Lunchtime demonstration: Recreating Real People

Event Date: 
26/11/2013 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Past Pleasures specialise in interpreting history through costumed character re-creation. Find out how they have researched and constructed a personality from the exhibition and meet them in the gallery for a short performance.

1pm-3pm, £6 (£4)

Tickets available online or from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum reception in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.

www.rammuseum.org.uk

Handel : Music for Vespers

Event Date: 
24/11/2013 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

As a hugely successful opera composer, Handel was commissioned by the grandest patrons of the day to bring his theatrical brilliance and flair to important ceremonial occasions – his four coronation anthems, used at the coronation of every monarch since 1727, are the most famous example

English Touring Opera’s soloists and period instrument orchestra, the Old Street Band team up with the Gentlemen of the Cathedral’s Choir, Counterpoint and Isca Voices for an evening of Handel's Italian Vespers, staged at Exeter Cathedral.

Written during his visit to Italy, when the...

Construction staff in the pink for cancer charity

Construction staff from David Wilson Homes in Exeter swapped their regular hi-vis gear for pink jackets and hats as part of a fundraising effort for the Breast Cancer Campaign.

The construction team put their weight behind the Wear It Pink Day and the housebuilder has pledged to continue fundraising for vital and lifesaving research.

Sales director Lee Monk said: “Our Wear It Pink Day was a huge success on site and in our head office and we are thrilled and proud to have been able to support the Breast Cancer Campaign. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed becoming pink heroes for...

Exeter's Lush manager competes in World Beard Championship

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Tue, 10/29/2013 - 3:53pm

This weekend will see hundreds of hirsute heroes come together in the world’s biggest beard and moustache growing competition. The competition will see contestants from across the world come together in a competition of style, precision and natural ability unlike any other. Among those hoping to impress is Nik Allebon, manager of the Lush Store on Exeter’s High Street. “I’m going in fingers crossed”, said Nik “it’s an open competition as well as an international one.

"There’s a big team coming across from the US, and there are at least 20 that I know of coming from the British...

The Gro Company sweeps the board with double award win at the Nursery Industry National Awards

The Gro Company, makers of the award-winning Grobag, is without doubt the UK’s favourite baby sleep brand, having been voted Best Sleeptime Brand by the Nursery Industry National Awards for two years running.

Beating off competition, Gro was voted for by retailers and brands in the nursery industry, demonstrating that its products are the most sought after in its category and the only serious choice for retailers and parents alike.

The evening became a double award winning event for Gro when they also picked up the award for Best E-Tailer /Use of Technology for its new...

"Cut the Big Six energy companies down to size, George" says consumer champion

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 10/29/2013 - 3:19pm

As the bosses of the UK's six biggest energy companies are called in front of the Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC), to justify recent price rises; the consumer champion Which? has launched a campaign to persuade the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take action on rising energy bills in his Autumn Statement.

Which? said: "With almost eight in ten people worried about rising energy costs and the suppliers being hauled in front of the Select Committee to justify price hikes, we call on the Chancellor to stand up for consumers when he stands up in the House of Commons to...

Sorry... No trick or treat this Hallowe'en

Devon and Cornwall Police are taking steps to ensure that Hallowe'en is a happy and safe time for everyone, whether young or old.

If you are going trick or treating this Halloween we want you to have fun and be safe but remember not everyone wants you to call at their home.

The Sorry, No Trick, No Treat, No Thanks Campaign encourages members of the public who do not want to be bothered by trick-or-treaters’ to cut out this poster and place it in the front door or window of their homes.

Neighbourhood policing Inspector Paul Morgan said: “In recent years we have seen...

Exeter Toy Train and Collectors Fair

Event Date: 
03/11/2013 - 10:30am to 3:00pm
Venue: 
Westpoint Arena, Exeter

This weekend, Westpoint Arena will once again play host to one of the region’s best-known collectors events - Exeter Toy Train and Collectors Fair.

The event, on Sunday 3rd November, will incorporate over 200 stalls featuring a range of full-time traders and free-time collectors, all coming together to share expertise and items. The fair has an incredible amount to offer collectors of all backgrounds.

Browse stalls, talk with collection experts and seek out those elusive items you’ve been after for years - there’s...

Tidy result for East Devon villages in 2013 Best Kept Village competition

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 10/29/2013 - 1:53pm

East Devon villages that have been successful in the 2013 Best Kept Village competition, promoted by the Devon Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), were rewarded in a ceremony at EDDC’s Full Council meeting last week.

Representatives of the winning villages are pictured receiving certificates from EDDC’s Chairman, Councillor Graham Godbeer, and Vice-Chairman Councillor Mrs Christine Drew.

Each year East Devon District Council also formally recognises the efforts made by parishes within East Devon that have been awarded high points in the competition but are not Devon-...

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