Speed restrictions on the A38 will remain in place this weekend as the Highways Agency prepare to close most of England’s roadworks for the bank holiday weekend. The Highways Agency says that works on the A38, near Haldon Hill, cannot be removed due to safety concerns caused by the removal of the road’s safety barrier to fit a contraflow. However, the agency believe that the delays caused by the road work will be “slight”.
The 10 week roadworks, which include a 40mph speed restrictions and temporary average speed cameras, are expected to remain until 10 July. Elsewhere the agency...
Police are appealing for information following a burglary at a home in Aylesbeare, Exeter, on Saturday (10 May). Offenders forced a door to get inside the home sometime between 9.30am and 7pm. After making an untidy search of the house, they stole a black laptop, a still camera and a £1,500 projector, various items of jewellery and a brass compass in a box. They also took a distinctive scalloped edged silver tray engraved with ‘Ultra International’ which was from a conference in New Delhi. Anyone who saw anything suspicious or has been offered any of the items for sale is asked to contact...
Devon took home the honours in a thrilling football match with Cornwall at the Stephens Scown Inter-County Shield. In a reversal of the 2013 result, the Devon team won 5-4.
The annual match, which is organised by leading South West law firm Stephens Scown LLP, took place at Launceston FC on Friday, 9 May. As well as players from Stephens Scown’s offices in Exeter, St Austell and Truro, the teams included representatives from over twenty local businesses including Worldwide Financial Planning, Kalsall Steele, Barclays Bank, HSBC and Francis Clark.
A love story between two women that spans a hundred years, moves across continents, occurs in a multitude of languages. A story about hope, the distances we travel, and the lengths we might go to when falling in love...
We’ll Meet in Moscow is a new collaborative performance project created by writer Natalie McGrath (Oxygen, Coasting), choreographer Jane Mason (Life Forces, Singer) and sculptor Sophia Clist (Oxygen, The World At Your Feet), and is a response to the banning of Gay Pride in Moscow, August 2012, for 100 years. As we historically celebrate equal marriage rights here in...
I remember pushing her down Portobello Road for some fresh air and going to the pub for a midday glass of wine; buying jazzy sunglasses together, browsing charity shops and listening to her stories of Siamese cats...
Wildbore is a touching one-woman show stemming froma unique cross-generational relationship. The show explores the memories of a granddaughter, and how we remember.
A collaboration between Jesse Meadows and Jesse Jones, the Co-Directors of The Wardrobe Theatre and The Wardrobe Ensemble. Recent acclaimed work includes Eliza and The Wild Swans (The Bike Shed...
That one object would you save from a burning building? What was the first thing you remember losing? What is the one object you always wanted but never had? The stuff we own says a lot about us; our class, taste, age and marital status. Some objects are so every-day we don’t think about them and others so precious we don’t take them out of the box. What if we didn’t live with these anxieties, how would our relationships with people benefit or suffer? Stuffis an exploration of the things we own, how they shape and dictate the way we live our lives but most importantly how they can bring...
England Netball are excited to announce the launch of our Netball Youth Camps (NYC) this summer. When we spoke to junior netballers they told us that they wanted more opportunities to play netball during the summer holidays so we have designed these camps to do just that!
The camps are non-residential holiday camps designed for 11-16 year olds providing ‘Nothing but Netball’; including top quality coaching, fun netball activities and even an opportunity to meet and be inspired by an England player. If you are a junior netball lover (or the parent of one!) these are an unmissable...
Golf in the South West has received a boost this month as Exeter golfers past and present celebrated the official opening of the Vic Ambler Golf Centre on 15 May.
The event, at the University’s Streatham campus officially unveiled the new, purpose-built, short-game practice area at the Sports Park which will offer golfers from across the region the latest golf green technology.
Designed by market leaders Tour Greens Europe, the 50m x 30m area can’t fail to impress, featuring a 250m2 Pro-tour standard practice green, 120m2 putting green, and two golf zones.
Visitors to Castle Drogo will get the opportunity to learn more about the ongoing building work to make building water tight on 27 May.
In 2013 one of the largest projects ever undertaken by the National Trust began at Castle Drogo.
The castle has suffered major structural problems ever since completion which has resulted in serious leaks and water penetration throughout the building. If the decision to undertake extensive conservation had not been taken, the castle would eventually have become inaccessible and this national treasure would have been lost forever. The...
