Exeter Round Table’s Annual charity fireworks display is being held at Westpoint again this year.
This spectacular event has grown to become the biggest fireworks display in Exeter, and taken on a new dimension since moving to Westpoint three years ago.
Expect a great fun night out for everyone with fairground rides, food and drink stalls and of course a spectacular fireworks display by Firemagic (UK) Ltd.
Gates open at 5.30pm, fireworks display starts at 7.30pm.
Please plan to arrive on site by 6.45pm at the latest, to allow time to park and pass through...
Holiday on Ice is back with their explosive new show, Speed.
Skaters, dancers and aerial artists from all over the world perform in Speed, a show combining death defying stunts, burlesque, skating, dance and circus. Roaring through the Speed of Time, Love and Money this outrageous show is sexy, fast and full of adrenaline.
A kaleidoscope of scenes powering towards a stunning finale: Speed will captivate you from the start. More dramatic, more dangerous and sexier than ever before, this show seriously raises the tempo. The legendary Holiday on Ice wheel and the famous kick...
Come along to Best Mate Novice Chase Day at Exeter Racecourse.
The action gets underway with the Dartmoor Term of “65” England Expects Amateur Riders’ Novices’ Hurdle over two miles seven furlongs.
Also on the card is The Betfred Best Mate Beginners’ Chase (3.10pm) run over two miles and a furlong, The Betfred ‘The Bonus King’ Beginners’ Chase run over three miles (4.40pm), Barclays 40 Years of Wedded Bliss Novices’ Hurdle run over two miles and one furlong, the Robert Barclay Seniority Stakes Handicap Hurdle over two miles four furlongs, the Haldon Handicap Chase. The...
Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has put on sale its 2013 Summer schedule that spans next year’s school summer holidays, featuring over 120 routes and offering passengers a total choice of up to 2,774 flights a week to an extensive range of attractive destinations across the UK and regional Europe. The programme includes additional frequency on many of the airline’s most popular sun routes as well as new routes to Barcelona.
Tickets are available for booking at www.flybe.com from £29.99 one way including taxes and charges and currently available for travel from March 31st...
Exeter’s second meeting of the season takes place a week today on Tuesday, October 23 and with its reputation for attracting top novices, several horses on the road to stardom are sure to feature in the line up.
The Betfred Best Mate Beginners’ Chase (3.10pm), which is run over two miles and a furlong, is the race that launched the chasing career of three times Gold Cup winner Best Mate and Philip Hobbs has it earmarked as the starting point for Bold Henry to commence his chasing career.
The six-year-old looked impressive at Kempton in April when he was well clear of the 16...
Thousands of home extensions, which were previously blocked because they were unsightly, out of character with a local area or invaded neighbours' privacy, may now go ahead unimpeded under plans to extend permitted development rights, the Local Government Association (LGA) warns.
The LGA is also concerned that extensions which would previously have been improved through the planning process in order to make them acceptable to neighbours and reduce their negative impact on local amenities will in future go ahead unaltered, resulting in inappropriate development and...
Playing football could be the best way for people with high blood pressure, known as hypertension, to improve their fitness, normalise their blood pressure and reduce their risk of stroke.
Research from Universities of Exeter and Copenhagen, and Gentofte University Hospital in Denmark, published on Monday 15th October 2012 in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise , suggests that football training prevents cardiovascular disease in middle-aged men with hypertension and is more effective than healthy lifestyle advice currently prescribed by GPs.
The world premiere of a musical which chronicles the life of Helena Rubinstein through two thousand of her letters and telegrams is to take place in Devon.
The carnage of the First World War, the emotional strains of a cheating husband, life in a world where women were not even allowed to vote, arch rivalry with Elizabeth Arden; it is all here, written by the hand of Helena, one of the founders of modern make-up.
The inspiration for ‘Powder and Paint’ came when the producer, James Bulmer, inherited, from his mother, a box full of correspondence between Helena and the...
Richard Lane, President of Diabetes UK, will talk about the ground-breaking treatment he underwent to gain control of his diabetes. Richard was among the first people in the country to receive a transplant of insulin producing islet cells in 2005. Following three transplants, he was the first person in the UK with Type 1 diabetes to come off insulin altogether.
Richard will also discuss the work of Diabetes UK, who funded this research vital research.
Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting at the Peninsula Medical School, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.
Roll up, roll up! It’s autumn once again! While our summer started rather damply, one of the greatest fireshows in the country will surely warm your cockles at the infamous Sticklepath Fireshow, Okehampton and District’s Guy Fawkes Night.
Set in the stunning amphitheatre of Finch Foundry garden this year’s show aims to be bigger, better and probably more quirky and off the wall than ever before, and is sure to put many others into the shade. So whatever you may have arranged or are considering then please change course this year, set sail for Sticklepath and discover a Fireshow...
