Legendary London-based rock band Killing Joke will visit Exeter’s HMV on Tuesday 27 October to celebrate the release of their latest album, ‘Pylon’.
The band will be visiting at 5pm to meet fans and sign copies of the new LP – ‘Plyon’, which isn't designed to accompany a quiet night at home in front of the fire. Pylon is very much music as ritual - raw, uncompromising and precisely-targeted lyrically, for all rock and metal fans.
Jaz Coleman, Geordie, Youth & Big Paul reunited in 2008 and are continuing to produce epic music with a headline shows planned for around...
Legendary London-based rock band Killing Joke will visit Exeter’s HMV on Tuesday 27 October to celebrate the release of their latest album, ‘Pylon’.
The band will be visiting at 5pm to meet fans and sign copies of the new LP – ‘Plyon’, which isn't designed to accompany a quiet night at home in front of the fire. Pylon is very much music as ritual - raw, uncompromising and precisely-targeted lyrically, for all rock and metal fans.
Jaz Coleman, Geordie, Youth & Big Paul reunited in 2008 and are continuing to produce epic music with a headline shows planned for around...
Prince Harry was given a local tipple when he went to a World Cup match in Exeter, Devon. The prince was the VIP guest at the Namibia v Georgia match at Exeter Chief’s Sandy Park ground. But the local council wanted to make sure the fun loving Royal enjoyed his time in Devon. So they asked the Exeter Brewery to give him with a pack of locally brewed Avocet beer. Director Alan Collyer said: ”The council contacted us and asked if we would mind donating some beer to present to a VIP. “They didn’t tell us who it was but then it was obvious it was Prince Harry was the VIP guest. ”We work with...
The Charity Fashion Show on 8 October at The Maynard School been hailed a sensational success, raising nearly £1000 for the education charity, Plan UK.
Organised by Sixth Form student, Lucie Rising, from its conception to completion, the show boasted a distinctly French theme to celebrate the close of Paris Fashion Week the previous day.
“I love French fashion and wanted the Show to be chic and classy but it was important to find a theme that all our students could relate to,” explained Lucie. “Girls could enter their own designs into four different categories but they didn...
Four-time Olympian runner and European 10,000 metre champion Jo Pavey delighted crowds in Exeter on Sunday morning, as she started 2,842 participants off on the iconic 31st Exeter’s Great West Run, sponsored by Tozers! Shaun Antell from Bideford AAC improved on his third place from last years race, by taking the winning spot in one hour ten minutes and seven seconds, in good running conditions. In second place was Berihu Hadera from Exeter Harriers in one hour ten minutes and fifty two seconds, followed by Andrew Chambers in one hour ten minutes and fifty five seconds. Best women's...
LED Leisure Management is delighted to be opening the doors to all the new facilities at Exmouth Leisure Centre this half-term. Monday 26th October marks the end to an extensive year-long refurbishment programme. During this time the centre has remained open while the building work has steadily progressed and LED would like to thank their customers and members for their patience and understanding. The £2m redevelopment was the result of increasing demand for health, fitness and leisure facilities in the area. A public consultation highlighted the need for a greater variety of activities...
The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership organised a successful sponsored walk on Saturday 10th October to celebrate the reopening of the sea wall for walkers and raise around £1,000 for good causes in Teignmouth and Dawlish.
Teignmouth and Dawlish Ramblers led the 40 walkers who included local councillors, Dawlish and Teignmouth Walk this Way, the Friends of Dawlish and Teignmouth Stations, Dawlish Solidarity for Refugees and a representative of Network Rail’s ‘Orange Army’.
The walkers were welcomed at the Strand Centre in Dawlish by MP Anne Marie Morris, Howard Almond,...
Excavations being carried out at Tithebarn Green, Redhayes, near Exeter are revealing a complex ancient landscape with occupation dating from the Neolithic through to the Medieval period.
The Bronze Age Pin Brook enclosure, located at the northern end of the Tithebarn Green site has been particularly interesting.
The enclosure may have been built to adapt a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and there is evidence of ongoing use of the site in the late Roman and/or post Roman British or Anglo-Saxon periods. There is also evidence of the post-medieval enclosure of the landscape...
