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A new £300m vision to redevelop a key site in the centre of Exeter has been revealed by the City Council.

The development concept for Exeter Bus Station includes housing, offices, restaurants and retail, as well as the possibility of a new multi-use entertainment venue.

It would sit alongside the planned new state-of-the art Passivhaus leisure complex St Sidwell’s Point, and a new Exeter Bus Station, which are both being funded by the city council.

Details of the vision, which also includes the potential to relocate the Civic Centre to the site to free up space for...

Blacksmiths from all over the South West are set to gather at the National Trust’s Finch Foundry on Saturday 24 November. Once a year, they congregate at the foundry to practice their art and celebrate their patron saint, Saint Clement, harking back to medieval tradition. The foundry, which is the last working water-powered forge in the country, will be the scene for the gathering, which includes a rare chance to see the spectacular ‘firing of the anvil.’ The Saint Clement’s day event is an opportunity for the public to get an insight into this highly skilled craft, now practiced by only a...

DEVON climbers, hikers and walkers are being asked to help keep Exeter’s homeless warm this Christmas and New Year through donations of nearly new rucksacks, sleeping bags and outdoor clothing (November 2018).

Fore Street-based Taunton Leisure – Exeter is inviting customers to bring in any items they no longer need to help with a collection it is making for the charity St Petrock’s.

Store Manager, Nick Baron, who is a keen climber, explained: “We’re hoping lots of our loyal customers and friends and colleagues from the walking, hiking and climbing fraternity come in with...

On Friday 9th November, 100 students from Isca Academy in Exeter marked the centenary of the end of World War One by walking 10 miles from Exmouth to Exeter.

The walk was designed as an act of remembrance, retracing the steps of 100 young men who left their Devon homes to make a sacrifice for their country one hundred years ago.

Walking 10 miles from Exmouth to Exeter, Year 7 and 8 students from Isca Academy marked the final journey on their home soil taken by young men from the training camps of East Devon, before their departure to France. The students carried with them...

Flybe CEO, Christine Ourmières-Widener, today (Friday 16th November 2018) welcomed Aviation Minister Liz Sugg, to the airline’s Exeter HQ which, as part of her fact-finding tour of the South West, served to highlight the importance of aviation and connectivity for the South West’s regional economy and the role Flybe plays in the national transport infrastructure. During her visit to the UK’s largest domestic regional airline, the Minister met young engineering students and apprentices at the Flybe Training Academy and with the airline’s local education partner, Exeter College; spoke to...

Soggy skies did not dampen enthusiastic sporting spirits on Friday 9th November, when QE welcomed over 250 Year 5 & 6 students from primaries around Crediton, to their Barnfield Campus, for a highly anticipated annual Tag Rugby tournament. Last years’ winners Landscore and Tedburn, were both in attendance determined to defend their trophies.

A total of 24 teams were entered for the championship, with students from Cheriton Bishop, Winkleigh, Yeoford, Haywards, Bow, Copplestone and Sandford also taking part.

After 3 hours of tag-tastic rugby, Landscore and Winkleigh, who...

Community Interest Company, Beach Schools South West won the accolade of Best Rural Educational Business at the prestigious finals event held by the Rural Business Awards at Bath Racecourse.

Company Directors Tess Stuber and Alexis Bowater represented the Beach Schools South West team as they attended the event, being one of five businesses in their category to reach the finals.

Beach Schools South West make it no secret that they are proud to teach on the beach. Their full-time practitioner travels around the beaches of the South West to take children out of the classroom...

A group of young wheelchair users from an Exeter-based youth club run by the young disabled people’s charity Whizz-Kidz have celebrated completing a year of activities tackling youth loneliness. The group marked the occasion by taking part in a lively amateur dramatics workshop about the jungle at St Luke’s Sports and Science College, Exeter, on Saturday 10 November 2018. Over the last year, they have taken part in stop-action filmmaking, inflatable planetarium astronomy, rapping, and beat boxing sessions.

The youth club – which is made possible thanks to players of People’s...

A Devon farmer found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal has been given a custodial prison sentence and banned from keeping cows and sheep.

William Douglas Dolley, of Holwell Farm, Collipriest, Tiverton was also found guilty of failing to dispose of animal carcasses in a timely manner and ordered to pay £2335.

Appearing at Exeter Magistrates, Mr Dolley pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to dispose of animal by-products without undue delay, one charge of failing to ensure animal by-products were kept in a way to prevent other animals having access to...