The Donkey Sanctuary is holding a spring family fun day and dog show on Sunday 15 May from 10am to 4pm.
Come and join The Donkey Sanctuary at their Spring Family Fun Day and Dog Show, for an action-packed and exciting day with a whole range of activities for all of the family to enjoy. There will be plenty of wonderful stalls with a wide assortment of different stands and goodies for two and four legged visitors.
Does your dog have the waggiest tail or the most appealing eyes? The Dog Show will be split over two parts of the day; the first from 11-12:30 and the second from...
Fans of Pink Floyd will be flocking to Exeter Corn Exchange on Saturday 28 May when UK Pink Floyd Experience visits the venue on a national tour.
UK Pink Floyd Experience was formed in 2008 and features top class musicians recreating the music and atmosphere of the great Pink Floyd in concert.
The band draws widely on the whole Floyd back catalogue performing songs from all of the iconic albums including Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Atom Heart Mother, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.
The age old debate of whether rugby or football is the superior sport came to a head on Wednesday 4th May when players from the Exeter Chiefs and Exeter City FC battled it out… in a cook-off!
In celebration of the opening of The Room Works, a brand new kitchen and bathroom showroom based on Alphinbrook Road, Exeter, players were pitted against each other to make a starter, main course and dessert under the watchful eye of Austin Gosling, Head Chef at On the Rocks restaurant in Torquay.
It ended in a draw, but not before some fiercely fought one to one battles took place....
Ground-breaking Canon Anna Norman–Walker has been appointed the first honorary chaplain of the Devon County Show, which will be held on May 19-21 at Westpoint, Exeter. “It was a lovely surprise,” said Canon Norman-Walker, who is a passionate supporter of the countryside. “The Show champions the local and the sustainable, creating a vital platform to acknowledge the faithful work of our farmers who are all too often isolated and labouring against the odds. “For three days a community springs into life at Westpoint giving all who attend a taste of Devon and all that there is for us to be...
Fancy a peek around some private gardens in Exeter’s leafy St Leonards? Then pop along to see six gardens in Matford Avenue, Matford Road, Leighdene Close and St Leonards Road, five of which are opening for the first time.
The keen gardeners, who are all good friends, are taking part in Exeter Hospiscare’s Open Gardens on Sunday May 22 from 2pm-5pm. Admission is by donation.
“Come and take a look around, this is a friendly, welcoming neighbourhood,” said Minna Egan, one of the garden owners.
“We have neighbourhood parties at Christmas and in the summer, so we all...
Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education English teacher, Deb Thomas is one of the top six teachers in the UK in line to win a Pearson Teaching Award for 2016 Teacher of Year.
Deb won the Silver Award for Excellence in Special Needs Teaching 2016 and now goes on to compete as a finalist for Teacher of the Year against hundreds of teaching professionals from schools across the UK.
The star-studded awards ceremony takes place in London and will be broadcast on TV in the autumn on the BBC2 programme ‘Britain’s Classroom Heroes’
Kimberly Wyatt could easily be mistaken for a Hollywood starlet in her latest shoot to launch Specsavers in Exeter’s search for the Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2016. The singer, dancer, MasterChef champion and mum has posed in a series of stunning shots oozing old-fashioned movie star glamour to encourage South West specs wearers to pucker up and enter Specsavers’ annual specs selfie competition. Proud specs wearers from every corner of UK can enter the competition to be in with a chance of attending the star-studded final in London and lifting the overall crown, along with £10,000 in...
The Donkey Sanctuary is holding a spring family fun day and dog show on Sunday 15 May from 10am to 4pm.
Come and join The Donkey Sanctuary at their Spring Family Fun Day and Dog Show, for an action-packed and exciting day with a whole range of activities for all of the family to enjoy. There will be plenty of wonderful stalls with a wide assortment of different stands and goodies for two and four legged visitors.
Does your dog have the waggiest tail or the most appealing eyes? The Dog Show will be split over two parts of the day; the first from 11-12:30 and the second from...
Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and a smash hit tour last year (packed with mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness) Avenue Q comes to Exeter Northcott Theatre at the end of May.
Featuring the naughtiest puppets in town, brought hilariously to life by an ensemble cast, Avenue Q is a Tony Award winning musical about growing up, dreaming big and finding your purpose in life.
Created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (Co-creator of Book of Mormon and writer of the songs for Disney’s Frozen) Avenue Q is an irresistibly charming musical...
A junk food diet can cause as much damage to the kidney as diabetes, according to a study published today in Experimental Physiology.
Type 2 diabetes is often associated with obesity and the number of cases are rising worldwide at an alarming rate. In type 2 diabetes, the body either doesn’t produce enough insulin or doesn’t react to it. This causes an accumulation of sugar (glucose) in the blood, which can have severe long-term consequences for organs, including the kidneys, where it can lead to diabetic kidney disease. Hence, finding a way to block glucose reabsorption in the...
