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The London African Gospel Choir closed Budleigh Music Festival in spectacular style

Budleigh Music Festival strikes emotional chord with concertgoers

From the opening notes of the community choral day to the uplifting finale of the London African Gospel Choir, Budleigh Music Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary in style.

Taking place in the beautiful St Peter’s Church, the festival delivered world-class classical performances, inclusive community events, and stunning moments of musical magic.

More than 3,600 tickets were sold over the nine-day Festival, which included performances by Sir Michael Morpurgo and cellist Clare O’Connell, internationally acclaimed pianist Sir Stephen Hough, and Bath Philharmonia....

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What connects wood, fashion and 100 years of the Forestry Commission?

A new fashion exhibition, the ‘Tree of Life,’ is celebrating the connection of the National Trust’s Killerton estate to the founding of the Forestry Commission in 1919.

It’s a little known fact that 100 years ago, Devon MP Francis Acland, whose family owned the Killerton estate, was one of the founding fathers of the committee which led to the creation of the Forestry Commission in 1919. To mark the centenary of his contribution, Killerton’s new ‘Tree of Life’ fashion exhibition explores the connection between trees and what we wear, including high-fashion pieces made from...

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Exeter Could Be Getting a New Casino - Here's What We Know So Far

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 03/18/2019 - 2:26pm

Owing to the small size and tight-knit nature of this town, every new or potential opening, be it a concert venue or a nightclub, is seized upon by frenzied locals eager to speculate, complain, or rejoice over something new. In the past couple of years, however, things have been different.

Exeter is no longer the stranger to change that it once was, as dozens of new developments and businesses have sprung up across every corner of town. News of the latest development to be announced may well be the biggest yet: Exeter could soon be getting a new mega-casino.

As you may...

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Which sports are currently particularly attractive for sports betting?

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Mon, 03/18/2019 - 12:32pm

Football fans and sports betting enthusiasts know that a bet is not just a bet. In the field of sports betting there are numerous possibilities and an extremely wide range of Internet sports betting providers. As a beginner you can lose the overview. But even as experienced weather there is always something to learn. Because there are hardly any limits when it comes to betting. Only the personal limits, what the finances and the time you invest should be taken into account. You first have to find out which sport discipline you should bet on in order to win and where you get the best odds....

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​The Gang is Back! Exeter Scout and Guide Gang Show ready for its 35th show

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 03/18/2019 - 12:07pm

Exeter’s Scouts and Guides will be “Riding along on the crest of a wave” again this Easter as they take over the Barnfield Theatre from the 10th to the 13th April 2019 for this year’s Exeter Gang Show.

Bigger, brighter and louder than ever before, the 35thExeter Scout and Guide Gang Show is packed full of popular songs, dance and laugh out loud sketches and has everything to keep audience members of any age entertained.

The cast of over 80 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts, Guides, Explorers, Rangers and Leaders from across Exeter and the surrounding areas are swapping their hiking...

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BBC Radio Devon announces big changes to its line-up

New presenters have joined the station’s popular team in a fresh sound that aims to reflect the whole county.

Breakfast Show presenter Gordon Sparks is now joined by Laura James, waking Devon up from 6am to 9am every morning with interesting chat, news, sport, weather and travel.

Laura is known to early risers for her BBC Radio Devon show from 5am to 6am, which she continues to present. Before joining the station she presented breakfast shows across the West Country for Heart and Breeze.

She has been co-hosting the breakfast show for the last few weeks and has now...

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Reasons why sports betting is one of the best hobbies ever

Over the years, with the rapid progress of technology, more and more people have become interested in betting. For many years, betting was reluctantly seen in society. One has heard many stories about fraudsters and the betting was thereby classified as negative. In fact, betting on sporting events has existed since ancient times. No one knows exactly when humanity began to make a bet on certain things. It's been used for entertainment and proof that you're right for many years. Who would have thought that the enthusiasm for betting in modern times is getting up again. And this even to...

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Artists announced for Dartmoor Folk Festival

FUN for all the family is assured at the 42nd Dartmoor Folk Festival, all at modest prices or free-of-charge.

The festival, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 9, 10 and 11, will take place in the foothills of Dartmoor at South Zeal, near Okehampton.

It will include a packed programme of events and activities suitable for all ages, including a hugely-successful dedicated children's festival which will run alongside the main event.

There will be concerts, a ceilidh, craft displays, dances, a Dartmoor Fayre, music hall, pub sessions and music, song and dance...

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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your guide to What’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (15-17 March):

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Ardal O’Hanlon: The Showing Off Must Go On

Friday, Exeter Northcott

Ardal O’Hanlon continues to tour his acclaimed stand-up shows worldwide. Because he loves it. And it’s a compulsion. And the world is a funny place. In an age of raging populism, MeToo, identity politics, the end of truth, the collapsing middle ground, peak avocado and £15 Gin and Tonics, and terrified of being on the wrong side of history, and desperate to prove that his gender, race, age and class don’t...

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Exeter School hosts Choral Society Concert in Exeter Cathedral

Exeter School is looking forward to performing its annual Choral Society concert in Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 21 March, which this year will feature music by Handel and Poulenc. Made up of current pupils, parents, staff and guests, the concert will feature four pieces. The full chorus and orchestra will perform Part 2 of arguably the best-loved choral work in Britain, Handel's Messiah, including the Hallelujah Chorus, and also Poulenc's Gloria, which combines chords and rhythms more often found in jazz along with hauntingly beautiful melodies. The school's Chamber Choir will perform...

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Do online casinos cheat?

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Mon, 03/11/2019 - 10:37am

Everyone hustles and cheats. Matter of fact. Whether it is a lovely lady from a grocery store nearby, trying to swindle some extra cash out of your pocket or an employer cutting down on salaries on the pretext of financial hardships. And now imagine a ruthless engine of online casinos where money revolves in an unprecedented tempo – how could we possibly believe this machine if even the grocery damsel could be prone to deceive? This is actually a big question every gamblers asks themselves before entering any virtual gaming venue as software is just a bunch of code which might be easily...

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