To celebrate Exeter’s Host City status in the Rugby World Cup, Princesshay has invited eight local schools from across Exeter and surrounding villages to take part in its Rugby Team Scarecrow competition.
Each school has been designated a team which is playing at Sandy Park in the Rugby World Cup, plus England, South Africa and Wales. Pupils have been set a challenge to use that team’s colours to fashion a bright and colourful decorative scarecrow to represent their chosen team.
Andy Littlejohns, operations manager at Princesshay said: “We wanted to become involved with the...
Regus, the global workspace provider, is offering free workspace for Exeter professionals on weekdays when matches are being held at Sandy Park:
• Tuesday 29th September (Tonga vs Namibia) • Wednesday 7th October (Namibia vs Georgia)
Transport networks are expected to be busier than normal, with the M5 likely to be particularly affected. 4.3 million extra journeys are expected across the 44-day event and supporters and locals are being urged to plan ahead.
The Regus centre on Exeter Business Park will offer free business lounge access. Workers will be able to drop-...
Ikale Tahi, the Tonga Rugby Union team are staying in Exeter for Rugby World Cup 2015.
On Tuesday 22 September, they visited Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) with their families. Accompanied by the Cllr Lesley Robson the Deputy Lord Mayor and the city mace bearer, they visited Exeter quay, enjoyed tea on the Cathedral Green and visited the museum.
Welcomed by the Museum Manager Camilla Hampshire and Curator of Ethnography Tony Eccles, their tour of the museum included RAMM’s Oceania displays in the World Cultures galleries, Touch-Line, the exhibition of...
Hidden among the Tonga Rugby World Cup team's kit and boot bags is ... a four slice toaster!
When the lads disembarked at the city's Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel fresh from training, a sneaky peek inside the luggage hold revealed the electrical appliance tucked to one side.
Although we have found a recipe online for Tonga Toast that involves a using pan.
So they are either plugging in the device at Exeter University, where their training is taking place, or they took a trip to the Matford Car Boot sale at the weekend.
Rugby excitement gripped school children today with just one day until the start of the Rugby World Cup 2015. Primary aged children had their very own spectacular and colourful rugby world cup relay festival to mark the start of the tournament. The main festival site was at West Exe School but the fun wasn't only there!
Eight schools took part in the event which was organised by the RWC15 legacy group a partnership led by local primary schools, Mike Barratt, Active Devon, Exeter City Council, rugby clubs and other local partners.
With the Rugby World Cup 2015 just days away Devon and Cornwall is ready to welcome visitors from across the globe.
Rugby World Cup 2015 begins on September 18th and Exeter’s Sandy Park is one of the venues chosen to host matches.
As well staging three games the city is also hosting 13 Fanzone events in Northernhay Gardens.
Planning for the event has been ongoing for the past 18 months with officers from the Operation Blackjack command team working alongside Exeter Chiefs, Exeter City Council, Devon County Council, the Highways Agency, British Transport Police and...
Watching the matches and soaking up the atmosphere is going to be possible for everyone, even if you don’t have a ticket for the matches at Sandy Park, England or any other match.
Come and join in for FREE at the Exeter Fanzone. Located in Northernhay Gardens it will show live matches on a big screen, have a variety of events and entertainment for fans and families, a wide range of food stalls and a tournament buzz guaranteed. For days when Rugby World Cup 2015 matches are not being shown within Exeter Fanzone, ticketed events are being planned. A spectacular opening and closing...
An Exeter hotel is gearing up to welcome one of the teams playing in The Rugby World Cup 2015.
Tonga face Namibia at Sandy Park, home of the Exeter Chiefs, on Tuesday September 29.
By then they will be truly settled into their new West Country surroundings, as the players and coaching staff arrive, with their families, at the Mercure Exeter Southgate hotel this Saturday (September 19), the day after the Pool C side take on Georgia in Gloucester.
The squad will use the hotel, in Southernhay, as their base, whilst training at Exeter University, as they prepare for the...
Exeter Chiefs Rugby Club will be welcoming over 200 schoolchildren to their Sandy Park Stadium next Friday (September 18, 9:30am – 3pm) to mark the official start of Rugby World Cup 2015. For the past year, 20 schools in and around the Exeter area have each adopted one of the participating countries at this year’s tournament – and carried out a wide range of school work, projects and activities aimed at helping to promote the event, which itself will come to Exeter for three fixtures during September and October. Already youngsters have showcased their work within the classrooms to...
Preparations for The Maynard School’s involvement with the Rugby World Cup 2015 are in full swing as the Senior Choir busily prepares for its performance at the Australian team’s Official Welcome Ceremony on Tuesday 15 September 2015 in the beautiful Bath Assembly Rooms.
With just five days to go until the ceremony ‘kick off’, the rehearsal schedule has ramped up a pace, nerves and excitement have reached fever pitch and the choir’s fame has hit the media limelight.
Consisting of 44 girls aged from 14 – 18 years old, the choir is performing daily rehearsals of the official...
