Innovative degree helps future lawyers prepare for new technology and online courts

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 04/28/2019 - 9:33am

Students have the opportunity to study at a top university and global law firm as part of a new course designed to prepare them for the growth in legal innovation and technology. The students will learn about how developments will change the role of judges and lawyers, as well as increase the potential for access to justice for litigants.

The University of Exeter and Reed Smith have joined forces to create the new four-year LLB “Legal Placement” degree, which combines the best aspects of a global top 100 legal education with an immersive, year-long placement at Reed Smith’s London...

“Jack”

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 04/27/2019 - 11:58pm

A new book launched on 25th April by Exeter’s own taxi driver Jack the Hat about the untamed lives of Exeter students and locals alike.

“It was always strange how sometimes it felt easier to reveal very personal events in our lives to complete strangers, as if the shame or the hurt would somehow melt away…”

Shane O’Sullivan was born in Nottingham in 1953. He attended Benedictine Monastery School, which he escaped at the age of 16. He has been on the run ever since. As a jack-of-all-trades, his litany of previous occupations includes: a hotel porter, a chef, a bar manager at...

A replica 'Clicker', made with the original tooling and presses which made those issued to the American Airborne Division in WW2

Campaign launched to find ‘The Lost Clickers’ of the D-Day landings in Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 04/27/2019 - 9:44am

ACME Whistles, world-leader in whistle design, innovation and manufacture is calling out to D-Day veterans and their relatives to find what have been coined ‘The Lost Clickers’ of the D-Day landings.

Supported by The Royal British Legion and intended to meaningfully mark the 75thanniversary of the D-Day landings, ACME Whistles is searching for original ‘ Clickers ’ issued to the American Airborne Division as a vital piece of survival equipment. Paratroopers were dropped into darkness behind enemy lines on the night before D-Day, if they were not alone when they landed, or later...

Camilla Tea to launch at Devon County Show

An Oolong tea from Taiwan with a distinctive clotted cream flavour and named in honour of the Duchess of Cornwall will be given its official launch at the Devon County Show in May.

Camilla is a new tea from the Oolong Tea Company, which is based in Torpoint’s Portwrinkle. The tea was sourced and created by the company’s founder, Eve Baker, and named after Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall in tribute to the Duchy’s work across the South West, as well as her ongoing support of Devon County Show - she was President back in 2008 and attended as a guest in 2013.

Eve said: “My...

¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival

Event Date: 
28/04/2019 - 4:00pm to 13/06/2019 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

After a 10-year hiatus, the ¡Viva! Tour of UK cinemas is back, with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.

The UK’s largest and most popular celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture which celebrates 25 years of cross-border creativity, collaborations and partnerships in 2019 will be bringing the best new cinema from Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America to cinemas nationwide.

Presented by HOME Manchester and reflecting HOME’s 2019 theme Celebrating Women in Global Cinema, the touring films will all foreground female creative talent in...

¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival comes to Exeter Phoenix

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 04/26/2019 - 2:59pm

After a 10-year hiatus, the ¡Viva! Tour of UK cinemas is back, with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.

The UK’s largest and most popular celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture which celebrates 25 years of cross-border creativity, collaborations and partnerships in 2019 will be bringing the best new cinema from Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America to cinemas nationwide.

Presented by HOME Manchester and reflecting HOME’s 2019 theme Celebrating Women in Global Cinema, the touring films will all foreground female creative talent in...

Pinhoe, Exeter Mum2mum Market Nearly New Sale

Event Date: 
21/07/2019 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Venue: 
America Hall, De La Rue Way, Pinhoe, Exeter, EX4 8PX

STALLS NOW AVAILABLE TO BOOK! Mum2mum Markets are award winning indoor nearly new sales.

At our Exeter sale at America Hall in Pinhoe, we will have around 20 stalls of high quality, nearly new items (up to 90% off the RRP!) and a small selection of businesses offering goods and services of interest to parents. Refreshments (including cake!) will be available! The first 100 buyers through the door will receive a free shopping bag!

Entry to the market is £2 for adults (children get free entry) but visit our website and join our mailing list to get a voucher for 2 for the...

Local business raises money for cancer charity

Authored by cleach79
Posted: Fri, 04/26/2019 - 12:58pm

March was "walk over cancer" month for Cancer Research UK. The team at Impact for Change fully embraced this challenge. Russell Chapman complete 20,000 steps a day, Shane Pulling and Clare Leach, 10,000 steps a day for the whole of the month. Even young people got involved with Amara (10) and Rhea (9) Morris completing the 10,000 step challenge. As a team they walked over a staggering 930 miles!

An amazing £585 was raised for Cancer Research UK, Impact for Change matched the amount raised and gave £585 to Force, a local charity based in Exeter supporting people affected by Cancer...

Burrington Estates Sign with Graffiti

Proposed new housing estate signs removed following vandalism

Two signs for a speculative high-end housing development in St Leonards were removed on Tuesday after they were repeatedly defaced by graffiti. Burrington Estates had placed the signs, advertising the development, around the playing field site just before Easter. The uniformed Estates’ staff member who was dismantling them said that he’d been "told to take them down" but didn’t know the reason why they were being removed. One of the three signs, overlooking the St Leonards Road junction with the Topsham Road, remains. The proposed development on the sports field, currently owned by the...

Rossini: Petite Messe Solonnel

Event Date: 
01/06/2019 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

The Exeter Philharmonic Choir, directed by Howard Ionascu will perform Rossini's joyous Petite Messe Solonnel and Brahms' delightful Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52.

With David Davies and Andrew Millington (piano) and Stephen Tanner (harmonium) A perfect programme for a summer's evening!

Tickets: £24, £16.50 from The Northcott Theatre 01392 726363 / www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

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