Devon Community Foundation is asking anyone who loves to dance, or who simply loves Devon, to get involved in a county-wide flashmob on Sunday 30 June to help raise funds for the charity.
Marking the 30th Anniversary of the Hollywood classic movie, Flashdance and celebrating BBC Radio Devon’s 30th Birthday, the flashmob will be raising money for BBC Radio Devon’s ‘Give a Gift Appeal’ in aid of Devon Community Foundation.
Famous ballet dancer and Devonian Wayne Sleep is backing the Appeal suggesting as many groups as possible take part in the flashmob to raise as much as...
On Track Music Events & Bicton College proudly present Bicton Fest 2013!
OTME has collaborated with those lovely guys and gals at Bicton Agricultural College to bring you Devon’s brand new music festival, (drum roll please). Introducing Bicton Fest 2013! A sensational one-day music festival featuring two stages packed with some of the very best up-and-coming unsigned artists in the UK. Featuring Wille & The Bandits, Kal Lavelle, Joey The Lips, Adam Isaac, The Breaks Collective, Hannah Berney, Hunter & The Bear and more! with water sports, fun fairs and loads more this...
World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. World Environment Day activities take place all year round and climax on 5 June every year, involving everyone from everywhere.
The World Environment Day celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become one of the main vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.
Through World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Programme...
AZYMUTH: The original Light As A Feather Album line-up trio
Alex Malheiros (Bass) Ivan Conti (Drums) Fernando Moraes (Keyboards) Guest Musician: Thiago Silva (Percussion)
Azymuth return in 2013 for a full world tour playing their most famous album, 1979′s Light as a Feather, in full for the first time. The album took Azymuth to international fame with a string of hit singles taken from it including Jazz Carnival. Combining funk, soul and jazz with samba, Azymuth are the legendary Brazilian three-piece orchestra who were responsible for creating a new sound and genre...
On Wednesday 19 June (6-8pm) at West Exe School and Thursday 27 June (6-8pm) at ISCA college of Media Arts, the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group is inviting you to a community engagement meeting that gives you an opportunity to be involved in influencing the design of future health services for Exeter.
The Commissioning Group says: "We want to make sure that our hospital emergency departments remain responsive, safe and sustainable in the future so we have been working with our local healthcare providers; Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust,...
Homeowners in Devon who need to make essential repairs, adapatations or improvements to their homes but cannot afford to make the repairs or access credit elsewhere may be able to assess help through their local council.
Exeter City Council, together with Mid Devon, East Devon, Teignbridge, Torridge, West Devon and South Hams councils has a subsidised finance scheme open to homeowners in need of assistance.
The scheme covers works such as damp remediation, boiler repair, replacement or installation, replacing rotten windows, electrical or plumbing works, roof or structural...
Imagine that fifteen women gather. They have a conversation that maps eight geographic arteries across England and Wales, like points on a compass. These arteries reach out towards a singular destination like roots forming a tree. The destination is Hyde Park. At Land’s End, a group of women start putting one foot in front of the other. For them there is no going back. It’s June 1913 and the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage begins.
Oxygen is the first production from Dreadnought South West Association, a new organisation that works with arts and heritage to champion women’s voices and...
The BBC revealed this morning that it had seen evidence that Friends Life was reviewing whether or not to keep their Exeter base at Clyst St Mary, where about 80 people are employed.
It was revealed by the BBC's Business Correspondent Neil Gallacher that "A report from the land agents acting for the owners suggested they are likely not to stay."
Derek Phillips, from the Exeter Chamber, said on BBC Radio Devon this morning "They are important - not as important as they were a few years ago when they were extremely large, but even so, the loss of 100, 200 or even 300 jobs...
Personality is not inherited from birth parents says new research on zebra finches.
External factors are likely to play a bigger part in developing the personality of an individual than the genes it inherits from its parents, suggests the study.
Researchers at the University of Exeter and the University of Hamburg investigated how personality is transferred between generations. They found that foster parents have a greater influence on the personalities of fostered offspring than the genes inherited from birth parents.
NS&I is undertaking a nationwide search to help track down the winners of over 898,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth over £44 million in total.
Premium Bond prizes may go unclaimed as a result of NS&I not being informed of changes to your personal circumstances, such as a change in contact details or if Premium Bonds were bought for you as a child and you have subsequently lost track of them. It is important therefore, to keep NS&I up to date if anything changes.
Over a third of the UK population have invested over £45 billion in Premium Bonds, and every...
