Due to #StormDarragh dangerous winds forecasted, greengrocers & Nourish zero waste store will be closed today 💨😬 Don’t feel happy trying to walk to work or expect staff to in these conditions. Will both be open again on Monday 👍😬

Great to pop along to Love Food CIC Lunch Club today, & what a treat with the wonderful Kurdish food offered this week! If you haven’t popped along to the #LoveFoodCIC Lunch Club yet, I’d encourage you to do so. More deets on my Facebook page 👇🏻 www.facebook.com/share/p/1BGL... #Exeter

Massive Brexiter says what now?

Magdalen rd Xmas Fair is sadly CANCELLED this Saturday due to the dangerous strong winds forecasted 😔

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

NEWS // Acting Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Constable Jim Colwell suspended Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation of gross misconduct allegations follows suspension of previous Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Constable Will Kerr last year. exeterobserver.org/2024/11/30/a...

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.

Tiverton council revives its decades-old dream of a shared pathway to Exeter, sparking fresh hope for safer, greener travel

Get the full picture: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/news/2024/11...

#Exeter Green councillor James Banyard is challenging the Labour-run Council to bring back cash payments at Council-run swimming pools, including St Sidwell’s Point & Riverside.

The meme I didn't know I needed

Hello Haldon Road, Exeter! Diana and I spent a happy afternoon chatting to residents and handing out leaflets about our community action morning coming up this Saturday morning ! Yea, coffee, biscuits. Come along and join in the fun! This Saturday from 10.30. :) it will be good Green fun - geddit?!

The University of Exeter’s research is rewriting the story of the UK’s biggest miscarriage of justice—and helping victims rebuild their lives

Love to bake and bake to love Exeter's One Mile Baker has a new Introduction to Baking course on Fri 14 Feb 2025 😍 And if you just love to bake, there's a Half Day Taster Class in Jan and Italian baking in Feb Can you * rise * to the challenge (tee hee) www.onemilebakery.com/exeter/produ...

ON OUR RADAR // St Leonard’s Christmas Fair 2024 🎄🛍️ Community-run market returns for thirteenth year with festive food, music and gifts. 🗓️ Sun 7 December 🕑 2-6pm 📍 Magdalen Road exeterobserver.org/2024/11/15/m...

We’re hosting a watch-along of the #Slamovision2024 Grand Finale, streamed live from Manchester - featuring Exeter's own Edward Tripp as he represents @exetercityoflit.bsky.social against 13 other global Cities of Literature. 🎤💥 Join us Thurs 12th Dec from 6.30pm-9pm.

I’m both excited & humbled to have been selected as @teamlabouruk.bsky.social & #CoopParty candidate for #Exwick & #StThomas in ‘25 Devon County Council election. If you’d like to get involved in my positive campaign, please drop me a DM or email at [email protected]. #Exeter

Hi @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com 👋 Have a great story about your current talk on attendance allowance. Is there an email for you I can send it to please?🙂

As many of us are currently enjoying Gladiator II in the cinema, Exeter academic Prof Claire Holleran has written a fantastic article about the use of graffiti in Roman times! theconversation.com/... #Gladiator2

Walkers can enjoy a relaxing stroll around the Riverside Valley Park in Exeter whilst learning about the area’s rich history of managing recycling and waste, thanks to a new circular route available on the @gojauntly.bsky.social app. Read more ▶▶▶ tinyurl.com/5dbkw5vk

People are being offered the opportunity to find out more about Exeter Twinning Circle at a Coffee Morning on Saturday (30 November). The Coffee Morning is being held at St Stephen’s Church in Exeter’s High Street, from 10am to noon. Read more ▶▶▶ tinyurl.com/4yvfadkd

On Monday, I was asked to return to University of Exeter as a guest lecturer to speak to students about my career thus far - and it has to be a career highlight for me. Receiving emails the following day from some of the students saying it’s made them want to explore PR as a career made my day 🥹

As part of Exeter's vibrant Christmas celebrations, InExeter is delighted to offer families a fun, free, and festive adventure around the city with the launch of the Countdown to Christmas Trail. Read more ▶▶▶ tinyurl.com/uy3b2r5b

Cycled to the gym today. If your gym bike parking doesn’t look like this, maybe nag them for some more? (Yes I am in Oxford and v lucky I know!).

FEATURES // 2024-25 SEND overspend rises to £45.8m as government “safety valve” deal target breach doubles to £14.7m in two months County council breaches Local Government Act by failing to publish budget documents in time for scrutiny and cabinet meetings. exeterobserver.org/2024/11/23/d...

