Firefighters throughout Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service will be rolling up their sleeves this weekend to take part in the National Car Wash to raise vital funds for The Fire Fighters Charity.
Firmly established on the fire and rescue service calendar, the National Car Wash is the charity's largest national fundraising event of the year. Motorists are invited to take their car along and have it washed in return for a donation to The Fire Fighters Charity, the UK’s leading provider of services that enhance quality of life for serving and retired fire service personnel...
Stagecoach South West has announced that it will be operating Boxing Day bus services on certain routes across Exeter this year, helping both visitors and locals alike to get to the sales.
For visitors from outside of the city, the operator will be running a daytime Sunday timetable on the RED Park & Ride service. For local residents services A (Thornpark Rise, Heavitree, St Thomas, Alphington), T (Pinhoe, Countess Wear, Topsham) and 50 (Exeter bus station, St David’s, Cowley Bridge, Crediton) will also be operating a daytime Sunday timetable, ensuring coverage for the main...
Exeter Cathedral will host its second Saying Goodbye service this month, to help parents who have lost babies in pregnancy through miscarriage, still birth or other trauma, and in infancy.
The first such service was held last year in Exeter, and since then 22 services will have been held in other towns and cities.
Andy Clark-Coates established the services with his wife Zoe after the couple lost five children themselves. Andy said: "We have had amazing attendances at services with people who have lost babies last week and last month, sitting next to peoplewho lost 60 years...
More than a thousand people turned out to say farewell to Bishop Michael and his wife, Esther, in a moving service at Exeter Cathedral.
Bishop Michael has retired as Bishop of Exeter after 13 years in the role.
In his sermon, he said he wasn't very good at goodbyes but this time he was letting go not just of his role as Bishop but of his 40 years of ministry.
He said he had been forced to ask himself: "What are the things that really matter, and why? In one sense it has posed that sharp question – what is true and real in your life, Michael?"
Bus passengers using Stagecoach are more satisfied with their service than customers using other national UK operators, according to new independent research.
Consumer watchdog Passenger Focus found that 86% of Stagecoach bus passengers were either fairly or very satisfied with their overall service, with only 5% dissatisfied.
The overall customer ratings for Stagecoach were higher than three other national UK bus operators: Arriva (85%), First (81%) and National Express (78%). Passenger Focus does not include Go Ahead in the national operator results due to the small...
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Authority has agreed to increase its council tax precept by 1.99 per cent for 2013/14.
The average Band D household will pay £75.39 for the year for the fire service, an increase of £1.47 for the year.
The decision comes after Devon & Somerset received the third worst grant settlement nationally from the Government among fire and rescue authorities.
The Authority’s Government grant has been reduced by 10.3% in 2013 and a further 7.3% in 2014, which means the Service will lose £3.4m in the next financial year and a further £...
With effect from Wednesday 30th January 2013 until further notice, due to a road closure in Exeter High Street, the following services will be diverted:
Update: 52A, 52B and 380 are now all able to serve their normal routes.
Stagecoach has announced the following disruptions.
52 service: Due to a police road closure the 52 can now only serve as far as Sidmouth Triangle.
Honiton service 20 is currently suspended due to weather conditions, it cannot serve Seaton or Taunton.
Service 52A can't currently serve Seaton and Service 52B can't currently serve Honiton due to weather conditions. Both services are terminating at Sidford until further notice.
Service 155 is not able to serve Bakery Way and Hooda...
More than 20,000 worshippers attended Christmas services and concerts at Exeter Cathedral last month.
The traditional Christmas Eve service at 6pm, the Grandisson, attracted 1,800 people into the Cathedral to hear the choir and join worship, and on Christmas Day, nearly 1,500 attended services.
Other Christmas services, including the carols for shoppers and workers at lunchtimes, were packed out.
The figures represent a rise of more than 8 per cent on the numbers attending Christmas services and concerts in 2011.
Suddenly at home on 16 October 2013 aged 86 years.
He will be greatly missed and loved always by partner Pam and her family Anne and Ed, Jayne and Paul.
Dearest dad of Rod and Wendy, grandad to Lewis, Christian, Danny and Rebecca, great-grandad to Liam, Sophie, Ellie, Amelie, Leo and Frazer.
Funeral service at the Exeter & Devon Crematorium, St Peter’s Chapel on Tuesday 29 October at 2pm.
Family flowers only please, donations if desired to F.O.R.C.E. and British Heart Foundation by retiring collection or may be sent to Le-Roy Funeral Service 10...
