Two free, family, drop-in and draw events at Devon Guild this half-term. Enter a special creative space in the gallery where you can draw, design and make a Venetian-style Halloween mask and lace-based patterns for a collective wall decoration. Activities include pattern-making, papercutting, stencilling and projection-tracing, and are inspired by our current exhibition intoLACE as part of the Big Draw Campaign for Drawing 2013.
Staff supervision. Materials provided. Drop-in: free,11am-4pm. Under 12s supervised please. No need...
Everyone nowadays has heard of apprenticeships, they have been around for some time in one form or another and have been set up to give people an opportunity to work for a company, while earning a real salary and gaining a real qualification within their chosen career path. During the apprenticeship they will also gain valuable workplace skills, experience and get to understand what the world of business is really like.
Cosmic, is a locally based social enterprise, which offers IT services to businesses across the South West. At Cosmic we are very aware of the growing issue of...
A Caravan Park in East Devon has won awards for its conservation work for a 17th year running. The Oakdown Touring and Holiday Caravan Park run by the Franks family runs a number of environmental initives to keep the park friendly to the environment Recently they installed top of the range solor panels and a lighting system in the which reduces energy use by 90%. Oakdown won one of the first Professor David Bellamy conservation awards in 1997 and has maintained this award ever since. The Bellamy Awards judge holiday parks on their efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment,...
With the autumn half term coming up at the end of this month, Exeter City’s Football in the Community team is once again running a range of different holiday courses around the region.
There will be four different football events in Exeter, plus a tennis course, as well as programmes in Dawlish, Exmouth, Sidmouth, Feniton, Crediton, Tiverton, Okehampton, Hatherleigh, Bideford, Ilfracombe, South Molton and Barnstaple.
A two-day course on the astroturf at St Luke’s Science and Sports College kicks off half term in Exeter, starting on Monday 28 October and costing £27 for...
The company which ran the pilot badger cull in Somerset have applied for an extension of two to three weeks.
Natural England, the national executive responsible for protecting and improving England's natural enviroment is currently considering the application.
Gloucestershire is expected to also apply for an extension. The Department for Enviroment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said that current indications suggest the six week pilot cull was humane, safe and effective in reducing the badger population. The Chief Veterinary Officer has advised the government that by...
The Chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA), Sir Merrick Cockell, is to address public service leaders from across Devon tomorrow saying that economic growth is being stunted because of the way Whitehall allocates and spends taxpayers' money.
Sir Merrick Cockell will use his keynote address to local government leaders, councillors and public service leaders from across Devon to demand a radical overhaul of the way public money is distributed and spent to deliver a fair deal for English residents, boost economic growth and completely rewire a public sector which has...
Have you got a burning desire to face a new challenge and raise a scorching amount of money in the process? Then join other fearless fundraisers at Exeter’s Double Locks pub on 1 November and take part in a Fire Walk in aid of WESC Foundation - The Specialist Centre for Visual Impairment.
Organised in association with UK Firewalk, the event will raise funds through sponsorship for the charity, which provides specialist education and care to blind and partially sighted children and young people. You can enter either individually or as a team, and all participants will be mentored...
This Sunday (13 October) sees the return of Exeter’s Great West Run.
Roads to be closed for the event: • Northernhay Place • Bailey Street • Sidwell Street • Exeter High Street • South Street • Western Way (one Eastbound Lane) • Frog Street • A377/Exe Bridges (one Northbound Lane) • Okehampton Street • Okehampton Road • Exwick Road • St Andrews Road • Crediton Road • Stoke Road • Cowley Bridge Road • New North Road • Streatham Drive • Prince of Wales Road • Pennsylvania Road (crossing point at Prince of Wales Rd & Union Rd) • Union Road • Mount Pleasant Rd • Pinhoe Road •...
New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.
Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities. No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose.
In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies , the team found...
