Employers in the South West are set to increase their numbers of temporary staff over the next six months of 2013, as many businesses turn to the expertise and knowledge of recruitment professionals to help them trade their way to recovery, according to one local figure.
Peter Brown, business manager at Frontline Recruitment in Weymouth, says that businesses in the region are looking to “try before they buy” as the economy recovers.
Peter says that local businesses are following the trend of the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, which has revealed it is only hiring...
The Exeter Express & Echo newspaper is running its first Pub of the Year competition and the Red Lion has been nominated by some of the paper's readers which is great news!
However, so have another 62 local pubs! It would be great if the Red Lion was to win the competition.
Unfortunately the Express & Echo have identified the Red Lion as being located in Sidford! But don't let that distract you it is really the Red Lion, Sidbury - honestly!
Supporters of their nominated pub are able to vote in the Pub of the Year competition in two ways. Firstly, you can...
British Blues stalwart Dave Peabody has been a professional blues musician for over thirty years, performing as a singer, harmonica player, and guitarist in a variety of acoustic and electric blues styles. He has travelled all over the British Isles, Europe, Scandinavia, and the US, playing both clubs and festivals. He has played and recorded with many American blues artistes, including Honey Boy Edwards, Charlie Musselwhite, Big Boy Henry, and Big Joe Duskin. He has been featured on over thirty albums, including nine under his own name, and was voted UK acoustic Blues Artist of the year...
The multi-million outdoor education centre, Haven Banks in Exeter has officially been handed over to Devon County Council.
The Council's leader, John Hart was formally handed the keys after a final site visit and tour of the facility.
The £5.6 million centre was funded by proceeds from the sale of Exeter airport and was the biggest single sum allocated from the sale. It replaced the old, outdated activity centre located on the canal basin.
Devon County Council funded the building and, in a pioneering partnership, it will be run by Exeter College on a day-to-day...
How meat is raised matters so much to Ian Dent and Diana Hunt that they have recently co-opted a farm between their two establishments, The Millbrook Inn at South Pool and Gara Rock at East Portlemouth where they are rearing pigs, lamb, ducks and hens.
And as the farm becomes established soon their menus will not only specify the exact field in which the meat was raised, but focus on what is available at the farm at the time.
Ian Dent and Diana Hunt, who purchased the pub this year from the South Pool community and also took over the nearby Gara Rock restaurant in March,...
Exeter’s most anticipated cinema event returns to Northernhay Gardens with more fabulous al fresco films. Come along and enjoy the magic of the movies on our 10m screen in the park.
THE GREAT GATSBY Australia/USA, 2013, 143 mins. Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Experience the glitz and the glamour of 1920′s Manhattan in Luhrmann’s big screen adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s exemplary novel.
Tickets: £3 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/the-great-gatsby-12a/
Exeter’s most anticipated cinema event returns to Northernhay Gardens with more fabulous al fresco films. Come along and enjoy the magic of the movies on our 10m screen in the park.
LIFE OF PI USA/Taiwan, 2012, 127 mins. Dir. Ang Lee
A truly visual masterpiece bringing the unforgettable magic of Yann Martel’s booker prize novel to life.
Tickets: £3 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/life-of-pi-pg/
An intercultural love poem – featuring the exhilarating and powerful Classical Indian dance of Ajeesh K Balakrishnan in collaboration with Exeter talent Kay Crook.
Antara is sanscrit for ‘between’. The story reaches into the space between science and spiritually, between life and death and between cultures. It asks, what peace can a young man find having rejected a celestial, alien love, because she is different. While he held that love, he felt whole at last…. and his soul yearns to get her back.
Drawing on references in the ancient Vedic texts to the “ties” that bind the...
Exeter’s most anticipated cinema event returns to Northernhay Gardens with more fabulous al fresco films. Come along and enjoy the magic of the movies on our 10m screen in the park.
SKYFALL UK/USA, 2012, 143 mins. Dir. Sam Mendes
Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming’s Bond 007. Styled for big screen viewing this is a smart and sexy action-packed thriller.
Tickets: £3 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/skyfall/
Exeter’s most anticipated cinema event returns to Northernhay Gardens with more fabulous al fresco films. Come along and enjoy the magic of the movies on our 10m screen in the park.
THE GOONIES USA, 1985, 114 mins. Dir. Richard Donner
Seven reject kids believe they have the key to pirate legend One-Eyed Willie and his hidden treasure. As they race to locate the loot they must battle villainous crooks, dusty skeletons, booby traps and greedy developers who want to knock down their home.
Tickets: £3 Book here: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/the-goonies-pg/
