The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is calling on all crafty shoppers from Exeter to help beat heart disease by taking part in The Big Stitch campaign.
Style seekers can help raise vital funds for life saving heart research, by buying an item from the Exeter Home & Fashion BHF shop and adding their own personal stamp to it. The best will be in with a chance of winning one of three fantastic prizes. The Exeter Home & Fashion BHF shop, based at 160 Sidwell Street is one of 530 BHF clothing and accessory shops across the UK. BHF shops are full of amazing finds that can easily...
Food Drink Devon is delighted to announce that this year their prestigious award ceremony will be held on Monday 8th October 2018 at Highbullen Hotel Golf & Country Club, Umberleigh, North Devon and will be hosted by legendary broadcaster Nigel Barden.
Following 2017's record-breaking year, entries have now closed for the Food Drink Devon Awards 2018 and it looks set to be another bumper year with an increase of more than 10% in entrant numbers.
Barbara King, a proud champion of Devon’s producers and chair of the board of directors for Food Drink Devon, comments: “The...
Topsham Library, run by Devon-based charity Libraries Unlimited, has moved to Topsham’s brand new community hub, Nancy Potter House, alongside The Estuary League of Friends.
The multipurpose community hub, built by The Estuary League of Friends, will offer a wide range of services and activities for the local community, including the contemporary new library, a café, day room, wet rooms and laundry as well as conference, training, exercise and treatment rooms for hire for business and private functions.
Devon County Council is responsible for the county’s public library...
The Splash Pad in Exeter's St Thomas Pleasure Ground has been closed due to technical difficulties.
A spokesman for Exeter City Council said: "We are doing everything possible to get the popular facility back in action but the likelihood is that it will remain closed up until and probably into the weekend. We would like to apologise for this inconvenience."
The council's paddling pools at Heavitree Pleasure Ground remain open for use.
Dozens have celebrated this year’s World Cup by taking part in a special football tournament hosted by a charity which is encouraging people with learning disabilities to get more active.
To celebrate the World Cup taking place, ROC Active Exeter – a service run by the disability charity United Response – hosted a ‘World Cup Day’ football tournament for people with learning disabilities and local schoolchildren over 15.
Seven teams-of-five turned out for the special one-off event to have fun and take part in some friendly competition.
Exeter College, working in partnership with Devon County Council, has been awarded £60,000 by train operator Great Western Railway (GWR) to create a much improved pedestrian gateway to Exeter from St Davids station.
Under the plans, the route along St Clements Lane, one of the most high profile pedestrian entranceways into the city for rail users, will be greatly enhanced with improved signage, better surfacing and lighting.
Train operator GWR has announced that the bid for funding from its Customer and Communities Improvement Fund (CCIF), designed to help boost local...
If all eight sites get better protection we'll all feel the benefit too, says Marine Conservation Society
Eight marine sites around Devon, from ones right on the coast to others miles offshore, could get a special protected status by 2019, but only if the public gets behind them now, says the UK's leading marine charity.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) says the third and final round of proposed Marine Conservation Zone designations, currently the subject of a public consultation, could result in 40% of English seas being protected. However, the charity says the...
A colony of honey bees that took up residence at The Donkey Sanctuary’s headquarters have been saved thanks to a quick thinking member of staff. Jenifer Tucker, website manager at The Donkey Sanctuary who is also a beekeeper heard that the bees had chosen Slade House, the charity’s main offices, as their new home and knew that as a working environment, they would not be able to stay there. As the bees had chosen the roof space in Slade House, it would have been virtually impossible to remove them without the intervention of a pest controller. At this time of year, honey bees are likely to...
Exmoor and Dartmoor projects contributing to our beautiful National Parks could receive a £2,000 boost in recognition of their work thanks to the Campaign for National Parks’ Park Protector Award.
The Award, sponsored by Ramblers Holidays Charitable Trust, celebrates the work being done to protect and improve National Parks across England and Wales with the winner receiving a £2,000 bursary and a runner up receiving £500 courtesy of Breedon Group.
Nominations are being invited until Tuesday 31 July. Nominated projects must be seeking to conserve or enhance the biodiversity...
Exeter City Council has selected a preferred contractor for its project to create a state-of-the-art new leisure centre and new bus station in the city centre. Construction firm Kier will carry out the enabling works necessary ahead of the building programme to construct the new facilities. The main build contract for the leisure centre and bus station is expected to be signed later this year. Pete Edwards, leader of the city council, said: “We are delighted to announce today that Kier has been chosen as our preferred contractor.
