Exeter Punks Picnic

Event Date: 
18/08/2017 - 12:00pm to 20/08/2017 - 11:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre & Cavern Club, Exeter

Exeter Punks Picnic is a three day music event taking place in August. Organised by Old Hat Promotions, this is the first year such an event has been held in Exeter.

The event will span three days, (18th-20th August) and two venues - the Barnfield Theatre and the newly reopened from fire damage Cavern Club.

Friday the 18th will feature four acts at the Barnfield Theatre, 7pm-11pm. These are A Waste of Damnation, Skinners, Bastard and Plymouth punk favourites The Bus Station Loonies. This event is £5 entry and advance bookings can be made through the box office on 01392...

RSPB - East Devon Heath Week 2017

Event Date: 
24/07/2017 - 12:00am to 28/07/2017 - 12:00am
Venue: 
RSPB Aylesbeare Common, Exmouth Road, Aylesbeare, Devon, EX5 2JS

Pond dipping and tractor ride at Aylesbeare Common

Monday 24 July: 10am-11.30am; Noon-1.30 pm; 2pm-3.30pm

Friday 28 July: 11am-12.30pm.

Child £3 (must be accompanied by adult). No charge for adult accompanying child.

Venn Ottery nature reserve's Open Day - Monday 24 July

Time: 2pm-4pm

Price: Free, donations welcomed.

Heath and Quarry walks - Thursday 27 July

Time: 10am-noon; 2pm-4 pm Price: Free, donations welcomed.

Darties at Dawn - Friday 28 July

Time: 6.30am-9am

Price: Adult member £8, non-member...

Appeal after strimmer stolen in Exmouth

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 2:57pm

Police in Exmouth are appealing for information after power a petrol strimmer worth around £200 was stolen from behind a van in the Littleham area of Exmouth.

The offence took place in the Louisa Terrace area of Littleham, Exmouth at around 12.30pm on Wednesday 14 June.

PC Ian Schofield said: “At the time, a contract gardener was packing his gear into his van when the Stihl FS 55 two-stroke petrol strimmer was stolen. He had left the strimmer outside the back of his van when an unknown young man walked up to the van, took the strimmer and then ran to another van and drove...

Toxic Masculinity explored in ‘Give Me Your Skin’

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 12:52pm

Critically-acclaimed theatre artists Tom Ross-Williams and Oonagh Murphy have announced the premiere of their latest show, Give Me Your Skin.

The show dramatises questions around how gender stereotypes shape our lives, looking at the future of gender, offering solutions and showing how feminism can be a powerful force for good in the lives of boys and men - and will be showing at Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre on 27/28 June.

In Give Me Your Skin, Ross-Williams and Murphy offer a fresh perspective on gender inequality, weaving together narratives of violence, intimacy and...

New tapestry reflects the words that mean the most to hospital chaplains past and present

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 12:05pm

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 Concert in support of Devon Air Ambulance

Event Date: 
05/08/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

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 needs volunteers

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

Volunteers...

Trading Standards donates counterfeit clothes mountain to charity

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 6:50am

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.

Every year thousands of products...

Take a walk back to the 80s with Hospiscare Twilight Walk!

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 6:31am

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....

Jim swaps crime for grime in new business venture

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Fri, 06/23/2017 - 11:54pm

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...

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