As Exeter Philharmonic Choir prepares to begin its 2024/25 season of concerts this autumn following a sell-out season last year, 47 choir members will soon be packing their song sheets to travel to Salamanca in Northern Spain for a five-day tour. At the end of September, the group will perform concerts in the Old Cathedral of Salamanca and Valladolid Cathedral and sing in a Mass at The Basilica of St Teresa in Avila.
Ahead of their departure there’s an opportunity for local people to enjoy their Spanish tour repertoire at a free event near Exeter. St Margaret’s Church in Topsham is...
Enrique Ruiz Cano is an English language teaching specialist who currently works for a state Primary school in Spain (CEIP Nuestra Senora de la Fuensanta from Beniajan in the Murcia region of south eastern Spain). He has also taught in a wide range of summer school in the UK up and down the country. What’s more, he has family links in Norfolk and Kent which he considers his second homes.
He set up a pioneering network of Primary schools in Devon both in Exeter and near Exeter which were successful when it came to gaining Erasmus+ funding from the European Union. This EU programme...
Exeter Airport today celebrates the return of TUI holidays to the Balearic Islands, with the first TUI flight of the Summer 2021 season departing for Majorca (Palma).
The popular route will operate four times a week – on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (with seasonal variations) – throughout the summer.
TUI has already confirmed its 2021/2022 schedule from Exeter Airport, with flights to Spain (Ibiza, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Majorca, Menorca, Tenerife), Greece (Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Zante), Cyprus (Paphos), and Turkey (Antalya, Dalaman) all set to resume....
Offwell Primary from Honiton, Redhills Primary in Exeter and the ACE MAT were successful in gaining Erasmus+ funding to participate in an Erasmus + project which will be led by CEIP Andrés García Soler from Lorca, Spain.
This project, therefore, includes these two Primary schools from Devon, the MAT, the Spanish school, Scuola Padre Pio from Altamura, Italy and Rigas Classical Gymnasium from Latvia as well as Nebrija University from Madrid.
As part of this project, Primary school students from Offwell Primary in Honiton and Redhills Primary in Exeter have stayed for a week...
Offwell Primary from Honiton, Redhills Primary in Exeter and the ACE MAT have been successful in gaining Erasmus+ funding to take part in an Erasmus + project which will be coordinated by the English teacher, Enrique Ruiz from CEIP Andrés García Soler in Spain.
This project, therefore, includes these two Primary schools from Devon, the MAT, the Spanish school, Scuola Padre Pio from Altamura, Italy and Rigas Classical Gymnasium from Latvia as well as Antonio de Nebrija University from Madrid.
This is one of the very few projects in the EU which will involve such a...
Redhills Primary school in Exeter, Andrés García Soler Primary in Lorca (Spain) and Riga Classical Gymnasium, in Riga (Latvia) have been successful in gaining Erasmus+ funding to carry out the project "CLIL as a tool for change in the Primary classroom.
CLIL is a methodology which is up and coming in most European Educational systems at this moment in time and it helps schools integrate the teaching of language and content simultaneously apart from providing children with a real memorable learning experience.
This project revolves around the development of common projects...
A fugitive drug trafficker who headed a crime group that supplied huge amounts of heroin to the South West, including Exeter, has been arrested in Tenerife.
Stephen Blundell, aged 36, of Leathers Lane, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin but fled to Spain before he could be sentenced in April 2013. He was later jailed for nine years eight months in his absence.
Blundell (pictured in 2013) controlled a crime group which included a Cornish grandmother caught transporting £50,000 heroin under pasties in her shopping bag.
An Exeter fugitive has been arrested in Spain and returned to prison following a lengthy investigation to locate him. Scott Kelly, 33, was convicted of a violent assault in March 2005 after stabbing a man in the back during a dispute in a bar in Exeter. He was sentenced to seven years in prison with an extended five year licence. Kelly was released in October 2013 but he failed to abide by the conditions of his licence and fled to Spain. The disappearance prompted a multi-agency investigation to establish his whereabouts, which saw Devon and Cornwall Police work in collaboration with...
Make the most of your much deserved Bank Holiday at The Magdalen Chapter.
Showcasing all that's Spanish from BBQ grilled lamb kebabs, seafood paella to crema catalana all washed down with a glass of chilled sangria whilst listening to Spanish Guitarist Jon Boyles. We are hoping for a little Spanish weather too to truly enjoy the garden.
