As twinkly lights appear and thoughts turn to Christmas shopping, Gandy Street's Countdown to Christmas will set the season off, not just with a bang, but with lights, music, mince pies, fizz, discounts AND SNOW!!
On 24 November, Gandy Street traders will once again take to the cobbled street to welcome Christmas shoppers with a spectacular Christmas Festival. And this year looks set to be bigger and better than ever.
Shoppers can expect a winter wonderland with all kinds of treats in the form of goodie bags, mulled wine, prosecco, mince pies, chocolate treats, macarons not...
WESTGATE SCIENCE CLUB FESTIVAL - Open to the general public, familes, friends, all ages. Interactive displays and presentations by the leaders and the children themselves. Doors open 6.30 pm and Main Presentation at 7.15pm. Ending with a 'Godspot' A Christian viewpoint of the evening.
Mike Coles & team phone 01392 253064 www.westgatescienceclub.org.uk
Parents can explore the vital importance of outdoor play for their under five year olds, during a series of fun education sessions at one of the areas newest attractions.
Early Years teacher Hannah O’Donnell, who specialises in the role of outdoor physical movement and cognitive development of young children, will be running the informal sessions.
They will take place at the Bear Trail, an Army-style adventure course, featuring a series of obstacles, including a zip wire, tunnels and mud pits, near Cullompton.
As well as having a chance to find out how outdoors play...
This Christmas Exeter College invite the public to join them in their festive celebrations and support Devon Air Ambulance (DAA). Exeter College’s Festival of Carols will be held on Thursday 8th December at Exeter Cathedral in aid of DAA as the College’s chosen Charity of the Year.
This event is open to the public and free of charge, in turn the College would like to collect donations at the end of the evening for DAA. The festival will run from 7:30pm to 9pm, with doors opening at 6:30pm.
Exeter College would like to encourage the public to join the college’s staff,...
Haldon Forest based Christmas Tree business have sensationally claimed a total of SEVEN prizes in this year’s British Christmas Tree competition – earning themselves a very special trip to Downing Street.
Husband and wife team, Stuart and Jennie Kirkup, who have been running Dartmoor Christmas Trees since 2002, were selected as standout winners in the categories of Champion Christmas Tree and Champion Wreath, in the British Christmas Tree Growers’ Association’s annual contest last week.
The competition saw growers travel from the farthest corners of the UK to Poundffald...
University; what a place, what a time. Nowhere else can you unapologetically sleep most of the day and party all of the night; a cycle only punctuated by trips to a local convenience store in your PJs. You know, the one that existed solely to exchange your student loan with ridiculously overpriced frozen pizza and processed sandwiches.
Well, that’s what higher education was as far as I could see. But, then again, it was only two grand a year back then. That meant that more than a few people were attending just for a 3-year party in the student bubble of no responsibilities....
Bridge Road in Exeter will be closed later this month as part of ongoing widening improvements.
The road will be closed to traffic from 10pm on Friday 18 November until 5am on Monday 21 November, which will be the last weekend closure of 2016. The closure will enable the remaining concrete repairs to be carried out to the underside of the Countess Wear Flood Relief bridge. This has to be undertaken while the road is traffic free as vibrations from vehicle movements would affect the work.
The diversion route will be signed via Topsham Road, Alphington Road, Marsh Barton and...
The first cigarettes on sale in new, standardised packaging have been spotted in Devon.
New laws that came in to force across the UK in May gave manufacturers up to a year to switch to drab green packs, with bigger health warnings, designed to make smoking less appealing to children and young people.
But just six months later, the first packs are starting to be seen here in stores across Devon.
Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member for Improving Health and Wellbeing, said: “We welcome the introduction of plan packaging, and Devon is...
This is a collaborative exhibition with The Photographic Angle and PhotoVoice. It offers an extraordinary insight into the lives of people from many 'voiceless' communities around the world. Images on display come from 4 collections ‘See It Our Way’, ‘How We See It’, ‘Lookout London’ and ‘Sights Unseen’. All work submitted by PhotoVoice.
VOICES is a touring photographic exhibition created and supported by The Photographic Angle.
For more information see www.thephotographicangle.co.uk/exhibitions . Please check website...
Defra announces 2016 bathing water quality results – East Devon has 7 Excellent beaches and 1 Good beach
The bathing waters at East Devon’s eight beaches have all passed the stringent testing standards set by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The announcement of the 2016 bathing water quality results, which was made by Defra earlier today, revealed that seven of the district’s beaches received an Excellent classification – which is the highest and cleanest class (an improvement from 2015 when only four beaches were classed as Excellent), while...
