Only one day to go until the beginning of Dartmouth Food Festival (Friday 24th to Sunday 26th October), the foodies festival of choice. Guaranteed to be hugely gastronomic and a tasty weekend for all, world renowned chefs, wine experts and food writers will all be descending on Dartmouth from tomorrow.
With a new venue, new sponsor and abundance of exciting new speakers, Dartmouth Food Festival’s Eat Your Words is certain to be one of the many highlights of this year’s festival. Eat Your Words is a series of informative, light hearted and extremely fun talks and discussions from a...
Catching a flight to and from the South West could be about to get easier as the Stagecoach group announce a new daily transport link to Exeter Airport.
The new link, from Stagecoach’s megabusplus services, will see all four of its routes to and from the Honiton rail hub stop at Exeter Airport from this week.
The group say that the new service will provide a ‘seamless link’ between London and the West Country by using a combination of their megabus.com buses as well as the rail links at Honiton.
Managing Director of Stagecoach UK Coach, Elizabeth Esnouf said: “...
Labour leader Ed Miliband visited Exeter today to see the proposed site of resilience work at Cowley Bridge Junction.
The site was badly affected by floods in the winter storms of 2012/13 causing the main rail line into the South West to close for a several weeks.
Following the line closures, last year, the government promised to spend over £31 million on projects to improve the resilience of the South West’s rail network most of the money promised was never delivered and work never took place.
Earlier this week David Cameron announced that the money would finally...
The Prime Minster, David Cameron has said he is determined to give the public “a proper alternative service and solution” to the destroyed train line in Dawlish.
The train line which was destroyed when Tuesday night’s storm breached the Dawlish Seawall is not expected to be functionally repaired until at least the 18th March despite full scale repair works.
Many of the services between Exeter St Davids and Newton Abbot are running limited replacement bus services until this date. However rail operators have said that the service is dependent on local road conditions....
It was always going to be the case that the role of police and crime commissioner would develop quickly – it had to.
So whereas 2013 set a necessary but probably unsustainable pace my restructured OPCC team is now better configured to face the challenges ahead and allows me to focus on key areas such as lobbying Government and on issues that matter most to us who are a long way away from the seat of power.
For the last few weeks we have been looking at the budget for the next four years as we try and balance the books in very difficult times.
490 businesses in the South West could receive free tailor-made advice to how to export their business overseas.
The new advice is open to all 8,900 UK businesses with a turnover of between £25 million and £250 million which the Government consider to be to be medium sized.
A pilot scheme had been launched in Yorkshire and the South East but is expected to see a full national roll-out afterwards.
The advice will be given by the UK Trade and Investment a government department that works with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets. John...
The first training session for Balloons Level One in ‘Childhood Grief’ was delivered by Deborah Butler and the feedback from delegates was excellent.
Balloons Level One training has been designed to meet the initial demands of adults who want, or need, to understand the impact of grief on children and young people. It is a course that will be valuable for many agencies, establishments and individuals.
If you are interested in booking a place, Balloons is running Level One on the
17th October and 22nd November at Cardinal Newman House, Wonford Road, Exeter, EX2 4PF....
From playing Glastonbury and Ronnie Scott’s to miming on children’s television, musician turned comedian Rosie Wilby looks back at the emotional rollercoaster of chasing stardom at the heady height of Britpop in How (not) to make it in Britpop – a revised version of her acclaimed 2011 Edinburgh Fringe show Rosie’s Pop Diary . Mixing stand up, storytelling and songs, Rosie delves into a personal treasure trove of old photos, fan letters, lyrics and reviews to trace the weird and wonderful story of a singer that nearly made it - from bizarre auditions, supporting Bob Geldof and Jamie Cullum...
