Young Devon and River Cottage are teaming up to launch an exciting community project in Newton Abbot.
Under the advice and guidance of River Cottage’s consultancy arm, Young Devon will open a café serving delicious food – made and served by young trainees. Young Devon’s Change Academy in Newton Abbot is undergoing a month of refurbishment, ready for the official launch on 25th March 2015.
River Cottage’s team of chefs will also be working hard to devise a mouth-watering new menu, showcasing tasty dishes of simple, seasonal and locally sourced produce. Led by Chief Executive...
A host of new restaurants are set to open in Exeter during the next 12 months.
Aviva Investors, the owners of the Guildhall Shopping Centre, are in talks which should see the first four or five new names, in what will be known as Queen Street, announced soon.
Artigiano in Exeter High Street is one of the names in the frame and is eyeing up the former Poundland building in Market Square with plans for a 'different concept' sophisticated late drinking lounge.
Simon Green of Aviva Investors said: “We are on the verge of announcing the first four or five restaurant...
Rural musicians The Wurzels have joined forces with The Farm Safety Foundation to create an unconventional farm safety video aimed at encouraging farmers to commit to being safer and more professional on the farm.
The West Country’s rural songsters have re-recorded their iconic ‘Combine Harvester’ song with new lyrics which has been paired with a light-hearted video produced by students at Moreton Morrell College. The song and video have uploaded to the internet for farmers to share on Twitter and Facebook.
While the original 1974 version dealt with love-sick farmer’s...
Volunteers, staff and clients at Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau had a royal audience today when they received a visit from Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal.
The Princess Royal, who is patron of Citizens Advice, officially opened the bureau’s new offices in Dix’s Field.
During the visit she met Exeter CAB chair Dennis Mardon and was shown around the bureau by Chief Executive Steve Barriball, who introduced her to members of paid staff and volunteers. She had the opportunity to observe the volunteers in action, as well as seeing new ways of ensuring clients get the...
Allergy Aware Kitchen is holding its “Food Allergy Awareness & EU Food Allergen Law” training course at Colliton Barton Training Centre, in Honiton near Exeter, on Thursday 12th March in order to help local businesses in Devon meet the new government legislation.
Allergy Aware Kitchen is the number one food allergy training provider and is the only food allergy training course to be supported by Allergy UK, the largest allergy charity in the UK.
The Food Information Regulations EU1169/2011 came into force on the 13th December 2014. The new law applies to all types of...
Devon and Cornwall’s largest professional construction consultancy has opened its fifth UK office at Pynes Hill in Exeter.
This signals further expansion for the company, which has already grown its existing offices to capture the increase in construction output over the last 18 months.
Ward Williams Associates (WWA), who celebrated their 40th birthday last year, deliver services across a wide range of projects in both the public and private sectors, with a project portfolio extending from modest domestic works, through to multi-million pound, international developments....
Phil Murray’s Diamond Dogz bring glam rock to Exeter this weekend when they play live at The General Buller in St Thomas on Saturday (21 February).
A fantastic night is promised as the band take you on a trip through the glittering seventies, featuring early Bowie hits, along with other glam rock hits from the era.
An original star of the seventies Glam New Wave era, Phil Murray has an illustrious past, fronting the band U-Boat with drummer Woody Woodmany who was David Bowie’s drummer in Spiders from...
Cygnet’s graduating actors have begun working with Jemma Gross on two strong and wonderful plays, Nine and The Last Nickel by American writer Jane Shepard.
Jemma first excited Exeter audiences when she brought Gary Henderson’s Skin Tight to Cygnet Theatre during IGNITE 2012. Her production of Chicken Shop with Epsilon productions won the West End Frame’s London Fringe Production of the Year Award in 2014.
These contrasting pieces show the versatility of two actors in different roles. Women who find themselves in extreme circumstances, develop ways to cope and transcend them...
Meet Nel; a quirky, shy foley artist, who, for the first time in her life finds herself completely alone. Her cat’s died and she accidentally poisoned her fish. She needs a friend. But she is afraid. And finding a friend in today’s world is more than a little stressful. Especially for someone who spends her day recording sounds with vegetables in a box. She needs help.
Struggling she starts to steal from her filmic world in a bid to connect with others. A world of car chases, explosions and dramatic underscoring. What could possibly go wrong?
A cutting-edge Ambulance Special Operations Centre in Exeter (ASOC West) was officially opened today (Monday 16 February 2015) by a very special visitor.
HRH The Princess Royal attended and was welcomed by a host of dignitaries.
The innovative new ASOC is part of the impressive £210 million SkyPark scheme, and is the base for the Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team (HART). There are two well established HART teams across the area served by SWASFT; one in Bristol and one in Exeter. This base for the Exeter team was chosen owing to its location, its proximity to the M5 and...
