Leigh Curtis is deputy editor of Exeter Observer and a director of its publisher Exeter Observer Limited.
She writes many of our community and culture stories and also contributes to news, features and investigations.
Leigh holds a degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and leads on design and marketing as well as Exeter Observer’s financial and administrative management.
She is also an accredited UK press card holder and a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Stories by Leigh Curtis
Junior doctors stage industrial action either side of Christmas in longest strike in NHS history
Latest round of strikes are eighth walkout by junior doctors in eighteen month national dispute over pay and employment conditions with government.
Regional transport infrastructure strategy published for public consultation
Framework seeks to draw together major evidence base assembled over several years to address key challenges to 2050 including integration of walking and cycling with local bus and rail network and freight decarbonisation.
FRIDAY 5 & SATURDAY 6 JANUARY 2024
Twelfth Night candlelit concerts
Pianist Alex Wilson plays traditional music from across Europe at Christmastime.
ST NICHOLAS PRIORY
SUNDAY 31 DECEMBER 2023
Exeter Phoenix NYE
A silver, sparkly mirror ball-themed New Year’s Eve celebration to welcome in 2024.
EXETER PHOENIX
Old Exeter bus and coach station to be demolished five and a half years after closure
Bristol-based Wring Group appointed as contractor by city council to demolish building to slab level but not to remove foundations, leaving rest of Citypoint site untouched.
Developers seek feedback on replacement of Clarendon House with student accommodation
350-bed block up to sixteen storeys tall proposed on site of underutilised offices on corner of Western Way and Heavitree Road.