A significant moment in the discourse about how universities (and by extension, everyone else) should approach (what now needs to be emergency-pace) decarbonisation Note: Exeter is home to one of highest densities of climate scientists in the world

Really good to help out at @stthomasfoodfight.bsky.social today… The presence of #StThomasFoodFight more important than ever during the current awful weather - providing hot food & drinks to people on #Exeter’s streets… #StThomas #Kindness www.facebook.com/share/15PASt...

What a win for @exetercitywfc.bsky.social… Always great to get a derby win over that place down the road… 👏🏻😉 #ECFC #Exeter #DevonRemainsRed ❤️🤍

How to solve Exeter's congestion problems? Good to be reminded of this graphic from the fiestsprofessor

NEWS // Exeter Business Improvement District wins ballot for third five-year term Just under half of 670 businesses eligible to vote took part, 90% voting in favour of renewal. exeterobserver.org/2024/11/23/e...

We propose that money earmarked for offsets is used to further accelerate our decarbonisation, help implement nature positive schemes, work with suppliers & communities on their decarbonisation. The challenge we face is huge. Don't let carbon offsets fool you otherwise.

There are compelling reasons to protect forests from destruction, giving out efficient cookstoves & other ways that generate carbon credits. But these often have very little to do with climate impacts. Ditching offsets doesn't mean giving up on these important projects.

This is going to effectively throw a huge spanner into the university's 2030 net zero target. But much better to do that than continue with the fantasy that carbon offsets will get us there. The climate crisis demands rapid & deep decarbonisation. Offsets can be counterproductive to such efforts.

The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise. theconversation.com/we-have-offi...

Autumn and winter collided spectacularly on Exeter University campus today 😍@uniofexeter.bsky.social

There we go! A great new connection from the south to the south west, connecting Salisbury, Exeter and beyond in both directions. We'd love your help to make new connections in your neck of the woods. Reply to this message if you'd like help or route suggestions! www.slowways.org

NEWS // St Petrock’s appeals for funds to support its work with rough sleepers Exeter homelessness charity’s Christmas 2024 fundraising campaign features a short film depicting the fictional tale of a rough sleeper in the city’s streets. exeterobserver.org/2024/11/21/s...

COMING TO CYGNET THEATRE MAY 2025... An Evening With Jack The Ripper! More details coming soon. #exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #arts #drama #inexeter #visitexeter

The latest edition of the Exeter Citizen falls through letterboxes next week, jam-packed with loads of Christmas events and all the latest news from the City Council. Read more ▶▶▶ tinyurl.com/2knzpzah

A €430 million low-cost loan to some green technogy companies in the EU. That's the kind of strategic support the European Investment Bank gave to Britain before Brexiters made us leave it. The EIB invested €1 billion per year in British social housing alone! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Wow. Imagine the shock for the Daily Mail when it finds out Tory plans were for fines of £5k - later reduced to £3k - for each missed heat pump sale. What Ed Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. As @torstenbell.bsky.social says today Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”

🔴The Real ‘Two Tier’ Politics That Enabled Nigel Farage to Fan the Flames of Hate The politics of anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred pushed by the Reform leader and his supporters has been tolerated for far too long, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/n...

Those who are pushing hardest against the partial removal of agricultural property relief, introduced by Thatcher’s government in 1984 and made more generous by Major’s in 1992, don’t represent farmers. They represent the super-rich who don’t want to contribute their fair due: Guy Singh-Watson

Word of the day Sneckdown! Please send us your snow pictures - to reveal how much streetspace is actually needed vs how much taken. Nb the junction www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

Sir Tom wrote a book which he said was to raise funds for the NHS. He died, his daughter made herself head of his charity, and gave the entire £1.47m raised to herself. We really should be talking about prison.

Nine water companies have been blocked from using customer money to fund "undeserved" bonuses by the industry's regulator. The blocked payouts amount to 73% of the total executive awards proposed across the industry news.sky.com/story/water-...

As the snow is settling a little more & our sons school is closed, decided to head home while I still can safely 😬 hope to be back open tomorrow!

‘… but didn’t you keep the beaches open?’ ‘Classic BBC’

Heavy snow has started falling across parts of the County, especially over the high ground of Dartmoor but now reaching as far as Exeter and East Devon. Gritters have been out on salting runs since the early hours and some routes are due to go out again.