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Everyone welcome to the next Diabetes UK meeting

Event Date: 
18/10/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital

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.

Bamboozled: Sticklepath Fireshow, bigger and better than ever before

Event Date: 
05/11/2012 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Finch Foundry Field, Sticklepath, near Okehampton

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...

Overnight surfacing for M5 entry slip road

Overnight surfacing work will be carried out on the northbound entry slip at Junction 29 of the M5 this evening (Monday 15 October).

Road users are advised that the slip road will be closed from 8pm to 6am as part of Devon County Council’s Junction 29 Improvement Scheme.

Traffic approaching Moor Lane Roundabout from the west intending to join the M5 northbound at Junction 29 will follow the diversion in advance of the closure from Moor Lane Roundabout via Moor Lane and Moto Roundabout to Sandygate Roundabout and then join the M5 northbound.

A30 eastbound traffic...

Singer, songwriter Gwyneth Herbert at Exeter Corn Exchange

Event Date: 
03/11/2012 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

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,...

Robert the Rat's Gunpowder Plot at St Nicholas Priory

Event Date: 
03/11/2012 - 10:30am
Venue: 
St Nicholas Priory, Fore Street, Exeter

Make the soldiers that help Robert the Rat find barrels of gunpowder and save the King.

Drop in 10.30am to 12.30pm or 1.30pm 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.

http://www.exeter.gov.uk/priory

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: Mozart Magic

Event Date: 
01/11/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter

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...

Family Activity Day at RAMM: Saving Face

Event Date: 
01/11/2012 - 10:00am

Make a mask inspired by the marvellous objects in the World Cultures collection.

10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

Tickets are per participating person available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card; call 01392 265858.

Accompanying adults can watch/supervise for free. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.

http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/

The Big Draw at RAMM: Line up for the House of Horrors

Event Date: 
31/10/2012 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

Sketch a scene inspired by the architecture of our wonderful Victorian museum and create a Halloween cartoon featuring museum objects. For children aged 6 and over.

10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm.

Tickets £6 available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card; call 01392 265858.

Accompanying adults can watch/supervise for free. 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.

A Christmas Carol comes to the Barnfield Theatre

Event Date: 
06/11/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Ballet Theatre UK presents A Christmas Carol

Join Ballet Theatre UK on a magical journey to the dark and twisting streets of old Dickensian London.

Meet Ebenezer Scrooge, a penny clutching old miser, his heart so cold and steely it cannot be softened by any amount of festive cheer.

One magical night Scrooge is visited by mystical ghosts, who show him there is more to life than work and money and slowly he begins to recognise the true meaning of Christmas.

With a cavalcade of colourful characters, including Mr Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, Tiny Tim and the...

Hallowe'en EAT style... A Dark Victorian Cabaret

Event Date: 
31/10/2012 - 8:00pm to 03/11/2012 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

1889 saw the re-opening of the Exeter Theatre Royal after the tragic fire two years earlier.

This Hallowe'en, Exeter Alternative Theatre presents a re-imagining of that auspicious night 123 years ago; an absinthe-laced cocktail of theatre, cabaret and burlesque.

Expect a rollercoaster ride of frights and frolics, featuring Jack the Ripper in the Exeter Lunatic Asylum, The Origins of Dracula (the day Bram Stoker came to town), Lilly Laudanum, Dark Annie, the Phantom Juggler, Queen Victoria as you've never seen her before and a whole lot more!

Welcome to Halloween...

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