RHS Garden Rosemoor will be bursting with blooms this March when it hosts its first Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Spring Flower Show and competition, on 15–16 March.
The inaugural show focuses on camellias, including the RHS Early Camellia Competition, early magnolias and rhododendrons as well as classes for ornamental shrubs and the RHS Rosemoor Daffodil Competition. Visitors can view the exquisite displays of top quality blooms from competitors from all over the South West.
Trade and advice stands in the show plus a superb range of early spring shrubs and flowering...
If you want to entertain your young ones this half term look no further than Animated Exeter.
Take the kids to Moshi Monster Sunday, which includes a special festival screening of the new ‘Moshi Monsters: The Movie’ and a ‘Make a Moshling’ workshop.
Have some fun learning to animate at one of many workshops aimed at different age-groups and abilities; make characters from your favourite C Beebies programme, Mike the Knight and bring them to life at Exeter Cathedral on Monday; discover how scrap meets animation to make weird creatures come to life; visit our exhibitions, see...
A Devon based cider maker is celebrating its silver jubilee year in style after winning a national retailing award.
The Green Valley Cyder Barn and Ale House retail outlet based at Dart’s Farm at Topsham near Exeter has won the nationally recognized Drinks Retailing Award for Independent Cider Retailer of the Year 2014.
The Cyder Barn has grown from a small outdoor unit selling only cider pressed on site and made only from Devon apples to a large in-store retail outlet stocking 180 ciders and perrys from the UK and across Europe. It is now probably the largest retailer of...
For years, I've collected newspaper headlines that leave me thinking "And....?". A top example was a piece in the Express & Echo: 'Police choir sings'. A headline that wasn't quite.
Is it the same with the title above? Well, for me personally, no. For more than fifty years, stories have wandered unasked into my head; I've picked them up, turned them over, tickled their tummies perhaps, and then set them down to run away. But last April was different.
My eye was caught by a piece in the local paper about the venerable Devon & Exeter...
