Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre present ‘Ghost Opera’: a mesmeric two-hander, spoken and sung, accompanied by a string quartet and devised in development with The Lowry and the Tobacco Factory Theatres.
Two strangers, both haunted by living ghosts in their everyday: one, her dying mother, and the other, his celebrity idol. Escaping to seek refuge at a spa retreat, the thirty year-old woman and the seventeen year-old boy meet, and together they try to resist becoming that which haunts them.
FellSwoop Theatre are a Bristol-based company exploring the relationship between...
The first car parks in the UK to be fitted with solar car port frames are set to re-open to the public.
Both car parks are in Exeter.
Mary Arches will re-open on Saturday (24 October) and John Lewis the week after (31 October). The installation of solar panels on the car parks is a UK first.
The pioneering initiative at John Lewis and Mary Arches Street Car Parks has been delivered by Devon firm Sungift Energy on behalf of Exeter City Council.
Cllr Rachel Sutton, Lead Councillor for City Development, said: “It’s great that Exeter is leading the way in green...
Twiggy, Ben Fogle, Bill Oddie and Chris Beardshaw are backing Wild About Gardens Week this autumn and urging gardeners to save hedgehogs. The annual celebration of garden wildlife hosted by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and The Wildlife Trusts has joined forces with Hedgehog Street this year to highlight what gardeners can do to help this much-loved yet fast-declining species. See wildaboutgardensweek.org.uk for inspiration, competitions, events and booklet. High profile supporters of Wild About Gardens Week explain how we can all help: Ben Fogle, Patron, British Hedgehog...
On Saturday 5 December the Force Cancer Charity Christmas Fair is taking place in the Cullompton Community Centre, organised by Dorcas Philips for the fourth year running.
Four years ago, Dorcas Philips’ mum was diagnosed with cancer and received an overwhelming amount of support from Force Cancer Charity, fuelling the family to want to return the kindness and support other families who are suffering from cancer.
Last September Dorcas and her fiancé completed the Force 10k superhero run dressed and Batman and Bat Girl, raising £400 for Force Cancer Charity but they are...
A popular Exeter hotel has donated television sets to a charity fundraising body, after undergoing a major re-furbishment.
The Mercure Exeter Southgate underwent a £2.5m re-furbishment earlier this year. The hotel donated 20 television sets, which were previously in rooms, to the Exeter Foundation.
As a fundraising body, the Exeter Foundation offered the televisions to its member charities on a first come first served basis. The televisions were snapped up within 2 hours by a number of different charities.
Headway, Exeter Youth Section, Age UK, Exeter Leukaemia Fund...
Gregory Distribution Limited will be displaying one of its 44–tonne articulated vehicles at Exeter City Centre’s Bedford Square on Princesshay inviting the public to “get up close and personal” with a lorry.
The event is part of the Road Haulage Association’s National Lorry Week, a UK-wide awareness campaign developed to demonstrate to the public and politicians the vital role that lorries and road freight play in moving the economy and daily life. The theme of the week is ‘Love the Lorry’!
Paul Willis, Gregory’s Head of Business Support and Compliance and Chairman of the...
Devon County Council is encouraging more people to start car sharing this autumn by launching its popular ‘Win a Tank of fuel’ competition once again.
Everyone who registers a journey on the CarShareDevon website, sending a request to share, between now and 30 November 2015 will be entered in the draw to win a tank of fuel, up to the value of £100.
CarShareDevon is a well established website which matches drivers and passengers from across the county who are doing the same or similar journeys. The website allows you to search for others travelling in the same direction as...
Join us at the climate cycling parade of Exeter! We will cycle from the University, through the city center, down to the Quay. If you want to show that we are numerous to take care of the climate, environmental and social crisis you are warmly welcome! Come with your bike, bring your friends and wear something green. Everybody is welcome, so join us and share to make it massive! :)
Alternatiba is a citizens festival that presents individual, collective, local and practical solutions to climate change and the energy crisis. Alternatiba’s goals are : - Spread the message of climate emergency, raise awareness amongst the general public and elected politicians about the necessity to rapidly and radically cut our greenhouse gas emissions in the scope of the UN international negotiations in Paris this december (COP21). - Fight the probable feeling of resignation, helplessness and therefore the demobilisation which could be triggered by the seriousness and importance of the...
Devon’s leading tourism businesses have been chosen for the finals of the Devon Tourism Awards which will be presented at a prestigious ceremony on 26th November 2015.
This year sees an increase to 22 categories in the competition which is now in its 6th year following its launch in 2010 in association with Visit Devon. The year also saw an increase by 34% to 174 entries from the cream of the Devon tourism industry, with 65 businesses selected as finalists who will be in suspense until 26th November when they will learn whether they have won Gold, Silver or Bronze awards.
