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If your family is affected by severe allergies then one of these free workshops is for you! Both workshops are being held at The Rougemont Hotel.

The workshops are free although donations are always gratefully received. Places should be booked in advance (details below).

Family Workshop - Saturday 20th April 2013, 1pm-5pm

This fun workshop aims to help parents and their allergic children, aged from 11 to 18, who are growing in independence by:

• Proving support and advice on assessing and managing the risks associated with living with food allergy
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Citizen journalists have captured dramntic images outside the school in the US where an horrific shooting took place.

It has been reprted that 27 people are dead including 20 children.

And these pictures were taken by people near the scene soon after.

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An Exeter youngster who has been treated for cancer had her courage recognised with a special award presented to her this week.

Alison Birkett at Cancer Research UK presented Ruby Connar, 8, from Longdown in Exeter with her special star-shaped trophy for the bravery she has shown during her cancer treatment.

Ruby has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia - cancer of the white blood cells - and lost all her hair during intensive chemotherapy treatment earlier this year.

Mum Josie, explained: “The hospital staff saved my daughter’s...

200 children aged between five and 15 years of age from across 20 Exeter school’s came together recently to celebrate the world of wildlife around them.

The conference, organised by Devon Wildlife Trust, was staged at the city’s St Peter’s Church of England School and took place on Friday 9th November. Its theme was ‘the bigger picture’ and asked students to think about how taking small, local steps to help wildlife can lead to big and impressive results.

The conference featured TV naturalist Nick Baker, who gave an inspirational launch address spelling out just...

Hundreds of school children gave Pudsey a bear hug as the BBC's Children in Need party was broadcast live from the University of Exeter.

The loveable mascot stole the show as youngsters from schools across Exeter helped him raise funds during a day of live broadcasts from the Forum at the University of Exeter yesterday.

The new building, opened by the Queen earlier this year, hosted a wide range of family entertainment organised by the University's Students' Guild. The whole show was broadcast live during BBC Spotlight, featuring presenters Victoria Graham...

For the past few weeks Saturday mornings at Spacex have been busy as Art Club children try out activities that link to their current exhibition. Children have made words with food, created wild, large-scale drawings and doodled imaginary creatures. Spacex was also helping to keep kids entertained this half term at their Big Draw event on 30th October.

If you think this sounds like fun, then there are still two Art Club sessions left on 10th and 17th November.

11am–1pm, ages 6–11, children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

Cost: £5 per...

Where oh where did the first half of term go? Half term always catches me by surprise, but thankfully lots of people in Exeter have been busy thinking ahead and planning a host of half term activities to entertain your children and at the same time probably give you a bit of a breather. This coming week is, of course, also Halloween, providing even more opportunities to get active in and around the city.

We will have daily updates next week, but to get the party started, here is a selection of fun things to do during half term and for Halloween.

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As children, artists Tracy Whitbread and Hannah Stevens were both shaped and nourished by painting, crafts, stories and theatre, and as adults they want to offer these enriching and empowering activities to primary school age children in Arts workshops based around their portable mini-theatre, called the ‘Theatre of Dreams’.

The idea has developed over a period of time from both artists working with children and responding to their needs. Children are given the support and space to bring the theatre alive using painting, crafts, stories, song and dance. They are committed...

Adapted from the short story, Pobby and Dingan , by Ben Rice, The Mysterious Vanishment of Pobby and Dingan will be coming to the Northcott Theatre this Sunday and is recommended for children of nine and over. The Stage said of it "This Tasmanian writer has a quirky, audacious, wonderfully unfettered way of looking at life'.

The storyline is based around Kellyanne’s best friends, Pobby and Dingan. Her big brother Ashmol hates them. They’re invisible and they make her act weird. Everyone thinks she’s a fruitloop and it’s no fun having a fruitloop for a sister in Lightning Ridge....