The final episode of The Apprentice aired tonight on BBC1 at 8.00pm and saw Lord Sugar taking on Dr Leah Totton as a business partner with a personal investment of £250,000. Luisa Zissman with a proposed wholesale bakery business narrowly lost out to Leah's business plan for a chain of Medical Cosmetic clinics to be Lord Sugar’s Apprentice for 2013. The nation was on the edge of their seats to find out whether Lord Sugar would take the safe option of baking or the cosmetic route, which for him, has a moral dilemma.
Yet Leah’s new business venture proposal is not a new concept, as...
Come and discover your local history. Hosted by the Poltimore Estate history and Archaeology Group with participation from many local groups and societies as well as talks on local topics.
Refreshments available, dogs on leads welcome.
noon-4pm
The house will also be open to explore. Standard Admission Fees apply, free entry for Friends of Poltimore House.
Jack wants to marry Gwendolen, but there are two obstacles: her mother who is a ‘Gorgon’... and Gwendolen’s ideal ‘to love someone of the name of Ernest’ ... Meanwhile, with the discovery that Jack has ‘an excessively pretty ward, who is only just eighteen’, his friend Algy sees the perfect opportunity for some Bunburying at Jack’s place in the country!
These are the ingredients for Oscar Wilde’s most witty confection: lost babies, lost luggage, lost relations – all enhanced by equally witty music by Monica Shallis.
The performance will be in the grounds of Poltimore House...
Jack wants to marry Gwendolen, but there are two obstacles: her mother who is a ‘Gorgon’... and Gwendolen’s ideal ‘to love someone of the name of Ernest’ ... Meanwhile, with the discovery that Jack has ‘an excessively pretty ward, who is only just eighteen’, his friend Algy sees the perfect opportunity for some Bunburying at Jack’s place in the country!
These are the ingredients for Oscar Wilde’s most witty confection: lost babies, lost luggage, lost relations – all enhanced by equally witty music by Monica Shallis.
The performance will be in the grounds of Poltimore House...
Dr Sally Flint and Dr Ginny Baily, the editors of Riptide short story journal and Canto poetry journal, based at the University of Exeter, will run and facilitate this creative writing workshop.
Artwork on display from RAMM’s permanent collection will be used as inspiration to develop and discuss a piece of writing.
Participants need to bring along pens, paper, a willingness to write and their imaginations.
10am-4pm.
Tickets cost £35 and are available from Riptide: www.riptidejournal.co.uk or email: editors@riptidejournal.co.uk
The scenery of Dartmoor and South Devon as depicted by father and son landscape painters William and FJ Widgery.
Both painters lived and worked in Devon throughout their careers. William Widgery (1826-1893) was entirely self-taught and developed an atmospheric style well suited to large-scale work.
By contrast, his son, FJ (1861-1942), received formal art training at home and abroad. His more precise draughtsmanship was ideal for small-scale work and illustration. Though high-spirited and sociable, William seems to have been totally dedicated to painting. FJ, though a very...
Take the family along and support St David’s Hill Playgroup at their summer fete and barbecue.
There will be face painting, cake stall/sweet stall, great raffle prizes and days out tombola as well as deliciousm and very reasonably priced, barbecue food to enjoy.
Police in Exeter are appealing for information to help trace a missing man.
Lee Willingham, aged 39 years, was reported missing on Sunday 14 July having last been seen at around 6.30am at his home in Exeter on Thursday 11 July.
Willingham is described as a white man 5ft 8" in height and of medium build. He wears glasses and has dark brown and greying cropped hair and a dark brown goatee beard. He habitually wears shorts and a linen shirt.
He drives a Renault Megane vehicle, which police believe he parked in Strand Street Car Park, Plymouth on 11 or 12 July.
The South West TUC is calling on employers to do the sensible thing and temporarily relax workplace dress codes.
Now the sun is out and the temperature has soared, many workplaces have become unbearably hot with many employees visibly wilting at their desks, says the TUC.
The TUC would also like to see the Health and Safety Executive amend the approved code of practice – which covers workplace conditions – so that it introduces a new maximum legal temperature at work.
Although workplace temperatures cannot legally fall below (16°C), there is no upper limit. The TUC...
Enjoy the stunning views of Lyme Bay while riding on the Beer Heights Light Railway. A mile-long miniature railway with its fleet of steam locomotives taking you through spectacular gardens with steep-sided cuttings and a dark tunnel!
There's plenty more to see and do at Pecorama too, with the Peco Model Railway Exhibition, the Millennium Celebration Gardens, children's activity areas and a variety of summer entertainment on offer undercover of the Peco Marquee.
Please visit our website www.pecorama.info for further details.
