Question Time

Hustings for County Council elections

Event Date: 
27/04/2017 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Community Centre, St Davids Hill, Exeter

Hustings for the County Council elections will be held on Thursday 27th April at Exeter Community Centre at 7 pm

Hilary Whyard will represent the Labour candidates, Anne Jobson the Conservatives, Diana Moore the Green Party and Vanessa Newcombe the Liberal Democrats.

Questions can be submitted in advance via Jess Nightly at fairandsustainable3@gmail.com and will have a better chance of being asked. However some questions will be taken from the audience.

County elections are on May 4th; in view of the General Election on June 8th national policy issues may also be...

Question Time's David Dimbleby gets first Tattoo at age 75

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Tue, 11/12/2013 - 8:55am

BBC Question Time’s David Dimbleby has revealed that he has got his first tattoo at age 75.

The presenter of the long-running political commentary show has had a “modest sized” tattoo of a scorpion representing his star sign, scorpio.

He made the decision whilst filming his latest programme, ‘Britain and the Sea’ which featured a section about sailors bringing tattooing to Britain.

He originally declined having a permant tattoo done instead opting to have a design drawn on with black ink.

"I thought it was wimpish having it just drawn on and I needed to...

"Not everyone's on Twitter"

The past week was Local Democracy Week and Exeter City Council organised several events, including a Question Time from Exeter College.

During the event, I live-tweeted questions and answers. To what end?

Well, local councillor, Catherine Dawson hasdbeen signed off sick and was unable to attend Full Council on Tuesday and the other events during the week - she felt isolated from what was going on. At least she had Twitter.

She followed the Question Timeevent on Twitter as Ilinked my tweets from Exeter College with the hashtag #ExeQT.

She made the following...

Chance to quiz local public figures at Exeter Question Time

People are being given an opportunity to quiz a panel of politicians, councillors and local personalities including Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw at a free event during Local Democracy Week.

Tickets are now available - at no charge - for an Exeter Question Time event, which takes place at Exeter's College's CCI Theatre, at 7pm on Friday 18 October. Call 01392 265891 to book a free ticket.

On the panel and taking questions from the public will be: Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw; Express and Echo Editor, Paul Burton; Cllr Rosie Denham, Exeter City Council's Lead Councillor for Economy and...