Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter hopes a return to home surroundings will provide the perfect pick-me-up to get his ailing side back on track in the Aviva Premiership.
With just one league defeat at Sandy Park this season - that came against Northampton Saints back in early January - the Chiefs welcome Premiership newcomers to London Welsh to Devon tomorrow (3pm).
Like the Chiefs, the visitors have also been experiencing some tough times of late and last weekend's narrow home defeat to Sale Sharks has pulled Lyn Jones' team into the division's relegation fight.
Moody's Investors Service is the first to cut the UK's top AAA credit rating down a notch to Aa1, based on its expectation that growth will "remain sluggish over the next few years".
Moody's said that the UK's huge debts were unlikely to reverse until 2016 and that the country's debt reduction programme faced "challenges" ahead.
Fellow agency Standard & Poor's in December became the last of the three main rating agencies to put the UK's top AAA rating on "negative outlook" and said it may lower its rating if the UK's economy worsened.
A Copplestone woman has died following a road traffic collision on the A377 that occurred last November.
78-year-old Patricia Anne Daniels was the driver of a red Nissan Almera, which was in collision with a silver Volvo C70 on the A377 just before 5pm on Tuesday 27 November 2012 at Barnstaple Cross between Crediton and Copplestone.
Mrs Daniels was taken to hospital following the incident but died on 19 February 2013.
The cause of the collision is still being investigated and officers are particularly keen to speak to the driver of a Peugeot 306, which was being...
I have been a keen family historian for over 10 years. I also coordinate the ‘Exeter Single Parent Family Friendship Group (Exeter Gingerbread)’. Since becoming a single parent two years ago I have developed a connection with the single parents in my family tree. I have researched the circumstances that led to them becoming single parents and how they made a living in the historical and social context in which they lived.
My journey into researching family history began with my great, great grandfather’s birth certificate. Tubal Casely was born in 1848 in Wanstead, London. He is...
South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been released on bail by Magistrate Desmond Nair.
Pistorius denies murder, saying he shot Reeva Steenkamp thinking she was an intruder at his home.
Reeva Steenkamp, 29, was a model and law graduate with a burgeoning television career.
The prosecution argued that bail should be refused because there was a risk Mr Pistorius, 26, would abscond, however Nair, who took almost two hours to deliver his judgement, said the state had not been able...
Devon County Council is calling on small and medium-sized businesses to think about the benefits of offering an apprenticeship.
The Council is organising a special event at Sandy Park in Exeter on Tuesday 12 March to bring young people and potential employers together.
Businesses are being encouraged to sign up to the event to see how they could get involved and maybe find a suitable apprentice for their organisation.
The day starts with a Business Breakfast between 8:00 and 9:00 am for those considering taking on apprentices to find out more information.
Mohammed Syed Walid has been named Exeter and Teignbridge Curry Chef of the Year.
The curry chef from the Real India, South Street, Exeter, proved to hot for the other competitors in the contest held at Exeter College's @34 Restuarant.
Mohammed's nearest competitor was runner-up Rajender Singh Hatwel, of the Dana Pani Indian Cuisine, in Sidwell Street Exeter. Izzadur Rahman of Saffron, Newton Abbot, came third.
The competition was organised by Exeter City Council and Teignbridge District Council's Environmental Health teams, to promote food hygiene.
A major contract to manage and run integrated health and social care community services for children has been given the green light.
The NHS Devon Board and Devon County Council cabinet have confirmed that Virgin Care will manage and run integrated health and social care community services for children in Devon.
This follows an extensive open procurement process and due diligence exercise to ensure the safe transfer of these services to Virgin Care from 1 April 2013.
Services for children with physical, sensory and learning disabilities; public health nursing...
A 42-year-old man from Tiverton has been charged with driving a motor vehicle whilst unfit through drugs following an incident in Exeter on 11 November 2011.
Officers went to the car park of the RD&E in Barrack Road just before 6pm following a 'Concern for welfare' call from a member of the public. There they found the suspect and arrested him on suspicion of being unfit in charge of a car.
He was detained and interviewed before being released on Police bail. Following analysis he was charged with the offence in addition to possession of a class A drug and bailed to...
It's definitely all about the girls this week as some of the best female minds in Devon's business community gathered for a special award ceremony at Exeter's Golf and Country Club.
The event, organised by Womens Development Unlimited (WDU), celebrates the achievements and advancements of businesses in Devon specifically run or owned by women.
All the candidates are on the Fast Track 4 Growth programme run by the WDU which is a highly subsidised programme of skills training, mentoring, coaching and action learning. It provides specialist women to women advice and aims to...
