Family adventure day

Event Date: 
03/04/2018 - 10:00am to 3:00pm
Venue: 
Liverton Copse, Littleham, Exmouth, Devon

Outdoor family fun A fun, hands-on day with the Education Ranger at Liverton Copse in Exmouth.

An opportunity for families to work and play together and learn outdoor skills.

Activities include: den building, fire lighting, cooking and crafts.

Children must be accompanied. Aimed at 7 to 14 years. Min age 5.

Booking required, £13 per child.

http://eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside/countryside-events/april-2018/family...

Easter Eggsplorer trail

Event Date: 
30/03/2018 - 10:00am to 16/04/2018 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Seaton wetlands, Colyford Road, Seaton, EX12 2SP

Come and explore Seaton Wetlands Explore the wetlands to find eight special bird boxes.

Discover which birds live at Seaton Wetlands and which have been laying their eggs in the special bird boxes.

Complete the trail to win a prize.

Short sections of the trail are unsuitable for buggies.

Collect a trail from the Lookout, 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday or the Discovery Hut, 10am to 4pm Saturday to Sunday

No booking required, £2 per trail.

http://eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside/countryside-events/march-2017/easter...

Easter Eggsplorer trail

Come and explore Seaton Wetlands Explore the wetlands to find eight special bird boxes.

Discover which birds live at Seaton Wetlands and which have been laying their eggs in the special bird boxes.

Complete the trail to win a prize.

Short sections of the trail are unsuitable for buggies.

Collect a trail from the Lookout, 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday or the Discovery Hut, 10am to 4pm Saturday to Sunday

No booking required, £2 per trail.

http://eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside/countryside-events/march-2017/easter-eggsplorer-trail/

Girls display top class football skills at memorial tournament

More than 100 girls took part in a football tournament established in memory of former Exeter journalist and CITY Community Trust operations manager Catherine Fraser.

The event, which took place at Exeter University, saw 10 teams from schools across Devon play against each other in two competitions.

The teams were from The Maynard School (Exeter), Queen Elizabeth’s School (Crediton), St Luke’s College (Exeter), Newton Abbot College, Cranbrook Education Campus, Colyton Grammar School and Exmouth Community College.

Catherine’s mum, Glenda Riley, donated funds to set...

Exhibition: Made to Commission

Event Date: 
24/03/2018 - 10:00am to 07/05/2018 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Fore St, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF

A new exhibition showing how creative designers can help make the dreams and visions of others, into reality. We take a look behind the workshop doors to see how the commissioning process works. Devon Guild Members reveal their craft making journeys with clients, ranging from personal tokens to large scale public work - low to high budget. Contemporary objects, drawings, sketchbooks and digital works show how they've interpreted a particular brief, problem-solving to mutual success. See Guild website for regular free craft maker events, throughout the exhibition. Launch party: 23 March...

Major road network improving but disruption throughout the day expected

Large parts of the major road network are passable and improving, but disruption to travel should be expected throughout the day and into tomorrow.

Devon’s main routes are improving, but minor roads especially on high ground will remain impassable today.

Council contractors have all their resources; gritters, ploughs and snow blowers, working hard to clear the highway.

They are continuing to prioritise major routes, the primary and secondary road network, and access to larger communities, as well as to key services such as hospitals.

Major routes are now...

Devon Mammal Group Charity Auction

Event Date: 
29/03/2018 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 
Mercure Rougemont Hotel, Queen Street, Exeter

Devon Mammal Group is holding a charity auction on the evening of Thursday 29th March. They are raising money for the Devon Harvest Mouse Project – a citizen science project that is looking at the distribution of the harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) across the county. The surveys are conducted over the winter months, looking for the abandoned summer breeding nests, when they are much easier to spot. Over the last few months Devon Mammal group have searched across Devon and have trained over 100 people in the survey techniques.

Now they are looking to move the Project on to the next...

‘Holding Up’ by Edward Crooks launches at Castle Drogo

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 03/19/2018 - 10:57am

This week, artist and architectural designer Edward Crooks has launched a new theatrical installation called ‘Holding Up’ at Castle Drogo, a National Trust property on Dartmoor. The installation, which will be on display in the Library until 4 November, celebrates Castle Drogo as the product of fabricated stories and unbuilt proposals. ‘Holding Up’ is a large scale architectural installation, over 3 metres high, alongside a set of drawings, models and films, which invites visitors to explore the foundations holding up a vast unbuilt tower above Castle Drogo. Sampled from the building, the...

Summer in the Abbey

Event Date: 
19/05/2018 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Buckfast Abbey

An evening of French and English music with Richard Lea, Organ

Saturday 19 May 2018 7.30pm at Buckfast Abbey

Maurice Duruflé Ubi caritas Gabriel Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine Gabriel Fauré Tantum ergo Gabriel Jackson Orbis patrator optime Jean Langlais Messe solennelle Hubert Parry Crossing the bar Hubert Parry I was glad Ralph Vaughan Williams Valiant-for-truth

Ticket information

£12 unreserved, student discount £5, from www.exephil.org.uk or EPC tickets on 01392 278168 or from Exeter Visitor Information Centre and Tickets, Dix’s Field, 01392 665885...

Exeter-based probation officer receives national award

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/19/2018 - 10:03am

A Probation Support Officer from Exeter is celebrating being presented with a prestigious award by Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal at St James’s Palace in London, on 15 March. Laura Greenhill received the award from the Butler Trust, which has The Princess Royal as its patron; her award was one of just 11 granted from over 350 nominations across Britain. Now in their 33rd year, the Butler Trust annual awards recognise outstanding service by staff and volunteers working in UK prisons, probation, and youth justice settings. This year’s award ceremony was held at St James’s Palace,...

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