Mother’s Day is all about making mums feel special and loved, which is why East Devon District Council’s Countryside team has come up with the terrific idea of combining a visit to one of the district’s top nature attractions, Seaton Wetlands, with a delicious cream tea.
Just bring your mum to the Seaton Wetlands Discovery Hut on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 March from 10am to 4pm and enjoy a cream tea for just £3 per person on a first come first served basis. There’s no need to book, just turn up.
Councillor Tom Wright, East Devon’s portfolio holder for the environment...
Devon is braced for potential snow showers from the early hours of tomorrow morning (Wednesday 28 February) and motorists are being warned to be aware of possible disruption on the county’s roads.
Devon County Council, Highways England and Devon and Cornwall Police will be activating the Haldon/Telegraph Hill Plan overnight, deploying staff to the forward control point in the early hours with gritters, snow ploughs and tractors on hand, should they be needed, prior to the morning peak period.
Forecasts suggest that wintry shows could hit South Devon from midnight onwards...
The SETsquared partnership has been ranked as the world’s leading business incubator for its outstanding contribution to developing the next generation of UK tech entrepreneurs.
The announcement was made at the World Incubation Summit in Toronto, Canada. This confirmed SETsquared’s pre-eminence as ‘number one’ in its field, having maintained its world-leading position since 2015. SETsquared’s ranking comes as a result of the world's most extensive benchmark study of university-linked business incubators and accelerators, conducted by UBI Global, and has recognised SETsquared as the...
Starting out with five employees, a home-made website and a phone line, Scarlett Entertainment has grown to become the industry leader when it comes to providing high end event entertainment across the globe. Benjamin and Rebecca Marks have worked hard to ensure there are people on the ground who work directly with customers in New York, Dubai, London, Devon, Italy, and Singapore.
Customers looking for wedding, corporate and private party entertainment now have a local Entertainment Coordinator locally who they can count on to find unique entertainment from around the world and...
Exeter Junior School pupils are proud to contribute to Young Devon Art and raise money for charity in the process.
Pupils at the independent co-education school created pictures based on the theme 'What makes me happy' for the Young Devon Art Exhibition in aid of Cancer Research as part of the school's Art Club. They each donated £2 for the cancer charity alongside their artwork.
Nine members of Exeter Junior School's Art Club are celebrating the selection of their artwork to go on show at The Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey in Torquay throughout the weekend 3 - 4 March.
ITV News and Media Trust have launched ‘Breaking Into News’, a unique initiative that has been successfully running for six years and fronted by ITV’s award-winning news broadcaster Charlene White and Alex Beresford for ITV West Country with the aim to unearth the next generation of diverse broadcast journalist talent from across the UK.
Alex Beresford is spearheading the campaign for ITV West Country and is encouraging applications from local budding broadcast journalists, who may have little to no relevant experience to apply. This is an opportunity for those who have recently...
Be prepared is the message from Devon County Council as the county prepares for freezing conditions and the possibility of snow later this week.
Devon’s fleet of gritters treated around 2,000 miles of Devon’s primary and secondary salting routes yesterday (Sunday 25 February), and Devon’s snow warden volunteers have also been advised to be ready to salt their priority local routes and to keep an eye on weather forecasts.
Road surface temperatures will drop below freezing across the county this evening, falling lower than -6C on higher ground of Dartmoor and the Blackdown...
Talented Exeter School pupils Albert Hughes and Tom Bracey were invited to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford on Sunday 11 February as finalists in a UK-wide computing competition - the UK BEBRAS Computational Thinking Challenge.
Reaching the final of the Junior age group is an impressive achievement, as 41,372 students entered the first round for the age group (10-12). Albert and Tom were among the top 60 highest achieving pupils invited to the final round in their age group, and were presented with their finalist's certificates at a prize giving...
The achievements of world renowned Orthopaedic Surgeon Professor Robin Ling OBE, co-developer of the innovative Exeter Hip, has been celebrated with the renaming of a ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
RD&E elective and rehabilitation orthopaedic ward Tavy was officially renamed Robin Ling Ward on 22nd February 2018 in memory of the late Professor Ling who sadly passed away last year.
Professor Ling joined the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital (PEOH) as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1963 where he became interested in hip replacement surgery. He...
Five outstanding young soloists, who have already had considerable success, will be joining Exeter Philharmonic Choir for the Lord Mayor’s Concert, Mozart Requiem, on March 10th.
The Choir is excited to welcome vocalists Natalya Romaniw, Oliver Johnston, Marta Fontanals-Simmons and Tristan Hambleton whose voices are sure to excite individually and together as a quartet. The talented singers will be joining more than one hundred members of Exeter Philharmonic Choir to perform Mozart’s Requiem, one of the most cherished and well-known works in the choral repertoire. The programme...
