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The organisers of Devon County Show are delighted to announce that Kirstie Allsopp will visit the Show on the morning of Saturday 18th May.

Well known for her passion for crafting, it will come as no surprise that Kirstie’s focus during her visit will be the crafts and flowers Pavilion - a football pitch sized marquee blooming with floral arts, baking competition entries, garden installations and craft exhibitors galore.

This year, the pavilion will welcome a debut appearance from the South West Quilters, alongside a pottery workshop where visitors can try their hand at...

Exeter Philharmonic Choir is ending its 2024/25 season with a veritable banquet of some of the greatest English choral and organ music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

‘A Feast of English Choral Music’ at Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 14 June is the Choir’s closing concert of another successful season. The concert will take the audience on a journey with music of different styles and contexts, from the highly ceremonial to the spiritual and more intimately personal.

Graze on rich, melodious harmonies, including works by the musical giants of their time: Ralph...

Exeter is in line to get a pop-up city centre market on the site of its former bus station.

Members of the city council heard that an entrepreneur had come up with proposals to set up a market on the site off Sidwell Street where the bus station was demolished last year.

Cllr Lynn Wetenhall (Green, Newton and St Leonards) reminded a meeting of the full council that having a market was the most popular option for the land, according to a recent public consultation.

Green councillors have claimed that the city council’s Labour administration just wants to have a...

The first cohort of graduates from a UK-first programme in psychedelics will be celebrated when Europe’s largest and longest-running conference on psychedelic comes to Devon this Easter.

The conference, called Breaking Convention, takes place every two years, with more than 200 speakers presenting at the University’s Streatham Campus between April 17 and 19. It includes subjects encompassing medicine, psychology, anthropology, sociology, law, politics, and the arts - with the University’s own research on the bill, including philosopher Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, who is a co-...