How to Find Your Perfect Career after Uni: 5 Ways to the Top

Graduating can be a scary business, leaving university with a mountain of debt and joining the 9 to 5 grind is something not many students look forward to. But if you find the right job earning a proper salary and becoming an adult, functioning member of society after university can be the best time of your life. So here is how you find your perfect career?

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Did you enjoy your taking your degree? Not the partying but the lectures, seminars and coursework? If you loved your degree and still find the subject interesting after 3 years of study than it...

'ThinkBIG' challenge sees Cornish pupils win £500 for their school

Authored by Michelmores
Posted: Wed, 05/11/2016 - 6:29am

Two Cornish schools have won £500 following ThinkBIG – a 'Dragons Den' style contest for primary school children held by The Cornwall Association of Primary Heads (CAPH), in partnership with the Education team at law firm, Michelmores.

Winners Kehelland Village School in Camborne and Lanner Primary School in Redruth impressed the judging panel with their innovative ideas on how they would spend £500 to improve one aspect of school life.

The prize money will allow Kehelland Village School to purchase science equipment that tends to only be available to secondary school...

Jim Moray

Event Date: 
20/05/2016 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Kingskerswell Parish Church

Jim Moray is one of the most consistently inventive musicians working in English traditional music today. Winner of five BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, after five ground-breaking albums he now finds himself at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK, and hailed as a pivotal influence by a new generation of folk musicians. In 2013 he celebrated both 10 years since his landmark debut album Sweet England and the success of his 2012 career best Skulk

In recent years Jim has collaborated with such folk music luminaries as Andy Cutting, Patsy Reid, Martin Simpson and Nancy Kerr on the...

Avenue Q

Event Date: 
30/05/2016 - 7:30pm to 04/06/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

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...

The Proms returns to Bicton Park

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Tue, 05/10/2016 - 7:20pm

It’s time to dig out those Union flags for the popular Proms at Bicton Park, East Budleigh on Friday 22 July.

The event promises to be a wonderful evening featuring the South West Telecoms band, a male voice choir and opera, in the idyllic setting of the grade 1 listed Italianate gardens, surrounded by immaculately manicured lawns with beautiful flower beds and specimen trees.

More than 800 people attended the last Proms in 2014 raising money for local charity Hospiscare.

The Proms will include songs from musicals and popular operatic arias to be performed by India’...

Den Miller in Concert

Event Date: 
28/05/2016 - 7:30pm to 11:00pm
Venue: 
Hope Hall, Hope Road, Wonford, Exeter EX2 5JN

Den Miller is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumental musician and entertaining solo performer, whose fifth studio album, A Headful of Fancies, was released to great reviews in April 2015. Den's songs mix the silly and the serious, often in the same song, but always with his trademark mission statement of a strong melody plus intelligent lyrics.

Den is both an accomplished guitarist and pianist, often using a loop pedal to play both at once, and also plays harmonica and drums. Den has an impressive vocal range and a love of singing harmony, something which the loop pedal also...

Teenagers robbed and assaulted in Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 05/10/2016 - 6:01pm

Police in Exeter are investigating an assault and robbery that took place in the St Thomas area of the city on Monday night, 9th May 2016.

At around 7pm two men, aged 17 and 18, were approached by three strangers in Merrivale Park.

The three suspects, all described as wearing black or grey hoodies which were up and face masks or balaclavas, attacked the two men.

The 17 year-old suffered a slight facial injury while the 18 year-old was repeatedly hit over the head.

He was treated by an ambulance crew at the scene and taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter...

Devon Bead Fair

Event Date: 
15/05/2016 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Exeter Castle, Castle Street, Exeter

The second Devon Bead Fair will be taking place in the grounds of Exeter Castle, from 10am to 4pm.

The event will feature exhibitors from across the UK who will showing visitors practical demonstrations of various bead techniques.

Tickets cost £3 if pre-booked via www.montysbeads.com or purchased from Montys Beads in Little Castle Street, or £5 on the day.

Inspired by Dartmoor

Event Date: 
11/05/2016 - 10:00am to 30/06/2016 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown

Visitors to the National Park Visitor Centre in Princetown can currently enjoy an exhibition of the work of four members of the West Dartmoor Art Group.

David Mather, Peter Blake, John Streeter and Gloria Sprague will be exhibiting a selection of paintings in different media, all inspired by their love of Dartmoor.

The West Dartmoor Art Group was founded in 2002 and has approximately 50 members in total. Regular painters meet every Wednesday at Peter Tavy Village Hall. It is a friendly and sociable group of painters who work in all sorts of mediums (oil, watercolour,...

More Sunday trains to run between Exeter and Exmouth

Great Western Railway (GWR) will run extra trains on Sundays between Exeter Central and Exmouth from 15 May.

Trains will run every half hour through most of the day on Sundays throughout the year, instead of the previous hourly service; with a number extending to Exeter St Davids. All trains will call at Digby & Sowton, Newcourt, Topsham and Lympstone Village stations.

Morning trains to Exmouth and afternoon trains back will also call at Polsloe Bridge, providing more opportunities for a seaside day trip to Exmouth.

The improved Sunday service is an important...

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