The charity team at Otter Garden Centres in Ottery St Mary is delighted to reveal the total raised for 2018 charity of the year, Alzheimer’s Society, which came to just over £8,000.
The money will help fund services across Devon and fund important research into dementia.
Team Leader Mary Harrison, who helps coordinate the fundraising, said: “Each year we are amazed by the generosity of customers and staff, and we’re delighted that the total is even higher than the last one, so a big thank you to everyone who donated.”
Staff quizzes and the annual Memory Tree helped...
The Healthy Pets Devon National takes centre stage at Exeter Racecourse next Friday (Feb 22) where racecourse director and former champion point-to-point rider Polly Gundry will be hoping to keep the crown in Devon for the second year running.
Polly, who trains racehorses near Ottery St Mary, is planning to run her popular bay Dawson City who won the race last year.
Andrew Thornton, who has since retired, was in the saddle, and when the pair galloped to victory, cheers could be heard across Haldon forest, such was the popularity of the win.
The idea that we need to make our cities more sustainable isn’t a new one. However, instead of talking about how important it is to establish these more environmentally-friendly cities, our focus perhaps needs to lie more in howwe achieve this.
Granted, there isn’t a magic solution as to how we can do this, nor will the same approach work for each and every city. But there are some key ideas that could work in the cities and towns we know and love.
Here are just some of these ideas:
1. Aiding Mobility
It probably goes without saying that if we want to...
Is your boyfriend or husband an incredibly difficult man to buy gifts for? If so, then you might want to check out the guide below. By doing so and taking the advice that is given, his birthday will no longer be a date that you dread, your Christmas shopping will be made a lot easier, and Valentine’s Day will be a breeze.
Here are some of the best present you can gift your male partner:
Cook him his favourite meal
How often do you cook for your partner? More to the point, how often do you cook his absolute favorite meal? You will make him feel really special if you...
Bucking the trend for high street closures, zero waste provisions business Nourish is to open a second branch the heart of Exeter in mid-April.
Founder Sarah Martin announced plans for the new shop in popular independent shopping destination Magdalen Road, recently named as one of “10 cool shopping districts around the world” in the Guardian.
Nourish of Topsham launched in March 2018 and with business booming, Sarah has been on the lookout for an additional location. The perfect opportunity arose when Phil and Stella Brock, owners of wholefood shop The Bran Tub, decided to...
A Devon couple have invented two new seagull deterrents which humanely prevent gulls from landing on roof tops.
The two new products, the Defender® Roof Ridge Bird Spike and the Defender® Chimney Pot Bird Spike, were devised by husband and wife team David and Kursty Jones. The products attach around chimney pots or directly to roof ridges and stop seagulls landing without hurting them.
The growing nuisance value of noisy seagulls is a well-recognised social problem and, until now, opinions have differed on how to handle the problem.
After the huge successes of Old Herbaceous and Fagin? Hampshire based theatre company Kick In The Head are back with a rip roaring barrel of fun, Three Men in a Boat, with Giles Shenton (Old Herbaceous himself!) playing the part of Jerome K Jerome.
The play is based on the hilarious book by Jerome K. Jerome which, since its first publication in 1889, has never been out of print and is regarded as one of the funniest books ever written.
In the play, Jerome recounts the hilarious story of his boating holiday along the magnificent River Thames with his two companions and...
EXETER City Football Club said “no to homophobia” at its home game with Bury on Saturday, February 16.
The match was designated as the Club’s annual “Football v Homophobia” fixture and a number of initiatives were organised by the Exeter City Supporters’ Trust, its One Game One Community (OGOC) Group and Exeter City Community Trust.
It is 10 years ago since the international initiative was founded and the 10th time that a designated Football v Homophobia (FvH) match has been held by Exeter City.
Two years ago, Lou Englefield, Director of the national Football v...
HRH The Duke of York met with some of the current Met Office apprentices on Monday (18 February), while visiting Exeter to hold a Pitch@Palace On Tour event, an initiative founded by The Duke in 2014.
The Met Office’s apprenticeship programmes are run with training from a number of providers including Exeter College and the University of Exeter, and are aimed at developing the next generation of data engineers, scientists and technology experts, as well as other business skills needed in the Met Office and industry as a whole.
Network Rail has announced community drop-in sessions in Exeter and Torquay to update local communities on ongoing work to improve resilience of the stretch of railway that connects the South West with the rest of the country.
The community drop-in events follow on from Transport Secretary Chris Grayling’s recent announcement that £80m will be made available to increase the height of the sea wall at Dawlish to protect this vital rail artery for the region.
Events will be held in Exeter and Torquay on:
Wednesday 27 February – Mercure Rougemont Hotel, Exeter, EX4 3SP...
