With Summer finally underway the Met Office has launched a brand new web page to help make the most of the holiday season. Sunday saw the official start of British Summer time. Summer in the meteorological calendar covers the duration of June, July and August, or by the astronomical calendar it begins around 21 June on a day referred to as the summer solstice.
The new pages allow visitors to find useful tips and information to make the most of the summer months, whatever the weather. Developed with a range of partners such as the RNLI, CancerResearch, VisitEngland and VisitScotland...
Following their hugely successful productions of The Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol's internationally-renowned ensemble company, return for their third visit to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with one of theatre's most celebrated comedies.
Expelled from the city, Rosalind and Orlando – the one fleeing a tyrranous uncle, the other a murderous brother – rediscover each other in the Forest of Arden. But what awaits them in that Arcadian wilderness? Will they find true love, or just lose themselves? Are they merely players in a...
Local Exeter band, The Computers, will join the likes of Jamie Cullum and Laura Mvula when they perform at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival on the 5th of July.
The Computers, who are signed to the prestigious Fierce Panda independent label, are set to perform their punk/ rock tracks at the festival.
The Love Supreme Jazz Festival (the UK’s only major greenfield jazz festival) is located just outside of Brighton and runs from July 4th – 6th. Headliners include Soul II Soul (celebrating their 25th anniversary), Jamie Cullum, De La Soul, Courtney Pine, Imelda May and Gregory...
Four local charities are to benefit from donations by members of Exeter Business Club.
The club decided to split £2,000 equally between four Exeter-based charities, Devon In Sight, St Loyes Foundation, Friends of Buburi and Honeylands Children’s Charity.
Representatives from each charity attended a special presentation where they had an opportunity to talk to EBC members about the work they do and how the money would be spent. St Loyes Foundation fundraiser Phil Roberts said the donation would be split between their Transitions service which helps former Service men and...
A small market town on the edge of Dartmoor will become the focus for some of the best contemporary craft in the country this weekend.
The Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey is one of the key events in the national crafts calendar. Almost 200 makers from all over Britain will be demonstrating, selling and talking about their work.
Visitors to the event will be able to meet the makers and buy their work – a range of jewellery, ceramics, textiles, furniture, prints and other contemporary crafts.
The Craft Festival also features demonstrations, talks,...
Firefighters spent over an hour at a church in Brookway, Whipton today after reports the derelict building was on fire.
Reports of the fire, at The Old Church, came in at 3.37am with two appliances from Middlemoor and Danes Castle being deployed to the scene.
Upon arrival crews immediately asked for two more fire fighting appliances and an aerial appliance to assist in extinguishing the fire which was well alight.
The incident is believed to be deliberate and not, as reported earlier, caused by the use of hot metal cutting equipment.
A charitable fund in the memory a Devon woman killed in a car crash while on a round-the-world cycle challenge has passed its £10,000 target. Friends and family of Sharon Bridgman raised more than £11,500 in her memory after she was struck and killed in by a car in Bolivia in April. Sharon and husband Tim, from Zeal Monachorum near Okehampton, were on the home stretch of a two-year journey that had already taken them from Norway across Europe and Africa in an effort to raise money for a disaster relief charity. Sharon’s husband, Tim Bridgman writes: “Reaching the target is incredible and...
The Calista Group, a new renewables business operating from Uffculme, is celebrating after its leader, Paul Brown, Ex-Connaught regional director and green champion, has been shortlisted in the Entrepreneur of the Year category in the renewables industry’s equivalent to the ‘Oscars’, the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards.
Now in their fourth year, the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards celebrate the leading businesses, executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and campaigners from across the green economy, highlighting how these pioneers are driving the emergence of innovative and sustainable new...
"As we are all aware, Exeter City AFC Ltd is not owned and funded by any one individual and this means that finances are always stretched and 2013/14 was no different.
"However, we have also been adversely affected by match attendances being below expectations and a lower than anticipated uptake of season ticket renewals so the finances in the close season have been under pressure.
"As a result, the Club received a short-term, temporary loan from the PFA on Monday 2nd June."
