Pet lovers in Exeter Marsh have shown just how barking mad they are about their pets as they helped raise almost £1,000, for local pet rescue, RSPCA Little Valley Animal Shelter.
Running from 6th June - 3rd July, a nationwide fundraising event was launched by Support Adoption For Pets, in conjunction with Pets At Home, with the aim to raise £550,000 to award to pet rescues across the UK. The community of Exeter Marsh helped smash that target and push it to a whopping £575,464 to help pets in need this summer.
To raise funds, customers purchased £1 scratch cards in Pets At...
Devon-based thermal engineering specialist, GRE Ltd, is celebrating the completion of a £1 million design and manufacture project for one of South Korea’s largest smart energy producers.
The export of the bespoke ultra-pure water cooling system, which has been developed for an SVC power transmission system - which manages the efficient distribution of power to millions of homes - is the latest cooling solution to be delivered by the internationally renowned engineering firm, based in Willand. The project forms part of two separate systems recently developed for the South Korean...
Students at Newton Abbot’s pioneering technical college were put through their paces when a Royal Marine Chef visited to lead an energetic cooking masterclass.
Year 10 and Year 12 students of South Devon University Technical College (UTC) received a lesson in healthy cooking from Colour Sergeant Mike Beaton. Founder of the popular Marine in 15 videos which have received over 13,000 views on YouTube, Mike put the students through their paces in a blood-pumping cooking masterclass in the college’s Challenge Arena.
Known as the ‘Mary Berry’ of the Royal Marine Commandos, Mike...
Cygnet Theatre Cautionary Tales for the World’s Worst victorian Children
Tales of death, doom and destruction to ensure juvenile propriety & fear. Before David Walliams’The World’s Worst Children there were plenty of naughty children whose stories needed to be told. Parents told tales to curb bad behaviour and the children listened politely; pondering the likelihood of the stories being true, while relishing the gruesome death and destruction. Older children (now Mums & Dads) may remember some of the stories.
Join the Cygnet Company for 50 minutes of ghoulish...
Roly Palmer, an experienced Dawlish coarse fishing expert and angling coach at Cofton Holidays, has been recognised for his work to encourage young people into angling with a prestigious Volunteering Excellence Award from the Angling Trust.
Nominated for his commitment to protecting fisheries and promoting fishing to new anglers, the award recognises Roly’s work over the past 15 years as a volunteer for the Exeter & District Angling Association.
In addition to his work for the association, Roly teaches hundreds of juniors and adults each year at Cofton Holidays,...
The early 1970’s a time of personal and social turmoil, “free” sex, drugs, cold war, ban the bomb. Christine and Martin are certainly not enjoying the so called sexual revolution, not helped by the “Let it all hang out !” movement. Their marriage is not working although both want it to and so embark on various paths to save it: some bizarre, some comic, some desperate.
Join them in their laughter and tears as they experiment with sex games, pharmaceutical solutions and tantric sex. Sadly they would have made great friends.
“You won't find English folk music played better than this” R2 “The finest of traditional English folk today: a trio of poise and subtle gesture, of deft layering, graceful swing and gorgeous understatement” The Guardian Top English instrumental folk trio Leveret return to the road this September, taking their unique blend of traditional tunes, new compositions, incredible musicianship and stunning musical interaction to thirteen venues ranging from international concert venues and arts centres to village halls. Leveret features three of England’s top folk instrumentalists. Melodeon genius...
extreme imagination logoJoin Alice as she falls down the rabbit hole into a wonderland full of strange and peculiar creatures. Have tea with the Mad Hatter, make friends with the Cheshire Cat….. and will the Red
Queen say “off with her head”?
Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece has been adapted & shortened to make this one hour piece specifically designed for families, and performed by young people.
With lovely costumes, scenery and great story telling this will be a delightful trip to Wonderland for everyone, not just...
Kick In The Head Fagin? A new play written and directed by Simon Downing
Who was Fagin? Was he the Fagin in Dickens’ Oliver Twist? Was he the Fagin in Oliver! the musical? Was he based on a real-life character?
Join Fagin as he reviews his situation during his final night in prison before being hanged. As madness envelopes him he is ‘visited’ by some old friends. Find out who he really was and how he ended up as one of the best known, yet unknown, of Dicken’s characters.
‘Life need not be easy provided only that it is not empty’. Living through some of the most turbulent times in modern European history, Lise Meitner was at the forefront of the new science of Nuclear Physics. Her story is one of struggle – against a society that did not value female education, against academia that did not promote it, against a regime that threatened her existence and an establishment which used science to wage war.
Throughout, Meitner retained her humanity and her love of her...
