If you have been meaning to get back into tennis, or always wanted to play, the new Exeter Parks Singles Tennis League offers friendly, competitive tennis for all.
Designed to offer an easy way to play matches, (the best way to improve), the sporting challenge is open to men and women of all standards (aged 18+). Players are grouped by ability and have 8 weeks to play up to 7 matches. They arrange these themselves at a mutually convenient time and place.
Any court can be used - and in Exeter's parks they are completely free! There are £20 prizes for group winners and...
Approximately 30 people attended the Opening Day of the new TABS Training Centre in Exeter, including the Lord Mayor Councillor Rob Newby who officially opened the centre. There was also representation from local businesses and charities supporting the Opening Day.
TABS Director Mark Mitchell gave a presentation on the courses that are offered at the centre and the Lord Mayor followed with a speech on his personal experience after being made redundant from the Fire Service and lacking the required skills to help him get back into work. He pointed out that having organisations such...
"The Hermitage Ensemble" from St Petersburg - Russian Orthodox religious music Male Voice Choir will give two concerts in Crediton on 13 and 14 May, in the Crediton Congregational Church, High Street, Crediton, Devon EX17 3LB, at 7.30pm.
The professional choir from St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre will perform the Russian Orthodox religious music and the most popular Russian folk songs. Refreshments will be available. Free St Saviour’s Car Park.
Tickets £12 with one drink included available from: “Olivia James Design”, tel: 01363 777968, or online, www.oliviajames....
London Irish fly-half Ian Humphreys may have ended up on the losing side following his side's recent visit to Sandy Park, but he has emerged as a real winner in the eyes of one young rugby fan. The 30-year-old back was greeted with a chorus of boos from supporters packed inside Sandy Park when he inadvertently kicked the ball straight into the face of schoolboy James Allan, who was watching his first-ever Chiefs game with his dad Nick and other members of his family. Immediately Humphreys gestured towards the youngster for his actions and even tried to find him following the final whistle...
The gifted young cellist Gavin Kibble and theorbo player Jadran Duncumb are returning to the West Country as part of Ianus Consort, an exciting new group, which specialises in early music. They will be entertaining audiences with a wonderful selection of pieces by Baroque masters Bach, Handel, Telemann and Haydn.
Saturday 27 April 2013 7.30pm, St Mary's Church, East Street, Black Torrington, Devon EX21 5PU. Box Office: 01837 810940 (Salar Gallery, 18/20 Bridge Street, Hatherleigh EX20 3HY) Tickets: £12. Town parking available, interval drinks, disabled access.
Exeter City FC’s Football in the Community Charitable Trust is to pilot a new three-year learning engagement project, Kick Start, in conjunction with ATASS Respect, to work with children attending schools in the Exeter area.
The programme aims to support 30 children each year who may be at risk of disengaging from education for various reasons. Those who will be invited on to the programme will have shown a capacity to respond to alternative methods of learning, but could be vulnerable to low levels of academic achievement.
A year-long pilot exercise will be split into the...
After their sell out performance of The Twits last year Illyria returns to the farm to perform Dick King-Smith's glorious, and most appropriate, classic.
Farmer Hogget wins a piglet at the fair - and everyone knows what unfortunate fate awaits piglets on a farm. Adopted by Fly the sheepdog, Babe develops his own methods of herding sheep using politeness instead of barking orders, and even saves the flock from being stolen by sheep rustlers.
But Farmer Hogget is a hard man to please. So when Babe is entered for the county sheep dog trials he is going to need Fly's help, all...
An Art for Life charity auction takes place on Saturday 11 May 2013 at the Royal Clarence Hotel in Cathedral Yard, Exeter.
The event is set to take place from 10.30am-12.30pm and will display a vast amount of artwork by South West academicians and other established British artists including works by Ken Howard RA OBE, Rose Hilton ARCA, Peter Brown NEAC and many more.
The paintings have been donated to the auction, which will be conducted by Robin Barlow, in order to raise money for Children’s Hospice South West. This fantastic charity cares for children with a limited life...
Rescue efforts are continuing at a building outside the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka after it collapsed yesterday, killing at least 160 people. Primark, a clothes retailer with a large presence in Britain, confirmed that one of its suppliers was on the second floor of the Rana Plaza, and Bonmarche and Matalan are also thought to also be customers.
A spokesperson for Primark said: "The company is shocked and deeply saddened by this appalling incident at Savar, near Dhaka, and expresses its condolences to all of those involved.
