Tickety-Boo in Ottery St Mary has welcomed a new front of house manager to the team.
Zoe Blackmore has taken the reins at the coffee shop and children’s play kingdom in Mill Street after Jane North decided to return to her previous role as a Teaching Assistant.
Zoe, from Ottery, has been working at Tickety-Boo part time since it opened. She brings with her a wealth of experience including a 15-year stint at the Tesco staff canteen, where she was Team Leader, and is well known locally as she has also worked at the Kings Arms.
The fifth Powderham Food Festival has been the most successful yet with over 6000 visitors attending the two-day event in the grounds of Powderham Castle, during the first weekend of October.
Online ticket sales for the festival were four times higher than the previous year, showing that more people were planning ahead and booking in advance of the event.
The festival also featured a record number of exhibitors, with over 150 in attendance. This was a mix of local food and drink producers offering all kinds of tasty delights to sample and buy, but also a range of unique...
Police are investigating a burglary which took place at a property in Newton Abbot where precious military medals were taken.
The incident happened between 5:10am and 6.30am on Tuesday 20 September at a home in Queensway.
The offenders gained entry through a small upstairs window and stole eight military medals in bronze, silver and gold [pictured] which are of huge personal value to the home owner.
They include campaign medals achieved from the owner’s former military service in the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the 2nd Gulf War and Afghanistan....
Exeter has won recognition at a number of influential awards ceremonies.
Local authorities Exeter City Council and Teignbridge District Council were singled out for their role in putting on the highly successful BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend at Powderham Castle.
Working in partnership, the two councils won the Tourism Event of the Year Award at the English Riviera and South Devon Tourism and Hospitality Awards.
Fifty thousand people attended the Big Weekend at the end of May, witnessing some of the best bands in the business, including Coldplay and Mumford and Sons....
War Paint is a theatre installation/live art performance, a process of 4 women getting ready in a private flat. It explores themes of beauty, vulnerability, insecurity, fragility and strength and questions the relationship of women to their bodies. The autobiographical piece comprises a sound installation sharing personal stories of vulnerability, insecurity and shame about our bodies; stories that bare precarious parts of our internal character. The voyeuristic audience experience develops into an intimate performer-audience relationship. It is performed in 30 minute slots as a durational...
Rob Baxter says it’s only right that the pressure is heaped on his Exeter Chiefs side every time they take to the field at Sandy Park.
Having lost only once on home soil last season - that was to eventual English and European champions Saracens - Baxter is keen for his team to create another solid home foundation from which they look to attack on all fronts.
Already this season Saracens again showed how he could be done, winning 34-13 in Devon last month, but a week later the Chiefs were back on song, seeing off Harlequins with a five-try blast in their 36-25 success....
After a successful couple of years touring the country and playing Festivals, The South are looking forward to 2016. The combination of Beautiful South hits and album tracks as well as original songs from their debut album, ‘Sweet Refrains’ has hit a pleasure nerve around the country.
Once in a while a band appears that strikes a chord with many. Their music becomes an integral part of a nation's psyche and the soundtrack to many people's lives. Ingrained in the hearts of many is one such band, the Beautiful South. Over 3 decades this band became a household name, selling over 15...
The nationwide shortage of nurses in children’s palliative care has been making the headlines of late with reports of the lack of nurses affecting the care available to children with life limiting conditions. Yet the opportunity to provide holistic care to a child and their family is one of the most rewarding roles in nursing.
CHSW is taking a proactive approach to protect its services into the future and one of a range of initiatives is an exciting opportunity for nurses who may be considering returning to their career. Amanda Williams is a children’s palliative care nurse....
Sandy Park's popular Comedy at the Park returns on Friday, 2nd December from 7pm.
The evening will be MC-ed by Carly Smallman, described as 'the most exciting female act in the country right now.' First up is Trevor Crook, a deadpan Australian - 'one of Australia's most successful comics in the UK'. Next up is Simon Clayton, a 'likeable, fast-thinking Londoner' followed by John Robertson who's 'cheeky, brilliant, funny and sharp'.
Doors will open at 7pm with food available immediately and the comedians will begin at 8pm. The evening will finish at approximately 10.30pm....
Exeter School's library celebrated its 10th anniversary with a poetry event to tie in with National Poetry Day and 400 years of Shakespeare on Tuesday 4 October.
The School House Library, named after its origins as the boarding accommodation (dormitories and studies, called study row) when the school accepted boarders, was the venue for pupils, staff, guests, Governors and alumni to enjoy refreshments and tours by pupil guides which showcased the library's extensive facilities.
President of the School Library Association, Kevin Crossley-Holland, declared Exeter School...
