Dancing in the Streets Festival 2013 is back and ready to rumble! With talented local performers from dancers and singers to comedians and live music, Saturday 8 until Sunday 9 of June is set to rock the very heart of Exeter’s shopping capital, Princesshay.
The festival, now in its fourth year, was the first of its kind in Exeter and launched the now very popular community event space in Princesshay Square.
Dancing in the Streets welcomes people of all ages to experience the dancing festival vibe, inviting visitors to take part in Vibes Dance Company’s Swagga, Zumba, Bokwa...
Equality South West (ESW) is calling on MPs in the region to back same-sex marriage when the issue returns to the House of Commons today. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill was approved in February, but an amendment has now been tabled that would enable heterosexual couples to enter into civil partnerships. This has been labelled a ‘wrecking amendment’ by Maria Miller, the Equalities minister, but supporters see it as an important final measure to ensure real equality for couples regardless of sexual orientation. Brenda Weston from ESW said: "There are 28 times more LGBT people in the UK...
Specialising in assisting small and medium sized businesses across the South West region, local accountants Ocean Consultancy Limited based in Crediton, Devon announce a merger with Haines Watts Chartered Accountants Exeter.
A national network with over 50 offices, each Haines Watts office operates independently offering a wide range of services tailored to the local market. The Exeter Office primarily focuses on accountancy and taxation services to owner managed businesses and dealing with individual’s tax affairs, with the specialist Forensic accountancy team undertaking work...
Since 2008, investors have been questioning whether it is inflation or deflation that haunts them. One might imagine that by now we would be closer to knowing the truth but, in our experience, the answer to these ‘either/or’ questions is almost always ‘neither’. When the two options are polar opposites, some combination inevitably turns out to be the true path.
When approaching the question from a scientific perspective, the answer is easy. There has historically been inflation...
Staff of St Leonard's Primary School in Exeter are taking part in a four- or nine-mile sponsored walk across Dartmoor on 9 June in order to raise funds to create a permanent reminder of Billie Bainbridge's time in the school's Foundation year. Billie died peacefully at home on the afternoon of Friday 1 June 2012, nearly a year after she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. She was just five years and five weeks old. She was an extraordinary little girl who will always be loved and never forgotten by all who knew her.
Until the beginning of June 2011, Billie Bainbridge was...
There are 800,000 people with dementia in the UK, and this number is set to rise to one million by 2021. So, it’s not surprising that so many people are worried about it. In fact, people over 55 now fear dementia more than any other disease, including cancer.
This Dementia Awareness Week™ the Alzheimer's Society wants to get as many people as possible talking about dementia, as the more we talk about it, the more we’ll know, and the more prepared we’ll be to face it.
Ruth Jones, is supporting Alzheimer’s Society for the first time by fronting Dementia Awareness Week™, which...
Overnight road closures will be carried out on the A380 at the Teign Estuary viaduct for essential repair work to be carried out this week.
The northbound carriageway of the Teign Estuary viaduct will be closed overnight on Monday 20 May and Tuesday 21 May and both southbound lanes will then be closed on the evenings of Wednesday 22 May and Thursday 23 May in order for the bridge expansion joints to be repaired. The road will be closed from 7.30pm and will re-open by 7am each morning.
Due to the failure of the expansion joints, there has been an emergency lane closure on...
Devon and Cornwall Police take DNA samples from 19 children every week, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today (20 May 2013).
New research by the charity has found that Devon and Cornwall officers took swabs from 1,009 boys and girls aged 17 or under during 2011.
They included 18 primary school-age children – five 10-year-olds and 13 11-year-olds.
Across England and Wales, police took swabs from almost 54,000 boys and girls aged 17 or under during 2011.
They included at least 368 10-year-olds and 1,030 11-year-olds, meaning that...
It may be too late to get tickets for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show but there is still plenty visitors can do to get into the Chelsea mood at RHS Garden Rosemoor. The garden is looking wonderful with cheerful daffodils, woodlanders such as Trilliums, alliums, and fresh new growth unfurling in the Rock Gully. The many fruit trees are putting on exquisite blossom displays, too. If you were thinking about seeing the show gardens at Chelsea take a trip to the model gardens at Rosemoor instead. They share a similar focus on garden design and future similarly intricate planting. Irises are also...
Exeter Chiefs captain Tom Hayes says yet more "exciting" times lie ahead for the club after another impressive year of action both in the Aviva Premiership and the Heineken Cup.
Exeter's last-day 40-39 victory over Gloucester at a packed Sandy Park, not only ensured Rob Baxter's side of sixth spot in English rugby's top division, but it guaranteed the Chiefs would be mixing it with Europe's elite again next season.
Having tasted the delights of Heineken Cup rugby for the first time during the 2012/13 campaign, Hayes insists he and his club-mates will be more than happy to...
