TV PRESENTER and journalist Steph McGovern is supporting a new skill-sharing initiative celebrating the talents that older people in Devon can share with the younger generation.
It is all part of the #GenerationWOW campaign (which stands for wonderful older wisdom) from Specsavers Home Visits, together with u3a (University of the Third Age), which gives older people a platform to pass on their skills and life experience to others.
New research reveals that 50% of over-60s in the South West believe they have valuable untapped knowledge going to waste, yet 46% feel that...
The critically-acclaimed production The Ballad of Maria Marten returns to stages across the UK this spring 2022 and comes to Exeter Northcott from 8th – 12th March.
A thrilling retelling of a real-life murder mystery, critically-acclaimed production The Ballad of Maria Marten returns to stages across the UK this spring 2022. Produced by Eastern Angles and Matthew Linley Creative Projects, Beth Flintoff’s captivating drama turns history into her-story through the exploration of love, loss, trauma, and patriarchal power.
Hair At The Academy has been named as winning, not one but two categories in the National Collective Prides Awards! Mary Pugsley MBE is the winner of ‘Exceptional Educator’ and Tyler Gray takes the award for ‘Against the Odds’ at the brand-new Collective Pride Awards, sponsored by Professional Beauty.
The Collective Pride Awards launched by mental wellbeing and suicide prevention charity ‘The Lions Barber Collective’, recognise the hard work of unsung hair and beauty heroes across the UK, who not only deliver exceptional services day in, day out but go the extra mile to help others...
We’re merging Drag Queens, Bingo, Catwalks, Dance-offs and performances from the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race icons, for the ‘Boots Down Bingo’! Baga Chipz & Jimbo, the international stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK VS. The World are coming to Mecca Bingo Exeter on Friday 11th March for the ultimate Drag Bingo Party.
Expect wacky prizes, fun and games, but most importantly... lots of drag!
Baga Chipz was first seen on the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and has become a television sensation ever since, as seen on Celebrity Karaoke Club, The Celebrity Circle and...
A new support programme has been launched by Devon County Council to help small businesses and community groups.
Get Set to Tender is offering free support to Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who have less than 250 employees, to help them respond to public sector organisation tendering opportunities.
The project, which will operate until March 2023, is part of a wider package of support being delivered through Devon’s £6 million recovery programme which aims to provide help and support in four key areas: small and medium enterprises, employment and skills, the green...
LAVENDER is a crude and chaotic history lesson in the lives of two young queers. A butch Marxist trainwreck who works in the cereal aisle. A Christian with an engagement ring and the voice of an angel. Surrounding them is fifteen years of history. The rubble of polyester thongs, dolls and skipping ropes. Devon.
Characters Lucy and Nancy are down-to-earth, despicable and completely familiar. Future uncertain, they must face up to where it all began: sharpening pencils and plucking the wings off of flies, aged seven. Conceived by Torbay-based writer Holly Fitzpatrick, this fast-...
The critically-acclaimed production The Ballad of Maria Marten returns to stages across the UK this spring 2022 and comes to Exeter Northcott from 8th – 12th March.
A thrilling retelling of a real-life murder mystery, critically-acclaimed production The Ballad of Maria Marten returns to stages across the UK this spring 2022. Produced by Eastern Angles and Matthew Linley Creative Projects, Beth Flintoff’s captivating drama turns history into her-story through the exploration of love, loss, trauma, and patriarchal power.
We’re merging Drag Queens, Bingo, Catwalks, Dance-offs and performances from the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race icons, for the ‘Boots Down Bingo’! Baga Chipz & Jimbo, the international stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK VS. The World are coming to Mecca Bingo Exeter on Friday 11th March for the ultimate Drag Bingo Party.
Expect wacky prizes, fun and games, but most importantly... lots of drag!
Baga Chipz was first seen on the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and has become a television sensation ever since, as seen on Celebrity Karaoke Club, The Celebrity Circle and...
One of the world’s first Omicron-specific variant vaccines is to be trialled in Devon and Cornwall, as the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc works with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
The innovative study will see participants receive a first or second booster. In the South West, it is opening first at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, with plans to open at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, and the NIHR Patient Recruitment Centre: Exeter at Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust later in March.
More than 150 highways officers worked round the clock to respond to hundreds of separate reports of damage caused by the wind across Devon today.
But with gritters being deployed tonight to counter the expected drop in temperature, and the amount of debris still on the network, people are being advised only drive tonight unless its absolutely necessary.
Friday morning and early afternoon represented the ‘peak’ of Storm Eunice in Devon, with wind speeds recorded of up to 100mph in places.
A Red Wind Warning had been issued by the Met Office for Northern Devon...
