This year the Powderham Food Festival is celebrating ‘Pickling, Potting & Preserving’ from ancient roots to space food technology. The festival takes place on 5 October 2013, and is sponsored by Helpful Holidays one of the leading holiday cottage specialists in the South West. The event will celebrate food and food-growing in a spectacular location – Powderham Castle: an exceptional, family-run 600-year-old stately home which is situated beside the picturesque Exe estuary, and surrounded by stunning deer park.
There will be over a hundred producers exhibiting in the castle and...
If you fancy ferret racing or baby goat walking then go along to the Blessed Sacrament Church's Garden Fete and Family Fun Day on Saturday.
There will be plenty going on for all the family including an auction of promises, live music, bouncy castle, grand draw at 3.30pm, an international food garden, teas, cakes, barbecue, stalls and lots more.
I recently took up an invitation from North, East & West Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (NEW Devon CCG) to attend a “Have Your Say” community engagement event to help them look at the way they/we use out 2 Walk-In Centres (WIC) in Exeter – one attached to the Accident & Emergency Department at RD&E, the other on Sidwell Street in the city centre.
They wanted to know about how to make sure that we have the right level of service, in the right place, at the right time. And probably at the right price (but we’ll come to that later).
Both John Hubbard and Adam Buick are known for their tendency to work with natural materials in an exciting and modern way, combining the elements of nature - mostly water and earth - to try and represent the essence of life.
John Hubbard is a serious and celebrated artist, born in the USA in 1931 and now living in Dorset. He has had a long and distinguished career exhibiting internationally with his work in public and private collections worldwide.
Hubbard uses vine charcoal in many of his drawing to express the movement and dynamics of rushing and siwlring water, rocks...
Teams from as far afield as France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and Mexico came to Exeter last month to compete in the first ever One Planet Sustainability Challenge. 15 teams in total participated in the competition.
In the United Nations designated Year of Water Cooperation, the event was partnered by three companies all of whom face real challenges in their water management strategies, Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE), SABMiller and South West Water. They were joined by two supporting partners, WWF and Water Aid. In 2012, CCE used a total of 8.8 billion litres of water,...
Teignbridge District Council has reaffirmed its commitment towards creating a safe, sustainable and authorised gypsy and traveller site at Haldon Ridge.
The Executive confirmed a funding agreement with the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) will be signed in order to draw down the £1.12 million in funding that will pay for a 15-pitch permanent site next to the unauthorised but tolerated facility.
The Executive’s meeting in Forde House, Newton Abbot considered matters that would resolve and safeguard against any potential financial and funding risks posed to Teignbridge as a...
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Authority members will consider a consultation report and vote on proposals to meet a significant Government grant reduction, on 10 July at the Service Headquarters in Exeter.
The Service is looking at managing significant on-going budget cuts, now anticipated to be around £8m by 2015, following the Spending Review announcement last week. Proposals aimed at providing an affordable and effective service, without removing fire stations, fire engines or making compulsory redundancies, were developed for public consultation earlier this year. The...
A young boy asked his mother what he should do in order to be a success when he grew up. The mother thought for a moment, and then told her son to bring her a pencil. Puzzled, the boy found a pencil and gave it to her.
“If you want to do good,” she said, “you have to be just like this pencil.”
“What does that mean?” her son asked.
“First,” she said, “you’ll be able to do a lot of things, but not on your own. You have to allow yourself to be held in someone’s hand.
“Second, you’ll have to go through a painful sharpening from time to time, but you’ll need it...
Today (Wednesday 3 July), Devon and Cornwall, Avon and Somerset, Dorset and Gloucestershire Police join the National Police Air Service (NPAS). This is the fourth phase of implementation since the launch of NPAS on 1st October 2012. The remaining police forces in England and Wales will join NPAS by January 2015.
The focus of NPAS is to deliver a more cost effective service, balancing the need to save money in a challenging economic environment against the need to ensure the police have a quickly deployable asset that can be used to tackle crime and protect the public.
City manager Paul Tisdale clarified the contract situations with a few of the players that are yet to put pen to paper with the Grecians for 2013/14.
Experienced pairing Matt Oakley and Steve Tully have not yet agreed terms to remain with the Grecians, but Paul is confident in the knowledge that he and the club are doing their utmost retain both players within the constraints they have.
“Matt Oakley hasn’t signed yet, but he’s come back to training and he wants to play for us,” said Tis. “We’ve been very transparent over the last month or two that we’d like to sign him and...
