Exeter Chiefs head coach Ali Hepher says he and his squad are “excited” at the challenge that awaits them when they travel to Saracens in Round Nine of this season’s Aviva Premiership on Sunday (3pm).
The Chiefs claimed pole position in the league standings a week ago when they not only made the most of Sarries slipping up at Gloucester, but they then themselves recorded a 31-17 home win over Harlequins 48 hours later.
Although not at their vintage best in seeing off Harlequins - the Chiefs trailed 17-14 at the break - the reigning champions regrouped well during the...
Police were called just after 9.15am on Thursday 25 November with reports of a collision between a Vauxhall Astra and an 86-year-old local woman on Cowick Street, Exeter.
The serious collisions unit attended the scene to undertake initial investigation work.
The woman was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital with serious injuries including a fractured skull and injuries to her leg.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact 101@dc.police.uk quoting log number 149 for 23 November.
Residents from across Devon have been inspired to recycle more food thanks to a series of composting roadshows.
More than 1,000 pledges to recycle food waste were made by residents visiting one of the 11 road shows across Devon.
Composting is the most effective way to reduce waste - at least 30% of the contents in an average household bin can be composted.
The roadshows, run by Recycle Devon, aimed to inspire more people to either compost food or garden waste at home, or make use of their food waste collection in areas where they have one.
If you own a farm, then you are probably always looking for new ways to improve it. Adding new outbuildings to your property will not only give you more space, but it will also improve the overall value of your farm. Today, we are going to learn more about the benefits of steel buildings and how they can help you improve your property.
Steel Buildings Will Protect Your Equipment
All farms have different types of equipment that is used for various applications. But if you don’t have a way to protect your equipment, it can often end up out in the rain. Over time, rain and...
Players from Exeter City Football Club will be donning their Sugar Smart Exeter t-shirts this Saturday (November 25), for their warm up before their league match against Accrington Stanley.
Sugar Smart Exeter is an ambitious campaign to encourage the community to come together in tackling the amount of sugar people in Exeter consume. Exeter City Football Club led the way in this initiative and were the first organisation to make Sugar Smart pledges in Exeter. Some of their pledges include stocking healthier food and drink in their outlets, reducing sugary food and drinks,...
RGB Building Supplies raised £2,150 for Children’s Hospice South West during its charity breakfast morning on Friday 3rd November.
The event saw visitors to RGB’s Exeter branch make a donation in return for a bacon roll with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the charity.
Paul West, Branch Manager at RGB Exeter, commented: “Our charity events are always extremely well supported, so a big thank you to all our customers who supported the fundraising breakfast morning and helped us raise such a fantastic amount of money.”
The Fire Service were called to a report of a property fire in Kingsteignton Road, Chudleigh at 20.44 yesterday.
Initially three fire appliances were mobilised from Bovey Tracey and Newton Abbot along with an Operational Assurance Officer. On arrival crews confirmed the property was well alight and requested a further fire appliances which proceeded from Ashburton, Torquay and Teignmouth.
Below is the fire service report to date:
21:05 A water bowser was requested which proceeded from Torquay.
21:15 Crews confirmed this is a detached building well alight,...
Few things in digital marketing can be more frustrating than spending time, energy and money on putting together a great email campaign only to find that half the time your message gets blocked by spam filters and does not even reach the intended recipient’s inbox.
Don’t get the wrong idea, spam filters are great things, and we would be drowning in thousands of junk messages if we did not have them. The problem is that certain filters, particularly the free ones provided by providers like Gmail and Yahoo can sometimes come up with “false positives.” This is the equivalent of...
A new community space that will benefit thousands of people is rapidly taking shape in Topsham. Work on the Estuary Community Hub started in May and is scheduled to be completed and ready to open next summer. A Grass Roots grant – money raised through local developments like IKEA – is helping towards the construction and fitting out of a new two-storey contemporary building on the site of the old Topsham Library. The Hub will have 18 fully accessible rooms and a community garden. “Once complete, we will have a facility to be proud of,” said Rachel Gilpin, of the Estuary League of Friends...
The largest Olympic-style youth sports event in the region has awarded its 20th anniversary finals to Teignbridge district for 2018. Dawlish is set to host the South West Rotary Youth Games finals on Saturday 7 July. The annual multi-sport event was launched as the Devon Youth Games in 1999 and has since expanded across the South West to include teams from Cornwall and every Devon District competing in 20 sports. Around 10,000 young people aged 8-18, both able-bodied and disabled take part in the journey towards the Games each year. South West Youth Games Trust Chief Executive Chris...
