JOHN ILLSLEY & HIS BAND: A brand new album Testing The Water and the music of Dire Straits Founding member and bass guitarist of Dire Straits, John Illsley will be performing songs from his latest album "Testing the Water" and some classic Dire Straits songs, including Sultans of Swing, Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms .
Mark Knopfler and John are the only founding members of Dire Straits to remain in the line up from 1977 -1995 during which time they sold over 120 million albums .They are still good friends and recently produced the TV program 'Guitar Stories" for Sky...
Off The Kerb Productions presents Mark Steel's Back In Town
The 'Mark Steel's in Town' show, based on the Radio 4 series in which I write a show centred around each town, has now been to at least 5 million places. It's a sparkling verdict on humanity that I've mocked them all and somehow am still alive.
I've stood behind a Londoner on a cliff in Dorset, who said to his wife "That lighthouse is getting on my bloody wick." I've seen rivalries such as that in Corby, when I thanked a librarian for finding me a book and she replied 'Yes, because here we're not like those...
'House of The Rising Sun'... 'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place'....'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' and 'Boom Boom' (as featured in the James Bond movie, 'Skyfall').
Featuring from the original Animals - JOHN STEEL & MICK GALLAGHER (The Blockheads), Danny Handley (performed with Spencer Davis, Bobby Elliott, Ric Lee of Ten Years After) and Pete Barton. The Animals were the second British band to top the American charts after The Beatles with the now multi-million selling and legendary anthem, 'House of the Rising Sun'. The band subsequently achieved over twenty global Top Ten hit...
Immerse yourself in the wonders of the ocean without getting your feet wet!
The festival brings you the world's most amazing ocean films, both above and below the surface. From it's Australian origins, the World Tour will feature the world's most captivating ocean-themed short films.
This extraordinary collection of films document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live for the sea's salt spray; who chase the crests of waves; and who marvel at the mysteries of the big blue. A truly inspiring and thought-...
Location: Meeting Room 4, Exeter Central Library, Castle Street, Exeter
For Extrememe Imagination we would like to invite you, your brothers and sisters and friends, your parents and carers, your grandparents, even your great grandparents, to come and create stories with us in Exeter Central Library.
In the workshops you will work with some brilliant writers, artists and scientists to create stories around the themes of Love, Leadership, Food, Technology and Justice. The workshops might involve creative writing, poetry, printmaking...
Creative Workshop with Catherine Cartwright (Double Elephant Print Workshop)
Location: Meeting Room 4, Exeter Central Library, Castle Street, Exeter
For Extrememe Imagination we would like to invite you, your brothers and sisters and friends, your parents and carers, your grandparents, even your great grandparents, to come and create stories with us in Exeter Central Library.
In the workshops you will work with some brilliant writers, artists and scientists to create stories around the themes of Love, Leadership, Food, Technology and Justice. The workshops might...
Location: Meeting Room 4, Exeter Central Library, Castle Street, Exeter
For Extrememe Imagination we would like to invite you, your brothers and sisters and friends, your parents and carers, your grandparents, even your great grandparents, to come and create stories with us in Exeter Central Library.
In the workshops you will work with some brilliant writers, artists and scientists to create stories around the themes of Love, Leadership, Food, Technology and Justice. The workshops might involve creative writing, poetry,...
The cost to council taxpayers of tackling obesity is set to rise by tens of millions of pounds in just one year, according to new figures released by local government leaders.
Spending on the growing obesity epidemic is expected this year to reach over £127 million, a 21 per cent increase on the previous year's figures when councils in England spent £105 million.
Local government leaders are now warning that we need immediate action to tackle the problem and effectively support the country's three and a half million overweight or obese children.
Local lawyers have lent their support to the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning by holding events to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support on Friday, 26 September.
A number of staff from Stephens Scown LLP in Exeter have been busy baking cakes and raising money through other initiatives including a dress down day. Five hundred and thirty five pounds has been raised from events in its offices in Exeter, Truro and St Austell.
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event, with thousands of people across the UK taking part. Last year £20 million...
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, is holding the Mid Devon Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair on Friday 4th October at Tiverton High School in association with the National Apprenticeship Service and Jobs Centre Plus. The Jobs fair will help school leavers and job seekers find work and get careers advice to give young people the experience and skills they need to enter the workplace.
It follows a hugely successful Jobs Fair held in Honiton organised by Neil Parish earlier this year.
A number of different employers and training providers will be holding stands at the Jobs...
