Exeter Phoenix and Blind Ditch are offering two £1,000 commissions to develop itinerant new work for new project Street LAB, a micro-festival of live art busking hitting the streets of the city during Art Week Exeter (13 – 21 May 2017).
The festival organisers are looking for entertaining and politically engaged concepts that bring audiences in public sites into lively encounters with contemporary live art practice with a musical twist. Street music is at the heart of historical debates around taste, place and disruption; often described as being democratic and open to anyone,...
Exeter businesses Slingshot Six Ltd, Wellity and Speedy Freight Exeter have made it to the final of Devon’s Fast Track to Growth Programme.
Fifteen companies across the county have been selected from over 60 entries to the free business support programme backed by Devon County Council, to help them develop their plans for growth in 2017. One, following a pitch event at Exeter Innovation Centre, will win £20,000 worth of on-going business support for the rest of the year.
The finalists include Exeter based Wi-Fi specialists Slingshot Six Ltd, fitness tracker social media...
The next generation of construction specialists studying at Exeter College had a behind-the-scenes tour of an innovative low energy building project.
Seventeen first-year students studying for their Construction and the Built Environment BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma visited the development next to Rennes House, Whipton, in Exeter. The project is being built on behalf of Exeter City Council.
Contractors C G Fry and Son Ltd and architects Gale & Snowden Architects gave a tour of the project and gave insights into its modern Passivhaus or ‘Passive House’ design and...
Exeter School equestrians are celebrating a second team entry into the National Schools Equestrian Association (NSEA) Finals at Hickstead plus an individual pupil qualified for the prestigious Arena Eventing Competition.
Megan Bailey, Alice Bailey, Olivia Eden and Izzy Kekwick competed in the 80/85cm class at Bicton on 11 February coming second out of 60 individual competitors. This qualifies them for the Finals in May.
Exeter Junior School pupil Eliza Heard was successful in the 70/75cm individual class and her second place also puts her into the National Finals.
Exeter Airport has notched up its fourth successive year of growth in 2016 with passenger numbers up to 847,372.
Latest CAA figures show that 25,583 more passengers used Exeter last year, up 3% on the year before. The figures include the airport’s best August in eight years, when more than 100,000 people passed through the terminal.
But the strongest growth was in November and December, up 11% and 13% respectively on the back of new winter sun flights to Alicante and Malaga in Spain, which started at the end of October.
There’s a new face at the Rusty Pig in Ottery St Mary - one that means business.
Agata Domarecka joins the team at the ethical eaterie as restaurant manager, bringing with her a wealth of experience in the catering industry.
Agata, known as Agy, came to the UK 10 years ago from Poland after being discovered waitressing by Devon hoteliers who offered her a job in Lynton. After a spell at the Talland Bay Hotel she found herself at Combe House Hotel, now The Pig, where she was soon promoted to restaurant manager. Under the auspices of then owners Ken and Ruth Hunt, Agy became...
Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, is using Student Volunteering Week (20 - 26 February) to thank their student volunteers who gave their time to the local charity over the last 12 months.
Citizens Advice student volunteers support people at the charity’s reception, in face-to-face interviews and over the phone. In 2016, the charity helped over 8000 local people by:
Dealing with debt, designing payment plans and negotiating with lenders
Improving people’s financial skills, for example by finding ways to cut fuel bills
Deaf footballers in Exeter hoping to become coaches have been given a £1,000 boost to help pay for sign language interpreters.
Exeter City Football in the Community have a deaf football team known as Exeter City Knights who train weekly and play in monthly Ability Counts tournaments.
Some of the players are keen to become coaches but need support to take the FA courses.
Housebuilder Persimmon Homes South West has stepped in with a £1,000 donation to help pay for two sign language interpreters to translate alongside FA Tutors during the course.
Cranbrook Country Park is hosting a wildlife gardening session this Saturday morning, February 25.
The session will take place between 10am and 12pm; families are invited to take part in building homes for the wildlife in the area.
Children will have the opportunity to create bird feeders for their own gardens and build a safe environment for bees using a baked bean tin and bamboo.
There will also be the chance to help build a bug hotel which is made from leftover materials.
Cranbrook Country Park has already carried out three sessions so far this year....
Shaldon Bridge is set to be raised once a year to ensure that the recently refurbished structure remains operational and to allow essential maintenance.
Last Friday (February 17) Devon County Council contractors, under the direction of the authority’s Bridges Team, successfully completed a trial raising of the bridge’s lifting span. An Act of Parliament requires that the bridge, which links Shaldon with Teignmouth across the River Teign, remains operational. The current 324-metre long bridge was completed in 1931, but it has been many years since the lifting span was used for...
