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Free Cider and Summer Tunes Come to Devon with a Music Series from Thatchers Cider

Free pints, live music and summer vibes

Thatchers is set to delight music and cider fans heading into venues and pubs across the summer with a national 40+ gig series that will visit Devon throughout August.

A mix of Juicy Sounds DJ nights and Summer Sessions acoustic evenings will be held to celebrate what promises to be a summer filled, not just with sport, but with music too.

Events are currently planned for:

  • The Blue Ball in Exeter on Friday 7th August.

  • Boathouse, Dawlish, Saturday 8th August.

  • Hyde Dendy,

    • ...
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Ahoy there... Quirk Theatre and Exeter Phoenix present a family Christmas show full of adventure

Travel to Treasure Island and search for pirates and loot in a story based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s book. It is 1953 and wartime sugar rationing has finally ended. Jess Hawkins and her gang, dreaming of gobstoppers and pineapple chunks, slip into old Mr. Jenks’ garden, just like they do every afternoon after school. Jenks has never caught them… not until today that is.

Mr Jenks is a gardener… but he is also a pirate! Threatening them with the Black Spot, he takes them on a wild adventure on the high seas meeting bloodthirsty Black Dog, mad Ben Gunn and the infamous one-legged...

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The Fixer: Alex Polizzi to return to BBC Two to help failing family firms

Tom Edwards, Commissioning Editor, Factual Features and Formats, has commissioned Twofour to produce a third series of hit BBC Two series Alex Polizzi - The Fixer .

The show sees third-generation hotelier of the internationally renowned Forte family dynasty - and successful businesswomen - Alex Polizzi turn her attention to family firms that have reached breaking point. She tackles both their financial failures and domestic dramas and tries to guide them back onto the path to success.

Home-grown family businesses make a significant contribution to the country's economy:...

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Oxjam Exeter to host up to 120 live music acts for Takeover Weekend

Oxjam Exeter has announced some of the venues that will together host up to 120 live music acts during the Oxjam Exeter Takeover weekend, taking place on 19 and 20 October 2013.

The Takeover weekend venues confirmed are The Cavern, The Phoenix (bar), Mama Stones, The Old Firehouse, The Revelry, Cellar Door, The Lemon Grove, The Angel and the Orchard at National Trust Killerton, where Takeover ticket holders will be able to attend their annual Apple and Cider weekend.

Oxjam Exeter is part of a national live music festival, taking place in up to 60 towns and cities across the...

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New transparency measures means IT business has nowhere to hide

An Exeter-based IT company has launched an innovative online platform that will allow its customers to see how well it is performing in customer service.

Hosted Desktop UK, an award-winning IT company with offices in Marsh Barton, Exeter and Lancashire, is thought to be one of the first businesses in the UK to introduce real time transparency.

Adam Chetnik, founder and director of the company which offers cloud and hosted desktop services to more than 4,000 users across the UK, is the brainchild behind the bespoke software and he believes more businesses should be...

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Kaleider announces five new live experiences in Exeter

Authored by KellyJohnson
Posted: Mon, 09/30/2013 - 12:16pm

This autumn, Exeter will host four new live performance experiences made, commissioned or produced by Kaleider. Taking place in public spaces throughout the city – from Exeter Central Library to the Guildhall – and all of them interruptive, and testing the boundaries of audience experience, the events offer something meaningful in everyday surroundings.

Kaleider makes the effort to continually ask the question ‘what can we do together that we couldn’t do apart? to that end artists, academics and scientists have been brought together to imagine new works that begin to look towards a...

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Get ready for Strictly Fever to hit our TV screens this weekend

Having met the celebrities and their gem-clad professional dancers three weeks ago, Strictly mega-fans will be glued to their TV screens this weekend (Friday 9pm, Saturday 7pm) to see how the pairings have been getting on in training. Who will show star potential and who will bear the brunt of Craig Revel Horwood's sardonic tongue?

Here is our amateur rundown of the celebrities and their glitterball-raising potential...

Ashley Taylor Dawson and Ola Jordan

Ashley will be feeling more than first-night nerves as he awaits the birth of his new baby. He's got the look,...

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A True Education: 'Educating Rita' at the Northcott Theatre

Authored by lamorna
Posted: Thu, 09/26/2013 - 5:24pm

Running from 25 to 28 September at Exeter's Northcott Theatre on Streatham Campus, this bitter-sweet comedy written by Willy Russell and starring Mary Elliot and Eddie Holden, is an absolute treat for anyone aged 18 years or above (it contains some strong language). Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company in June 1980 and starring Julie Walters and Mark Kingston, it was immediately a big hit at the box office. This production is presented by the Uncommon Players, a group of enthusiastic theatremakers from around the Exeter area.

Educating Rita explores the...

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Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival has best year yet

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 09/25/2013 - 4:58pm

By Beth May

Organisers of the fifth annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have reported a record breaking year selling the highest number of tickets in the festival’s history.

This year’s festival, which took place from 19th – 22nd September attracted international interest with organisers taking orders for tickets from the other side of the globe.

The line up featured a dazzling list of distinguished authors including Hilary Mantel CBE, Melvyn Bragg, PD James, Peter Snow, Jackie Kay, Peter Stothard, Miriam Darlington, Sarah Moss, Sam Willis, Lynne Truss,...

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Be part of Oxjam Exeter! Production, sound and venue managers required

Oxjam Exeter 2013 is part of a national music festival. The main event during the festival will be the Oxjam Exeter Takeover 2013, featuring up to 120 acts performing at multi-venues across Exeter on 19 and 20 October. There will also be fundraising activities and warm-up gigs to watch out for prior to the Takeover weekend.

All events are in aid of raising vital funds for Oxfam. Twitter @oxjamexeter2013 Facebook www.facebook.com/oxjamexeter

The Exeter Daily is getting behind Oxjam Exeter, as it was revealed today that we will be be the headline sponsor of this fantastic...

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Exeter Northcott Theatre announces new shows now on sale

Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced four new shows for 2014 that are now on sale.

With a mixture of high-quality drama, music and comedy, 2014 already looks set to be a fantastic year for the Exeter Northcott Theatre. With shows from The Mousetrap and A Tale of Two Cellos with Julian Webber, to Punt and Dennis and An Audience with Pam Ayres, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

The 60th anniversary tour of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes to the Exeter Northcott stage from Monday 30 June - Saturday 5 July. The Mousetrap is famous around the world for being the...

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