Princesshay will host the inaugural World Pancake Racing Championships on Shrove Tuesday (4 March).
Local businesses, organisations and individuals are now being invited to demonstrate their pancake flipping credentials by entering a team of between two and four members.
The Pancake World Championship is a partnership between local Event Management company Wacky Nation and Princesshay, to raise funds for local charity Dream-A-Way, Princesshay’s charity of the year for 2014. It will be hosted by Radio Exe.
The relay race involves each team member running along a...
People from all over Exeter gathered at St James’ Park yesterday as the first workshop auditions for the upcoming musical The Day We Played Brazil got underway.
Exeter Community Arts Project is looking for 120 people to be part of the project which is set to be the biggest cultural event in Exeter for many years.
Hopefuls as young as 11 took part in the workshop auditions which involved playing drama games, singing songs from the show, dancing, and acting parts of the script in large groups.
Kate Tyrrell, Producer of The Day We Played Brazil said: “It was great to...
Repair and clear-up work after damage from the latest storms is expected to take at least six weeks according to East Devon District Council.
Collapsing beach huts, damaged seafronts and a washed away ice cream parlour have all been handled by Council staff in the recent work to clear the damage left by weeks of severe weather conditions.
However, with more strong gales and heavy rain expected to hit the county late tonight and throughout the day tomorrow bringing the risk of further damage, the clear-up work may take even longer than expected.
We are only a little theatre so we are looking for some volunteer BUD-ies to help us with the publicity campaign for our Spring Season brochure!
To those unfamiliar with the Bike Shed Theatre, we’re where the theatre makers of tomorrow start their journeys. We give them space to test ideas, to develop new work and to proudly show it to the world. Well, to Exeter. It’s a place to try something new, to take a chance on the unexpected and be pleasantly surprised by the outcomes.
We are asking our BUD-ies to help us to distribute our Spring brochures in and around Exeter. We...
Most people earning average wages in the South West would need to more than double their annual salary just to keep up with out of control house prices, new research by homelessness charity Shelter shows. In the study, released today, the charity looked at wage and house price inflation since 1997 in every area of the region. This was then used to calculate what average annual earnings would be if they had risen at the same rate as house prices. The charity argues that as the disparity between house prices and wages is keeping a generation of people out of the market. “When you’d need to...
I’m very independent because I do everything by myself. I post, like and comment at the same time. I’m full of initiative. I even ask my friends to like my profile picture to gain more likes. As they say, “Love yourself first before loving others.” Right?
Ironbridge Runner owner Pete Ferlie and his team are well known for promoting fun and innovative running events, with the latest promotion being their very popular annual Exeter Half Marathon on Sunday 16 February 2014 and which sold out its 350 available places weeks beforehand.
Flooding permitting (an alternative course is ready to be used if necessary) the race is held over a great 3 lap traffic free and pancake flat half course on footpaths and cycle tracks around the River Exe and Exeter Canal. The event is suitable for people chasing personal bests as well as for novice...
Screamingly good fun at Exeter Golf & Country Club.
Come along for the first of this year's Murder Mystery Dinners, with the ever-popular Candlelight Theatre Company and enjoy a unique evening of intrigue and investigation. As the plot thickens over dinner, will you decipher who did it? Will you survive The Takeover?
The murder mystery takes place on Saturday 12 April and tickets are £45 per member, £50 per non member.
For further information about the Wear Park Restaurant visit www.exetergcc.co.uk/wear-park-bar-restaurant and to make a reservation email: info@...
An Exeter-based company has been shortlisted in a national awards ceremony in recognition of the difference their pioneering assistive smartphone technology is making to the lives of people with autism across the UK.
Brain in Hand, at the University of Exeter Innovation Centre, has been nominated in the Best New Technological Innovation sponsored category in The National Autistic Society's (NAS) Autism Professionals Awards 2014. The annual ceremony, which first took place in 2013, recognises and rewards services and professionals that lead the way in innovative autism practice and...
The number of us taking the time to sit and chat with someone close is dwindling, according to new research from the mental health anti-stigma programme Time to Change, which shows that nearly two thirds of people (59%) in the South West admit they should talk to family and friends more often than they currently do.
The findings were released on the first ever national Time to Talk Day (6 February) which aimed to spark one million conversations about mental health.
Exploring how often we’re having conversations, the poll reveals only around a third (31%) of people ask their...
