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Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck

University of Exeter PRISM network champions queer STEMM pioneers

Exeter students celebrated the lives of polar explorer and botanist Elke Mackenzie, inventor, engineer and futurist Nikola Tesla and astronaut and children’s author Sally Ride in winning LGBT+ network competition entries.

Jubilee Beauty - Exeter central library chidren's area rocking horse

Exeter library children’s horse to keep on rocking!

A crowdfunding appeal has successfully raised £1000 to repair central library’s popular rocking horse, Jubilee Beauty.

Exeter election polling station

Conservatives hold Topsham in Exeter city council by-election

A by-election held on general election day produced an unusually high turnout but a lower Conservative vote share than at the May local elections.

Striking University of Exeter history lecturers Dr Jennifer Farrell and Dr Gemma Clark

University of Exeter staff strike over pay, pensions and working conditions

The Exeter branch of the University & College Union (UCU) is taking part in a national eight day strike for fair pay and pensions, including equal pay for female and BAME staff, and against casualisation and increasing workloads.

2019 Devon County Council Heavitree & Whipton Barton by-election Exeter vote share swing bar chart

Exeter Labour support collapses in Heavitree & Whipton Barton county by-election

Greg Sheldon wins Devon County Council division by just 40 votes after Labour loses nearly a fifth of its previous vote share.

Exeter Global Climate Strike Bedford Street crowd

Thousands march in Exeter for global climate strike as millions mobilise worldwide

Fridays for Future Exeter led 3,500 people on a climate crisis demonstration through the city backed by dozens of organisations on the eve of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.

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