Celebrate fabulous friendships with an Afternoon Tea at Exeter Golf and Country Club.
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Afternoon Tea is the epitome of English style and where better to indulge than in a grand Georgian house with floor to ceiling windows overlooking a putting green surrounded by landscaped gardens. You really cannot get much more English than that!
However despite the grand exterior, Exeter Golf and Country Club and our Wear Park Restaurant where we serve Afternoon Tea, is as friendly and welcoming as you get. We’ve left the...
This year, Exmouth Art Group will be holding their annual exhibition at A la Ronde, near Exmouth, from 19 June to 2 July. The exhibition can be seen, free of charge, in the stable and award winning tearooms from 10.30am to 5.00pm each day.
Exmouth Art Group was founded in 1946 by a group of just seven artists with the aim of encouraging the appreciation and practice of the visual arts in the district. Today, the group has an average of 200 members made up of professional, semi-professional and amateur artists. They hold regular talks, demonstrations, workshops, critiques and three...
Two Exeter School pupils are runners up in a national competition organised by the Oxford German Network.
Upper Fifth Formers (Year 11) pupils Rebecca Richardson and Abby Pelling took part in the German For The Future competition, part of the Oxford German Olympiad 2014, during their GCSE exams.
They had to fill in a two-page survey in German answering questions about what primary school children should learn about in their German lessons and why; which Bruder Grimm fairy tales they would recommend be told to children and why; and which German speaking town or area would be...
The airport at Exeter had always been intended for use by the military in the event of war, and in 1939 the airport was taken over by the Air Ministry. Three asphalt runways were laid and RAF Station Exeter became officially operational on 6 July 1940.
RAF Hurricane squadrons had protected the Channel ports but in April 1944 the RAF units were withdrawn and the airfield was taken over by the US 9th Air Force. It became Station 463 and the United States 440th Troop Carrier Group, flying seventy C-47As and seventy CG-4 gliders, arrived in preparation for D-Day. There was insufficient...
The National Trust has been awarded £10,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project, For King and Country at Killerton, near Exeter.
Awarded through HLF’s First World War: Then and Bow programme, the project will focus on the creation of a site-specific performance and art installation.
To be staged on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 June at 1pm and 4pm the performance tells the story of the impact of the First World War on the people at Killerton and the surrounding estate.
Written by Killerton staff and local primary school pupils the story explores the first...
East Budleigh and Bicton Parish residents are being asked to decide how to spend £3,450 available for sports in the area.
East Budleigh with Bicton Parish Council and East Devon District Council are taking their voting stall to the Scarecrow Festival at East Budleigh Village Hall on Saturday 14 June between 11am and 3pm. Go along and cast your vote!
The money has all come from recent housing developments (Section 106 money) in the parish. It is now up to residents to decide how the money is used.
An appeal for ideas last year produced two suggestions from East...
Colin De-Vey of Anderton & Rowland’s is promising all the fun of a Theme Park Fair in Exeter, when the huge European Theme Park comes to town.
Visitors pay just one charge to enter and enjoying all rides free of charge.
Admission prices:
£6.99 for a family wristband which includes all inflatable, children's rides, the Dodgems, Waltzers and Twist
£9.99 premium wristband which includes all rides including white knuckle thrillers or wholesome family attractions including the giant Wild Mouse Spinning Rollercoaster.
An Exeter opticians is hosting a collection drive for old and unused glasses in aid of Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) throughout June. Specsavers, located at 247 Highstreet, is asking locals to search high and low for old pairs of specs, as staff aim to collect a record number of glasses for the UK-based charity. Specsavers Exeter store director Jonathan Baumber says: ‘We have a donation bin taking pride of place in store and our goal is to reach over 3000 pairs of glasses by July. We have invited local business owners, sportsmen, community groups and council members to come down and donate...
Do you know a lady that loves golf? Or maybe you do yourself? Well book yourself a place on charity Dream-A-Way's Ladies' Golf Day Out.
Dream-A-Way, a local charity that assists people living in Devon, Cornwall and the Scilly Isles with physical and learning difficulties, is hosting their hugely popular Ladies Golf Day Out to raise funds.
Not only will the lucky ladies that attend help this vital cause whilst enjoy their favourite sport, they will also get to enjoy a delicious buffet lunch.
This event is known for the great prices that can be won and this year's...
Police in north Devon are appealing for information after £5,000 worth of jewellery was stolen during a burglary at an elderly woman’s South Molton home.
The woman in her 80s, discovered her house had been burgled after returning from a holiday visiting family in Australia.
More than 20 items (pictured), including a wedding ring and eternity ring, were taken from the house in North Road sometime between the early hours of Sunday 30 March and 7pm on Sunday 1 June.
It is believed the offender(s) entered the property by removing a glass panel on the locked front door....
