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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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#2 minutes @ 2pm on Dartmoor

Join Dartmoor National Park Rangers, Volunteer Wardens and staff for 2 minutes @ 2pm on Thursday 23 June at Spitchwick, Deeper Marsh, for a #2 minute litter pick (as seen on BBC Springwatch!), to tidy up the popular picnic spot.

This area always suffers from recreational litter, despite our efforts to keep it clean and tidy, so we would love you to help for just two minutes! We are meeting at the car park at Deeper Marsh (Ordnance Survey grid reference SX 713712) and will spend some ‘tidy-up time’ to get Spitchwick, spick and span…gloves and tools provided, and of course a treat...

Classic American car show comes to Cofton

A mix of muscle cars, hot-rods and American classics including Chevrolet’s, Cadillacs, trucks and Jeeps will be turning heads and thrilling fans at the annual American & Classic Car Show held at Cofton Country Holidays near Starcross on Sunday 03 July.

Set to be the biggest event of its kind in the South West, the National Can-Am Car Club hopes that this show will be a record breaker, both in terms of the number of cars on show and the number of fans attending the event.

Over 100 ‘Classic’ American and Canadian cars are already booked to attend and anyone arriving in a...

Exeter Army Careers Centre hosts Schools’ Challenge

For the first time since 2012, the Exeter Army Careers Centre is hosting the Devon & Somerset Schools’ Challenge.

As the name suggests the event is a competition between visiting local schools, where they will participate in a variety of Army themed exercises, designed to test and develop their communication skills, team-working and leadership. Starting from Tuesday the 21st and concluding on Thursday the 23rd, 42 different schools & colleges from across Devon and Somerset will meet at the WestPoint Arena, in Exeter to compete for one of three Schools Challenge Trophies, to...

RAMM screens Somme documentary

This year, Imperial War Museums (IWM) and Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) are working together to show the UNESCO listed film

The Battle of the Somme, to audiences across the world. Shot and screened in 1916, it was the first feature-length documentary about war and changed the way both cinema and film was perceived by the public. In the year of its release around 20 million people, almost half the population of Britain at the time, watched The Battle of the Somme many hoping to see the image of a loved-one, or friend captured on film. One hundred years later, this...

Special event promotes Queen's Awards for Enterprise and Devon Delivers Ambassadors

Business leaders from a wide range of Devon companies and organisations gathered on Tuesday 14 June at a joint celebration of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise and the Devon Delivers Ambassadors’ programme.

The event at Bovey Castle was organised jointly by the Devon Lieutenancy and the Devon Delivers Ambassadors’ programme run by Devon County Council to promote the awards to Devon’s business community.

Alongside the Devon Delivers Ambassadors, businesses that attended included Dartington Crystal, TDK Lambda, British Ceramic Tiles, Midas, PKF Francis Clark, Michelmores, as...

Traffic chaos at Elton John concert

Westpoint has issued an apology after some music fans missed out on Elton John's concert in Exeter last night.

Five-mile tailbacks built up going into the showground, leading to chaotic scenes.

Westpoint bosses used twitter to keep those trying to attend informed.

They said a mixture of issues had contributed to the problems including a number of minor accidents.

One tweet said: "We are sorry people are experiencing delays due to traffic jams. The management are fully aware of the situation and are taking on feedback."

Customers who missed out are...

Appeal after Devon man goes missing

Devon and Cornwall police have concerns for a missing man Barrie Sharman from the Woodbury area of Exmouth. He was last seen at approximately 3.00pm on Sunday the 19th June 2016 by carers at his home address on Sanctuary Lane, Woodbury.

Barrie is a white male 48 years old approximately 5’7” tall and of slim build. He wears glasses and usually has his hair spiked. When he was last seen he was wearing a black hooded top with a lion print on the front and dark trousers.

Any sightings of Barrie can be reported to Devon and Cornwall police quoting Log 578 16/06/2016

What is Kaleider?

Kaleider’s aim is to bring people together to engage creatively with some of the greatest challenges of our time.

We want to create extraordinary, human centred experiences that help us all towards a better understanding of ourselves and our world. By definition we cannot do this on our own. If, whilst you read our plan, you feel you have something to contribute to what Kaleider is trying to achieve, we would love to hear from you.

Right now Kaleider is seeking an exceptional individual to become the company’s first Chair of the Board.

The new Chair will join...

Archaeologists lead community dig on lost Dartmoor Manor

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This will be the third season of excavation. The first phase in 2012 targeted the medieval manor site and revealed wall footings, boundary works and pottery that strongly suggest a high status medieval building once stood in the area.

The excavation this year will continue to investigate some of the features unearthed in previous digs with the hope of finding out more about their age...

Exeter couple show how #ToiletsSaveLives

Neil and Alison Heard will head to the Glastonbury Festival with WaterAid this week to rally support for the charity’s #ToiletsSaveLives campaign that calls on world leaders to reach everyone, everywhere with taps and toilets.

The couple have supported WaterAid for many years, and this will be the third year they have volunteered at Glastonbury the charity. They will be working alongside an army of 470 dedicated WaterAid volunteers making a splash at Worthy Farm this year.

They said "We're really proud to have been selected again to represent WaterAid at Glastonbury. We're...

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

#2 minutes @ 2pm on Dartmoor

Classic American car show comes to Cofton

Exeter Army Careers Centre hosts Schools’ Challenge

RAMM screens Somme documentary

Special event promotes Queen's Awards for Enterprise and Devon Delivers Ambassadors

Traffic chaos at Elton John concert

Appeal after Devon man goes missing

What is Kaleider?

Archaeologists lead community dig on lost Dartmoor Manor

Exeter couple show how #ToiletsSaveLives

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