Exeter based charity CEDA is benefiting from its community partnership with Sainsbury's Alphington Road with ‘the great CEDA Christmas Raffle’ which is happening now!
Tickets are available from CEDA or Sainsbury’s Alphington Road for £1 each and there are some wonderful prizes to make your Christmas extra special. The top prize is a Sainsbury’s hamper full of everything you need for a ‘cracking’ Christmas. Two runners up prizes of Sainsbury’s gift cards are also up for grabs.
CEDA manager Craig Bowden said “this is the first major Christmas fundraiser we have held in our 25...
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning as we start the new week.
Periods of rain and strong winds will affect the South West later today (Monday), with the rain becoming particularly heavy at times on Tuesday before clearing during Wednesday morning.
There is a risk of localised flooding, exacerbated by fallen leaves blocking drainage courses.
The agency’s Chief forecaster said: “An active frontal system associated with an Atlantic depression will push in from the west later on Monday. This front will become slow-moving, allowing pulses of heavy and...
The Caterham F1 Team is working with leading crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to finance its return to Formula 1 for the season finale in Abu Dhabi on 23 November.
#RefuelCaterhamF1 is giving fans and sponsors the opportunity to be the driving force behind the team by supporting its participation over the three day race weekend, in return for unique rewards including the drivers’ boots, car parts and corporate hospitality. Companies and individuals can get involved on the Crowdcube website, http://www.crowdcube.com/caterham , by pledging the amount they wish to give – from just £10...
In November 1979 The Jam released their classic album Setting Sons and the single The Eton Rifles - their first top ten hit single. While their previous album All Mod Cons is generally regarded as their best work, Setting Sons is arguably considered a masterpiece with the conceptual songs such as Little Boy Soldiers more than matched by Foxton's own Smithers-Jones - possibly his finest three minutes of song writing. To celebrate the album's 35th anniversary From The Jam, featuring original The Jam member bass player Foxton and guitarist/vocalist Russell Hastings & drummer Steve (Smiley...
Tiverton Youth Centre, one of Devon County Council's eight youth hubs, starts a new chapter this week with its first sessions since the service was restructured.
To many through the doors, the open access sessions will look and feel the same, offering the popular activities that they already enjoy: sports, cooking, art and information, advice and guidance.
But the multifunctional hub will also be a base from which trained youth workers will deliver a combination of targeted support to vulnerable young people via schools and in communities alongside social work teams....
On Saturday 6 December dozens of people dressed as Santa will abseil 100 feet off the Princesshay car park to raise money and awareness for homeless young people in Exeter.
The annual event is in its fifth year, and is hoping to once again raise thousands of pounds to support those without safe accommodation this Christmas, a time where amidst celebration, poverty is often at its worst.
The Santa Abseil, sponsored by local PR Company Attention Media and the Exeter Solicitors firm Gilbert Stephens, will help YMCA Exeter continue to provide 15,000 nights worth of...
Having taken an age to claim their first victory over Bath in the professional era last season, Exeter Chiefs made it back-to-back successes against their arch rivals as they maintained their unbeaten start to this season’s LV= Cup campaign.
It was back in March – at the 12th time of asking – that Rob Baxter’s side finally banished their Bath bogey when they claimed a 22-19 semi-final victory at the Recreation Ground.
Not only did the result ensure the Devon club booked a home final – which they would win a week later for their first piece of major silverware – but it...
The Best in UK live stand up, every month at The Barnfield.
An exciting partnership begins this autumn – The Barnfield will host Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club. The Krater Comedy Club has run for 15 years at Komedia Brighton and five years at Komedia Bath. In that time it has hosted the biggest names UK comedy and Komedia has won more Chortle Comedy Awards for the Best Venue than any UK operator (eclipsing even The Comedy Store). From this Autumn Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club will extend to a third city becoming a monthly fixture in Exeter at The Barnfield. The line- up this month is...
Alison Rayner – bass Deirdre Cartwright – guitar Buster Birch – drums Diane McLoughlin – saxophone Steve Lodder piano
A new band led by bassist and composer Alison Rayner, encompassing the talents of five talented and exciting jazz musicians. They combine diverse influences from American swing and funk and Afro Cuban dance music to contemporary jazz and European folk. The music is accessible and broad in its reach; the compositions are melodic with killer...
After their sensationally successful ‘An Evening with the Humour of Bob Newhart and Tom Lehrer’ at the Barnfield theatre, Peter Gill and Andrew Meller make a welcome return with more songs and sketches from the catalogue of two of America’s greatest satirists of the 50’s and 60’s.
Expect such gems as Newhart’s The Nudist Camp Exposed, The Daddy of all Hangovers and Superman and the Dry Cleaners as well as Lehrer’s Pollution, Smut and Oedipus Rex. An unmissable and hilarious evening of classics that re visits a golden age of comedy.
