The Rugby Football Union [RFU] have confirmed Sandy Park will host England A against an Ireland XV on Saturday, 20 February, 2027. The side will be led by England Rugby head of men’s player pathway and men’s A head coach Mark Mapletoft. They will arrive in Devon in the midst of the 2027 Guinness Six Nations campaign for the first team with a ‘A’ side facing the Irish one week before taking on Chile at Kingsholm Stadium in Gloucester. About playing in Devon, Mapletoft said: […]

The Exeter Brick Festival is building up once again on 8th November, and this could be the most exciting LEGO fan event ever created! Every Brick Festival event is filed with LEGO themed fun as families, colectors, adult builders, and every kind of LEGO fan come together for a day of brick-filed bliss! Wondering what goes on inside a Brick Festival event? Wel, we throw away the instruction books as Exeter Brick Festival brings ALL NEW LEGO activities such as our adrenaline inducing […]

An historic Exeter pub that has been closed since September 2024 reopens this week following a £542,000 revamp by Heineken-owned Star Pubs. The investment has transformed The Angel on Queen Street into a top-class contemporary pub, renaming it The Engine House to reflect its new direction and location close to Exeter Central station. The Engine House opens at midday on 24th September, creating six new jobs and with Greg Gearing at the helm as the operator running the venue on behalf of […]

A University of Exeter graduate has launched Blind Fate, an app that skips the swiping and sends you to a pub, café or restaurant in town, tonight. Most apps want you to stay on them. Blind Fate would quite like you to leave. It was built by Jay Berry, who came to Exeter from Stroud three years ago and graduated this summer. The app has one button. Press it and it picks someone you'd get on with, finds a pub, café or restaurant nearby, and tells you when to turn up. There are no photos, […]