Three ways to make your retail shop more attractive to customers

Despite a large online market, sales from retail shops are essential. Large and small businesses drive significant profit from their retail shops, which has increased now due to marketing made easy on the internet. It is vital to catch the attention of customers who prefer to visit retail shops. Customers are always looking for something new, which is why marketing is essential, especially for the customer who shops on foot.

Customers that walk in only because of a cursory glance have a high potential of buying and becoming loyal customers. To attract customers and increase the...

New trees for community orchard in Ottery St Mary

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 01/21/2020 - 7:40am

Over 50 volunteers of all ages teamed up with East Devon District Council officers, councillors and Greener Ottery on Saturday 11 January to help plant native West Country apple trees in a new community orchard in Land of Canaan, Ottery St Mary.

The project, which was organised by East Devon District Council’s Parks service in conjunction with Greener Ottery and ward member Cllr Vicky Johns, is a reflection of both the council and local community’s interest in sustainability and climate change.

The community orchard is the start of a bigger project to help support wildlife...

Win family tickets and meet the stars in our Cirque Berserk! competition

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 01/20/2020 - 11:11pm

*** COMPETITION CLOSED **

After sell-out London West End runs and two sensational summers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cirque Berserk! the UK’s biggest theatre-circus spectacular is back with a full nationwide tour.

And you could win a Meet-the-Stars Family Ticket to see the show free at the performance of your choice (subject to availability) at Exeter Northcott Theatre from 3rd to 8th March.

Combining contemporary cirque-style artistry with adrenaline-fuelled stunt action, Zippos Cirque Berserk! is a danger-filled spectacle to amaze audiences from 5 to 95....

John Lewis & Partners Exeter welcomes Devon-based homeware designer Emily Smith

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 01/20/2020 - 10:45pm

Online homeware design brand Emily Smith has been selected by John Lewis & Partners to showcase its animal themed products from 2nd to 8th March 2020 in the Exeter store. Primarily made in the UK, each piece in the collection is the highest quality and adorned with Devon-based artist Emily Smith’s whimsical signature designs. “We are overjoyed to be given the opportunity to showcase our products and cannot thank John Lewis enough for supporting our company”, gushes Emily.

Emily is thrilled to have been chosen by John Lewis & Partners’ buying team, and can’t wait to...

ATTWN - Male Audition Flyer

Open Auditions for Males for 'And Then There Were None'

Event Date: 
22/01/2020 - 9:30am to 26/01/2020 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU

OPEN AUDITIONS FOR THE EXMOUTH PLAYERS PRODUCTION OF ‘AND THEN THERE WERE NONE’, A DARK THRILLER BY AGATHA CHRISTIE

The Exmouth Players are holding open auditions for males only in an attempt to finally cast our April production of Agatha Christie’s Thriller, ‘And Then There Were None’ on Sunday 26th January 2020 at 2.00pm at The Blackmore Theatre, Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU.

These auditions are open to all males regardless of whether you are a member or non-member of The Exmouth Players. It doesn’t matter whether you have acted before or not, or have any experience of...

Greenpeace Exeter call on MPs to celebrate the beauty of our oceans by signing the Protect the Oceans declaration

Greenpeace Exeter Group invited local MP Ben Bradshaw and residents to a photographic exhibition last Saturday to show the threats our oceans are facing.

Local volunteer Claus from Heavitree said ‘We’ve put on this exhibition ahead of the final UN negotiations in March on a Global Ocean Treaty to show the risks that iconic wildlife such as penguins face from overfishing, melting ice and plastic pollution. It’s vital that we protect at least 30% of our oceans by 2030.’

Our oceans are the biggest carbon sink on earth and therefore they are our best ally in the fight against...

Nick Hand and the print bike

Exhibition: Journeyman - stories of craft from a bicycle

Event Date: 
18/01/2020 - 10:00am to 08/03/2020 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Jubilee Gallery

Curated by Nick Hand and The Letterpress Collective, this exhibition brings together photography, film, letterpress prints, and the words of makers who dedicate their life to an unusual or rare craft or passion. Nick gathered these stories on epic cycle rides: from Land’s End to John O’ Groats, round the coast of Britain and Ireland and up the Hudson River - with a printing press on the back of his bike.

Open daily, 10am - 5.30pm. Free entry.

Work starts on Enterprise Centre for northern Devon

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 01/20/2020 - 3:15pm

The Enterprise Centre is the “gateway building” at Devon County Council’s emerging Business Park development at Roundswell, near Barnstaple.

The centre, which will offer high quality office and collaboration space, is expected to be completed by the end of this year (2020). It will provide tailored support for entrepreneurs and small and medium sized businesses that have potential for high growth and innovation, and is complementary to Petroc’s new Centre for Technology & Innovation Excellence (CoTIE) and Institute of Technology.

An expert operator will deliver the...

South Devon’s Cofton Holidays named Best Holiday Park at national camping and glamping awards

Having successfully fought off fierce competition from some of the country’s top holiday parks, Devon's multi award-winning Cofton Holidays has been named Best Holiday Park at the 2019 Campsites.co.uk Camping and Glamping Awards.

Now in its third year, the Campsites.co.uk Camping and Glamping Awards celebrates the cream of the crop across ten categories. Winners were selected from across the country coming from as far North as Outer Hebrides in Scotland, right down to Carbis Bay in Cornwall.

The news comes after Cofton’s family-run business, which is located near Dawlish,...

Gonzo Moose - Once Upon A Time

Once Upon a Time in Exeter is a slapstick comedy adventure

A fairy tale like no other is coming to Exeter and is sure to leave audiences living happily ever after.

Gonzo Moose Theatre Company are back with their comedy adventure Once Upon A Time . The 90 minute show is packed full of hilarious slapstick, verbal wit, live music and even has a sensational death-defying finale, and will be at Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday 28th January.

Having previously thrilled audiences with hit shows The Thing That Came From Over There and What The Dickens, Gonzo Moose are back with a their fairy tale adventure bursting with physical comedy, absurd...

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