Castle Drogo will be open for Christmas for the first time since a major conservation project began seven years ago to make the building watertight.
Although the building work now has the end in sight, there is still much work to be done to restore the castle’s grounds and interiors back into the Drewe’s family home, which is likely to continue into 2020. However, the building is now watertight, meaning that Christmas can return to the castle once again.
From Saturday 30 November until Monday 23 December, Castle Drogo will be open and decorated for Christmas, inspired by...
Through its Well Built Community Fund, RGB Building Supplies has already donated £5,000 for groups, charities and schools to spend at its branches this year. It has one last giveaway for 2019 and is calling for nominations for the chance to win £1,000 to purchase building materials or tools.
RGB's Community Fund aims to help groups complete much-needed projects that they would not otherwise be able to.
The donation is to be spent at an RGB branch and can be used to buy materials to complete a renovation project, or perhaps tools that could help with construction trade...
Three people in Exeter are celebrating this weekend after scooping a £1,000 cash prize each thanks to their lucky postcode.
The Whipton Barton Road neighbours netted the windfall when EX1 3PN was announced as a Daily Prize winner with People’s Postcode Lottery on Friday 13th December 2019.
People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Judie McCourt sent her congratulations to the winners. She said: “I couldn’t be more pleased for our winners in Exeter, hopefully they’ll all be out celebrating tonight!”
A minimum of 32% of ticket sales goes directly to charities and players...
David Wilson Homes is celebrating a special award for its efforts to embrace wildlife at Tarka Ridge in Yelland.
The five star housebuilder has been busy creating a haven for the natural world in the garden of a show home at the popular development. And now the RSPB has recognised the efforts with a Wildlife Show Garden Bronze award.
"We've worked very hard at Tarka Ridge to ensure those who buy our homes have a wonderful place in which to put down roots - but we also consider the wildlife residing here," said sales director, Nick Reid.
When you want to send money with a mobile app, you can use any app that you choose. There are several apps that you might use, and these companies function in different ways. You also need to be aware of the mistakes that you could make when sending money with a mobile app. Each tip listed below will help you save money, protect your personal information, and avoid long waits for your deposits. Choose The Mobile App That Suits The Situation When you learn how to send money with a mobile app , you need to choose a wire transfer company, virtual payment company, or bank app. Every one of...
The new job has been going well, so well that there is a budget for travel more specifically a budget for you to travel, whether that be through the fact your personal endeavours as an entrepreneur have become fruitful or your hard work for the company is finally paying off. Travel is a huge responsibility as everything you do is representing that brand or company abroad, not only are you representing it's also a test of your financial management skills. With all this in mind take some tips with you to ensure you get booked again.
Comedy star Joel Dommett is familiar with challenges after his memorable runners-up spot in the 2016 ‘I’m a Celebrity….Get Me Out of Here’. His most recent challenge saw him go head-to-head with fellow former campmates Dean Gaffney and Rosemary Shrager, not in the jungle but on a Catchphrase celebrity special last weekend.
Joel’s unique humour and quick wit sparkled again as he won £11,200 for charity Brain Tumour Support, a charity that runs support groups in Exeter and Plymouth (see below).
“I can’t believe how much money I won!” said Joel. “Turns out – I’m good at...
An Exeter district nurse is back on the road and completing her essential work in the community thanks to a new fund set up to help those motorists most in need.
Trish Perry is back doing her rounds in her VW Polo after receiving help with her repair bill from the TPS ‘Genuine Parts For Genuine Causes’ fund’.
The new scheme offers individuals, community projects and charitable organisations the opportunity to apply to local independent garages, which have a TPS account, for help with repairs needed to keep their vehicles on the road.
Nathan & Ida’s Hot Dog Stand Nathan and Ida Hardwerker leave the old country to build a better life for themselves in the New World: taking with them nothing but a will to succeed and a secret recipe for sauce. Encountering villains and vaudevillians, they go on a surreal journey through life, love, death and danger as they chase their dream of becoming purveyors of fine fairground foods and opening the greatest hot dog stand Coney Island has ever seen! Will Coney Island learn to love their bun-pups? Will their nemesis, Feltman, get his hands on the secret recipe? Will love conquer...
Living Room Theatre Will Eno’s Directed by Polly Whitfield Performed by Philip Robinson Title And Deed, an astonishing piece of contemporary drama: laugh out loud funny, powerfully poignant. A monologue on mortality, home, family, love, language, and a tuba. “Oh would some Power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us” Robert Burns In this play a man who is “not from here” wanders on-stage and speaks directly to us, talking about what divides and unites us. We are not him, but is he, in some mirror-like way, us?
