Scouts and Guides set to bring the house down in Exeter

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Posted: Sun, 03/05/2017 - 12:03pm

Exeter Scouts and Guides will be “Riding along on the crest of a wave” again this Easter, as Exeter Gang Show returns to the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter from the 5th to the 8th April 2017.

Now in its 33rd year, the show will be packed full of popular songs, expert choreography and laugh out load sketches, and has everything to keep audience members of any age entertained.

The cast of almost 70 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts, Guides, Explorer Scouts, Rangers and Leaders aged nine and over have been rehearsing intensively since the beginning of the year.

This year's show is...

City suffer first defeat in five games

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Posted: Sat, 03/04/2017 - 7:14pm

Hartlepool United 3 Exeter City 1: Match report

Exeter City fell to their first defeat in five games as they surrendered a goal advantage away at Hartlepool United.

The Grecians had led through a superb goal from Ollie Watkins, but conceded an equaliser midway through the half and then had a strong penalty appeal turned fown in the build up to Hartlepool's second goal of the match. The home comeback was then completed in injury-time as Lewis Alessandra fired home.

City manager Paul Tisdale named an unchanged team from the side that had beaten Crawley Town 2-1 on...

Grecians Comedy Club

Event Date: 
13/04/2017 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Paramount Personnel Lounge, Exeter City Football Club, St James Park, Exeter

After a successful debut in February, 'Grecians Comedy Club' returns to the Paramount Personnel Lounge at St James Park on Thursday, April 13.

Opening the show is local comedian Luke Honnoraty, Luke is highly regarded as one of the best acts to emerge from the south west in recent years. He has gone from strength to strength and supported some of the best names in comedy including Russell Kane and Katherine Ryan. After performing in Oxford, the Daily Info said "Luke Honnoraty, an extremely endearing and affable young man with boy-next-door Devonshire charm who eases in with some...

Community fun day planned for Cranbrook

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Posted: Sat, 03/04/2017 - 5:46pm

A community fun day will be held in Cranbrook on Saturday 11 March.

Devon County Council, Action East Devon and Cranbrook Town Council are planning the event to inspire as many people as possible to walk, cycle or take the bus or train to travel to work or school. The family-friendly event will be held in Hayes Square from 10:30am-4pm and will feature a range of activities including guided cycle rides and free bike hire, Active Mums cycle rides, cycle skills sessions with local cycle group Adventurecize, and Rollapaluza will bring its static bike sprint races to Devon for the first...

Community fun day

Event Date: 
11/03/2017 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Hayes Square, Cranbrook, Exeter

A community fun day will be held in Cranbrook on Saturday 11 March.

Devon County Council, Action East Devon and Cranbrook Town Council are planning the event to inspire as many people as possible to walk, cycle or take the bus or train to travel to work or school.

The family-friendly event will be held in Hayes Square from 10:30am-4pm and will feature a range of activities including guided cycle rides and free bike hire, Active Mums cycle rides, cycle skills sessions with local cycle group Adventurecize, and Rollapaluza will bring its static bike sprint races to Devon for...

Absurd Bird launches Wings Challenge

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Posted: Sat, 03/04/2017 - 4:36pm

The unique chicken restaurant, Absurd Bird, is launching an Absurd Bird Wings Challenge across its stores, on Monday 13th of March at 6:30pm. This will see customers attempt to eat 24 chicken wings as quickly as possible in a timed eating contest.

To add to the excitement, Kate Ovens from The Lad Bible is taking on the challenge this weekend, ahead of the launch date, hoping to set a show-stopping time to beat on the night.

The Deep South inspired restaurants, famed for their flavorsome and juicy chicken wings, will be welcoming participants to the launch night, daring them...

It's a Knock Out returns to Exeter

Authored by forcefr
Posted: Sat, 03/04/2017 - 4:08pm

It’s a Knock Out is returning to Exeter this year in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity on Saturday 2nd September at Topsham Rugby Club.

Come and take part in this amazing day – teams of 10 are needed to take part.

The entry will be capped at 72 teams – 720 participants who must be over 17 years of age.

Twelve wet and dry obstacles will be used in the games to jump over, jump through and run around!

All you need to bring is a sense of humour, fancy dress, a tent, a mascot and a joker!!!

The entry price is £25 per person – for full details and to enter...

Beautiful Days announce line-up and theme for 2017

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Posted: Sat, 03/04/2017 - 3:41pm

Headlining Friday at the 15th Beautiful Days, the festival are delighted to welcome back Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott who will perform songs from their two Top 5 albums and classic tracks from their impressive back catalogues.

Headlining on Saturday is Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls - one of Britain’s hardest working musicians, Frank has just celebrated playing his 2,000th show.

Sunday night headliners are the festival founders Levellers who bring the weekend to a close with a special show followed by the annual firework finale.

Joining them on the Main...

Tigers 15 Chiefs 34

Exeter’s Premiership history maybe in its infancy when compared to that of hosts Leicester Tigers, but the Chiefs showed they are maturing into a formidable force with this impressive victory at Welford Road.

Rob Baxter’s side maintained their pursuit of table-topping Wasps by taming the Tigers in their own lair, recording a maximum haul of points courtesy of a penalty try and further touchdowns from Kai Horstmann Stuart Townsend and Mitch Lees.

England international Henry Slade weighed in with the remainder of the points for the visitors, who despite trailing in the early...

Teignmouth Drama Festival comes to Dawlish

Event Date: 
16/03/2017 - 7:30pm to 18/03/2017 - 3:00pm
Venue: 
Shaftesbury Theatre, Dawlish

The Teignmouth Drama Festival is now in its 21st year and is open to any amateur drama group in Devon. This year's festival will take place, for the second year running, at the Shaftesbury Theatre in Dawlish.

We had a really good time there last year and look forward to being in Dawlish again. The festival runs from Thursday 16th March to Saturday 18th March 2017. The Thursday and Friday performances will be at 7.30pm but we are opening at 3pm on the Saturday. We think this time will really appeal to audiences and performers alike. For more information visit: http://www....

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