Exeter’s second meeting of the season takes place a week today on Tuesday, October 23 and with its reputation for attracting top novices, several horses on the road to stardom are sure to feature in the line up.
The Betfred Best Mate Beginners’ Chase (3.10pm), which is run over two miles and a furlong, is the race that launched the chasing career of three times Gold Cup winner Best Mate and Philip Hobbs has it earmarked as the starting point for Bold Henry to commence his chasing career.
The six-year-old looked impressive at Kempton in April when he was well clear of the 16...
Thousands of home extensions, which were previously blocked because they were unsightly, out of character with a local area or invaded neighbours' privacy, may now go ahead unimpeded under plans to extend permitted development rights, the Local Government Association (LGA) warns.
The LGA is also concerned that extensions which would previously have been improved through the planning process in order to make them acceptable to neighbours and reduce their negative impact on local amenities will in future go ahead unaltered, resulting in inappropriate development and...
Playing football could be the best way for people with high blood pressure, known as hypertension, to improve their fitness, normalise their blood pressure and reduce their risk of stroke.
Research from Universities of Exeter and Copenhagen, and Gentofte University Hospital in Denmark, published on Monday 15th October 2012 in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise , suggests that football training prevents cardiovascular disease in middle-aged men with hypertension and is more effective than healthy lifestyle advice currently prescribed by GPs.
The world premiere of a musical which chronicles the life of Helena Rubinstein through two thousand of her letters and telegrams is to take place in Devon.
The carnage of the First World War, the emotional strains of a cheating husband, life in a world where women were not even allowed to vote, arch rivalry with Elizabeth Arden; it is all here, written by the hand of Helena, one of the founders of modern make-up.
The inspiration for ‘Powder and Paint’ came when the producer, James Bulmer, inherited, from his mother, a box full of correspondence between Helena and the...
Richard Lane, President of Diabetes UK, will talk about the ground-breaking treatment he underwent to gain control of his diabetes. Richard was among the first people in the country to receive a transplant of insulin producing islet cells in 2005. Following three transplants, he was the first person in the UK with Type 1 diabetes to come off insulin altogether.
Richard will also discuss the work of Diabetes UK, who funded this research vital research.
Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting at the Peninsula Medical School, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.
Roll up, roll up! It’s autumn once again! While our summer started rather damply, one of the greatest fireshows in the country will surely warm your cockles at the infamous Sticklepath Fireshow, Okehampton and District’s Guy Fawkes Night.
Set in the stunning amphitheatre of Finch Foundry garden this year’s show aims to be bigger, better and probably more quirky and off the wall than ever before, and is sure to put many others into the shade. So whatever you may have arranged or are considering then please change course this year, set sail for Sticklepath and discover a Fireshow...
Gwyneth Herbert is an artist who continues to redefine (and defy) our expectations. A singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and one somewhere in the future.
With pierrot-dotted eyes, polka-spotted shoes and swanny whistle in hand she may appear as whimsical as a Bonzo Dog, but writes beautiful melodies and has a poet's grasp of the world around her.
Herbert's songs are populated by a living, breathing cast of beaten-down dreamers, jaded city-dwellers, and women in a quandary, and have the critics in a fizz, scrambling for comparisons with Lennon and McCartney,...
F ollow in the sea boots of merchants and adventurers who left Exeter to explore the world. Take ship for an imaginary journey to distant lands and discover the chests of gold, spices, silk and tobacco.
Drop in 10.30am to 12.30pm or 1.30 to 3.30pm.
Tickets: £1.50 per child, £3.30 adults.
All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty. If an activity is busy there may be a short wait.
The overture to Don Giovanni provides more than a hint of the drama to follow. The supremely ominous opening music recurs when the statue of the Commendatore comes magically to life to demand that Don Giovanni repent his misspent life, before the music hurries off with the exuberance, vitality and virility of the Don, interrupted by suggestions of the conflict that he inevitably brings upon himself.
Piano Concerto No.21 was written at the same time as Don Giovanni and shares a very operatic character with constantly unfolding drama through extreme emotional contrasts. The slow...
