Exeter-based Blue Chip Holidays, the South West’s largest four and five star self catering holiday specialist, has announced the launch of its new lodge holiday concept with the appointment of Sam Wrigglesworth who joins the business as Head of Lodges. Sam joins from Hoseasons Holidays where he was Business Development Manager with responsibility for the growth of its Lodges and Parks division nationally.
Sam’s appointment is part of Blue Chip Holidays’ ambitious plans to increase its property portfolio from 890 properties to in excess of 1,200. The launch of the new lodge division...
In recognition of the World War One centenary, Exeter University Choral Society is performing Karl Jenkins’ highly acclaimed work; ‘The Armed Man’ in the atmospheric Cathedral. Dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo Crisis, Jenkins intended this piece to have an anti-war stance. Jenkins acheives this through the use of diverse cross-cultural styles of music, including the Catholic Mass, a fifteenth century folk song entitled ‘L’Homme armé’ and a Muezzin soloist. The text also includes influences from the Bible, the Mahabharata and Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Hymn Before Action’. ‘The Armed Man’ is...
Devon has added another success story to its books, with the announcement that Exeter girl group Wildwood Kin have won in the Open Mic UK Competition.
Open Mic UK offers entrants not only the chance to win prizes, but the opportunity to perform live to capacity audiences at some of the best venues in the country, with the Grand Final being held at The NEC in Birmingham! Huge crowds, record industry A & R and celebrity judges are there to cast their eye over the talent along the way.
Exeter girl group Wildwood Kin impressed judges at the audition stages and during a...
Colyton Grammer School in East Devon has received the best GCSE results in the country for the second year running according to the latest school league tables.
The news is perhaps no surprise as the school, which only takes in pupils in the top 25% of the abiltity range, has been named as the Sunday Time’s ‘Co—Educational School of the Year’ on no fewer four occasions.
Headteacher Paul Evans said of the school’s success: “Its a magic formula at Colyton; a group of students who are committed and clearly very able, a very hardworking and talented staff that constantly amaze...
An Exeter-based business has announced that Hospiscare will be their charity of year for 2014.
Management training and coaching business, Crisp Professional Development (CPD), recently announced their partnership with the charity, donating £5 to Hospiscare for every person booked onto an open course in 2014. Managing Director Shaun Durham said the CPD team is looking forward to supporting a local charity that does such valuable work within the community.
He said: “We are very pleased to have chosen Hospiscare for our charity of the year for 2014. As a local charity...
Soap Soup re-invent the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood for a new generation. Meet Ethel and Sam as they get ready for bed, with a not so sweet bedtime story of a girl with attitude, a wolf with an appetite and a larger than life woodcutter with an axe and a very real fear of wolves. Join Red as she crosses eiderdown meadows and picks her way through the mug tree forest to Grandma’s house. Little Red Riding Hood combines the magical appeal of puppetry, and cutting edge, original music with our signature, darkly humorous and visually stunning style. Drawing inspiration from childhood...
Following their sell-out show A Little Nonsense at Exeter Ignite festival and Brighton Fringe, Juncture Theatre return to develop STUFF – a new work inspired by the things we own, the role that possessions play in our lives and the stories that they tell. The company will embark on a real life treasure hunt, meeting and documenting encounters with people who are selling, swapping or searching in the Free Ads. Through a patchwork of intricate storytelling, illustration, live music and obsessive list-making, Juncture will explore memory, security and the relationships we form with the stuff...
Acclaimed Bristol theatre company Juncture return to The Bike Shed Theatre with an original black comedy that explores the clown inside the man and the mirth hidden in the melancholy.
Through mime, slapstick, poetry and farce, A Little Nonsense is a bare-knuckle look at the sharp edge of funny. The play follows a tortured double-act as they walk the tightrope between love and loathing and question the importance of light and shade in our lives.
A Little Nonsense combines the physicality of Buster Keaton, the linguistic games of Beckett and the off-kilter world of a David...
In this video local business expert Richard Hussey from RSH Copywriting gives great advice on how to write news articles.
Richard describes the three best principles to writing a new articles and the importance of headlines.
“Your headline has one purpose -- to grab the attention of the specific people you really want to read your content.
"It has to tell them: 'this article is for you’; 'you're going to discover something of value'. And 'this will be a productive use of your time'. See now why headlines are more than just an afterthought?”
The George Hotel February is a bit of a slow month, with many of us still in hibernation mode, so what better to shock us from our winter torpor, that a shot of Wild Willy Barrett’s Sleeping Dogz ?
Wild Willy is experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his collaborations with John Otway in the 1980s.
Although you need to be warned - multi-instrumentalist Willy Barrett says he isn’t ‘Wild’ anymore: just ‘Livid’! For anyone thinking of turning out to see his cabaret Live@ The George, and who frankly hasn’t a clue what to expect, be prepared for a...
