Exeter Chamber of Commerce has announced that actor and TV presenter Caroline Quentin will be the principle speaker at this year’s Exeter Business Dinner.
Caroline will be interviewed by Mark Tyler on the night and a charity auction will be held to raise money and awareness of Families for Children, an adoption charity of which Caroline is a patron.
David Kirk, managing director of headline sponsor Kirk Hills said: “It’s a real pleasure to support the Chamber’s 2015 Exeter Business Dinner. The Chamber dinner leads the way in offering excellent business networking...
Sugru, the world’s first mouldable ‘glue’, has proved a hit with the crowd; 1314 investors put in amounts ranging from £10 to £40,000, enabling the company to reach its £1 million funding target in just four days last week.
The pitch is now overfunding and the public can still invest via Crowdcube; details about the pitch and how to invest are at www.crowdcube.com/sugru . The founder and inventor of Sugru, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh says: “This has been one of the most important milestones in Sugru’s history and by far one of the most enjoyable! Firstly it’s been incredibly humbling to...
Lots and lots of lovely arts and crafts by local makers. Fabulous venue on Exeter's Historic Quayside. Watch the boats and swans go drifting by, enjoy a drink or a meal at The Prospect Inn, Mango's, On The Waterfront or the new Samuel Jones. We have facepainting, live music, wood crafters, artists, jewellers, spinning and weaving, charity book sale, craft demos, and much more!
On the night of 13 January 2015, at 20:22 a serious fire developed in the second floor kitchen of Duryard Halls of Residence, Exeter University.
The fire originated in a microwave cooker and rapidly spread to the kitchen units. Soon the entire kitchen was fully enveloped, producing a significant volume of poisonous acrid smoke posing a very immediate and serious danger to life within the halls of residence.
On arrival crews from Danes Castle, Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, were presented with a fully developed fire on the second floor kitchen with flames...
As part of TOPOS, an ongoing project by award-winning Exeter-based artist Volkhardt Müller to make and showcase a series of brand new works in response to the city and its populace, the TS Eliot-nominated poet Sean Borodale is artist-in-residence for a period of five days.
From 30 June to 4 July, Sean and Volkhardt will enter into a dialogue to produce a series of pamphlets in response to the city. The work will involve the staging of theatrical moments in the TOPOS space and it will be periodically open to the public – with the option to spectate or to participate.
Stagecoach South West is joining forces with sustainable transport group Greener Journeys to promote the benefits of bus use through the third annual ‘Catch the Bus Week’.
The campaign, which is running until 5 July, aims to drive awareness of the benefits of taking the bus and encourage local people to make the switch from the car that week.
This year, Stagecoach South West has something very special planned with the launch of 18 new buses – worth a total of £2.1m - for Exeter’s E and F1/F2 routes. The buses also have an important extra feature – free wifi – allowing...
Come and see us on Saturday 15th August and Sunday 16th August (10am-4pm both days) where you’ll have the chance to peek behind the scenes at River Cottage and meet the team and the animals and of course enjoy the very best of what’s in season from our River Cottage food.
With a weekend packed full of activities and entertainment including puppet shows, bouncy castle, pig racing, pottery workshops, skittles, garden games, hula hooping, welly wanging and face painting for the kids. The Munchkins Miniature Shetland Rescue Centre will be bringing their ponies along, there will be...
Granny Eyeball doesn’t like people. Generally speaking, people don’t like her back.
(Actually, they’re not too keen on her front, sides or top either... and definitely not her bottom!)
Locked away in a ramshackle farmhouse on the outskirts of Ballskirk Joanna Gormley dreams of a better life, free from the clutches of her wicked guardian - the dreaded Granny Eyeball.
Wandering Tiger presents a riotous, anarchic show that is guaranteed to appeal to the whole family, complete with singing dinner ladies and white knuckle car chases.
Time is running out for local people to tell the independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England what they think of proposals for new county division boundaries across Devon.
The public consultation closes on 6 July 2015.
The Commission’s draft recommendations propose that Devon County Council should have 60 county councillors in the future, two fewer than the current arrangements. The proposals mean those councillors would represent 56 single-member electoral divisions and two two-member electoral divisions across the county.
Devon and Cornwall’s Police and Crime Commissioner is asking the public to help him secure more money to protect the front line service. Tony Hogg began his ‘Fair Funding’ campaign last week to highlight how the force is unfairly treated, compared to others in the UK. Unique challenges in Devon and Cornwall, such as the impact of millions of summer visitors, are not recognised by the Government, and while it is currently reviewing this formula, Mr Hogg wants to send a timely, and very clear, message from the South West to Home Secretary Theresa May. Mr Hogg is today (Thurs 2 July)...
