February

Charity Fashion Show to support Life Education Wessex

Event Date: 
09/02/2017 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Venue: 
Reed Hall, University of Exeter, Streatham Drive, Exeter, EX4 4QR

Charity Fashion Show to support health, well-being and drug prevention education for local children.

Clothes for all ages and sizes from High Street stores. Ticket price: £15 per person to include complimentary cheese and wine.

To book, please call Julie on 07956 574493 or email julie@lifeeducationwessex.org.uk

Kindly sponsored by Thomas Westcott Chartered Accountants.

The weekend forecast in five letters... SOGGY

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 02/04/2016 - 8:23am

You don't have to be a forecaster to take a guess as to what the weather is going to be like this weekend.

But if you are in the welly boot or umbrella business, you could be in for a profitable few days!

The Met Office five-day forecast is as follows...

Today: After early patchy rain it will be a mostly dry but cloudy day, especially around windward coasts and hills. Some heavy outbreaks of rain will return into the afternoon but the rain will become lighter into the evening. Feeling milder. Maximum Temperature 12°C.

Tonight: It will be mostly dry but...

Your guide to Half Term family fun

If you're wondering how you're going to keep the kids entertained during the school half term holiday we've got plenty of great ideas...

15 February

Half Term Fun, World of Country Life, Exmouth World of Country Life will be open from 10am on Saturday 15 February with a fun-packed line-up for half term week. www.worldofcountrylife.co.uk Family Fun, Knighthayes Court, Tiverton Fancy a gander at golf? A dabble in croquet? Join the Knightshayes team over the half term holiday - it's all about the great outdoors, open 11am-5pm. For details of what's on offer visit www....

Give a bird a home

THIS half-term try learning a new skill and provide a home for birds to nest in your garden.

Join the countryside team on Wednesday, 19 February at the Axe Estuary Wetlands classroom between 10am and 1pm, and build a nest box from one of our easy-to-use kits – available for a range of common garden birds from blue tits to sparrows and starlings.

The Axe Estuary Wetlands officer and the countryside rangers will help you build your nest box and advise you on where to place it for the best results. You will be helping the conservation effort by encouraging biodiversity in your...

Football Fun lined up for February Half Term

Exeter City’s Football in the Community charity is extending the range of its popular children’s football roadshows for the upcoming February half term.

There will be four different events in Exeter, plus courses in Exmouth, Sidmouth, Crediton, Tiverton, Honiton, Feniton, Okehampton and Barnstaple.

A two-day course on the astroturf at St Luke's Science and Sports College kicks off half term, starting on Monday 18th February and costing £27 for the two days. A special goalkeepers and strikers day is being held at Middlemoor on Friday 22nd February (£15), while on the same...