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The RHS Rosemoor Garden Festival launches 21-23 August 2026

RHS Garden Rosemoor’s annual Flower Show this year has been re-imagined as a three-day celebration of gardening, plants and outdoor living – the RHS Rosemoor Garden Festival takes place from Friday 21 – Sunday 23 August 2026.

With headline appearances from nationally recognised gardening personalities, gardeners of all skill levels can listen to spotlight talks, get expert gardening advice, watch practical demonstrations, enjoy guided garden tours and browse and buy specialist plants and accessories.

VIP guests in the Talk Tent this year include:

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Enter your film for Two Short Nights Film Festival

Entries are now open for one of the South West’s most vibrant and longest running film festivals, Two Short Nights. Festival organisers are inviting submissions from filmmakers based across the UK andbeyond, working in every genre, from animation and documentary to moving image artwork and music videos. Each winter, Two Short Nights Film Festival brings crowds of film lovers, filmmakers and industry specialists to Exeter’s city-centre arts hub Exeter Phoenix to indulge in a varied programme of screenings, workshops and events celebrating short film. Now in its 16th year, the festival...

Let’s Dance the Night Away in Exeter

Strictly Come Dancing professional dander an winner Pasha Kovalev announces a special month of February Valentines promotion.

His brand new show, Let’s Dance the Night Away, which is coming to Exeter Corn Exchange on 28 May, features special guests, live singing and involves kids from the local dance communities.

Pasha arrived in the UK in 2011 as one of the professionals on STRICTLY COME DANCING. His first celebrity partner was Chelsee Healey and they became the nation’s favourites when they were runners up to the coveted title.

In 2012 he danced with Girls Aloud...

Discovering Devon’s Literature from the First World War

A new exhibition of historic books allows visitors to Exeter Library to explore ideas that preoccupied readers and writers in Devon during the First World War.

The exhibition, War and Prose: Devonshire Literature in the Great War, brings together books from the city centre library’s special collections and from the West Country Studies Library, normally housed at Devon Heritage Centre at Sowton.

Researchers from the Devon Remembers Heritage Project have chosen the books to reflect how Devon’s countryside was romanticised in wartime, how the county returned to its proud...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (10-12 February)

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Jimeoin: Renonsense Man Friday, Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter An evening of brilliantly observed, ever-evolving and hilarious stand-up from the internationally acclaimed star of TV shows including 'Live at the Apollo', 'Royal Variety Performance', 'John Bishop Show', CH4's O2 Gala' and 'Sunday Night at the Palladium'. Don't miss Ireland's own "Witruvian Man" - live! Over 14s. https://exetercornexchange.co.uk

Fish Eye Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter...

X Factor star Sam Bailey set to wow Devon

This year, former X factor winner and gold-selling artist Sam Bailey is delighting fans up and down the country on her Sing My Heart Out Tour and on 6th May, she will be wowing audiences at Torquay’s Princess Theatre with her powerhouse vocals and support from local singer Miracle Chance

Following a successful second album of the same name, Sam is back with her 32-date Sing My Heart Out tour, stopping at some of nation’s most prestigious live music venues, including Princess Theatre.

Speaking about her new tour, Sam says “For me, nothing is more rewarding than getting the...

UB40 to headline Sounds of the Summer

Newton Abbot Racecourse is fast becoming one of the South West’s leading music venues with the announcement of its next annual music festival, Sounds of the Summer, which will take place this July.

On Sunday 16 July the racecourse will host UK reggae royalty, UB40, as they treat the crowd to some of the best known and loved hits of the 1980s including Red Red Wine, Rat in Mi Kitchen, One in Ten, Cherry Oh Baby, King and Food for Thought. The band, which hails originally from Birmingham, has achieved major chart success with over 50 of their singles appearing in the UK charts alone...

Enjoy a great value day out this half term at The Donkey Sanctuary

Come rain or shine, there is plenty of fun and adventure to keep the whole family entertained at The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth this February half term.

With free admission and free parking, The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth is a great value option this February half term. Open from 9.30am until 4pm every day (winter opening hours), enjoy the great outdoors and meet some of the 500 donkeys, mules and hinnies who are cared for at the Sidmouth site.

Set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty along the stunning Jurassic Coast, explorers young and old can discover mile upon...

Seann Walsh brings his 'One For The Road' tour to Exeter

Star of Channel 4’s 'Virtually Famous' and BBC’s 'Live At The Apollo', Seann Walsh is on tour with his ‘One For The Road’ stand-up show this spring and will be bringing it to Exeter for one night only.

Fresh from a sell-out autumn tour, The Lie-In King returns with more dates of his hit new stand-up show ‘One For The Road’! Described by the Guardian as “unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation" Seann Walsh will be traveling across the UK with more tour dates announced for spring 2017, starting in February. Tickets are on sale now!

However disheveled he...

Cinderella visits Exeter Corn Exchange this Christmas

Following the record-breaking success of 'Beauty & the Beast' last Christmas, Kickline is delighted to announce that CINDERELLA will be coming to the Exeter Corn Exchange this Christmas!

Professional panto is now in its eighth year at the central Exeter venue, where it has built a distinctive reputation for magical story-telling, great songs and very messy slapstick, all performed by top West End performers.

Casting for 2017 will be announced soon but expect a few familar faces and a host of new stars, too!

Lemonfest announce first wave of acts for 2017

Now taking place across two-days for the first time ever, Lemonfest returns to Newton Abbot Racecourse on 9th-10th June for it’s 8th year.

The fiercely independent festival has a rapidly growing reputation, and remains 100% self funded by the two founders - who are childhood friends. An eclectic mix of entertainment is split across 6 stages, whilst an array of bars and food stalls sell irresistible local produce from around the Westcountry.

The globally acclaimed part indie, part punk New York band We Are Scientists will joint headline on the Saturday night - bringing their...

Entertainment & Reviews

The RHS Rosemoor Garden Festival launches 21-23 August 2026

Enter your film for Two Short Nights Film Festival

Let’s Dance the Night Away in Exeter

Discovering Devon’s Literature from the First World War

Your guide to What's On this weekend

X Factor star Sam Bailey set to wow Devon

UB40 to headline Sounds of the Summer

Enjoy a great value day out this half term at The Donkey Sanctuary

Seann Walsh brings his 'One For The Road' tour to Exeter

Cinderella visits Exeter Corn Exchange this Christmas

Lemonfest announce first wave of acts for 2017

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