For the past several years, the NHS has been embattled with budget constraints that threaten the vitality of the country’s healthcare system as a whole. A combination of an increasing patient population and a decreasing number of qualified healthcare providers has created a need to minimise costs, often in creative ways. A focus on social and community care programs, outsourcing doctors from other countries, and putting a cap on providers’ pay have all come into the mix to help solve the financial challenges faced by the NHS over the years. However, there seems to be a disconnect in how...
South West headquartered transport business Gregory Distribution Limited (GDL) has opened a Heritage Centre complete with restored trucks used by the business over three generations to celebrate its centenary.
The centre at GDL’s Cullompton depot in Devon was opened this week by 94 year-old Jack Gregory who joined the business in 1947 and ran it until 1985. He was accompanied by his son and current Chief Executive John Gregory, other senior management, those involved in the Heritage project and some long-serving employees.
The new centre features four heritage vehicles in...
Food, music and festive decorations will be available at Exeter’s oldest building as part of a free community event to mark Twelfth Night.
Families can celebrate Epiphany Sunday at St Nicholas Priory, off Fore Street with a Tudor sweetmeats cooking demonstration in the building’s spectacular kitchen.
The event will be held on 6th January 2019 from 1 to 4pm.
People can sample the wares and also listen to music in the Great Hall. There will also be teas served in the Priory’s North Wing, once home to the monk’s refectory, which will be decorated with beautiful...
The Julie July Band pay tribute and performs songs from the ‘Sandy Denny’ Songbook, from dreamy acoustic melodies to driving progressive folk-rock. Sandy Denny was one of the UK’s singer songwriters of the British Folk Rock movement. In her brief career, spanning just thirteen years, she left a legacy of beautiful, haunting original compositions and traditional material.
Richard Thompson called her ‘The greatest female artist of her generation’. Melody Maker readers twice voted her ‘Best British Female Singer’ in 1970 and 1971. Her most famous song “Who knows where the time goes?”...
The Richard Dale Theatre School are performing Chicago. Set in the legendary city during the roaring “jazz hot” 20s, Chicago tells the story of two rival vaudevillian murderesses locked up in Cook County Jail. Nightclub star Velma’s serving time for killing her husband and sister after finding the two in bed together. Driven chorus girl Roxie’s been tossed in the joint for bumping off the lover she’s been cheating on her husband with. Not one to rest on her laurels, Velma enlists the help of prison matron Mama Morton and slickster lawyer Billy Flynn, who turn Velma’s incarceration into a...
This fast moving, roller coaster of a journey through some of the greatest songs of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, will be a show you are sure to remember. Over 160 amazing costumes, a touch of humour from one of the UK’s top comedians and performances rarely seen outside the ‘West End’ from this superb cast of singers and dancers. Including songs by Barry Manilow, Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Abba and many more.
Now entering their 14th successful year of producing shows that bring astounding...
This ever popular school musical tells the story of Poppy Pringle, who inherits a run-down seaside fun fair. The inspirational show tells how she leads the colourful band of fairground children to save it from the bad guys and bulldozers – and restore it to its former glory. After some excitoing thrills and spills along the way, they finally defeat Murgatroyd Megarich and his side-kicks and win the day.
Bye Bye Baby takes you back in time on a musical journey through the career of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, whose songs graced such films as The Deer Hunter, Dirty Dancing and Grease.
From their early beginning in the 1950s, when Frankie first joined the group, this show celebrates the greatest hits such as ‘Beggin’; ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’; ‘Walk Like A Man’; ‘Lets Hang On’; ‘Who Loves You’; ‘December ’63 (Oh What A Night)’; ‘Bye Bye Baby’; ‘Can’t Take my Eyes off You’; ‘Fallen Angel ‘and ‘Grease’ through to a superb grand finale medley of more of the group’s greatest hits...
From the producers of Rock for Heroes, Icons celebrates the powerhouse vocals and iconic songs of women in music through the years, performed by an incredible cast of strong female voices, who have performed across the UK & Overseas. Featuring legends such as Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Carole King & so many more. With incredible choreography, stunning vocal arrangements & dazzling costumes. We promise you’ll know every song, and it’s the perfect show to let your hair down and release your inner diva!
My Generation – The Who Story is the ultimate celebration of one of the most iconic bands of our time. The show features full 7-piece band The Who’s recreating the biggest moments and playing the biggest hits from the bands storied career.
Taking you on a journey that begins with the kings of Mod, with the music that inspired youth culture through their major mile stones, the iconic concept albums Tommy and Quadrophenia and right through the years that saw them transform from leaders of a movement to creative geniuses that changed the face of music.
