“I should have mentioned it before, my Mum, she, last year, she passed”.
James is suffocated by his past. Heather is focusing on the nursery. Based on true events, this is one couple’s journey through bereavement, love, grief, pregnancy, superheroes and enforced pen maintenance. It deals with the importance of talking about how you feel and not letting your past determine your future. From award nominated Sheepish Productions, this is an intimate and gripping story about life and death, developed in association with Cruse Bereavement Care.
Performing an award winning version of William Shakespeare's original unabridged text, the award-winning South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company, bring this drama to life in an all-new production. This classic tale of ambition, destiny and murder takes place in the near future, dramatized across a post-WW3 landscape, performed by a strong team of local professional actors.
This show was performed in Jan/ Feb 2019, to five star reviews and has won an award at New Yorks Long Island Theatre Awards.
Winners of the 2017 Epic Award for England, an annual national award for...
Top programme of on-street cookery demonstrations, tips from food experts, live musical entertainment and around 50 fine food, drink and craft producers selling their wares
Honiton’s High Street will be buzzing on Saturday (10 August) as around 50 fine food, drink and craft producers will be joined by top chefs, food experts and talented entertainers for this year’s Gate to Plate.
A great programme of events are lined up throughout the day with live music on the entertainment stage and a cooking stage featuring chefs and food experts giving live demonstrations.
An Exeter based PR company has been shortlisted for two top industry awards.
PR, Marketing and Design agency Astley Media has been shortlisted in two categories at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards 2019.
Astley Media’s work with client Space, on the ‘Future of the Workplace’ campaign, resulted in the agency being shortlisted in two categories - ‘Corporate and Business Comms Campaign’ ‘Low Budget Campaign’. The award nominated campaign enabled Space, the office transformation experts, to build business relationships across Greater Exeter, driving lead...
Andrew Brownsword Hotels has announced that the site of The Royal Clarence Hotel is to be put up for sale.
Following extensive damage to the property caused by the fire of 28 October 2016, which started in a neighbouring building but spread throughout The Royal Clarence, significant works have been completed to protect and restore the site’s historic fabric, and as enabling works are concluded it will now be offered for sale.
Andrew Brownsword, owner, said, “We are deeply saddened to announce the intended sale of the site of The Royal Clarence Hotel, but after many months...
Next Steps South West’s work at Exeter College is set to continue as the National Collaborative Outreach Programme has been extended for a further two academic years, with a new completion date of 31 July 2021.
Established in January 2017, Next Steps South West (NSSW) operates out of 14 partner universities and colleges throughout Cornwall, Devon and Somerset with the aim of providing impartial advice to young people who are trying to navigate their journey to higher education.
At present the collaborative project has reached 81 schools/colleges and over 13,000 students in...
Exeter lawyer Penny Scott, who has contributed to the consultation on the Domestic Abuse Bill which is now being debated in Parliament, says more investment is needed if the Bill is to be effective.
Penny, who is a partner at Cartridges Law and chair of the Family Law Committee of the Law Society, said it was part of the business of the Committee to respond to bills of this nature with recommendations.
The bill had its first reading this month in the House of Commons and will be debated following its second reading on a date due to be announced.
Exeter Chiefs newcomer Jannes Kirsten says he can’t wait to get to grips with English rugby after completing his move to the Gallagher Premiership club.
The 25-year-old, who is equally adept at lock or in the back-row, joins on a one-year deal from South African Super Rugby side, the Blue Bulls.
Brought in to help bolster options in the back five of the scrum – particularly with Jonny Hill, Tom Price and Will Witty all currently recovering from summer surgery – the arrival of the Johannesburg-born forward is timely for Chiefs’ Director of Rugby, Rob Baxter.
A Ranger from Stover Country Park near Newton Abbot has been shortlisted for a top environmental award.
Rob Ballard is one of seven finalists in the running for the BIG Biodiversity Champion Award 2019.
The awards are organised by the independent, not-for-profit body CIRIA (the Construction Industry Research and Information Association).
Rob was nominated for his work on the sustainable reed-bed drainage system, which has been developed at Stover Country Park in recent months by Highways England, SWH, working with Devon County Council as the landowner, and supported...
Wren Music The Gothic Dartmoor concert explores a rich vein of myth and legend through the tales of Dartmoor. The songs are selected from the folk song collection made at the end of the C19th by Squire and Parson Revd. Sabine Baring-Gould, and inspired by his other writings, including The Book of Dartmoor and The Book of Were-Wolves. Wren Music has put together an impressive company to bring you ‘Gothic Dartmoor’ – Marilyn Tucker: Singer and storyteller, Paul Wilson: Multi-instrumentalist and singer, Jon Dyer: Experienced performer and a fabulous flautist and Hannah Cumming: Fiddle player...
