The biggest and brightest event of the summer is back! Join Children’s Hospice South West for its annual Rainbow Run on Saturday 9 June at Westpoint, Exeter.
It’s the happiest 5k around and a great way to support your local children’s hospice. You can run, walk or jog through colourful explosions of paint, and anyone aged 5 years and over can join in.
Radio Exe will be our hosts again, so gather your friends, family or work colleagues to enter at this crazily colourful event and help the charity to make the most of short and precious lives.
The Great British Show is officially coming to Exeter's Westpoint Arena! The movement to change the health and wellbeing of the nation kicks off on the 3rd and 4th February 2018 and tickets are now on sale.
Children and clubs across the South West including DanSci Dance Studio will have the chance to try out as many different sports as they can at the Great British Sports Show which comes to Exeter's Westpoint Arena in February.
The Great British Sports Show is billed as the ultimate sports festival which inspires and engages families and children to participate in sport...
Tickets have gone on sale for the inaugural Great British Sports Show taking place at Westpoint Exeter over the weekend of 3-4 February 2018. The family orientated event will welcome up to 10,000 visitors who will have the opportunity to try over 30 different sports and meet stars from the local area.
With activities from athletics to wheelchair basketball and crown green bowls to cheerleading, this multi-sports festival has something for everyone. Each sport or activity will have its own dedicated area within the venue, where local sports clubs and activity providers will give...
Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex will visit Agrifest South West at Westpoint, Exeter on Wednesday, November 8.
The Countess is the President of the Devon County Agricultural Association (DCAA) which is supporting the event that showcases high quality beef and sheep farming in the South West.
Vicky Smith Secretary of Agrifest South West said she was ‘delighted and honoured’ that The Countess would attend their eighth show.
“I look forward to demonstrating the work of beef and sheep producers in the South West to The Countess of Wessex and for HRH to have the...
More than 30,000 handcrafted red poppies made to mark the centenary of the First World War at the Devon County Show will go on display at Exeter Cathedral.
The exhibition opens on Monday (October 30) and runs until Tuesday, November 14.
Thousands of local people supported the ‘people’s tribute’ to the 11,500 Devon men and women who died in the Great War by creating 34,000 poppies.
The commemoration was the idea of Deborah Custance Baker, Chief Steward of the Crafts and Gardens Show feature.
“I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone, young and old, who...
Westpoint Arena, Exeter became a sea of pink on Sunday as thousands of women joined the fight against cancer by taking part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. Just under 4,000 mums, daughters, sisters and friends showed their incredible commitment to the cause as they came together over the weekend to help bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. Now organisers of the Pretty Muddy, 5k and 10k event are sending a heart-felt message of thanks to everyone who took part and all their supporters. And they’re asking them to make every step count by paying in their sponsorship money...
British and Irish native dog breeds, including some very rare ones, will be among the almost 6,000 dogs which will descend on Westpoint, Clyst St Mary, Exeter from 5th - 8th August for the popular Paignton Championship Dog Show – the largest event of its kind in Devon and among the biggest in the UK.
The show will see more than 200 breeds and their owners from all over the UK and beyond compete in a bid to qualify for the world’s biggest dog show, Crufts, which will be held at the NEC in Birmingham next March.
The pedigree dogs taking part will be judged on a number of...
Catherine Price was aged just 13 when her mum died from cancer and coming to terms with her death hasn’t been easy. Having also experienced the upsetting loss of four other close relations to cancer - Catherine is getting together with her close friend Danni Floyd to take on Race for Life Pretty Muddy. The 24 year-old support worker is keen to urge women of all shapes and sizes to muck in and join the fight by signing up for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life Pretty Muddy event in Exeter on Saturday 22 July at Westpoint. Cancer is a disease which has robbed her also of her young cousin...
Devon County Show opened its gates on the first day to huge crowds who flocked to enjoy the very best that the county has to offer.
HRH The Countess of Wessex, President of the Devon County Agricultural Association which runs the Show, spent a busy day presenting awards, watching events and demonstrations by sheep shearers and blacksmiths as well as meeting many of the Show’s army of volunteers.
She even sampled a new beer brewed specially in her honour, Sophie’s Ale, in the Show’s very own beer festival, the Contented Cow.
HRH The Queen is undoubtedly the most famous horse owner to compete at this year’s Devon County Show taking place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (May 18-20) at Westpoint, Exeter.
The Queen is entering a Highland pony and a Riding Horse in two classes within a packed equine programme which starts at 7am on Thursday morning.
The Show also has judging royalty including Mary Low MBE, a former international event rider, who will be judging on Thursday and former jockey Joe Tizzard.
Mary Lowe (then Mary Gordon-Watson) represented the winning British eventing team for...
