The 2012 Countryside Alliance Awards (aka the Rural Oscars) were presented to top rural businesses by the Secretary of State for Defra, Owen Paterson MP, at a ceremony at the Houses of Parliament on 13 March. The Awards are the Countryside Alliance’s annual celebration of rural produce, skills, enterprise and heritage through our small hard-working businesses. They are now in their eighth year and have become the definitive rural business award to win. Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said: “Rural businesses are vital to the country’s economic recovery. The Government is right behind...
An aspiring chef training at the Michael Caines Academy is the first student to open up his own restaurant in Exeter.
Second year student, Ryan Mell, will be opening up his dream restaurant “The Salty Pigeon” on 22nd January 2013, at 29 Magdalen Road, Exeter.
The student, who is a local from Exeter, sees this as a great business opportunity and is hoping to bring the community exciting food, job opportunities for the local people and his ‘salty’ pigeon.
The Salty Pigeon is a 30 seat restaurant which will consist of a variety of food ranging from local to exotic...
Local retailer Clive Sheppard of Exeter has this week been crowned the winner of a national competition, launched by Wrigley in August this year, to find a convenience store retailer most worthy of a ‘Trash Team’ visit.
As well as winning £500 worth of free stock, Clive’s prize saw Wrigley’s ‘Trash Team’ of devoted litter pickers descend on his Magdalen Road Spar store on Tuesday 4th December to clean up his local area.
From litter picking outside his shop front to making sure the surrounding area looks spic and span, the ‘Trash Team’ included staff from the local...
Organised by local people and co-ordinated by the St Leonards Neighbourhood Association, the Christmas Fair in Magdalen Road is now a very popular annual shopping and exciting event.
This "urban village" contains well established award winning purveyors of fine food, drink and gifts, as well as some exciting new shops on the block. Piprs Farm Butchers, Gibsons Plaice for fish and the exquisite Bon Goiut delicatessen are all well known and respected retailers, but quirky newcomers like Belgreen Cafe, Ian Smith Wines and Arriety retro haberdashers make Magdalen Road a unique location...
If you were in Princesshay at the weekend, you could be forgiven for thinking that you had stepped in to another world, full of Shakespeare’s most magical creatures.
Pupils from the drama department at St Margaret’s School in Exeter donned their fairy outfits on Saturday and performed excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to delighted shoppers.
The performances were to promote the school’s new interpretation of the play which will be aired at the Barnfield Theatre on November 23 and 24 at 7pm.
Fairy king and queen, Titania and Oberon, joined the four...
