Queen’s Drive Space in Exmouth has reopened for a new season with a top line-up of entertainment and fun planned for all the family from now until September.
The outdoor space on the seafront, created by East Devon District Council, features a Jurassic-themed play park, scrumptious food and drink stalls and an events area for live performances and big screen films and live streamed shows from theatres across the UK.
The Space reopened at the weekend and scores of families enjoyed live music from the Break Beat Bandits and Laurie Ward joined by John Mcloughlin. With a beach...
International animal welfare charity, The Donkey Sanctuary, has this week been granted Non-Governmental Organisation status by the United Nations.
The accreditation is evidence of The Donkey Sanctuary’s growing international reputation and allows the organisation more opportunities to participate at a higher level on the world stage.
Ian Cawsey, director of advocacy at The Donkey Sanctuary says: “This is great news and places us right at the heart of the UN family. We have been working at the United Nations for around 18 months, and this status recognises our value, and...
Over 100 business women were inspired as The Successful Women in Business Network (SWIB) held their annual conference and launched their SWIB Awards last month.
SWIB is a membership organisation for women who want to grow their businesses , an or develop their careers, with the support of other women, at regular networking events across Devon, Dorset, Hampshire & Somerset.
Founded by Gill Donnell MBE experienced leader, motivational speaker and business coach, who has spent much of her working life promoting the role of women in the workplace.
Many businesses in Exeter have a website presence, but little is clearly understood about the importance of fast, reliable web hosting to ensure a quick loading site that rarely goes offline. Nevertheless, these are two critical aspects businesses should take note of. Indeed, what is more important than an attractively designed website is whether it takes longer than two seconds to load or is offline too frequently. That's why it is essential to use website monitoring tools to manage website performance effectively.
StatusCake , a website monitoring service provider, has recently...
Chunk of Devon Win Champion Pasty at the British Pie Awards…again!
Chunk, a Devon based pie and pasty maker, have won the much-coveted award of Champion Pasty at the 2019 British Pies Awards for the second time. Chunk’s award-winning recipe won the award back in 2009 – and caused a bit of a stir (to say the least!) with their neighbours in Cornwall. But this year, with tough competition from other Pasty makers, including those from Cornwall, the Chunk Steak Pasty beat them all!
Over 100 guests attended the annual event, now in 2019 - its 11th year, held at St. Mary’s Church...
One of Devon’s leading family law teams has welcomed today’s announcement of the introduction of ‘no fault’ divorce, hailing it a major step forward that will allow couples to end their marriages in an amicable way.
The government has today, 9 April 2019, announced an overhaul of divorce laws, which will allow couples to divorce without blame. The law currently requires one spouse to allege adultery or unreasonable behaviour by the other for divorce proceedings to start straight away. The change will mean that couples will be able to divorce straight away by stating that their...
One of the most hotly-anticipated films of 2019 is almost here, and Vue Exeter is giving fans the chance to mark the release of Avengers: Endgame in a very special way.
The latest release in Marvel’s Avengers franchise, Endgame follows directly from the events in last year’s Avengers: Infinity War and those who wish to relive the events of Infinity War can enjoy a screening on the evening of Wednesday 24th April, before being able to be one of the very first to seeAvengers: Endgame when it is screened immediately afterwards at 12:01am on Thursday.
Winners of the Petplan Equine Medium Under 21, Danielle Balsdon and Lord Lennox from Poltimore in Exeter were delighted with a top place position in a very competitive class at Hartpury College, Gloucestershire on Sunday 7 April 2019.
Danielle was thrilled with Lord Lennox’s performance in an electrifying atmosphere with some exceptional partnerships competing for the Petplan Equine Medium Under 21 title.
“I’m totally overwhelmed and wasn’t expecting this. He did some of his best ever trot work today but as usual made me ride every step of canter. Today’s the first time he...
Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW), which runs Little Harbour children’s hospice in St Austell, has been celebrating the work of its dedicated community volunteers while searching for more to join.
A few weeks ago the hospice ran its annual Friends Group Conference. This event gave various members of Little Harbour’s fundraising team and care team the opportunity to thank community volunteers from Cornwall, Plymouth and the surrounding areas for their hard work. They were also updated on the focusses of the charity for the next year.
Birmingham-based building services specialist J S Wright has been appointed to help meet booming demand for purpose-built student accommodation in Exeter.
The 129-year-old mechanical and electrical services specialist, which has its head office in Aston and offices in Bristol and London, has secured a contract worth more than £1.3million to design and build the M&E services for a new 120-bed scheme on the site of the dilapidated former Honiton Inn in Paris Street.
J S Wright was commissioned by South West regional contractor Pollard to equip the eight-storey block and...
