Taking place at the XCentre on Exeter’s glorious Quayside on Saturday 15th August from 10am-2pm, Headway Devon’s brand new coffee and crafts event looks set to be the shopping event of the summer!
With lots of local craft stalls to browse selling a huge range of beautiful items from potters and wood-turners, to card crafters, jewellery makers and sewers, and even some lovingly handmade dog collars, this event really does have something for everyone.
What’s more, there will be live acoustic music from talented local artist Holly Morwenna, plenty of homemade treats, hot and...
Sugru, the world’s first mouldable ‘glue’, closed its crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube after raising £3,548,820 from 2,700 investors.
In the process this campaign has smashed two equity crowdfunding records with the largest single investment of £1 million and by having the widest reach with stakeholders in 68 countries. The pitch overfunded 355% above the original target.
The founder and inventor of Sugru, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, says: “What a great month! The crowdfunding campaign truly reflects most projects at Sugru: hard work, team spirit, customer interaction, loads...
Visitors will be transported back to a time when finding the perfect match was the order of the day. Heartbreak Productions’ performance of Jane Austen’s classic ‘Emma’ explores themes of class, dating and friendship alongside a healthy dose of wit and humour. Call 0844 249 1895 or visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/killerton to book advance tickets.
A five mile-plus stretch of one of the West Country’s most famous game fishing rivers running through Dartmoor has come up for sale through fisheries sales experts Fenn Wright.
The three beats on the River Teign, 10 miles from Exeter, are renowned for their trout and salmon catches, and are offered at a total guide price of £300,000.
Known as The Upper Teign Fishery and let for many years to a fishing association, catches averaged out over the last ten years amount to 30 salmon per annum, 114 sea trout and 920 brown trout over seven inches long. The best year for salmon was...
Exmouth Musical Theatre Company present, ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ - A Musical Comedy The story revolves around three lonely women, Alexandra, Jane and Sukie, who are frustrated and bored by their mundane lives in the small town of Eastwick. Their shared longing and desire for "all manner of man in one man" is realised in the form of a charismatic, yet mysterious, newcomer - Darryl Van Horne. Seducing each of the women in turn, Darryl teaches them, in ways mystical, magical and murderous, how to expand the powers locked within them. Their new, unorthodox, lifestyle creates havoc amongst...
Skipper Dean Mumm says it’s only right that the Exeter Chiefs put pressure on themselves ahead of Saturday’s Aviva Premiership encounter with Gloucester at Sandy Park (4.30pm).
Saturday’s 31-14 loss at local rivals Bath meant it was successive defeats for Rob Baxter’s side over the festive period - and Mumm knows it won’t get any easier for him and his team-mates with the Cherry & Whites next on the agenda.
That said, a return to home comforts will be most welcome for the Devon club, who back in September claimed one of their seven league victories this season when they...
This breathtaking show has rock ’n’ rolled audiences across the globe from Cardiff to California, Barking to Bangkok and Swindon to Sweden and is guaranteed to have everyone singing along to the music and dancing in the aisles.
It stars some of the finest actor-musicians in the UK whose combined West End credits include Buddy, Lennon, Forbidden Planet and Jailhouse Rock and was endorsed as Britain’s most popular Buddy Holly act when the boys guested on BBC One’s Saturday night live programme, “The One and Only”, hosted by Graham Norton.
East Devon District Council is considering relocating its headquarters to Skypark.
The decision, taken by cabinet on 5 February, will now be put forward as the preferred location to full council on 26 February. If approved, officers will be asked to carry out further research into the viability of the move. Marketing of Knowle would start promptly.
This is an important step forward and a further report would then be brought back to cabinet and full council before a final decision is made in the summer.
Back in November cabinet shortlisted four out of 15 possible...
On 10th September 2014 passed away in the RD&E hospital after a long struggle aged 67 years.
Will be sadly missed by her mother, daughters, sisters, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Thank you to the doctors and staff of Lowman Ward and the ELF team.
Funeral Service Wednesday 24th September Exeter Crematorium 2.00pm St Peter's Chapel.
No black.
Family flowers only donations to Exeter Leukaemia Fund by retiring collection or c/o M. Sillifant & Sons. Family Funeral Directors, 19-20 Holloway Street, Exeter. EX2 4JD
On 4t June 2014 passed away peacefully aged 92 years.
Beloved husband of Muriel, father of Stephen and Robert, and a loving grandad and great-grandad.
Funeral service on Wednesday 18 June at Higher Cemetery Chapel, 2pm, followed by interment.
Family flowers only, donations if desired to Diabetes UK by retiring collection or c/o M Sillifant & Sons, Funeral Directors, 19-20 Holloway Streeet, Exeter EX2 4JD
