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Ladies Do Lympstone at Christmas

Ladies Do Lunch, Exeter’s premier dining club, celebrated Christmas with a superb champagne and canapé reception and a sumptuous lunch at Lympstone Manor near Exmouth. Celebrity chef Michael Caines (pictured above) took time out from the kitchen to say hello to the assembled members. Founder and hostess Sally Sedgman reduced the room to uncontrollable laughter with her account of Chaos at Christmas, a hilarious guide to putting the festive season into perspective.

The event completed a year of highly successful year for Ladies Do Lunch with many events sold out within hours of...

Praise for Exeter's Cyber City vision

Exeter’s movers and shakers have been praising city businesses who joined forces to stage the city’s first Cyber Security Awareness Week.

A series of free seminars, one to one clinics, networking and information sessions are being held next week (Feb 6 – 10) in venues around the city in a bid to persuade all businesses large and small to take care of their online security.

Celebrity Chef Michael Caines MBE, (pictured above) busily preparing to open Lympstone Manor in the Spring, said Exeter and East Devon are places full of people with energy and vision. He said the Cyber...

Exeter's church leaders to show off their baking skills

As part of a national charity campaign Exeter’s church leaders are battling to show off their baking skills.

The contestants will be baking their best bread under the watchful eye of the BBC’s Judi Spiers and local baker Emma Parkin of Emma’s Bread, a finalist in the 2012 Devon Life Awards.

Bishop Michael of Exeter, Methodist District Chair Rev Peter Pillinger, Canon Rev Ian Morter of Exeter Cathedral and Southernhay URC Elder Sabrina Groeschel will bring their best recipes to the Cathedral Green at 3.30pm on Monday 11 March for an outside bread bake off.

This year...

Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy at Exeter Northcott

Event Date: 
06/11/2012 - 7:30pm to 10/11/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott

New Perspectives Theatre Company and Scamp Theatre present Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy, adapted and directed by Daniel Buckroyd.

It sometimes felt as though time had stood still on the family farm – swallows nesting in the eaves, the old Fordson Tractor quietly rusting in the back of the barn, Grandpa still tending his chickens – that is, until the summer his grandson finished school and came to stay, and the old man started telling stories of what it had been like on the farm when he was a boy.

The compelling sequel to the award-winning War Horse is a moving account of the...