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Dawlish Gears Up for South West’s Top American Car Show

Cruise down to Cofton Holidays near Dawlish for the annual American Car Show, taking place from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd June 2025. Over 3,500 visitors are expected to enjoy a weekend packed with classic cars, live music, entertainment, and family fun. More than 200 American vehicles will be on display, including Mustangs, Cadillacs, Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Buicks, and Jeeps.

Now in its 8th year, Cofton’s American Car Show is the biggest of its kind in the South West and has become a firm favourite for motor enthusiasts and families alike. American car owners will be heading to...

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Rock of Ages hits Torquay

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Posted: Tue, 06/03/2014 - 7:37pm

Following a three-year run in London’s West End, audiences around the country will are getting the chance to enjoy ROCK OF AGES The Musical as it embarks on a UK tour. The legendary show opens in the Princess Theatre Torquay tonight and plays to packed out audiences there for the rest of the week. For a chance to catch it head to http://www.rockofagesmusical.co.uk/

Watch the World Cup with Walkabout

With the World Cup just weeks away, if you can’t afford a ticket to Brazil, the big question is ‘where’s the best place to catch all the action?’ For the ultimate football fiesta, great food and drinks deals, an awesome atmosphere and, of course, brilliant big screens, look no further than Walkabout on Fore Street.

With more screens than any other bar on the high street, Walkabout will be showing every kick of every game in stunning HD on at least 16 LED TVs around the bar and a state-of-the-art giant HD projection screen. With crystal-clear commentary that’s always loud enough to...

The Tobacco Factory present 'As You Like It'

Following their hugely successful productions of The Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol's internationally-renowned ensemble company, return for their third visit to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with one of theatre's most celebrated comedies.

Expelled from the city, Rosalind and Orlando – the one fleeing a tyrranous uncle, the other a murderous brother – rediscover each other in the Forest of Arden. But what awaits them in that Arcadian wilderness? Will they find true love, or just lose themselves? Are they merely players in a...

Exeter Band to perform at star studded festival

Local Exeter band, The Computers, will join the likes of Jamie Cullum and Laura Mvula when they perform at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival on the 5th of July.

The Computers, who are signed to the prestigious Fierce Panda independent label, are set to perform their punk/ rock tracks at the festival.

The Love Supreme Jazz Festival (the UK’s only major greenfield jazz festival) is located just outside of Brighton and runs from July 4th – 6th. Headliners include Soul II Soul (celebrating their 25th anniversary), Jamie Cullum, De La Soul, Courtney Pine, Imelda May and Gregory...

Dance group with a difference return to Exeter

Impermanence, the dance group that tour like a band visiting pubs, theatres and everywhere in between, are returning to Exeter this Month.

The group performed their acclaimed show Wo/Man at the Northcott Theatre last year to rave reviews, and are now set to return to Devon with their new show ' Trust in People'.

Trust in People is performed by dancers from acclaimed schools such as the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and the Institut de teatre in Barcelona.

Josh Ben-Tovim, Co-Director, said: “This year is all about exploring the notion of performance...

Event celebrates Cricklepit Mill

Cricklepit Mill, home to the Devon Wildlife Trust will be opening for a special weekend morning of milling and garden activities on Saturday 7 June 10am – 1pm. The event is free and everyone is welcome to drop in.

Cricklepit Mill’s wildlife garden is an urban oasis in the heart of the city. The volunteer-led project has seen a disused overgrown area bloom into a wonderful wildlife garden.

Devon Wildlife Trust’s Communication Assistant Jasmine Atkinson said: "We hope that the garden is a place where visitors can come and relax as well as get inspired to help wildlife in...

Exeter's brand new Comedy Club

A brand new comedy club is opening in Exeter in the autumn.

Exeter Comedy Grove, Exeter's newest and most exciting comedy club, is to be opened on Friday 17 October at the Lemon Grove, Exeter Univeristy.

We will have the best comedians from the national stand-up circuit with many who have appeared on such shows as Mock the week, never mind the buzzcocks.

Doors open at 7.30pm, showtime is 8.30pm.

Tickets are only £10, so go grab you tickets now for a fun filled night with lots of laughs and a good night out with friends and family. It will be one of the best...

Micro-budget British film to go nationwide

The UK theatrical release of the micro-budget British feature ‘Common People’ was set to be a special one-off screening at The Clapham Picturehouse on January 19th 2014. However, the film proved to be such a hit with audiences that it went on to play for nine weeks to packed houses, screening alongside Oscar contenders and Hollywood blockbusters.

Picturehouse then took the unprecedented step of selecting the film to be released nationwide in 17 Picturehouse cinemas on June 10th 2014 as part of their prestigious, ‘Discover Tuesdays’ programme. The first entirely self-distributed...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Don't make any plans for the weekend until you've checked out our guide to What's On in and around Exeter:

What the Ladybird Heard Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Two crafty robbers, one tiny ladybird, and a whole farmyard of fun! Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len have a cunning plan to steal the farmer’s fine prize cow. But they reckon without the tiniest, quietest creature of all: The Ladybird has a plan of her own! Join the woolly sheep, the hairy hog, the fat red hen and the dainty dog in this brand new stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’ colourful...

Exeter students perform in Lord of the Flies

Two talented student-dancers from Exeter, James Leo and Matthew Hartley, have struck gold: landing themselves in renowned choreographer, Mathew Bourne's stage adaption of Lord of the Flies - which showed at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth from the 30th of April to the 4th of May.

The boys were picked out of six hundred local dancers from across the South West, who fought it out to gain one of the twenty places available in the highly acclaimed production.

The classic story nods to an alternative rhythm in Bourne's revival, with the action taking place in a deserted...

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