Thousands of home extensions, which were previously blocked because they were unsightly, out of character with a local area or invaded neighbours' privacy, may now go ahead unimpeded under plans to extend permitted development rights, the Local Government Association (LGA) warns.
The LGA is also concerned that extensions which would previously have been improved through the planning process in order to make them acceptable to neighbours and reduce their negative impact on local amenities will in future go ahead unaltered, resulting in inappropriate development and...
Fiona Faulkner, author of the book 25 Foods Kids Hate... and how to get them eating 24, offers a healthy addition to the sweet treats for children this Halloween.
Halloween Smoothie
Serves 4-6
RECIPE PREP TIME: Approx 40 mins to cook and cool the pumpkin
RECIPE COOK TIME: Ready in seconds!
Inspired by the sweetness of roasted root veg – I don’t know a single child who doesn’t love this…
INGREDIENTS:
250g cooked pumpkin / butternut squash – no skin, no seeds (see below!)
Richard Lane, President of Diabetes UK, will talk about the ground-breaking treatment he underwent to gain control of his diabetes. Richard was among the first people in the country to receive a transplant of insulin producing islet cells in 2005. Following three transplants, he was the first person in the UK with Type 1 diabetes to come off insulin altogether.
Richard will also discuss the work of Diabetes UK, who funded this research vital research.
Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting at the Peninsula Medical School, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.
Roll up, roll up! It’s autumn once again! While our summer started rather damply, one of the greatest fireshows in the country will surely warm your cockles at the infamous Sticklepath Fireshow, Okehampton and District’s Guy Fawkes Night.
Set in the stunning amphitheatre of Finch Foundry garden this year’s show aims to be bigger, better and probably more quirky and off the wall than ever before, and is sure to put many others into the shade. So whatever you may have arranged or are considering then please change course this year, set sail for Sticklepath and discover a Fireshow...
Overnight surfacing work will be carried out on the northbound entry slip at Junction 29 of the M5 this evening (Monday 15 October).
Road users are advised that the slip road will be closed from 8pm to 6am as part of Devon County Council’s Junction 29 Improvement Scheme.
Traffic approaching Moor Lane Roundabout from the west intending to join the M5 northbound at Junction 29 will follow the diversion in advance of the closure from Moor Lane Roundabout via Moor Lane and Moto Roundabout to Sandygate Roundabout and then join the M5 northbound.
Gwyneth Herbert is an artist who continues to redefine (and defy) our expectations. A singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and one somewhere in the future.
With pierrot-dotted eyes, polka-spotted shoes and swanny whistle in hand she may appear as whimsical as a Bonzo Dog, but writes beautiful melodies and has a poet's grasp of the world around her.
Herbert's songs are populated by a living, breathing cast of beaten-down dreamers, jaded city-dwellers, and women in a quandary, and have the critics in a fizz, scrambling for comparisons with Lennon and McCartney,...
The overture to Don Giovanni provides more than a hint of the drama to follow. The supremely ominous opening music recurs when the statue of the Commendatore comes magically to life to demand that Don Giovanni repent his misspent life, before the music hurries off with the exuberance, vitality and virility of the Don, interrupted by suggestions of the conflict that he inevitably brings upon himself.
Piano Concerto No.21 was written at the same time as Don Giovanni and shares a very operatic character with constantly unfolding drama through extreme emotional contrasts. The slow...
Make a mask inspired by the marvellous objects in the World Cultures collection.
10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
Tickets are per participating person available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card; call 01392 265858.
Accompanying adults can watch/supervise for free. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty.
Sketch a scene inspired by the architecture of our wonderful Victorian museum and create a Halloween cartoon featuring museum objects. For children aged 6 and over.
10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm.
Tickets £6 available in person or by phone using a credit or debit card; call 01392 265858.
Accompanying adults can watch/supervise for free. All children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Some activities are messy so do wear clothes that can get dirty. If an activity is busy there may be a short wait.
