Nothing says Italy quite like its food, and nothing says Italian food like pasta. Sharing its passion and expertise for the Italian specialty; Carluccio’s will host a nine-week long celebration of all things pasta. La Festa Della Pasta will be taking place from the 19th of May to the 20th of July.
THE PASTA
Throughout the festival, Carluccio’s food shops will feature a range of new pastas, showing that there’s a whole world of unexplored pasta out there. With colourful, multi-shaped, gluten free, wholemeal, flavoured, extra long and short pastas available, there’ll be...
Firefighters have today rescued both an elderly woman and young child in two seperate incidents today.
The first incident, at 5.22am, saw an appliance from Honition called to Beats Close, Awliscombe,Honiton after a toddler had become locked in a bathroom.
The child escaped unscathed after fire crews used small tools to gain access to the bathroom.
At 10.11am crews were also called to rescue an elderly woman who had become stuck in a lift.
The incident, which took place at Lower Brook Street, Teignmouth, resulted in two Teignmouth appliances being deployed...
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival announces literary line-up for the sixth year of inspiring talks, readings and conversations with talented authors, scientists, playwrights, historians, broadcasters, economists, comedians and rising literary stars.
Organisers of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have announced the full programme for this year’s festival. Taking place from Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st September 2014, the Festival will once again feature a diverse selection of talented, prize-winning and critically acclaimed authors. Best-selling and prize-winning author...
Visitors at this year’s Devon County Show on May 22-24 at Westpoint, Exeter will be able to enjoy free, superfast wifi wherever they are on the showground thanks to a major investment in the facility.
Devon County Agricultural Association, which owns the showground and stages the annual Show, is working in partnership with Wifi Spark to give visitors and exhibitors fast and reliable access to the internet.
Ollie Allen, Secretary of the Devon County Show, said: “We want everyone who comes to our amazing celebration of the local countryside to have access to the latest...
A lecturer from Exeter College has been recognised as one of the nation’s top teachers today, after winning a national award. Andy Waite, who teaches on the Travel and Tourism course at Exeter College, was chosen out of more than 20,000 nominations to pick up a Silver Teaching Award Winner in the FE Lecturer of the Year category. Andy and other 55 teachers from across England, Ireland and Wales were presented the awards to mark this year’s ‘Thank a Teacher Day’ (16 May). No-fewer than 11 students put forward Andy as FE lecturer of the Year while judges’ praised: “His personality, energy...
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival announces literary line-up for the sixth year of inspiring talks, readings and conversations with talented authors, scientists, playwrights, historians, broadcasters, economists, comedians and rising literary stars.
Organisers of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have announced the full programme for this year’s festival. Taking place from Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st September 2014, the Festival will once again feature a diverse selection of talented, prize-winning and critically acclaimed authors.
The recent good weather is set to continue this weekend as forecasters predict temperatures to reach 20C across Devon. Met Office forecasters say that the sunny weather is expected to last across the weekend and carry through into next week. Today (Saturday) patches of cloud will accompany the sun and are expected to clear by the early evening. Sunday will be cloudier than Saturday but again temperatures will remain high throughout the day. Monday sees temprtetures remain high but also brings a chance of showers in the afternoon. Light cooling breezes are expected throughout the weekend...
Devon County Council has signed up to a new reuse system that will enable them to use surplus resources such as office furniture and equipment more efficiently and track the significant savings on avoided purchasing and waste disposal costs.
The County Council is implementing a new web based system called WARPit which allows organisations to redistribute (give, loan or share) resources (such as tables & chairs) legally and conveniently within their own organisation and with agreed partners.
Cabinet Member for Performance and Engagement, Councillor Barry Parsons says; “...
Exeter’s cultural organisations must “hold our nerve” and continue to drive cultural development according to a planning presentation by the Exeter Cultural Partnership.
In a major presentation at RAMM entitled "What's next for Culture in Exeter" the 100 strong audience heard short presentations covering the importance of culture to Exeter, the Rugby World Cup, the re-opening of the Exeter Library and plans for the city's cultural future and how these plans will be achieved. The feature presentation was from international authority on culture and place making Charles Landry, author...
