Entertainment & Reviews

In May, Powderham’s deer park welcomed 50,000 music revellers to enjoy Radio 1’s Big Weekend, a momentous occasion for the region.

Whilst things were starting to calm down a little in the deer park, it wasn’t for long with the deer recently welcoming new additions to the herd, following the birth of fawns over the past couple of weeks.

The energetic fawns have been getting used to life in the deer park, frolicking in the ‘nursery’ area, close to the site music lovers watched the highly anticipated homecoming performance from Coldplay.

The park has altered very...

Exeter Cathedral has re-opened its North Tower to visitors as part of the annual Tower Tour programme. The tours take guests up 175 stone stairs to one the city’s most-famous vantage points, offering unrivalled views out to Dartmoor and along the Exe Estuary towards Exmouth.

The panoramic view of the city centre also gives an overview of Exeter landmarks that include Princesshay shopping centre, the University of Exeter, RAMM and many of the city’s churches. Tower tours cost £3.50 on top of the standard Cathedral admission fee which also includes a guided tour of the ground level...

Who knew a trip to Pizza Express could inform a young teenagers life so greatly? One evening in 2003, Jess Glynne’s parents returned home from a night in Soho with a signed CD by a new singer they had seen performing at the restaurant’s regular Jazz night.

“It had such a profoundly immediate effect on me,” remembers Jess of her parents playing Amy Winehouse’s debut album, ‘Frank’. “I’d always loved the big pop vocals of Mariah, Beyoncé and Whitney, but hearing a woman’s voice that was basically a jazz vocal, so full of individuality? Then realising she was British and still a...

Rusty Pig is hosting a comedy night - and it's all about Dickens!

The ethical restaurant in Ottery St Mary is welcoming Devon's Adaptable Theatre on Friday 15th July to perform for diners. ‘Double Dickens’ features Ian Pearce and Tim Knight in two one man shows.

In Doctor Marigold Ian plays a Victorian travelling salesman who rescues a poor deaf child from ‘misery and degradation’. In the second show, Tim Knight tells the woeful tale of Mr Pickwick’s trial for breach of promise in The Trial of Pickwick.

Double Dickens opened in October 2012 at New Theatre, Exeter....