Crediton Fitness staff are to undertake a staff vs customer Pad Boxing Circuit Challenge to support disadvantaged children and young people right here in the UK.
Lords Meadow Leisure Centre will be raising money for BBC Children in Need by becoming a group challenge hero to support the 2014 appeal. Fitness staff will be inviting customers to help raise money to support disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.
The ‘Fight Night’ event takes place on Wednesday 19th November 6-7pm in the sports hall at Lords Meadow Leisure Centre. In a customer Vs staff challenge...
A donkey-mad grandmother has knitted her 100th toy donkey in aid of The Donkey Sanctuary. Dorothy Harrison, from Beacon Heath, Exeter, started knitting the toys after picking up a knitting pattern on a visit to The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth in 2011 and enjoyed knitting the donkeys so much she set herself the challenge of knitting 100. She says: “I’m quite chuffed really to have done something for something worthwhile. I did the first one and after that I thought, I could do 100 easily.
“I’ve seen some others that other people have made but my granddaughter says that mine are the...
Exeter’s original burger restaurant, urbanburger, has today launched the ‘What’s your beef?’ competition inviting people to create the ultimate burger and win a place on the menu. Recipes will be judged by a panel of food experts with the winning burger being served up as part of urbanburger’s menu. The winner will also receive £250 worth of vouchers to spend at urbanburger and urban underground. Launched by Garth and Melissa Pearse in September 2012, urbanburger has become famed for its array of gourmet burgers made with 100% Devon beef. Last month it was named by GQ magazine as one of...
University of Exeter researchers are looking for young male cyclists to take part in a study investigating how our body composition is affected by the sports we practice.
The team is seeking boys aged 12-14 who have cycled for three hours or more per week for the past three years, and who expect to continue over the next three years.
Participants will benefit from the study by learning about how the sport they take part in affects their body’s composition – especially their bones.
The research project is important in terms of understanding the bone development of...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, this week visited Exeter’s centre of excellence in healthcare innovation, where he announced a new £150 million investment into technologies to revolutionise research into disease.
Mr Osborne revealed that £1.6 million of the Medical Research Council (MRC) cash pot will come to the University of Exeter Medical School, to fund a state-of-the-art facility that will unlock some of the hidden secrets of the genome. It is part of an overall investment by the partnership led by the MRC which totals £230 million.
WiFi SPARK, the fastest growing WiFi provider in the UK, has welcomed the launch of the ‘Friendly WiFi’ scheme unveiled by the Government recently.
This scheme is the first to officially block pornographic and explicit websites, videos and images across public WiFi – a positive step in the right direction, but something which WiFi SPARK has done for the past decade as standard.
WiFi SPARK has been including content filtering as a matter of course across all of its WiFi installations, which include hundreds of NHS locations as well as schools, colleges and universities,...
Around 120 (119.8)* lung cancer patients in the South West may be missing out on life-saving surgery each year, according to figures released by Cancer Research UK today (Friday).
With the countdown to the General Election underway, the news comes as the charity launches a new campaign - ‘Cross Cancer Out’.
Playing on the idea of a ballot paper, it asks election candidates to back a raft of vital measures aimed at ensuring all cancer patients are diagnosed much earlier and have greater access to the best possible treatments.
A new collection by an infamous art forger will be on display at an Exeter art gallery for two weeks only. Castle Galleries, Exeter will be exhibiting the works of painter John Myatt from Saturday 25th October until Sunday 9th November. Myatt rose to fame through his involvement in what Scotland Yard refers to as ‘the biggest art fraud of the 20th century’. His unique story has caught the eye of media producers across the globe, and has been the subject of two major TV series, as well as the upcoming Hollywood movie ‘Genuine Fakes’, and the universally published book ‘The Conman’. Castle...
Community woodland day at the Knapp, Sidmouth If you would like an introduction to woodland management on a small scale, or if you would just like a bit of exercise in the open air, there's an event just for you!
Join the East Devon District Council Countryside Rangers at the Knapp Community Nature Reserve on Station Road, Sidmouth, on Saturday 1 November – drop in between 10am and 3pm.
Experts and enthusiasts will be coppicing and thinning to benefit woodland flowers and butterflies.
All you need is a reasonable level of physical fitness.
The very popular Exeter based charity Dream-A-Way, proudly celebrated their 21st anniversary on Friday 17 October by hosting their ninth consecutive Ball in the beautiful new suites at Sandy Park, the home of the amazing Exeter Chiefs.
The Diamonds Are Forever themed Ball was a glittering success and thoroughly enjoyed by all 325 guests.
In true Diamonds Are Forever style, the venue looked superb with no glitter or starlight spared.
Arrival cocktails were enjoyed whilst entertainment was beautifully provided by Jazz Lounge setting the opening scene for a simply...
