Exeter Racecourse has announced a 25% increase in its prize money for 2013. More than £200,000 has been added to the total prize money on offer, bringing the total to over £800,000, with an average per fixture of £50,000.
The course’s most valuable race day, which includes The sportingbet Haldon Gold Cup which takes place on Tuesday, 5th November, is now worth £117,000, up £12,000 on 2012, while a Listed Novice Hurdle on Sunday, February 10 is worth £20,000 - its previous value was £13,000.
New to the race calendar is a Class 3 handicap chase, worth £25,000. This will be...
Cervical cancer has attracted much media coverage in recent years, largely because of Jade Goody’s sad death from the disease, and yet as we embark on Cervical Cancer Prevention Week in 2013, 20% of women in the UK fail to attend cervical screening when invited.
South West Water will be able to carry out repairs to a collapsed sewer in Exeter ahead of schedule after Devon County Council helped bring forward the start of work.
Contractor May Gurney had been preparing to undertake work on the collapsed sewer in Holloway Street, but repairs were delayed as the site is immediately adjacent to an ancient masonry arch structure, which is a Scheduled Monument, laying deep under the highway.
The structure, which was originally built as a bridge dating from before the construction of Exeter Cathedral, has been inspected by Devon County...
Devon and Cornwall’s Police and Crime Commissioner is asking local people to play a bigger part in reducing crime and helping to set policing priorities.
With the news that Liam Sercombe will be out of action for a number of months, Exeter City have completed the signing of midfielder Mark Molesley following his release from AFC Bournemouth.
How can local communities take positive action in the face of big issues on climate change? Find out how local active citizens are tackling global issues in their communities.
This year's Exeter CVS Social Action project concludes with a free showcase event highlighting the work of our Active Citizens, alongside local community displays from other social action groups and enterprises.
This event features guest speakers from key local institutions on what is being done in Exeter to lessen the impact of climate change, with a global perspective from the British Council, and...
Update: The man has been formally identified as David Michael Howard Hill, aged 64 years, of Harbertonford near Totnes.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died in a collision on Monday evening. At about 18.10 hrs on Monday (14th January 2013) a single vehicle Road Traffic Collision occurred on the A379 at Peamore on the outskirts of Exeter, Devon.
A car travelling from the direction of Marsh Barton, Exeter towards Kennford left the carriageway to the offside entering the central reservation.
The vehicle then collided with a tree in the grassed central reserve,...
Police and students in south Devon have undertaken a drive to restore a police car to its former glory.
The 1999 Ford Escort was retired out of police service in early 2006 and lay unused and deteriorating until 2008 when it was acquired by the police Heritage and Learning Resource (the Historic Collections of Devon & Cornwall Police) based in Okehampton.
In 2011 a sponsorship deal was struck with three local companies who agreed to supply restoration materials and the car was taken to South Devon College in Paignton who had agreed to supply the labour to return the car...
A study that aims to investigate how the brain processes stress and creates memories of psychologically stressful events will begin shortly thanks to funding of £758,000 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, led by Professor Hans Reul, aim to investigate the role molecular processes, known as “epigenetic modifications”, play in the regulation of expression of genes required to cope with stress. At present it is unclear how the healthy brain adapts to and learns from stressful events.
