News in Exmouth

Exmouth Nub News has switched on our What's On section - and we want to help publicise YOUR events.

Whether it is an online concert or class, a Zoom fitness or yoga session, a fundraising event or a band which will be playing at your local pub when they can, we want to feature it on Exmouth Nub News.

An Exmouth mum is setting up a Big Neighbourhood Pumpkin Trail across the town to offer local youngsters a safe alternative to trick or treating.

The hope is that families across Exmouth will take part, creating their own unique pumpkin designs for children to find over the Halloween weekend.

It's been a long lock down for fans of Bingo but Exmouth Pavilion is bringing it back, so eyes down and markers at the ready!

The pavilion will be hosting Bingo every Monday evening from now on but of course the venue will be sticking to the Government's rules on social distancing.

Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew were assigned yesterday to a report of a motor cruiser in distress off the coast of Budleigh Salterton.

At 8.40pm, Tuesday, September 22, H.M. Coastguard tasked the Exmouth RNLI All Weather Lifeboat to a report of 29 foot motor cruiser in distress east of the coast of Budleigh Salterton.

The owner of a missing parrot from the Exmouth area is offering a reward for help tracking down his pet parrot Floyd.

Floyd, an eight month old Monk Parakeet, went missing from his Woodbury home on Sunday afternoon.

Every September, volunteers usually converge on the Exe Estuary for an annual autumn clean-up removing everything from litter, glass and clothing to metal, broken crab pots and rusting car wheels.

However, because of COVID-19 and the 'Rule of Six', this year's autumn clean-up at the Local Nature Reserve at Exmouth is unable to take place.

Boris Johnson announced new Coronavirus restrictions in parliament yesterday.

It follows a surge in new cases across the country and despite the low rate of infection in the Exmouth area the restrictions come with new stricter enforcement rules.

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Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival is celebrating the success of its first ever hybrid virtual and physical festival with more than 11,000 unique pages views of the 31 events since they went online from September 16.

Viewers tuned in from as far away as the USA, Canada and Australia, as well as plenty from closer to home in East Devon, to enjoy this year's line-up, with headliners including writer, comedian, presenter of QI Sandi Toksvig OBE; former British Ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch; behavioural scientist and activist Dr Pragya Agarwal; former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal; and bestselling author and creator of Midsomer Murders Anthony Horowitz.

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