Have you always wanted to Act? Or have you enjoyed acting and would like to tread the boards once more? Are you looking to be more spontaneous? Have more fun in your life? Meet new people? Act without a script? Say Yes and ...to life? Then this is for you! We are holding an Acting/Improvisation session; No experience needed but the willingness to have fun.
Back by popular demand, our ‘Find Your Rhythm’ childcare event is packed full of activities to get your little one up on their feet. Join our practitioners to find the beat with our Boogie Mites activities, showcasing a selection of songs to encourage body percussion, rhyming words and more. As well as, getting stuck in with a range of art and craft activities, including creating your very own musical instrument to take home. The babies will have the chance to express themselves with our Sing & Sign session, learning new signs and movements to communicate with you, their siblings and...
Shweta Banerjee, the self-proclaimed “ambitious, determined and hardworking” 16-year old from Exeter, raised the GCSE bar this morning when she discovered that she was The Maynard’s top scoring student with eight of the highest possible Grade 9s and two Grade 8s.
“I am really excited! I’ve worked so hard for this and couldn’t have tried any more so I’m just so happy to have these results!” she said. Shweta will go on to study Maths, Further Maths and Physics and has very ambitious plans for a future career. “I’m really not sure exactly what I would like to do but eventually I would...
Exeter School, the city's largest independent school, is celebrating another excellent set of GCSE results. Almost three-quarters of all grades - 73.65% - were grades 9-7, compared to the national average of 20.6%. Of the 118 pupils in Year 11, 67 achieved 8 or more 9-7 grades with 36 pupils scoring ten or more 9-7 grades. Leading achievers Ollie Bennett from Tiverton, Emma Halford from Teignmouth and Tom Harris-Deans, Adam Wajed and Casper Kelly from Exeter each scored ten 9 grades. Musical twins Rose and Grace Sail between them scored a remarkable 18 grade 9, one grade 8, one grade 7 and...
A HOME care provider in Exeter says a role as a carer in south Devon represents a job for life due to the on-going growth in the area’s ageing population (August 2019).
According to official statistics, pensioner numbers are predicted to continue to rise nationally and regionally as people live for longer due to improvements in health care and nutrition.
Catherine Porter, Manager of Guardian Homecare in Devon, which cares for people in the Exeter area, said: “As a nation we have an ageing population that wishes to stay at home and that the authorities realise are...
The award-winning Le Navet Bete bring their five-star, smash-hit comedy Dracula: The Bloody Truth to the Exeter Northcott for a special one-off run this September! From the awkwardly charming seaside town of Whitby to the sinister Transylvanian mountains, join esteemed Professor Abraham Van Helsing and his three idiotic actors as they frantically try to uncover the truth behind Bram Stoker's infamous Count... with side-splitting consequences!
The matriarch of Paignton Zoo died at the age of 49. Born in 1970, she came to Paignton Zoo in 1977 and for many years lived with female Asian elephant Gay. Duchess collapsed in her enclosure on Sunday 14th July and had to be put to sleep.
Zoo spokesperson Phil Knowling said: “The enormous, immediate and heartfelt public response prompted us to think about how we should remember her. Duchess was here for over 40 years; she was the matriarch of Paignton Zoo.
“We’ve decided to commission a memorial artwork. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of people encountered Duchess...
It’s an expensive time of year for birthday presents among the kittiwakes at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo. The five adult birds all have birthdays between July 17th and August 7th. And now a chick has hatched on its mother’s birthday.
The kittiwake also hatched in the same nest and to the same parents as last year, when Living Coasts recorded its first ever breeding of this species. The kittiwake is listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Senior Keeper Jason Keller has been keeping a close eye on things: “The chick seems...
South Devon University Technical College (UTC) has demonstrated that its impressive post 16 results, celebrated last week, are no flash in the pan. Students in Year 11 are also celebrating after receiving notable GCSE results.
Newton Abbot’s pioneering technical college opened its doors from 8:30am this morning for the scientists and engineers of the future to collect their exam results.
There is much to celebrate with excellent results in the college’s specialist subjects.
Notable academic successes were Michael Chavanga, Molly Duffy and Ethan Starcevic who...
Residents are invited to a drop-in session in Dawlish, Devon, to update them ahead of work restarting on the new sea wall which will help protect the town and the railway from extreme weather and rising sea levels for generations to come.
Network Rail will restart work on 9 September on the new bigger sea wall which will provide greater resilience for the stretch of railway that connects the South West with the rest of the country.
Work had stopped during the peak summer tourism season to minimise the impact on local communities and businesses.
