An online booking system has been introduced by the Sandy Park events team: www.sandypark.co.uk/book Designed to streamline the booking process for events held at the award-winning venue, the booking system allows clients to book onto events and pay instantly via credit or debit card. The system can be used to book onto the first networking event in the redeveloped Sandy Park, the b2b Business Breakfast on 19 September.
This event features guest speaker Jon Paul Hedge, who was recently appointed editor of the Exeter Express & Echo. Mr Hedge will be discussing ‘Disruption to...
As Green Party members join campaigners at railway stations today calling for public ownership of rail, the Party have slammed a report by Network Rail which concludes that all investment options for creating a resilient railways network in the South West are ‘poor value for money’. Greens say it is the private franchise system that offers poor value for money, both to rail passengers and tax payers, not investment in the region’s railways. The West of Exeter Route Resilience Study by Network Rail followed an eight week shutdown of the railways west of Exeter due to severe storm damage at...
City’s tough start to the season continues with a trip to the Pirelli Stadium to face Burton Albion tonight (Tuesday 19 August).
The Brewers were a Wembley win away from escaping League 2 altogether last season. After years of clinging onto survival around the bottom for the Midland side, the influence of Gary Rowett has established Burton as a power in the fourth tie. Ultimately Fleetwood were play-off final winners last year.
While City’s search for a first win of 2014/15 goes on, the Brewers have won all three of their games. An opening day win at Oxford was followed by...
A team led by researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School and King’s College London has uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet that epigenetic changes in the brain play a role in Alzheimer’s disease.
Epigenetic changes affect the expression or activity of genes without changing the underlying DNA sequence and are believed to be one mechanism by which the environment can interact with the genome. Importantly, epigenetic changes are potentially reversible and may therefore provide targets for the development of new therapies.
There have been organs in the cathedral since at least 1284. Who built and maintained them, and who have the organists been? This talk will address these and many other questions and also include information newly discovered.
The border between the living and the dead could be very permeable in the Middle Ages, especially at this time of year.
Naomi Howell (University of Exeter) will explain how medieval beliefs about ghosts, bodies, and restless spirits are reflected in art, literature, and the tombs of Exeter Cathedral.
The Exetreme Imagination Festival comes to Exeter Cathedral!
Together, our aim is to promote creative writing for and by young people, as well as for older generations who wish to reminisce over their own childhood memories and writings.
We are excited to offer a number of workshops and activities over the half term week, hosted by three prominent, local children’s authors who live in or come from Devon.
For more information and to book, please call 01392 413174
Monday 27 October 2014
Fantasy fanatic? Adventure addict? Love reading and writing?...
