A new winter season of low-cost ‘Films at the Library’ is being rolled out by Libraries Unlimited across Devon and Torbay.
It’s now the seventh successful season of cosy in-house screenings for the charity, which runs the 54 libraries across the county.
The new season kicks off on Wednesday 6th November and the films on offer include the must-see Barbie movie, children’s favourite Wonka, and the ever-popular The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Ten libraries will be running the screenings and each film costs just £3 - tickets can be bought online or in person...
Last week, on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 September, Exeter City Council welcomed a team of national experts on the regeneration of historic cities and towns.
The Historic Places Panel, facilitated by Historic England, selected Exeter to visit to provide independent advice on how heritage can support the city centre’s growth and regeneration.
The panel learned about a community-led placemaking strategy driven by Exeter’s strengths in culture, innovation and enterprise. They also explored ideas for capitalising on and celebrating the city’s array of scheduled monuments,...
Exeter City Council Leader Phil Bialyk has called on Devon County Council to use proposed new powers to transform bus services in the city.
Cllr Bialyk, a former bus driver, is calling on the transport authority to use new powers unveiled by the Transport Secretary to bring bus services in house.
Cllr Bialyk said he had been inundated with requests from communities in the city for a better and more reliable service.
“We have lots of problems at the moment,” he said.
“Pointing fingers isn’t going to help, but it is fair to say a lot of people are pretty...
An Exeter Leisure worker who could barely swim less than two years ago has gone on to become a fully qualified lifeguard and swim teacher.
Twenty-five-year-old Paige has shown resilience and determination in her short career so far and demonstrated that she not just content with treading water when it comes to job satisfaction.
Paige started working for the City Council in 2020 as a receptionist for Pyramids Leisure Centre. When the facility closed down to make way for the state-of-the-art St Sidwell’s Leisure Centre, Paige transferred across to work in the creche....
Councillors are being asked to approve the next stage of plans for a potential office move for the City Council.
The Council is exploring a move from its existing premises at the Civic Centre in Paris Street to a number of sites it already owns, including the Guildhall Shopping Centre.
The Civic Centre has been identified as a site for future residential housing, and an office move would free up the site to be marketed for the creation of new homes.
A report detailing the proposals will be presented to the Council’s Executive for consideration next week....
An all-action sports club that attracts members ranging from ten years old to 52 is just one of more than 120 good causes in Exeter that are benefitting from ticket sales for a community lottery.
Exeter City Ultimate Frisbee likes nothing better than to let fly with a perfectly propelled disc.
Yet the club, which began in 2019, is always looking for ways to raise funds to keep the club going.
So when Exeter Community Lottery started out in 2023, the Club jumped at the chance to get involved.
When people play the weekly lottery they have a chance to...
A giant redwood tree on an allotment site in Exeter will have to be felled after noticeably deteriorating over the last year.
The Sequioadendron giganteum – also known in the UK as a ‘Wellingtonia’ or giant redwood – which is located on the Pinces Gardens Allotments, will have to be brought down for safety reasons. There is another giant redwood standing close by which is unaffected.
Tree experts at the City Council said the giant tree which stands at around 23m tall, with a stem diameter of some 2m, is beyond saving, with 95% of the foliage having already turned brown...
Crucial work to strengthen a high-profile wall on Exeter’s quayside are now complete, the City Council has announced.
The local authority carried out repairs and stabilisation to a 105-metre stretch of cliff face wall above Exeter Quay on the city centre side of the River Exe.
The cellars below the wall were once used by smugglers many years ago with an underground route connecting to the basements of properties in nearby Colleton Crescent. Today the cellars provide a home to a number of quirky and interesting businesses serving tourists and visitors to the quayside....
Dozens of wheelchair basketball players are beating a path to an Exeter sports centre to take up a sport which is booming in Devon’s capital city.
And that’s partly thanks to the inspiration of ex-professional player and coach Jack Davey, who’s made Wonford Sports Centre in Exeter his second home.
The enthusiastic 29-year-old has 50 members attending training sessions for Exeter Otters, the UK’s oldest wheelchair basketball club (founded in 1980).
Some may find Jack’s choice of Wonford as a training centre, a strange choice, but according to the coach and...
Wales & West Utilities has announced plans to develop its Pathfinder toolkit model with Exeter City Council to better support social housing providers to decarbonise their stock.
The existing Pathfinder toolkit is a unique tool that models future whole energy supply and demand. It works out opportunities, risks and trade-offs when designing an energy system of the future at local, regional and national levels.
Whilst most housing stock models annualize energy demands, Pathfinder is unique as it considers the impact of energy savings measures on an hourly basis...
