Princesshay has announced a free community event to celebrate summer in the city. The ‘HAY Summer’s Here’ event on Thursday 26th July will feature spectacular street entertainment, live music, a face painter, creative workshops and food samples from the restaurants. The event, which runs from 11am – 4pm, will see three very different exciting street performances roam around Princesshay Square, and free creative workshops for families. Comedy Waiters will be entertaining visitors to Princesshay with their hilarious slap stick comedy, evoking the genius of Morecombe and Wise. Watch out for...
A trio of Teignbridge parks have received the prestigious Green Flag award yet again for their high standard of quality and cleanliness.
Decoy Country Park and Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot, and The Den, Teignmouth, are confirmed as among the best parks and open spaces in Britain.
Decoy Country Park has won the award for 12 years, The Den 10 years and Courtenay Park eight years. A Green Flag flying overhead is a sign to visitors that the space is of the highest quality standard.
All three Teignbridge sites boast open grassed areas with beautiful walks, as well as...
A Devon social entrepreneur has attended the President's Lunch at Wimbledon after winning a prestigious tennis award.
Former physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy, founded her social enterprise, Double Bounce Inclusive Tennis South West CIC, to combine her love of tennis and helping others.
Double Bounce Inclusive Tennis South West CIC provides tennis based sessions for people with physical and learning disabilities. It caters for adults at the Plymouth Life centre, as well as holding sessions in special needs schools and young adult support centres.
A celebration of Exeter's historic buildings through a loving look at our locally quarried "Heavitree Stone". Family-fun performance, information and friendly chats with our "Quarrymen".
Sign up here! - http://www.heavitreesquilometre.org/heavitree-quarries.html
Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, headed to its local school, Cranbrook Education Campus yesterday (11th July 2018) with an enthusiastic team to inspire the next generation of recruits with a talk on aviation-related careers. Some 150 students aged 11 to 14 enjoyed getting up close and personal during an interactive talk with some of Flybe’s pilots, cabin crew and engineers who gave interesting insights into how they qualified for their particular role, the training they received, explained their own individual path to joining the airline – and what their day-to-day jobs involved....
BBC Strictly Come Dancing’s all-time favourite professional, Robin Windsor, has decided to hang up his dancing shoes, after a long and successful career and he plans to go out with a bang!
Robin, who was part of the hit TV show for five years, and whose celebrity partners included Patsy Kensit, Anita Dobson, Lisa Riley, and Deborah Meaden, is excited to create a show that will be action packed and energetic to match his personality... which he's bringing to Exeter's Barnfield Theatre on 11 November.
Robin is no stranger to touring, having been involved in many shows over...
Australian guitarist and songwriter Jeff Lang is coming to Exeter Phoenix on 28th July.
Jeff has earned worldwide acclaim as a virtuosic guitarist, a dynamic songwriter and a startlingly unique live performer. Over the course of 16 studio albums, Jeff has blended rock, roots, folk, blues, ballads, instrumentals, improvisation and a devastatingly high level of musicality. Jeff Lang is a singularly unique performer in our world.
Never constrained by genre definitions, Jeff is not one to be easily pegged, though in a general sense it’s fair to say he largely trades in roots-...
Celebrate the start of National Parks Week and discover what makes Dartmoor so special at the Dartmoor Summer Fair on 21 July. The National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown is the place to be for this free family event. You will be able to meet the Dartmoor range producers as well as get the opportunity to try and buy their stunning Dartmoor inspired products; meet Lily Warne’s heritage Dartmoor breed sheep; take part in an outdoor lab and bug hunt in the Dartmoor Conservation Garden; join experts from The Box, Plymouth (previously Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery) and discover more...
The Fleetwood Mac Songbook are a six piece Devon / Cornwall based tribute band performing a non stop, hit packed show spanning 50+ years of Fleetwood Mac's stellar career. They are appearing on 1st September at The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter and tickets are on sale NOW ! To book click HERE
