Students organise against landlords; rent strike possible In response to emails sent from estate agents regarding rent during the COVID-19 lockdown, students are organising to demand fair treatment. The movement follows the success of 130 Bristol students whose refusal to pay rent has succeeded in Digs Residential Lettings offering zero rent for vacant properties, or […]
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Flybe saved by government intervention
Exeter-based airline Flybe has agreed a deal with the UK government to rescue the company from the brink of collapse. The regional airline revealed it has been granted a payment plan by HMRC for “less than £10m” in a bid to prevent the company from entering administration. Established in 1979, Flybe is the UK’s largest […]
Labour candidate Ben Bradshaw stands with striking staff
Ben Bradshaw, Labour candidate for Exeter, today joined striking university staff on the Streatham picket line. Speaking to Exeposé, Bradshaw confirmed his support for the “local members of the UCU union and the students who are supporting them in their strike. “I’m a trade unionist myself, and I wanted to show solidarity with people who […]
Exeter Pride
Once again Exeter Pride proved to be one of the most preeminent celebrations of love, diversity, and acceptance across the South West. On its ninth time in a row Devon’s biggest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) festival delivered what we have all come to expect of this event. Thousands of people taking to the […]
An interview with Exeter’s Ben Bradshaw
The speed everyone walks in Parliament must be at least five times the average pace. Or at least this is what it feels like when three-hundred MPs are thundering past from Portcullis House on their way to the Houses of Parliament to cast their votes for the snap election. It was amongst this hectic flurry […]
May Day May Day: The upcoming General Election
Back on 18th April everyone was in complete shock after Theresa May announced there would be a general election on 8th June. Not only does this snap election give candidates just 7 weeks to prepare, it is also 3 years earlier than initially expected, leaving many to speculate on why it had been moved forward. […]
Election Day: An interview with Ben Bradshaw MP
Ben Bradshaw has been Exeter’s MP for nineteen years; a staggering feat, not just because of Exeter’s past as a traditionally Conservative seat, but also because of the fact that Exeter is the last remaining non-Conservative seat in the South-West. Whilst Liberal fortresses such as Yeovil and former Labour battlegrounds such as Plymouth were swallowed whole […]
EU Membership campaigns come to Exeter
The nationwide referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union is on the horizon, and Exeter students are already getting to work on both sides of the table. Students4Europe Exeter, a “non-partisan political society with the aim of getting as many people involved in the EU referendum”, is preparing to launch on Thursday 18th […]
Exe student cares for Calais
Following recent and severe clashes between police and migrants at the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp, one University of Exeter student has found a unique way to lend her support. Final-year student Georgina Lewis is currently raising money to buy swimming goggles for refugees living in the ‘Jungle’ in an attempt to protect them from police brutality, which […]
Ben Bradshaw faced with student protests after Syria vote
Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw has defended his decision to vote in favour of UK military intervention in Syria in Parliament at a talk on the University campus on 4 December. At an event originally organised to debate the Labour party’s campaign to remain in the EU, Bradshaw was confronted by a number of protestors angry […]