Exeter

£3.1 million lottery win for Exeter locals

THIRTEEN neighbours from the same street in Exeter are over £110k richer, after winning a share of £3.1 million with People’s Postcode Lottery.

The good news came after their postcode sector, EX2 4, was announced as a winner with the lottery on Friday 30th April.

12 players in the full winning postcode of EX2 4RL won £110,714 each, with a 13th doubling their win to £221,428 thanks to playing with two tickets.

The residents found out how much they’d won via video calls with lottery ambassador Judie McCourt.

Linda Staddon (74) and her husband, John, were...

German Doner Kebab opening in Exeter

German Doner Kebab opening soon in Exeter

German Doner Kebab will open soon in Exeter, bringing a new fast-casual dining experience to the area.

The gourmet kebab chain has confirmed that it will open a new restaurant at 177-181 Fore Street.

The restaurant is scheduled to open in the middle of May and will create in the region of 40 new jobs, bringing employment to the local area.

The opening has been announced as German Doner Kebab forges ahead with plans to open 47 new restaurants in the UK during 2021, building significantly on the 12 opened during 2020.

German Doner Kebab is revolutionising...

Experience the Dawn Chorus in Devon

RSPB invites people to experience their own doorstep dawn chorus

The RSPB is inviting wildlife lovers across the nation to wake at sunrise for an inspirational dawn chorus livestream from nature reserves across the UK as part of International Dawn Chorus day.

This year to help the public make the most of their reconnection with nature, the RSPB is celebrating International Dawn Chorus day with an ambitious livestream of dawn chorus from its nature reserves across the UK. We’ll also be joined as the morning progresses by special guests including Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin and...

Home Instead launches live-in care service

Authored by Liv Butler
Posted: Thu, 04/29/2021 - 8:37pm

Home Instead Exeter and East Devon’s newly launched live-in care service means that clients have the option of receiving full-time care within their own home. Day and night, elderly people will have the same CAREGiver with them to perform the tasks that they need help with, whether that’s support with mobility or cooking and housework. The CAREGiver has their assigned working hours, but is there at all times in case an emergency arises.

Home Instead Exeter and East Devon have been providing exceptional care for the past 10 years and are currently the only home care provider in...

Exeter company, AnTech, wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise

Authored by ZoeOsborne
Posted: Thu, 04/29/2021 - 5:57pm

An Exeter-based company with over 25 years in oilfield innovation has been honoured with the highest accolade a business can receive – The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade.

A world leading designer and manufacturer of products for the upstream oil and gas industry, AnTech, which has its headquarters in Exeter and a presence in Texas and Saudi Arabia, is one of just 205 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, and is in fact the only company in Exeter to receive one.

Employing 49 staff, AnTech was...

Over a third of Exeter homeowners undervalue their homes by almost £46,000 as Zoopla reveals the cit

Over a third of Exeter homeowners undervalue their homes by almost £46,000

Zoopla reveals Exeter's ‘hidden equity’

New analysis by Zoopla , the only property portal which offers a free instant online property price estimate, conducted as part of its inaugural Hidden Equity Survey, has found that Exeter homeowners are undervaluing their homes by an average of £45,937.

The Hidden Equity Survey of 2,000 homeowners* who have had their home valued by an estate agent in the past three years establishes for the first time how accurate Exeter homeowners’ estimations of the value of their homes really are. It found that just two fifths (43%) of local homeowners...

Exeter retirement village celebrate Queen’s birthday with afternoon tea 

Residents at Millbrook retirement village, in Exeter, which is owned by later living operator Inspired Villages, dressed in their finery and enjoyed a garden afternoon tea to celebrate The Queen’s 95th Birthday on 21st April.

Residents made the most of the sunny weather and enjoyed a ‘socially distanced’ afternoon tea of coronation chicken, smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumber finger sandwiches. For the royal inspired menu, the village chef also prepared homemade fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, homemade butter biscuits, a fruit cake and Victoria sandwich...

Exeter retirement village celebrate Queen’s birthday in style

Exeter retirement village celebrate Queen’s birthday with afternoon tea 

Residents at Millbrook retirement village, in Exeter, which is owned by later living operator Inspired Villages, dressed in their finery and enjoyed a garden afternoon tea to celebrate The Queen’s 95th Birthday on 21st April.

Residents made the most of the sunny weather and enjoyed a ‘socially distanced’ afternoon tea of coronation chicken, smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumber finger sandwiches. For the royal inspired menu, the village chef also prepared homemade fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, homemade butter biscuits, a fruit cake and Victoria sandwich...

Nine young SW teams in the final 40 of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize for young inventors and innovators

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 04/28/2021 - 11:11pm

Nine teams of young people across Devon and Somerset have made it to the national finals of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize this year. This includes five different teams from Churston Ferrers Grammar School near Brixham – a record in the prize’s history.

The Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize, delivered by Nesta Challenges, pairs entrepreneurial skills not usually taught in the classroom with the STEM curriculum to encourage young innovators from across the UK aged 11-16 to create tech solutions to the big challenges of our time - such as climate change, healthy living, ageing...

Family of Exeter man seek answers after asbestos death

Family of Exeter man seek answers after asbestos death

The family of a Devon man, who worked as a fireman on steam trains and as a BT engineer, is appealing to his former colleagues for answers about how he was exposed to asbestos, which caused his death.

Antony Talbot, who was born in Exwick and lived in Exeter, died aged 88 in October last year, one month after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a terminal asbestos-related lung cancer.

His family believe that he was exposed to asbestos when he worked for GWR Exeter in the 1950s and when he installed underground cables for BT from the 1960s until the 1980s. They are now...

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