Your home should always be somewhere that you take pride in and enjoy spending time. Every now and then, it can feel stagnant and dull which is why it is a smart idea to revamp your home regularly. There are many simple ways on how you can do this without causing too much interference to your daily life or breaking the bank. They are worth doing as they can completely change the way you feel when you walk through the front door. Read on for a few easy tips to revamp your home and transform the space.
Declutter
One of the most effective and cheapest ways to revamp your home...
Chamber Opera Tours presents Jane Austen’s Persuasion: A Musical Drama
One performance only on Saturday, 22 September at 7.30pm
Following performances at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, Chamber Opera Tours is thrilled to bring its original musical adaptation to the Palace Theatre in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Persuasion.
This popular production has toured the UK and North America the past five years and features music from Jane Austen’s manuscripts and the era, fully staged with chamber orchestra, beautiful Regency costumes,...
The Devon Summer Tour, a cycling challenge for new and experienced cyclists, has drawn to a close with the winners awarded prizes for riding and encouraging others.
The programme, which started in July, was run by Love to Ride and Devon County Council to celebrate the Tour of Britain returning to Devon in September. People were encouraged to form a social team of six riders, like in the Tour of Britain. 247 organisations now take part in Love to Ride’s challenges with 4,964 people cycling over 3 million miles so far. Nearly a thousand new riders took part in the competition and...
The Masonic Charitable Foundation combined with the Devonshire freemasons have recently given a £3,500 grant to the Devon Link-Up Organisation and Rt. W. Bro. Ian Kingsbury JP The Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire recently went to meet their committee and members of the groups they aim to help and support, to present them with a certificate to commemorate the association between the two organisations.
Devon Link-Up are a service user-led organisation for people with learning difficulties and Autism who live in Devon, their aim is to give voices and choices to their members...
A soldier of the First World War who was born and brought up in Exeter, will be remembered at a public event taking place in the Higher Cemetery of the city on Saturday 15th September, 100 years after he was killed in action.
Walter Hooper grew up at 97 Portland Street before he emigrated with his uncle to America in 1914, the First World War began just a few weeks later.
When United States joined the war in 1917 Walter enlisted with the American Expeditionary Force and served in France as a Private. He was killed in July 1918 aged 21 and was buried in France.
Spectators have 174km (108miles) of Devon’s roads to choose from when it comes to watching the Devon Stage Tour of Britain on Monday 3 September.
The race is being hosted by Devon County Council, supported by East Devon District Council and North Devon Council and working with Cranbrook Town Council and Barnstaple Town Council. Stage 2 of the race starts in one of the UK’s newest towns, Cranbrook in East Devon and finishes in Barnstaple, North Devon. Crowds are being tipped to exceed 2016’s record of 260,000 spectators that lined the route in Devon. And once again the advice is to...
Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company once said that “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” The world of business is engraved in hidden and detailed secrets that help distinguish between successful and unsuccessful companies.
Starting a local business for the first time is a journey that starters with little or no financial assistance and planning might find difficult to contend with. First drawing up a business plan for cash management, capital management, or risk management, can also be an effective way of starting...
Paramedics at South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) are reminding people to use the service wisely this bank holiday as demand for the ambulance service is expected to be high.
The Trust is expecting more than 10,600 incidents over the bank holiday weekend. Demand is already up 3.8% on last year’s figures, with 54,667 incidents recorded for August 2018 (1-22nd August 2018).
Please help our staff and volunteers to help those most in need by only calling 999 in a life-threatening emergency. For all other situations, we are asking people to #ChooseWell...
Visitors to the National Trust’s Knightshayes in Devon will be able to learn more about the story behind a portrait of Rembrandt thanks to an investigation shown in last night’s episode of BBC Four’s Britain’s Lost Masterpieces. Presented by art historian Dr Bendor Grosvenor and social historian Emma Dabiri, the BBC Arts series Britain’s Lost Masterpieces seeks to uncover hidden treasures among painting collections using a combination of restoration, research and scientific analysis. In the Knightshayes episode, Bendor Grosvenor wanted to investigate whether a copy of a self-portrait by...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (24-27 August):
THEATRE
Playback Youth Theatre presents: Shandytown Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter What is home? What is the line between legality and morality? How do we keep a community alive? http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Strictly Murder Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth April 1939. An English couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in Provence in idyllic isolation, far away, it seems from the rumblings of the coming war. Their peace is shattered from within when Suzy discovers she has been...
