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Holiday on Ice bring Speed to Westpoint Arena

Event Date: 
15/11/2012 - 7:30pm to 18/11/2012 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
Westpoint Arena

Holiday on Ice is back with their explosive new show, Speed.

Skaters, dancers and aerial artists from all over the world perform in Speed, a show combining death defying stunts, burlesque, skating, dance and circus. Roaring through the Speed of Time, Love and Money this outrageous show is sexy, fast and full of adrenaline.

A kaleidoscope of scenes powering towards a stunning finale: Speed will captivate you from the start. More dramatic, more dangerous and sexier than ever before, this show seriously raises the tempo. The legendary Holiday on Ice wheel and the famous kick...

Best Mate Novice Chase Day at Exeter Racecourse

Event Date: 
23/10/2012 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Racecourse

Come along to Best Mate Novice Chase Day at Exeter Racecourse.

The action gets underway with the Dartmoor Term of “65” England Expects Amateur Riders’ Novices’ Hurdle over two miles seven furlongs.

Also on the card is The Betfred Best Mate Beginners’ Chase (3.10pm) run over two miles and a furlong, The Betfred ‘The Bonus King’ Beginners’ Chase run over three miles (4.40pm), Barclays 40 Years of Wedded Bliss Novices’ Hurdle run over two miles and one furlong, the Robert Barclay Seniority Stakes Handicap Hurdle over two miles four furlongs, the Haldon Handicap Chase. The...

Stars of the future to race at Exeter's 2nd October meeting

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...

LGA warns of pitfalls in relaxing planning rules

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...

Fiona Faulkner's healthy halloween treat

Fiona Faulkner, author of the book 25 Foods Kids Hate... and how to get them eating 24, offers a healthy addition to the sweet treats for children this Halloween.

Halloween Smoothie

Serves 4-6

RECIPE PREP TIME: Approx 40 mins to cook and cool the pumpkin

RECIPE COOK TIME: Ready in seconds!

Inspired by the sweetness of roasted root veg – I don’t know a single child who doesn’t love this…

INGREDIENTS:

250g cooked pumpkin / butternut squash – no skin, no seeds (see below!)

2 large,...

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

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