Staff and residents at Cumberland Grange in Exeter welcomed in the Year of the Tiger with a day of celebrations and activities.
Inspired by Chinese cultures and traditions, residents enjoyed learning all about Chinese New Year thanks to John, Tesco’s Community Champion. John gave a fascinating talk followed by serving up a variety of different Chinese foods.
It was a brilliant afternoon linking up with Tesco to provide residents with this Themed Eats and Wine tasting session.
Michele , General Manager of Barchester’s Cumberland Grange said: “We had such a...
Exeter businesses will come together to showcase and celebrate the city’s wedding industry at a brand new wedding fayre this March.
Hosted by InExeter – the business improvement district, the fayre will take place in two of Exeter’s most iconic venues, Exeter Castle, and the Historic Guildhall.
Couples planning their upcoming partnership celebration or wedding will be treated to traditional fayre with a series of talks, stalls, stands, demonstrations, styling sessions and tasters from local businesses at Exeter Castle.
Nearly one in five adults surveyed in the South West (17 per cent) who say their mental health got worse during the pandemic haven’t spoken to anyone about it during this time – equivalent to around 250,000 people – according to research published today. More than a third (38 per cent) of all respondents in the South West reported a worsening in their mental health during the pandemic. Of those who have been concerned about the mental health of someone they care about, almost one in five (19 per cent) say they haven’t tried to talk to them about it.
A husband-and wife emergency medicine doctor team have landed in the Carribean after rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic as the first ever married couple to participate in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge (TWAC). Following more than seven weeks of rowing, they finished 1st in the mixed pairs ranking and have, so far, raised more than £20,000 for frontline medical charities.
“Emergensea Duo” Charlie Fleury and Adam Baker are both emergency medicine doctors in Devon and took a sabatical to embark on the “World’s toughest row” that started on 12th December last year from...
Museum visitor Joe proposed to his partner Dawn at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in December
Exmouth resident Joe McIntee got down on one knee and proposed to Dawn, now his fiancée, on the 21 December 2021 in the museum’s Geology gallery. RAMM was the location for their very first date, exactly two years ago to the day.
With the help of the RAMM team, Joe arranged to have a ring dangling from the tail of a 3D-printed model carnosaurus, his favourite dinosaur. The carnotaurus was hidden in the Geology case, ready for Dawn to find it and say 'Yes'. It was on their first...
Vranch House is a pioneering special school and therapy centre for Devon children. Vranch House was set up by Charles Vranch as a charity in 1969 and the school opened its doors to pupils for the first time in May 1971.
The centre, on Pinhoe Road in Exeter, now provides clinical outpatient services to hundreds of children a year from across Devon, as well as an Ofsted outstanding-rated specialist school for disabled children aged 2-19 years old.
Vranch House School has always brought together the very best practices in education and therapy and this has culminated into...
The league operates on Tuesday evenings @ ISCA ACADEMY astro pitch and is affiliated to the FA.
Qualified referees are used to officiate games and all games are 40 minutes slots. The weekly fee to play is from £4 per player and each team play 1 game per week. Fixtures and league tables are on the league website and updated on a weekly basis.
Over 100 players weekly take part in the league and any standard of player or team are welcome to join. You can sign up as team or as an individual player and individual players will be entered into a team.
Following significant investment from local franchisee, David Shawyer, McDonald’s in Stone Lane Retail Park on Marsh Barton Road is set to reopen on 3rd February 2022 after a major refurbishment, which has brought exciting new features to the restaurant. The official re-opening will be attended by the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Trish Oliver, to officiate with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
The new restaurant will boast all the latest innovations from McDonald’s, including new, more efficient, soft drinks machines and a new staff room with a new redesigned kitchen for the crew...
One of the University of Exeter’s most eminent and distinguished engineers has been celebrated as being amongst the world’s most influential academics in his field.
Professor Ken Evans, a leading expert in Materials Engineering, features in a new prominent list of the most inspiring engineers and technologists, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
The campaign features 95 of the most illustrious experts from across the globe, both past and present, who have made a “significant impact” through their work.
New images reveal Exeter’s iconic new leisure centre St Sidwell’s Point as the finishing touches are put in place ahead of opening in the spring.
St Sidwell’s Point is the UK’s first leisure centre built to the super energy efficient Passivhaus standard.
The unique facility in the heart of the city centre has been funded by the City Council and constructed by Kier.
It features an eight-lane, 25m main pool and four-lane, 20m learner pool, both with moveable floors making learning to swim accessible to all who visit.
