The Royal Air Force is landing in Exeter on 4–5 April, bringing a free, action-packed family event to Cathedral Green from 09:00 to 16:30 each day. This two-day spectacle offers hands-on experiences for all ages, designed to entertain, educate, and inspire the whole community. Climb into a Typhoon cockpit, test your speed in high-energy sports...
HEADLINES City council holds sham Northbrook swimming pool closure consultation £600,000 Exeter Leisure services budget cut signed off two weeks before pool consultation opened as St Sidwell’s Point drains other council leisure sites. Read more. Met Office to sell Exeter Science Park supercomputer and office buildings Disposal motivated by replacement of nine year-old supercomputer with...
Exeter: Skinner; Brown-Bampoe, Slade, Rigg, Hodge; Coen, Townsend; Sio, Yeandle, Iosefa-Scott, Jenkins (capt), Molina, Moloney, Capstick, Fisilau. Replacements: Norey, Blose, J Roots, Tuima, James, Cairns, Tua, Hammersley. Newcastle: Obatoyinbo; Hearle, Doherty, Clark, Stevenson; Connon, Davis; Brocklebank, Blamire, Palframan, Hawkins, de Chaves, Lockwood, Neild, Chick (capt). Replacements: Fletcher, Rewcastle, McCallum, Scott, Leatherbarrow, Stuart, Wilkinson, Spencer. Yellow...
Bristol Bears forward Santiago Grondona has been given a three-match ban by the Rugby Football Union after being sent off during their Premiership win against Exeter. The Argentina international was shown the red card in the 29th minute of the match last Saturday for a head-on-head tackle on Chiefs’ back row Martin Moloney. The 26-year-old...
Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell believes his Scottish accent is the reason he was sent off at Lincoln City last week. The Grecians boss was sent from the dugout for his reaction to the fourth official after a late winning goal was disallowed for a handball in the 0-0 draw. Stirling-born Caldwell says he did...
Exeter City of Literature, Taking the Mic and Spork! are co-hosting a third city-wide spoken-word poetry slam at Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday 29 April. Twelve local poets will compete to win a £150 prize and a spot at this year’s Slamovision, an international slam competition featuring poets from UNESCO cities of literature across the world....
Exeter back Dan John has agreed a new contract with the Premiership club. The 23-year-old former Wales youth international has played 19 times for the Chiefs in all competitions. He has also spent time on dual registration at Championship side Cornish Pirates. Injuries have restricted John to just two appearances this season – one in...
Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter says Ali Hepher’s demotion from his role as head coach was not a “knee-jerk reaction” to the club’s Premiership Rugby Cup final loss. Hepher was replaced as head coach by forwards coach Rob Hunter last week, with Exeter enduring their worst season since being promoted to the top flight...
Exeter Chiefs back Liv McGoverne has agreed a deal to stay at Sandy Park for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 27-year-old New Zealander – who can play at fly-half or centre – re-joined the club last summer. McGoverne had spent the 2022-23 season at Exeter, playing 26 games, scoring five tries and kicking...
Police have been trialling new ways to tackle shoplifting in Exeter. Devon and Cornwall Police have been working in the city council’s CCTV control centre with a coordinator from the Exeter Businesses Against Crime group to coordinate their response to offenders who target stores on the high street. The force has plain clothes officers patrolling...
One lucky player of the Exeter Community Lottery has scooped £250 in a recent draw. But it’s the community groups and good causes in Exeter who are the real winners, benefitting directly from ticket sales. The player celebrated a £250 windfall while raising money for the Exeter Community Lottery Central Fund, which supports funding to...
There’s still time to share your views on the final draft of Exeter’s new Corporate Plan 2025-2028. This important document sets out what the council wants to achieve in the years ahead and how it will deliver its vision for a happy, healthy and fully engaged city in the future. It will replace the existing...
Sale Sharks have agreed a two-year deal to sign Exeter Chiefs lock Jacques Vermeulen from next season. Vermeulen, 30, who can also play in the back row, moves to Sale after six years at Sandy Park, making over 100 appearances and winning the Premiership and European Challenge Cup double in 2020. The 6 ft 6,...
Having lost many of their established international stars in the summer of 2023, a new-look youthful Exeter side finished seventh last season with 10 wins from 16 games. But this season things have not gone to plan, with defeat in the Premiership Rugby Cup final last week extinguishing any hopes of ending the campaign with...
Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell did not deserve to be sent off in their 0-0 draw at Lincoln City, according to his assistant Kevin Nicholson. Caldwell was dismissed from the dugout in the aftermath of the Grecians having a late goal disallowed at Sincil Bank. Ryan Trevitt’s stoppage-time strike was adjudged to have hit Angus...