The Exeter College Big Band returns to its traditional date for their end of year concert. We will be performing a wide range of music from well-established big band charts to soul and popular music. We have, as usual, some wonderful soloists and singers and this year we expect our Music Academy choir to join us in all the fun! The band is full of some of the best young musicians in Devon. We are delighted to be performing at the Barnfield Theatre once more and know that you’ll leave the show with a...
The Exeter College Big Band returns to its traditional date for their end of year concert. We will be performing a wide range of music from well-established big band charts to soul and popular music. We have, as usual, some wonderful soloists and singers and this year we expect our Music Academy choir to join us in all the fun! The band is full of some of the best young musicians in Devon. We are delighted to be performing at the Barnfield Theatre once more and know that you’ll leave the show with a...
Cub Scouts in Devon well and truly did their best to become the first owners of a re-launched police badge in Devon and Cornwall.
More than 30 Cub Scouts from Highweek and Kingskerswell studied personal safety and detective skills to earn the newly-restored Devon and Cornwall Police Cub Scout Badge.
The badge was first presented some years ago but was not being awarded very often. Now thanks to the support of Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer and Assistant Cub Scout Commissioner Sandra Johnson, the badge has been re-launched.
An Exeter man has sustained life-changing injuries in a collision which killed two people and left four others seriously injured.
The collision happened at around 10.15pm yesterday evening (Friday 8 May) on the A37 near Grimstone in Dorset.
Two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision – a blue Volkswagen Transporter van being driven by a man from Poole and a black Volkswagen Golf being driven by a man from Devon.
Two people – a 25-year-old woman from Bridport and a 45-year-old man from Poole – have died. Their next of kin have been informed and the coroner...
A colourful Devon duck swam to the winning post and gained first prize in a children’s competition to design a mascot for this year’s Devon County Show on May 21-23 at Westpoint, Exeter.
Talented Annabel Pagliero, of Lady Seaward C of E Primary School, with her 'Devon Duck', beat nearly a hundred entries submitted by Lady Seward and Clyst St Mary primary schools.
The judges - Jon Williams from Farm Wise Devon, Josh Beadon from design company Toucan and Emma Watson, Show administrator – said the standard of entries was very high.
Following the success of the Natural Navigator talk in April Dartmoor National Park welcomes Gavin Kelly and Rich Pencott along to talk about climbing and microadventures.
On Tuesday 19 May go along and be enthralled by Gavin Kelly’s rock climbing talk, ‘Scaling new heights!’ Gavin, of Ibex Outdoors, has more than thirty years of climbing experience on Dartmoor and will talk about the unique experiences that Dartmoor has to offer climbers. His passion for climbing has taken him all over the UK and beyond; a journey of learning and sharing amazing places and experiences but discover...
Killerton House, near Exeter, is to host its first historic fine art exhibition. ‘Framing the view: Nicholson, the Killerton drawing master’, presented by guest curator Professor Gordon Bell, will launch on Sunday 17 May and runs until 13 September.
The exhibition features over 50 watercolours and lithographs by artist Francis Nicholson, drawing master and art teacher to the Acland family. These ‘Picturesque’ artworks were intended to create an emotional response in the viewer through scenes of beautiful, wild and sublime countryside and they inspired the Aclands to shape Killerton...
The nation will be going batty again this summer when Ping! - the free street table tennis festival - bounces back for the sixth year running, now in 19 towns and cities, including Plymouth and Exeter.
Last years Ping! festival in Exeter was a runaway success and this year there are set to be more tables, in more locations so that more people can have fun and play.
A little taster of the excitement to be had this summer will begin with the #Ping Challenge at the Exeter Business Games in association with Big Wave Media on Wednesday 13 May from 5-8pm at Exeter Castle....
East Devon District Council has funding available for village halls, community shops and other community buildings in rural areas.
The grants, which have been available from the council for a number of years, can be used to help refurbish, improve or even build village halls, community shops and community buildings in rural areas (those in towns are not eligible).
Last year successful projects included improvements to the roof at Beer Mariners Hall, replacement of the fire doors at Chardstock Village Hall and funding towards setting up Otterton Community Shop.
THE Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has been highly commended for the second year in a row for the success of its apprenticeship scheme, which continues to bring significant benefits for learners and the organisation.
Two of its apprentices, Mandy Harper and Rhian Carruthers, have also received awards for their achievements.
The Trust was successful in the Apprentice of the Year Awards run by Education + Training Skills (ETS), a specialist provider of work-based learning across the South West.
The Trust was highly commended in the Large Employer of the Year...
