UPDATE: Young campaigners against the cuts to the Council’s Youth Service have been denied the chance to speak at today’s full council meeting to set the next year’s budget. Campaigners had asked for three minutes to address the council before a decision was made on the future of several major services including the youth service. However Council chairman, Bernard Hughes had said that standing orders prevented parties from speaking in the council. Cllrs Claire Wright and Frank Biederman moved that standing orders be suspended in order to allow the campaigners a chance of address. Bernard...
The winners of the Exeter and Teinbridge Curry Chef of the Year 2014 have been announced.
Bijumon Varghese, of the Curry Leaf, in North Street, Exeter, was crowned Exeter Curry Chef of the Year, while Top Swar, of Gurkha Chef, Newton Abbot, took the honours for Teinbridge.
The two chefs will now face a 'cook-off' at the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink South at the end of April to find the overall winner.
Bijumon and Top were among nine of Exeter and Teignbridge's finest curry chefs battling it out at @34 Restaurant, Exeter College, today. For the...
The concert will be given by Virtuosi, an international group of instrumentalists from Wells Cathedral Specialist Music School. It will also be the first ‘outing’ for our newly-acquired Bechstein concert grand piano.
There will be a variety of instruments, composers and of styles which we hope will appeal particularly to younger members of the audience.
The first half of the programme will consist of individual items:-
Hungarian Rhapsody for cello and piano by Popper – a splendidly rhetorical opening leading to some astonishing virtuosity.
Last week was very special for one of Angela Court’s residents.
Clifford Long had a double celebration, his 90th birthday and his anniversary for living at Angela Court for an impressive 25 years.
The double header was recognised by all our staff who planned some lovely activities to celebrate both remarkable events. Their chef made a beautiful cake for Clifford to share with all his friends and family, music was played and presents were exchanged – everyone, and especially Clifford had a wonderful afternoon.
Angela Court in Tipton St John is recognised as an...
A public consultation on proposals to improve Kingskerswell Road between Newton Abbot and Kingskerswell is underway.
Decoy Industrial Estate, which is currently home to 25 businesses, is planned to expand to create around 500 new jobs.
Devon County Council and Teignbridge District Council are proposing the £2.6 million upgrade of the road in order to accommodate the potential extra traffic and the authorities will be consulting on the proposals until Friday 28 February.
Kingskerswell Road is currently the main access to Decoy Industrial Estate from the A380, but it...
More Devon schoolchildren than ever before will receive Bikeability cycle training in the coming financial year.
Devon County Council has successfully secured £300,000 of funding from the Department for Transport to train around 7,500 schoolchildren in the county.
Bikeability is a national initiative providing “cycling proficiency” for the 21st century which has been adopted by Devon County Council as the cycle training standard in the county.
Around 7,000 Devon pupils have taken part in the training over the past year. Since Devon County Council started delivering...
The organisers of Dawlish Air Show have confirmed that the Red Arrows will be appearing at this year’s show.
The Red Arrows, who celebrate their 50th season this year, are the first display team to be announced in what is promising to be another spectacular event.
Last year around 100,000 people basked in the glorious Devon sunshine and enjoyed a varied and thrilling day of flying which featured a Eurofighter Typhoon, Vulcan and Pitts Special.
Dawlish Air Show runs over two days again this year, with a family fun day on Friday 22 August and the flying displays...
A local man is encouraging people to come together for the 2014 Hospiscare Men’s Walk to support the local charity who gave ‘outstanding’ care to both his mother and mother-in-law in their final days.
Exmouth based Peter Firth took part in the 2013 Men’s Walk raising more than £750 for local charity Hospiscare.
Peter completed the 10k distance with his brother-in-law Shawn, both walking in memory of their mothers who had died within weeks of each other at the Exeter hospice.
Peter said: “In late 2011, I sadly lost both my mother and mother-in-law to cancer. They...
People in Exeter are being encouraged to make all bananas fair bananas during Fairtrade Fortnight. This year's event runs from Monday 24 February and people are being asked to welcome Stephen Best, a banana farmer from the St Lucia in the Windward Islands, to Bedford Square on Saturday 1 March.
Bananas are the UK’s favourite fruit yet only one in three sold are Fairtrade. This year the Fairtrade Foundation’s Make Bananas Fair campaign wants to raise awareness about the poor return to owners of small family farms in the Caribbean where in the last 10 years 20,000 small-holders have...
‘Theatre Rush’ an Exeter based drama company, are close to finding the funding their latest project designed to bring storytelling to the city’s streets. The company, made up of a core group of three female artists, Lizzy Humber, Katie Villa and Chloe Whipple is already well established in the Exeter theatre scene having taken up residency at the Bike Shed at the beginning of last year. However their latest project, ‘Story Exchange’, sees the company bring their work out of the theatres and around the city via a portable writing desk come wheel barrow packed with everything needed for an...
