Ottery St Mary's carnival week starts with the popular illuminated carnival procession through the town on Friday 26 October at 7.45pm.
Over the next few days there will be plenty of events and entertainment to enjoy including Thick as Thieves playing at The Institute on Saturday and a treasure hunt around the town on Sunday. On Wednesday there will be a children's Hallowe'en disco at Ottery Football Club, a quiz night on Friday, and Ottery's Got Talent at the King's School on Saturday 3 November.
For more information about all the above events call the Tourist Information...
Devon author Hilary Mantel recently became the first British writer to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction twice, after her novel Bring up the Bodies was named the best book of the year.
To celebrate her success Devon County Council’s Library Service is ordering additional copies of her books, and offering free reservations on all her titles until Christmas.
Devon’s full library catalogue can also be accessed online at www.devon.gov.uk/libraries . The website offers full search facilities to help people find and reserve books, films, music, audio books...
Exeter Festival Chorus, in their 20th season, will perform Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Spirituals from A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett.
Conductor Nigel Perrin will be joined by Jonathan Watts (organ) and Peter Adcock (piano)
Tickets priced at £12 adults, £10 children/students can be booked by calling 0845 6005441 or 01392 665885, or click here to book online.
From Medieval Manuscripts to 'Calligraffiti': Discovering Exeter's Written Heritage.
An exhibition of medieval and modern books and book-making running from Tuesday 23rd October until Sunday 4th November in the Chapel of St James.
This exhibition explores Devon's written heritage from the earliest medieval manuscripts kept in the Cathedral Library and Special Collections at the University of Exeter, through the dawn of printing and early printed books, to modern calligraphy and the arrival of the e-book and Kindle.
In addition, the exhibition features artwork created by...
The environment secretary, Owen Paterson, will announce today in Parliament that the government is postponing the controversial cull of thousands of Badgers, which was intended to reduce the spread of bovine tuberculosis. The cull is now unlikely to take place until next June at the earliest, amid growing concern about the cost and effectiveness of the controversial scheme.
This news comes to the great consternation of many farmers in the South West, who believe the cull is essential to stop the spread of bovine TB, which is leading to the slaughter of many of their cattle...
Join Peter Thomas, Cathedral librarian, as he explores and explains the importance of this unique treasure held by the Cathedral Library.
Originally owned by Leofric, the first Bishop of Exeter, The Exeter Book is a rare literary survivor from the 10th @century. It consists of beautiful Anglo-Saxon poetry and riddles and provides a unique insight into our national past.
As Nectar - the UK's largest loyalty programme, with 18.5 million collectors - celebrates its 10th birthday, new data has revealed that Sainsbury’s customers in Exeter could have accumulated as much as an estimated 4.2 billion* points since Nectar began. The figure is equal to £21 million to spend in store - enough to buy 14 million chocolate birthday cakes or 1 million bottles of champagne !
Since the loyalty programme launched in 2002, almost £2 billion worth of rewards have been collected. Rewards include money off shopping, travel, eating out, entertainment and...
Artist Steven Paige is currently resident artist at Double Elephant, tasked with responding to the Leonard Baskin & Ted Hughes archive based at University of Exeter. Not a regularly practicing printmaker, his approach to the residency is a much conceptual as materials based.
For the workshop on 31 October, Steven will present aspects of the archive that he has found intriguing – namely how Baskin worked and corresponded with Hughes, how text/writing works with the image, including the notion of the press or publishing of works, and, as it is auspiciously Hallowe'en, how a...
