Luke is a Singer/Songwriter from Canterbury, Kent, who in 2013 was nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and The Young Folk Category. With a bold, distinctive voice and a sweet, percussive guitar style, Luke is a confident and captivating live performer. He was also winner of Fatea’s “Male Artist of the Year 2014” and again in 2016.
He regularly tours across Europe playing in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany and in 2016 made his first visit to the USA to play at the...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (12-14 January).
THEATRE
Magic and the Muse Friday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter An amazing Magic Lantern spectacle featuring unique hand-painted images with live music. Lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker, using an original nineteenth-century triple lantern, combine with multi-instrumentalists Richard Navarro, Nicholas Thurston and Miriam Gould to present a unique combination of music, performance and projection. The show includes specially created images, original historic material, and a rare sequence...
The extraordinary achievements of East Devon households who are now recycling more than ever before following the introduction of a new recycling service this year has won local, national and international environment awards for the district.
Since February, the district council, in partnership with its contractors SUEZ, has rolled out a new recycling service to all 68,700 East Devon properties and extended the range of items residents can now have collected from the kerbside every week. Cardboard, plastics, cartons and small electrical goods have been added to the extensive number...
A therapeutic secure children's home for young people has had major improvements, thanks to funding from the Department for Education.
In formally opening the new two storey extension, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Patron of Northbrook Community Trust, said that she felt honoured and delighted to be associated with the home. She said that the home does a wonderful job and is such a positive and important influence on the lives of many very vulnerable young people. The £1.1million improvements to the current building provides a new reception area where young people are welcomed...
Exeter City recorded a hard-earned three points against Coventry City with a 1-0 win at St James Park.
Ryan Harley's early strike was enough to win it for the home side who defended well to keep out a dangerous Coventry attack.
Match report sponosred by Speedy Freight
Paul Tisdale made two changes to the side that were beaten in the FA Cup by West Bromwich Albion last weekend, as Lee Holmes and Lloyd James came into the City starting XI.
It was the perfect start for the Grecians when they went ahead in the eighth minute with their first attempt at goal....
If there are ever thoughts of another tunnel being dug beneath the English Channel, then the Exeter Chiefs pack could well put in a tender for the role.
Rob Baxter's juggernaut set of forwards have become past masters in the art of digging deep to extract rich rewards.
Against visiting Montpellier, the English champions were ruthless in their execution of duty, delivering a six-try victory that kept alive their hopes of qualification in this season's European Champions Cup.
Having led just 7-0 at the break thanks to a converted try from Dave Ewers, Devon's finest...
The Great British Show is officially coming to Exeter's Westpoint Arena! The movement to change the health and wellbeing of the nation kicks off on the 3rd and 4th February 2018 and tickets are now on sale.
Children and clubs across the South West including DanSci Dance Studio will have the chance to try out as many different sports as they can at the Great British Sports Show which comes to Exeter's Westpoint Arena in February.
The Great British Sports Show is billed as the ultimate sports festival which inspires and engages families and children to participate in sport...
The New Year is a time for reflection and making resolutions, so what better time to answer the call from national charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, who are actively seeking volunteers in Exeter to help train adorable VIPs (Very Important Puppies) on their path to becoming fully-fledged hearing dogs. One in six people in the UK suffer with some form of hearing loss and the effects can be devastating. The lack of independence, loss of confidence, reduced self-esteem and feelings of anxiety often lead to loneliness, isolation and often depression. However, fully qualified hearing dogs...
The Chairman of Exeter-based Burrington Estates has been awarded an MBE in recognition of his outstanding service to the construction industry.
Peter Andrew, who is also Deputy Chairman of the Home Builders Federation, was recognised for his achievements in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. During his 40 year career in construction, Peter has gained a wealth of industry experience and an unrivalled understanding of the issues affecting house builders. He was one of four practitioners who helped draft the National Planning Policy Framework for then Planning Minister Greg Clark....
Rob Baxter insists his side will “fight for everything” ahead of tomorrow’s crunch European Champions Cup encounter with Montpellier at Sandy Park (3:15pm). In what is effectively a ‘do-or-die’ encounter for both sides in a hugely competitive Pool 3, the English champions know victory is imperative if they are to stand any chance of advancing into the latter stages of the competition. Back-to-back defeats against runaway pool leaders Leinster have seen the Chiefs slip to third in the standings, four points adrift of their French rivals, who themselves have put themselves back in the...
