Newtown Christmas Craft Fayre

Event Date: 
18/11/2012 - 11:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
The Hut, Belmont Park

The annual Newtown Christmas Craft Fayre takes place on Sunday 18th November from 11am-4pm at The Hut in Belmont Park.

This popular community event, which includes a cafe, is an ideal opportunity to buy a Christmas present, or just to treat yourself.

For more information on Newtown Community Association visit www.newtowncommunity.org.uk

Calendar Club celebrates 15 years on Exeter high street

In 1998 Calendar Club opened its very first store in Exeter, one of 12 short term retail stores in the UK during that year. In 2012 they celebrate their 15th anniversary opening more than 300 stores in shopping centres across the UK and Ireland between September to January.

Exeter's Calendar Club store for this year is situated on the edge of the Guildhall high street entrance, in what was previously the Nickleby's menswear premises. The store stocks roughly 1,500 products that include calendars, diaries, annuals as well as an extended range including posters and animal...

Marie Curie Christmas Fayre

Event Date: 
15/12/2012 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Venue: 
Red House Hotel, Torquay

'We have all been touched with the devastation that Cancer leaves behind in one way or another, this year alone I have lost two very special people who I will miss dearly.

"In their memory I am holding this event as I feel it is important that people are given the option of being able to pass away in their own home and pain free. This is a purely charity run cause which needs £12,000 per hour just to keep running. It needs people like us to give a little.' - Jodie Shears

This event is being organised by Jodie Shears, which started off as a small event, has...

PR Awards recognises local Safer Driving Campaign

A pioneering public-private partnership that helps promote safer driving among young people has been recognised with four prestigious industry awards for communication.

The Honest Truth Partnership took home four awards at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) West of England Pride Awards on Friday 9th November. Facing stiff competition from public, private and third sector companies including some of the region’s biggest PR firms, the partnership picked up four Gold awards, including a special prize awarded by judges for the ‘Best Use of Measurement and...

UK teen jailed for robbing jewelry stores

Authored by JAMIII
Posted: Mon, 11/12/2012 - 11:35pm

LONDON (AP) — British police say a 16-year-old boy who used prosthetics and dreadlocks to conduct armed robberies in disguise has been jailed for five years.

Police say Miles Alura pretended to be an elderly man with facial prosthetics, make-up and a hair piece to steal 50,000 pounds ($79,500) of jewelry from a shop in Kent in July. They say he produced two handguns and tied up employees before fleeing.

That robbery was linked to one in London a month earlier, when Alura wore fake dreadlocks to rob a jeweler of 100,000 pounds ($159,000) worth of stock.

Alura was...

Cultural factors are key to making climate change real to people

The impact of climate change on many aspects of cultural life for people all over the world is not being sufficiently accounted for by scientists and policy-makers. Experts at the University of Exeter led an international team in a study which shows that cultural factors are key to making climate change real to people and to motivating their responses.

From enjoying beaches or winter sports and visiting iconic natural spaces to using traditional methods of agriculture and construction in our daily lives, the research highlights the cultural experiences that bind our...

Be a chorister for the day at Exeter Cathedral

Do you know a boy or girl who loves music and would like to see what it is like to be a chorister for a day?

Following previous successful Chorister Open Days, Exeter Cathedral is hosting a similar opportunity for children on Saturday 17th November 2012. This is open to boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 9 who enjoy singing. It is a great chance for young people to be encouraged and coached by professional musicians in an inspirational setting.

The children will have a great time with the current choristers, rehearsing and then singing with them in...

Mixed team's performance is praised by Gibson

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Mon, 11/12/2012 - 7:05pm

Delighted Exeter Chiefs coach Rob Gibson was full of praise for his side’s showing as they kicked off their LV= Cup campaign in emphatic style with a 42-15 victory over London Welsh at the Kassam Stadium.

Academy coach Gibson joined Ricky Pellow (skills coach) in heading up a Chiefs side which was made up of a healthy mix of fringe first-teamers and exciting youngsters, all of whom were keen to prove a point at the Oxfordshire venue.

In a contest in which the Devon club controlled for long periods, their efforts were duly rewarded as Jack Nowell (2), Nic Sestaret (2), Will...

Beauties meet the Beast at Paignton Zoo

Authored by Paigntonzoo
Posted: Mon, 11/12/2012 - 3:46pm

Two local girls have had a close encounter with a gorilla named Herbert.

Torbay Carnival Ladies-in-Waiting Natalie Sedgeman and Meesha Ghovanloupoor met the life-size sculpture at Paignton Zoo.

Herbert, who is 140cms (nearly 5 feet) tall, is the special guest at the Zoo’s traditional charity fundraiser, the Mistletoe Ball, which takes place at the Grand Hotel on 1st December. He was painted by Paignton Zoo artist Sue Misselbrook.

The Mistletoe Ball is Paignton Zoo’s traditional Christmas black tie charity dinner and dance. Guests will enjoy a champagne reception,...

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