Celebrating their passion for using the best, locally sourced ingredients, the award-winning The Venus Company is delighted to have joined forces with chef and TV presenter James Strawbridge to create two truly scrumptious new gourmet pasties. These utterly delicious Venus Strawbridge gourmet pasties will feature on The Venus Company’s new summer menu, which will be available in their popular cafés and takeaways in Devon and Cornwall from April.
These mouth-watering, handmade additions to Venus’ menu will be available in two sublime varieties - ‘Triple Cheese and Onion’ and ‘Minted...
A newly-built £27.5 million health education and research centre is now open, streamlining the process from discovery to patient care. The state-of-the-art Research, Innovation, Learning and Development (RILD) building is a partnership between the University of Exeter Medical School and the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E).
Part-funded by the Wellcome-Wolfson Foundation, the building is innovative in every way – it will enhance collaboration between the two organisations, and has already been nominated in two categories of the Michelmores Western Morning News...
A rare South Devon Bird has been rescued from the brink of extinction following an EU-funded recovery programme. The cirl bunting, native to South Devon, almost died out 25 years ago having falling to just over 100 pairs in 1989 due to the lack of food and nesting sites. Now following an extensive recovery programme to protect their environments bankrolled by the European Rural Development stewardship fund numbers are making a steady return with just under 1000 pairs estimated to live in the South Devon area. Local Devon Euro-MP Sir Graham Watson has hailed efforts to save the cirl bunting...
Create your own creature. Will it be an animal, bird or insect? Place your creature within one of our settings, take a photograph with your mobile phone and upload it to the Young RAMM online gallery.
How will your image compare to those in the British Wildlife Photographer Award exhibition?
Parents are expected to stay with their children while they participate and must remain with them if they are under 8 years of age. Some activities are messy so please wear clothes that can get dirty. Aprons will be provided.
The fun continues online www.rammuseum.org.uk/young-...
Lynda Morris worked for Nigel Greenwood who represented Gilbert & George 1970 to 1976. Lynda spent many evenings drinking and dancing with Gilbert & George and helped them to entertain other artists and art dealers from overseas. The evenings provided the subject matter of their Drinking Sculptures.
Tickets in advance from RAMM reception 01392 265858 or in person during opening hours (10am – 5pm)
Classical music in the setting of the British Wildlife Photography Awards exhibition.
The programme includes:
Beethoven – Sonata for cello and piano in A Op.69 Debussy – Sonata in G Minor Brahms – Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Op.99
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most celebrated cellists performing on the international stage. He has enjoyed a world-wide career playing with such orchestras as the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony, Leipzig...
On Friday 18th April 2014 Exeter Axhayes Cats Protection Adoption Centre are holding their Easter fun/open day. The will be lots to do, including an Easter Egg hunt , bouncy castle, face painting, caft activities, children's entertainment, fun dog agility show, static bird of prey display, BBQ, cream teas, refreshments, raffle, tombola, competitions and much more. It will be a fun packed family day out. And of course see all of the wonderful cats and kittens looking for new homes.
ALL money raised from this event goes directly towards helping local cats in our care.
Renowned for their hit songs 'I will love you', 'When you were sweet 16', 'The Green fields of France', 'The old man', 'Red rose café', 'From Clare to here', 'Her father didn't like me anyway', 'Leaving Nancy', 'Steal away' etc, the Fureys & Davey Arthur have been entertaining audiences worldwide for 36 years.
They are responsible for some of the most stirring music ever to capture the public imagination. Their folk / middle of the road based songs and music has received standing ovations in some of the biggest concert halls in the world.
What's it like to face a hungry Polar Bear and its cubs as they emerge from their den?
Or to swim eye to eye with an enormous Southern Right Whale?
How does it feel to be stalked by Killer Whales in the Straits of Gibraltar?
Multi-award winning cameraman Doug Allan (Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Ocean Giants, Wild Cameramen at Work) presents an unforgettable evening of extraordinary animal adventures and unique wildlife film footage. Ask Doug questions about his encounters and travels, and discover what it's like to be up close and personal with nature's biggest...
