The school holidays are about to trigger the start of the busy summer getaway period for Exeter Airport and up to 25,000 passengers will be travelling through the terminal in the next seven days.
The week will see 12,500 passengers using the airport on variety of routes from the Isles of Scilly to as far away as Sharm el Sheikh.
South West flights from Exeter to St. Marys have increased to five a day and over the summer 11,000 passengers will use the service.
The holiday operator Thomson, which has a based Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Exeter, has a busy schedule which...
Just last month Brits were flocking to the travel agents in a last ditched attempt to get some sun.
Throughout our supposed summer England had seen nothing but rain and grey skies.
However, for the last few weeks we have been experiencing a heat wave, and on 7 July, Exeter experienced temperatures similar to those in Turkey.
'The Guardian' reported at the beginning of the month that the rise in temperature has seen a rise in retail sales. Playsuits, shorts and bikinis are finally being sold after sitting on the shelves during the previous cold months....
Special postcards are being given to holiday parks, local attractions, historic properties and tourist information centres across Teignbridge this summer as part of a domestic abuse awareness campaign.
The postcards show images associated with the summer bearing the message ‘Domestic abuse doesn’t take a holiday!’ on one side with information about the signs of domestic abuse and helpline numbers on the other side.
South Devon and Dartmoor Community Safety Partnership are asking businesses in the tourism industry to put a supply of the postcards in reception areas or other...
Bookings are now being taken for Exeter City FC’s Football in the Community roadshows, which are again running throughout the summer holidays across the region.
The events kick off with Match Mania on Friday 26 July, a full day’s festival of fun and games for children aged 5-14, and the programme then continues for the whole of August finishing with a two-day roadshow at St Luke’s Science and Sports College on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 September.
There will be three roadshow dates in Exeter, plus events in Dawlish, Exmouth, Cullompton, Honiton, Sidmouth, Crediton, Tiverton...
An evocative exhibition of Devon landscapes showing throughout July and August features the work of two photographers, Natalie Christie and Martin Sharpe.
Christie captures landscape through artistic eyes and the selection of her works large and small is stunning, including summer grasses against a stormy sky and crashing waves.
Sharpe’s work is abstract with an emphasis on line, shape, pattern and beautiful spectrums of colour. All of the works are available for sale and can be ordered in different sizes.
Greeting cards reproducing the artists work will also be...
Over 200 guests joined Brewin Dolphin Exeter at their annual ‘Summer Garden Party’ held at The Bishop’s Palace Gardens, Exeter Cathedral. Representatives from their Charity of the Year, Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education, attended together with clients, professional associates and Exeter Chief players.
The guests were welcomed with a Pimms and champagne reception and musical entertainment was provided by Exeter University’s string quartet.
Countdown is officially on now Mums and Dads! Just 28 more sleeps until …. The Summer Holidays!
But don’t panic… we’ll gladly take the little ones off your hands for five fun-filled days of of acting, singing, dancing, dressing up and arts and crafts. On day five we hit the stage to put on our breathtaking performance of….
The First Ever Whale Story
(the critics have already given us 5 stars, they just know it’s going to be a cracker)
Perry Pirate parks his pirate ship on top of the Sula Sea Fairy’s house- how very silly! Luckily the tiniest fish in the...
It's going to be quite a summer for some of the projects that together make up the Seaton Regeneration Programme, with substantial progress on the horizon.
Meanwhile, plans are also under way to consult in the town about providing more council-owned employment units. Together, the projects represent a real vote of confidence in boosting Seaton’s economy and employment prospects in the town.
On Tuesday 11 June, a revised planning application for the Discovery Centre building was approved by EDDC’s Development Management Committee. The principle of planning permission for the...
This summer, Exeter Phoenix has some excellent live music ranging from a local band tipped to make it big, The Computers, to the American living legend, Lonnie Liston Smith.
Jenny Eclair returns to Exeter after a sell-out show last year and Antara, which mixes contemporary Bollywood dance with world music and urban poetry is set to be a beautifully moving performance.
One of Exeter’s most anticipated summer events, Big Screen in the Park is back with a screening of The Goonies , Skyfall , Life of Pi and The Great Gatsby , underneath the stars in Northernhay Gardens. Plus...
The national summer Drink Drive campaign is being launched on 1 June and Devon and Cornwall Police are again supporting this initiative.
The primary aim of the campaign is to reduce the number of injuries on the roads where drink or drugs is a factor. The campaign runs from Saturday 1 June to Sunday 30 June.
Whilst the enforcement of drink/drug driving is a 24/7 focus for the police, this campaign is intended to raise awareness of the consequences and deter motorists from getting behind the wheel if they are impaired. The advice has always been “Don’t Drink and Drive”...
