff competition to take home awards for its sparkling cider, charcoal, firewood logs, and Clyston Mill stoneground flour.
Ed Nicholson, Lead Ranger, and Fiona Hailstone, Produce Ranger, went...
Bath Spa University and University of Exeter have joined forces to revive public interest in the natural history of the Devonshire coast.
‘Science at the Seaside: Pleasure Hunts in North Devon’ is a collaborative public engagement project between the two universities.
It seeks to increase public awareness of the rich history of nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing about the North Devon coast, and the role that figures such as George Eliot and Philip Gosse, among others, played in the growth of popular interest in science and natural history in the period....
Join Dartmoor National Park Rangers to help look after our prehistoric heritage on Wednesday 7 October 2015.
Dartmoor’s landscape is among the richest in western Europe in terms of its prehistoric archaeological remains. Dartmoor contains the longest stone row in the world and has the greatest number of archaeological sites out of all the UK National Parks. In fact 60% of all stone rows to be found in England are on Dartmoor and 1/3 of all stone rows in the UK and Brittany are on Dartmoor.
The day will involve a continuation of work previously begun to ensure the multiple...
The woodlands of the south west of England are very special places for wildlife. Close to the Atlantic ocean, they provide conditions for plant life that are not found in most of the rest of the UK.
We are celebrating, through the Make the Small Things Count project, the woodland wildlife that can easily go unnoticed and invite you to take a moment to have a really close look at this special habitat by visiting the fantastic exhibition of photographs at the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown. The exhibition runs from 11 Sept 2015 - 28 Feb 2016. FREE admission....
A coffee morning raising funds for the Exeter GirlGuiding HQ refurbishment of Trefoil Lodge.
Cake, books, draw, 10am-noon.
Each district has been challenged to raise over £250 and the Exeter district is doing the “All Change Please” where each girl/leader has been given a container and asked to fill it with loose change. These pots will returned during the week commencing 28th September.
At the coffee morning the Guides willl make a large Trefoil shape on the floor of the hall.
Trefoil Lodge was purchased by Exeter Division Girlguiding in the 1990’s and was...
Building on the growing success of Powderham Food Festival, which first launched in 2012 and draws food-lovers from across the region, this year’s event promises to be even bigger and better than ever. The popular date in Devon’s culinary calendar has doubled its appeal for 2015, as it is due to take place over two days from 3rd to 4th October – perfect timing as it marks the end of British Food Fortnight.
Back by popular demand comes Powderham Food Festival’s dramatic Theatre of Fire 'n Smoke, where some of Britain’s best BBQ cooks will be demonstrating their cooking skills...
Testing the Water, a fun family day about the future of Riverside and Ludwell Valley parks takes place on Sunday (27 September) just south of Exeter quayside. The event, which runs from 10am to 4pm will be opened by the Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr Lesley Robson and takes place in and around a marquee pitched by the Trew’s weir suspension bridge, just south of the red and white buoy on Exeter quay.
Testing the Water promises to be fun, informative and also capture people’s views and ideas for the future of these popular green spaces. There is a range of activities suitable for all...
Ikale Tahi, the Tonga Rugby Union team are staying in Exeter for Rugby World Cup 2015.
On Tuesday 22 September, they visited Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) with their families. Accompanied by the Cllr Lesley Robson the Deputy Lord Mayor and the city mace bearer, they visited Exeter quay, enjoyed tea on the Cathedral Green and visited the museum.
Welcomed by the Museum Manager Camilla Hampshire and Curator of Ethnography Tony Eccles, their tour of the museum included RAMM’s Oceania displays in the World Cultures galleries, Touch-Line, the exhibition of...
The Stoke Hill Community Association is appealing for green-fingered residents to pitch-in and help create a new community garden in the imposing grounds of St Katherine’s Priory on the 26-27 September.
The project, which is backed by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), will be part of an open weekend at the Priory designed to bring the community together to share existing skills, learn new ones and turn an area of grey to green as part of the national Greening Grey Britain campaign.
RHS experts will be on-hand over the weekend to offer training, advice and insight to...
