Exeter Golf and Country Club have announced they are the 2014 sponsors of the VIP area of the Exeter Festival of Food and Drink.
The festival, which is growing year on year returns to Exeter Castle and Northernhay gardens for the eleventh year and will welcome over one hundred artisan food producers from across the region bringing with them their finest food and drink for visitors to stock up on during the three day event from 25th – 27th April. The VIP area was introduced last year as a haven of peace amongst the hustle and bustle of the festival. Festival-goers pay a premium to...
The Kenn Art Show was founded in 2006 and, since then, it has grown into a successful and prestigious bi-annual event. Profits from the show will be going to St. Andrew’s Church in Kenn, and to the Kenn Centre, where the show is taking place this year.
Up to 40 artists and craftspeople will be exhibiting and selling their work. Take a look at the Kenn Art Show Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kenn-Art-Show to see some examples of what will be on display, and follow @kennartshow on Twitter.
The show will be opened by Ray Balkwill SWAc, the well-known West Country...
Seaton Jurassic, the new exciting visitor attraction for East Devon, received a massive boost today (7 March) with the award of a Coastal Communities Fund (CCF) grant of over £300,000.
This is a huge step towards starting the Centre build in June. Seaton Jurassic will tell the uniquely powerful story of the geology and ecology of the Jurassic Coast, England’s first Natural World Heritage Site. The Centre will be built on The Underfleet in the middle of Seaton, a two minute walk from the seafront, adjacent to the new Tesco and the Seaton Tramway terminus, and will contribute to the...
The Westcountry’s fastest growing female network is leading South West support on International Women’s Day.
The digital campaign run by Leading Women UK aims to inspire change on Women's Day by asking women to share their top piece of advice on how to #BeYourselfAtWork.
They are also asking people to support Women’s Day by partaking in a social media Thunderclap campaign.
Support from the online Twitter networking community @Devon_hour last night (5/3/2014) boosted the momentum of the campaign.
The Thunderclap action aims to gather best advice from members...
A real highlight of Exeter School’s musical year will be held in Exeter Cathedral this month.
The Choral Society concert takes place on Thursday 20 March 2014 at 7.30pm.
The Choral Society, comprising about 130 pupils alongside parents, staff and friends of Exeter School, will be accompanied by a full professional orchestra, with pupils taking the lion’s share of the solo work.
They will perform Vivaldi’s Gloria, Finzi's Ceremonial Ode to St Cecilia, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, and members of Symphony Orchestra will join the professional orchestra to...
The Castle Hill Car Festival is the premier motoring event in the South West and last year featured in Auto Express Magazine as one of 'must do' summer motoring events alongside the Goodwood Revival. The dates for 2014 have been confirmed as Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th August.
The Festival draws together devotees of classic cars, supercar enthusiasts, plus fans of the region's very active motorsport scene, and all within the unparalleled setting of the parkland grounds of Castle Hill near Filleigh, the home of the Earl and Countess of Arran.
A new grant from the Designation Development Fund will allow RAMM to develop its Pacific collections for the benefit of its audiences including families, students and academics.
Called Discovering Worlds, the ambitious project encompasses new research, conservation, documentation and reinterpretation.
Rosie Denham, Exeter’s Lead Councillor for Economy and Culture, summed up the city’s delight: “It is wonderful to receive this grant allowing us to develop our Pacific collections. Much of this material dates back to the earliest contact between Europeans and Pacific...
Watch TV presenter Mike Dilger as he follows the unfolding story of the internationally important discoveries made during the excavation of a prehistoric burial on Whitehorse Hill in Dartmoor National Park. When archaeologists unearthed the contents contained within the burial cist in a remote part of Dartmoor in 2012, they had no idea they were about to find an internationally important collection of prehistoric remains. Academics and scientists alike were fascinated by the well preserved findings from this prehistoric cremation burial which allowed them one of the best glimpses into life...
A 25-year-old man has been charged in connection with a burglary at Martin’s Church in Exminster shortly before Christmas. The church was broken into on 15 December 2013 and food was taken from the donation basket along with Christmas cards. An antique British Legion flag and kneeler were burned while damage was caused to storage cupboard locks and the sound system. Lewis Wilkinson, from Exminster, has been charged with burglary and criminal damage and remanded on bail to appear before Exeter Magistrates’ Court on 25 March 2014
The art work of seven Exeter School pupils has been chosen to appear in The Marle Gallery’s “Before They Were Famous” exhibition from 8 March to 5 April 2014.
Five current GCSE and A Level Art pupils and two former pupils have been given the opportunity to see their work hung in a professional gallery.
The art work of Upper Fifth pupils Miles Johal and Dan Jarvis, Lower Sixth pupils Emma Askew, Daniel Hambly and Rebecca Armstrong and last year’s Upper Sixth pupils Georgia Reece and Flossie Beasley, will join the creations of other exceptional young artists, under the age of...
