Do your children love to get muddy? Then Rocksolid Stars is the ultimate way to get dirty and support your local children’s hospice too!
Children’s Hospice South West is delighted to be the chosen charity for this year’s Rocksolid Stars event to be held at Escot Park, Exeter on Saturday 19 March.
Running alongside the popular adult’s Rock Solid Event, Rocksolid Stars is simply a great way to get dirty whilst helping to support Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) at the same time.
With two age brackets, 5-9 and 10-14, there’s no excuse to not get involved. All...
Meet Lola Pug at Waterstones on Saturday 6th February at 2pm, Waterstones High St Brand, Exeter.
Lola Pug is a charming illustrated children's book by Carina Lagnado. Lola comes to live in a village but is not fully understood by humans and animals alike, due to her unusual appearance.
Over time, Lola wins everyone over with her joyful character.
This book touches on the issue of acceptance and for children to understand how character always wins over appearances.
Thousands of young people across Devon are to benefit from a new offer by Stagecoach South West that will help cut the cost of their bus travel.
For a 5 week period (23 January to 29 February 2016) the bus company will slash the cost of existing child Dayrider tickets in Exeter, Plymouth and Dartmouth to just £2 whilst also introducing new £2 child Dayriders for their Exmouth, Newton Abbot and Barnstaple ticket zones.
The offer – open to anyone aged under 19 – aims to further reduce the cost of travel for young people and their families at what can be a difficult time of...
An 85-year-old Tiverton man has been jailed for historic abuses against children.
Kenneth Tucker from Rackenford, near Tiverton, was jailed for 21 years and six months at Exeter Crown Court today (21st January) after being found guilty for a string of historic sexual abuses against children in the 1990s.
Following an eight day trial, Tucker was found guilty of four counts of rape and 17 counts of indecent assault on four separate victims who were children in the early 1990’s at place at his home address in Rackenford.
Cygnet Company brings favourite tales from Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books and Just So Stories to vibrant life in a playful new production. Directed by Alistair Ganley. For ages 7+ Book tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre Box Office 01392 277189 / 01392 665885
Cheer as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi takes on Nag and Nagaina, in a dramatic fight for survival. Then indulge your ‘satiable curtiosity as we travel around the world to discover “How the Rhinoceros got his Skin” “The beginnings of the Armadillos” “How the Camel got his Hump and “How the Elephant got his Trunk”. Join...
From the acclaimed producers of George’s Marvellous Medicine and Horrible Histories, Birmingham Stage will bring its production of David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny to the Exeter Northcott Theatre in February.
It’s Friday night and Ben knows that means only one thing- staying with Granny! There will be cabbage soup, cabbage pie and cabbage cake and Ben knows one thing for sure- it’s going to be SO boring! But what Ben doesn’t know is that Granny has a secret – and Friday nights are about to get more exciting than he could ever imagine, as he embarks on and adventure of a lifetime...
Tedburn Amateur Dramatic Society (TADS) are proud to present 'Sleeping Beauty' as their 2016 Pantomime.
This award winning Panto, written by Ben Crocker (former Artistic Director of the Northcott Theatre in Exeter) will be performed from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th February at 7:30pm at the Tedburn St Mary Village Hall (Matinee at 2:30pm on Saturday 13th February)
Tickets are £6 for Adults and £3 for Children (under 12)
Contact Elton Rowe on 01647 270040 or 07983 209615 or Email: TADSTSM@OUTLOOK.COM
Tedburn Amateur Dramatic Society (TADS) are proud to present 'Sleeping Beauty' as their 2016 Pantomime.
This award winning Panto, written by Ben Crocker (former Artistic Director of the Northcott Theatre in Exeter) will be performed from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th February at &:30pm at the Tedburn St Mary Village Hall (Matinee at 2:30pm on Saturday 13th February)
Tickets are £6 for Adults and £3 for Children (under 12)
Contact Elton Rowe on 01647 270040 or 07983 209615 or Email: TADSTSM@OUTLOOK.COM
Nearly a quarter of South West parents (23 per cent) struggle to get their children to “unplug” and take part in activities away from television, phone and computer screens, according to a survey published by Action for Children.
When asked which behaviour they found most difficult to control in their children, more South West parents said they struggled to limit technology-based activity (23 per cent) than get children to eat healthily (18 per cent), go to bed (18 per cent), or do their homework (12 per cent).
Brigitte Gater, director of children’s services at Action for...
