A weekend bursting with fresh seasonal flavours, culinary inspiration and family fun is in store for food lovers at RHS Garden Rosemoor this October.
Sponsored by Atkins Ferrie Wealth Management, Festival of Flavours celebrates the bounty of autumn and Rosemoor’s Heritage Devon apple harvest with cookery demos, expert talks and garden tours, and an artisan food and craft market. There will also be live music and campfire cooking to get visitors into the festival mood.
Watch live cookery demonstrations and learn how to cook with foraged ingredients, make sourdough or press...
Businesses in Exeter are being invited to take part in TEDxExeter 2020 by hosting a free live broadcast in their workplaces for staff to enjoy.
The ninth annual TEDxExeter conference takes place on Friday 17th April 2020, and organisers want to encourage as many people as possible across the city to get involved.
'It's just not possible for everybody who wants to get a ticket to come along to the event at the Northcott Theatre, so this year we're offering more businesses than ever before the opportunity to get involved by streaming the talks directly into their offices,'...
Artificial intelligence, pop culture and online privacy are just some of the subjects explored in six enlightening new talks released by TEDxExeter. Videos from the first TEDxExeterSalon are now available to watch online, following the sell-out event at the Barnfield Theatre in October. The talks – which can be found on the TEDx Talks YouTube channel – include insights into the latest developments in machine learning, how games are being used to understand complex problems like climate change, and the fundamental differences between artificial intelligence and the human brain. Total views...
We should be fascinated by numbers says Alan Smith in his challenging and amusing TEDxExeter talk Why we’re so bad at statistics. And TED must agree as they have selected his as one of the few TEDx talks that are featured on TED.com, where it will reach a much larger, global audience.
In his talk Alan Smith, who is the data visualisation editor at The Financial Times, uses statistics to illustrate the massive difference between perception and reality in many areas of life. “Statistics are most wonderful when they surprise us,” he says. “They are about us as a group … the science of...
Conflict, mental health, climate change and marine conservation are just some of the challenging issues facing us all today.
They are also all on the agenda for this year’s TEDxExeter conference, when experts from a wide range of fields will come to Exeter to share their ideas and hope for the future.
TEDxExeter is announcing its first group of speakers today, with more announcements coming soon.
Renowned TED speaker Andrew Solomon will come to Exeter to share his hope for internationalism in the face of growing isolationism. Andrew is Professor of Clinical...
Mr and Mrs Walter and Elsie Nicholls, residents at RMBI care home Cadogan Court in Exeter, celebrated 70 years of marriage on 4 January 2017. Residents and staff gathered in the Home's dining room to celebrate the occasion with musical entertainment by a band with banjos and a special lunch. The couple's son Jeff and his wife Sue visited to join the celebrations and supplied the Longhorn beef from their local farm. Everyone tucked into the lovely meal and enjoyed some wine and coffee afterwards. Walter and Elsie received a special card from the Queen congratulating them on their...
Now 92, Zdenka Fantlova is one of the few living eye-witnesses to the horror of the Holocaust, to which she lost her entire family.
For as long as she lives Zdenka is determined to tell her inspiring story of great love, and of what happened in the Holocaust, to as many people as possible. The Tin Ring is a unique account of how a seventeen-year-old girl survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps.
An incredible story of human endurance and will power.
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Tickets: £18 Concs: £2 off Groups 10+ get 11th FREE Age: 14yrs+ Running Time: 2hrs...
The much loved Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts show is back, but this time with a brand new name!!
Stitch, Sew & Hobbycrafts comes to Westpoint, Exeter from 26 - 29 September with more than 180 exhibitors offering the latest products, ideas and innovations.
Exciting show features include:
* Dream a dream of time gone by with a selection of costumes from this year's film spectacular Les Miserables on display for the first time at Stitch, Sew & Hobbycrafts.
* Prepare to be amazed by the collection of Big Books from Devon-based textile enthusiast...
Will the ways we produce and distribute our food in Devon continue into the future? This is a major question to be addressed at mid-Devon conference next month.
Food is a critical issue for Devon’s economy and environment. Farming, fishing and food production are essential components of our culture. In addition, there is traditional Devon fare, food festivals, meat, fruit and vegetable competitions and hundreds of restaurants or eating places.
Yet at the same time, food poverty is a growing reality for some local people. The growth in Food Banks in the...
Europe's leaders are poised this morning to cut the European Union's budget for the first time in its 56-year history following a major victory for David Cameron.
A broad framework was reported to have been agreed, but hard bargaining is still expected at the Brussels summit. The discussion have been all the more precarious because any one of the 27 member states can veto a budget deal.
Cameron, who had demanded a freeze in real terms in the near-€1tn budget, was planning to claim victory after the European council president proposed a €34.4bn cut over the next seven years...
