Festive crafts, gifts and food will be the flavour of the season at some National Trust properties in Devon. This November and December there is a programme of festive craft and food fairs to help prepare for the season. The historical houses will be the backdrop for a series of events that will showcase some of the best local food, drink, arts and crafts. Lydford Gorge winter fair, crafts and gifts Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 December, 11am-3pm The annual winter fair at scenic Lydford Gorge is a great chance to grab some gift ideas and decorations for Christmas, with stalls to tempt you...
Killerton, near Exeter, has been transformed for Christmas, with The Snow Queen and Father Christmas arriving to begin the festive celebrations. The house will be open from Saturday 24 November and will transport visitors into Hans Christian Andersen’s mystical world of The Snow Queen. The story will take place throughout the house, with the rooms in the Georgian mansion transformed into scenes from this much-loved tale of friendship and adventure. The magic will continue outside with a Snow Queen themed activity trail set under twinkling festive lights. Taking place in the parkland and...
Jayden Stockley scored his 11th goal of the season as Exeter City battled back from a goal down to earn a hard-fought points away at promotion rivals Colchester United.
Colchester had taken the lead when Sammie Szmodics hit a volley into the bottom corner with 67 minutes on the clock, but the Grecians responded superbly as Stockley fired home from close-range following a goalmouth scramble two minutes later.
City manager Matt Taylor named an unchanged team from the side that performed well in last Saturday’s 2-2 draw at home to Northampton Town, while Colchester United...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (23-25 November):
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Bicycles and Fish Friday, Exeter Phoenix Combining comedy, storytelling and original songs, Bicycles and Fish is Katie’s charming award-winning debut show about the day she stopped being a girl and became a woman. Aged sixteen, still in school and hopelessly in love, Katie is about to learn what it means to stand up for yourself. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Radamisto Saturday, Exeter Northcott Radamisto tells a dramatic story of a royal family in old Armenia, locked in...
It is our parents that we trust enough to be the holder of our spare house keys, according to a survey carried out by David Wilson Homes, which is building homes in Exeter.
Questioning 2,000 people from across the region, the five star housebuilder was keen to understand who would be entrusted with a key to our homes, and in effect, could gain access to our homes if needed.
“We know that we are not just creating houses at these developments, but homes as well, and we understand why our closest relatives are those that we trust with this important possession,” said sales...
The award winning drama-based education programme, Bin it!, which educates students about responsibility and litter, visited Devon recently as part of its annual nationwide tour of schools. The Bin it! tour encourages young people to work together to make a lasting change to local areas and keep their environment tidy. Last year’s tour visited Sheffield, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Kent, London, as well as a number of other schools across the UK and Northern Ireland. In this week of the 2018 Bin It! tour, the roadshow performed at Cranbrook Education Campus, The Ilfracombe Academy, St John's...
There are many people who think that marijuana is not addictive at all, but they would be wrong. They are probably not aware of how marijuana works or the active ingredients. There are many people who will overuse marijuana because they think that they can handle it, and there are a lot more who are going to use it too much. because they think that they can medicate themselves with no after effects at all. Someone who wants to learn about marijuana needs to keep reading because it can be addictive.
Pick-your-own sunflowers have become one of the highlights of the summer for Darts Farm visitors and locals. Children and adults enjoy wandering in the field to choose their own sunflowers to take home with a donation to Darts Farm’s chosen charity, Hospiscare. This year Darts Farm’s generous customers raised a record-breaking £6153.89, all money raised goes direct to Hospiscare.
Growing to astounding heights, Darts Farm grow thousands of beautiful and vibrant yellow sunflowers on their farm near Topsham in Devon. Michael Dart comments: “Over the past 10 years our pick-your-own...
