The favourite quotes and sayings of Chaplains who have served the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital over the last 21 years have been carefully crafted into a new piece of artwork for the hospital’s chaplaincy centre thanks to a donation from the League of Friends.
The new ‘Threads and Ripples’ tapestry, by renowned Devon textile artist Jacqui Parkinson, will be displayed on the wall in the chaplaincy centre to offer comfort and solace to those who choose to visit the space.
The RD&E’s multi-faith chaplaincy team provide pastoral support and spiritual and religious care...
Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir (BSMVC) will support Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) in celebration of their 25th year of service with a gala concert at Exeter Cathedral this summer.
The concert, at 7:30pm on Saturday 5th August, will feature BSMVC, directed by Michael Graham, performing a mixture of popular and traditional songs from their wide repertoire, set to entertain a broad audience.
The concert will feature special guests Tim Mirfin, Bass, and Iryna Ilnytska, Mezzo Soprano, both of whom have appeared in concerts and operas around the world, and David Davies,...
Hospital Radio Exeter broadcasts to the largest Hospital in Exeter, the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford) and are looking for new volunteers aged 18 and over, from all backgrounds.
Hospital Radio Exeter uses professional quality equipment and state of the art technology to provide a 24 hour service, 7 days a week and we are currently looking for new faces to join our friendly team of dedicated and hard working volunteers.
They are looking for:
Audio engineer (Radio) with a computer background Fundraising/publicity officer Ward visitors
Around 5,000 seized items of counterfeit clothes have been donated to the charity Planet Zero by Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service.
The mainly counterfeit goods, which include track suits, t-shirts, sweatshirts and trainers, are the result of seizures by trading standards officers across the area.
On Friday trading standards officers packed a lorry bound for the charity, which collects unwanted clothes for a good cause, full of clothes.
The clothes were stored at the service's secure compound in Somerset.
It’s the final countdown! Time is fast running out to enrol in the Eighties-themed Twilight Walk on Saturday 8th July.
Remember, this is an exclusively female event: on this occasion, sisters are doing it for themselves! Join up today and raise loadsamoney for Exeter’s well known and popular local charity Hospiscare, an organisation which itself started in the Eighties (in 1982, to be precise).
The Twilight Walk is a 5-mile or new 10-mile themed sponsored walk around Exmouth Seafront with entertainment provided all along the route. The walk starts from The Maer, Exmouth....
He’s spent 22 ½ years fighting crime and now former Devon police Sergeant Jim Humphrey has launched a war on grime.
For Jim has taken over the South West region of Ecocleen Services, a national franchise which offers a range of services including cleaning up to an industrial scale.
The veteran cop will be known to residents of East Devon for his role as the Neighbourhood Team Sergeant for Honiton and Axminster where he spent the last three years of his career.
But he has swapped pounding the beat for a career in business taking on over 50 clients and 70 staff from...
LOCKDOWN, the South-West’s biggest dance music festival, will return to the magnificent Powderham Castle, Exeter on the weekend of 1-3 September 2017.
Acts already confirmed: DIZZEE RASCAL CHASE & STATUS (DJ) (SEE WEBSITE FOR THIRD HEADLINER) WILEY GIGGS WILKINSON (DJ) SIGMA DJ GORGON CITY (DJ) BASEMENT JAXX (DJ) AJ TRACEY BECKY HILL SASASAS TQD JAX JONES SAM WHITMORE J.MASSISION SAM DEVINE KURUPT FM METRIX MY NU LENG CONGO NATTY + MANY MORE LIVE ACTS & DJs
LOCKDOWN will be spread across four stages over the 3 days and will feature well-known brands such as UKF,...
The countdown to the eleventh annual Dartmoor Classic Sportive, which takes place on Sunday 02 July, is on, and organisers are looking forward to yet another successful event.
Up to 3,500 riders will participate, with entrants travelling from as far as Australia, Brazil, France, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Bulgaria, the USA, Canada, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Spain, Italy and Ireland.
The riders will tackle one of three routes; the 35 mile piccolo route, the 68 mile medio route and the 107 mile grande route. The routes are designed...
Over the past three decades multi award winning British soul group Imagination released so many wonderful classic hits such as Body Talk, Just An illusion and Flashback, helping them to secure their dominance over the charts in the 1980s not only in the UK but across the world.
With sales in excess of over 30 million albums, Imagination presented perfect Brit Jazz/Funk songs and established their position as an essential 80s crossover soul-dance hit band influencing generations of future pop stars.
Even today the story of Imagination’s music continues in the form of a long...
Honda Accords were targeted over the weekend, as car parts were removed and almost £5,000 worth of tools were stolen from two vans.
Between 5.30pm on Sunday 18 June and 8am on Monday 19 June an exhaust and a catalytic converter was cut off a blue Honda Accord that was parked in the Fraser Road area of Exmouth. Another catalytic converter was stolen with another having been removed from a bronze Honda Accord in the Moormead area of Budleigh Salterton during a similar time-frame.
Exmouth police are also investigating after thieves’ targeted vehicles over the weekend period...
