The stunning Devonshire village of Branscombe once again hosts some of the world’s top musicians with the fourth Branscombe Festival from Friday 29 – Sunday 31 July 2016.
The Branscombe Festival combines world-class musicians with an idyllic countryside setting. Over three summer days, leading classical and opera artists perform in the village’s most picturesque venues, with cream tea served on Saturday afternoon and a hog roast that evening.
The festival culminates in a free concert on Branscombe beach by the Camborne Town Band.
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, has reported increased activity in the care home market in the South West over the first half of 2016 as compared to the same period last year.
Christie & Co’s South West team, which includes offices in Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter, has completed on 40% more care businesses, and agreed deals at an increase of almost 25%, than this time last year.
This growth of demand in the market comes despite the looming European referendum, as well as the implementation of the National Living Wage on 1st April which was...
One Day, Four Stages and Forty Bands, Music Day 2016, Sunday 19th June 2016 is back. It all takes place in The Horse, St Andrew’s Parish Church and the Central Cafe. The programme is packed with all genres of music, some new acts and regular favourites. Its a family friendly day with face-painting, a fabulous raffle and auction.
To give you a taster of the music, there are two stages in The Horse, with bands from all over Devon playing everything from rock, rocky folk, indy, blues, funk, punk and swing. There is even a ceilidh if you like dancing.
A couple who met on FORCE Cancer Charity’s Nello bike ride have just celebrated the birth of their first child.
Refreshment stop volunteer Tracy Sanders and cyclist Roland Wainwright first set eyes on each other over bananas and bottled water at the Tiverton Rugby Club feed station in 2014.
“I’ve been helping with the FORCE bike ride for the past seven years and I was always joking that maybe I could find myself a nice cyclist,” said Tracy.
She was helping with the clear-up when three backmarkers on the 55-mile ride – Roland and his friends Phil and Suzanne Cook –...
Two directors of a Devon insurance company have completed a big health and fitness challenge all in aid of charity.
Northcott Beaton Directors Nick Beaton and Keiron Northcott have been in training with David Lloyd fitness expert Simon Wilson for the last five months and have raised over £3,000 after completing the Exe Valley Endurance, a 66 mile walk, over the 11th and 12th June.
The money will go to the Exeter Foundation, the Exeter Chiefs charity, which supports a number of community charities including ELF, Dream Away and Force.
The Dissenters Graveyard in Exeter will open to visitors between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 25th June.
Visitors will be abel to:
- see the work done and being done to repair broken monuments: restored chest tombs; broken headstones repaired and set upright; and gravestones being put together piece by piece.
- view an exploratory excavation which could reveal a previously unknown underground vault.
- hear about previous excavations including an investigation of an intact underground vault with visible burials.
