This May half-term holiday there are extra events planned for families with children at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM).
The free bee bags and explorer bags, interactives and the World Cultures family area gallery are always available and always popular with children. On the Tuesday there will also be an opportunity to handle genuine objects from the Second World War and from Tuesday to Thursday there are special activities.
On Tuesday 26 May, parents, grandparents and carers with children under five years old can take a journey of discovery together and make...
Dawlish Warren has retained its Blue Flag status for the 17th year running.
Teignbridge District Council is pleased to announce the beach can continue to proudly fly the prestigious flag in the internationally recognised award scheme.
Alongside Dawlish Warren’s achievement, Teignmouth Town Beach, Coryton Cove at Dawlish and Ness Cove at Shaldon have all won high-profile Seaside Awards.
The announcements come just as the busy tourist season gets underway with beaches and resorts expecting another lively bank holiday weekend.
Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital has been named as a top performing hospital in the provision of orthopaedic care to NHS patients in the most recent NHS Partners Network (NHSPN) Report on Independent sector providers care for NHS patients.
The report presents a comparison between the performances of independent sector providers with their NHS counterparts, and looks at indicators including patient experience, clinical quality and patient outcomes and safety.
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) - the statistics collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre...
UK house prices increased by 9.6% in the year to March 2015, up from 7.4% in the year to February 2015, according to the Office For National Statistics.
House price annual inflation was 9.4% in England, 5.7% in Wales, 14.6% in Scotland and 7.5% in Northern Ireland. This is the highest annual increase in Scotland since July 2007.
The pace of annual house price growth increased across the majority of the UK.
Annual house price increases in England were driven by an annual increase in the East (11.4%), London (11.2%) and the South East (11.2%).
Exeter Axhayes adoption centre has around 150 cats and kittens in their care at the moment and more waiting to come in.
They are in need of volunteers to help out at the centre. They have various roles available, from cat socialisers, to cat care, cleaning,gardeners, DIY to fundraising. You can commit to as much or as little as you like, even on an adhoc basis helping out at events, if that is what suits you.
There are many ways to volunteer at Axhayes, whatever your skills and interests, and however much time you have to give, including socialising nervous cats, cleaning...
Teignbridge District Council has announced key roles following the local elections.
Teignbridge’s Full Council on Tuesday 19 May 2015 saw Cllr Mike Hocking, who represents the Newton Abbot ward of Bradley, elected as new council chairman.
Outgoing chairman Anthony Ballinger thanked Teignbridge staff for their support during his tenure before formally handing over the chain of office.
Cllr Rosalind Prowse, who represents the ward of Dawlish South West, was appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Council.
Cllr Jeremy Christophers was reappointed as Leader and Cllr...
People in Exeter can get their bikes fixed for free at several fun-filled events taking place over the next two weeks as part of a new nationwide campaign called The Big Bike Revival that aims to get everyone out cycling over the summer.
To find out about events in your area go to the events finder at the campaign website - www.bigbikerevival.org.uk .
Brought together by CTC, the national cycling charity, local cycle centres are holding events from 23 May to 7 June across the area at as part of The Big Bike Revival – a two-week series of family-friendly activities aimed to...
The search is on for the funniest and most creative business name in Exeter with the launch of the Small Business Pun of the Year 2015.
The awards, launched by build-your-own-app service Appsme.com, aims to find the shop or small business with the most side-splitting name. Business owners and members of the public can nominate their best small business pun by sharing a photo of the shop sign on the Appsme blog. They can also tweet or Instagram a photo along with the business’s details using the #SmallBizPun hashtag.
Nick Barnett, CEO at Appsme, says: “We help small...
It was with a heavy heart that Dean Mumm trudged down the players’ tunnel at Sandy Park for the final time on Saturday afternoon.
After three hugely successful years in Devon, two of which he has spent as skipper of the Exeter Chiefs, the 31-year-old is heading home to Australia to pursue a dream he thought had seemingly evaporated.
Set to return to former club the Waratahs, the vastly-experienced forward is hoping his return to Super Rugby will offer him the lifeline he needs to re-ignite a Wallabies career that to date has yielded 33 caps.
A qualified medical herbalist from East Devon will be sharing her knowledge of everyday foods and their health benefits with visitors at this weekend’s River Cottage Spring Food Fair.
Jayne Palmer from Roots to Health is giving a talk based on a quote from Hippocrates: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food". She will explain how common ingredients like onion, garlic and fennel contribute to a healthy diet and how, in concentrated form, they can have medicinal uses.
Roots To Health is a complementary consultancy, advice and prescription practice...
