Stagecoach have informed The Exeter Daily that the Halberton Road at Sampford Peverall will be closed from 1pm to 8pm today. Service 1 will be on diversion, missing out both Sampford Peverall and Tiverton Parkway, instead going straight to Willand.
Preventative medicine, cancer and body image are the issues which will be explored in a creatively focused event at the University of Exeter on 27th November. ‘Self Portrait without Breasts’ will look at how art can be used to help those who have undergone life-changing medical procedures, as well as discuss the use of language and image to represent people’s experience of surgery.
Visiting poet Clare Best has a family history of breast cancer; she nursed her mother through two radical mastectomies and in her late 40’s, the age at which her mother first had the...
The inspirational Bandi Mbubi, founder of human rights group Congo Calling, will return to Exeter this month in a follow-up to his high profile appearance at TEDxExeter earlier this year. Congo Calling campaigns for responsible mining practices and an end to human rights abuses in the Congo and for fairtrade phones worldwide.
Bandi Mbubi will be speaking in Exeter on Thursday 29th November at 7.30pm in St Stephen’s Church, High Street, Exeter.
Bandi spoke in Exeter in April as part of TEDxExeter, the first in a series of annual events that use the internationally recognised...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has spoken of his delight after another three of his first-team squad today committed their futures to the Aviva Premiership club.
Prop Carl Rimmer, together with scrum-half Will Chudley and centre Phil Dollman, have all agreed to extend their stays at Sandy Park for a further two years following talks with Baxter in recent weeks.
The news is yet another welcome boost for the Chiefs, who last week confirmed that forwards Luke Cowan-Dickie and Chris Whitehead, had also agreed new terms.
Stagecoach have announced: "We are running a shuttle service from Exeter Bus Station to Topsham with departures from the bus station at approx. 15.30, 16.30 and 17.30.
"The shuttle is to provide a direct link to Topsham in the absence of the 57 being able to serve the village and until the T service resumes operation from from the High Street at 1831."
These dramatic photos of Dawlish taken at 1.30pm today show that some trains were still able to battle with the elelments along the trainline that sweeps along the entire seafront and beach.
Heavy rain today (Thursday 22nd November) could lead to further flooding across the south west of England this afternoon and evening, the Environment Agency has warned.
Run-off from already wet fields and other areas could lead to further river and surface water flooding, and strong winds could worsen surface water flooding, as wind-blown leaves and debris block drains.
There are currently 33 flood warnings and 56 flood alerts in force.
The Environment Agency is reminding people in the affected areas – which include Devon, Cornwall,...
Late-night opening begins tonight for Hospiscare's two city centre shops in the run-up to Christmas. The stores, in Fore Street and Sidwell Street, will stay open until 8pm on Thursday nights and both will also be opening on Sundays. Fore Street, where there is a very popular vintage section in the basement, will open from 10am until 4pm and Sidwell Street, which is opposite John Lewis, from 10:30am until 4:30pm.
