A series of information sessions for anyone interested in fostering are planned for next month, as Devon County Council continues its drive to recruit carers.
The Council is hosting a mixture of information events and stalls in a bid to encourage more people to consider becoming foster families and give those interested the chance to find out whether fostering would be suitable for them.
Devon has over 700 children in care, and just over 300 fostering households. However many current foster carers are approaching retirement age so the County Council needs to recruit new...
Exeter looks set to sparkle this Christmas, with the City Council preparing to fund festive illuminations in the city centre.
Businesses in the city are being asked to get behind the generous offer by dipping into their pockets and 'growing' the array of lights!
Members of Exeter City Council's Scrutiny Economy Committee will be asked to back a plan to fund Christmas lights in the centre to the tune of £14,500.
Part of the plan will be to approach shops and businesses to ask for additional funds to bolster the illuminations in neighbouring streets.
Please join us on Wednesday 29 May for the Oxjam Exeter 2013 launch party.
Oxjam Exeter 2013 is part of a national music festival made up of hundreds of events around the UK in October. All Oxjam events are organised by people who know and love their local music scene. All in aid of Oxfam.
The main feature, Oxjam Takeover, will take place on 19 and 20 October at multi-venues across Exeter and will showcase up to 100 multi-genre acts.
The launch party will feature acoustic sets from three talented musicians and will provide an opportunity to meet the team organising...
One man has been killed in a major incident in Woolwich in south-east London on Wednesday afternoon.
Although neither the police or the government has at this stage confirmed the attack as a terrorist incident, the Prime Minister, speaking from Paris said there is a "strong indication" that this was the case.
Initial reports suggest that the dead man, who was believed to be wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt, is a serving soldier (as yet unconfirmed) from the nearby Woolwich Barracks.
The man, who has not been named, was killed on John Wilson Street near to the...
A la Ronde is delighted to be hosting an exhibition of Mick Abbott’s paintings, many of which were inspired by items within the A la Ronde collection.
Mick Abbott is a full time artist, dividing his time between Cambridge, Brittany and New York. He was an art teacher at Comberton Village College, Cambridge for 22 years and loved it. In recent years Mick has been Artist in Residence at several National Trust properties, including Newark Park and Hanbury Hall, and in 2013 is delighted to be associated with A la Ronde. Mick’s new paintings have been in- spired by items in the...
There’s no need to struggle for ways to entertain the family over Spring Bank Holiday week. Just look to your local National Trust property, A la Ronde, near Exmouth where there’s a wealth of activities to keep everyone entertained.
On Tuesday 28 May, young naturalists can discover some of the ’mini- beasties’ that live in the meadow at A la Ronde by joining the free mini beast safaris at 11.30am and 2.30pm. National Trust volunteer, Elaine Harrison says: "The whole experience is about introducing children to nature by using their senses... especially looking, listening and...
Police have released a new CCTV image showing the last known sighting of Magdalena Krawiec, the missing 20-year-old Polish woman.
The picture shows a woman walking along Marine Drive near the Redcliffe Hotel in Paignton in the direction of Torquay on Monday 13 May at 8.17pm (it was previously reported that the last sighting had been on Tuesday 14 May). The woman in the photo has been confirmed as being Magdalena.
Police are appealing for any information or sightings of Magdalena after 8.17pm on Monday 13 May.
Police are also appealing for any premises within the...
Back in the autumn of 2011, the quest began to uncover parts of the garden at Overbeck’s that had been closed for over 30 years. After nine months of hard work by the garden team a path 103 meters long has been re-opened. It follows the line of an old route through the woodland which leads to an area beloved by Otto Overbeck – his 50ft high natural rock garden. The area is particularly sheltered, even by Overbeck’s standards, and Head Gardener Cat Saunders has started planting palms and other sub tropical plants down there already. "As I led my team through the undergrowth I didn’t know...
The House of Commons has voted in favour of allowing gay marriage in England and Wales after the third reading of the bill today (21 May).
The latest two day debate over the controversial bill witnessed a number of passionate speeches for and against as well as several failed amendments.
The issue has added to the considerable tensions between David Cameron and many grass roots activists and backbench MPs who, stirred by the debate over Europe, have been further angered by their leader's support for marriage equality between gay and straight couples.
