The M&G Garden , designed by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg, has won a coveted Gold medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021. While the two designers have both won individual gold medals for Main Avenue gardens at Chelsea before, this is their first Chelsea Gold medal together.
The M&G Garden stands for the importance of beautiful and restorative green spaces in the places we need them the most - our towns and cities. The garden is imagined as a pocket park - a public space for people and wildlife to share and enjoy all the benefits of being in nature. Unusually for Chelsea...
A second round of consultation has been launched on changes to streets in the Heavitree and Whipton areas of Exeter.
More than 570 people took part in the initial consultation last year. This raised a number of key issues including the need for priority to be given to walking and cycling and to reduce the impact of vehicle traffic on a number of residential roads, including Ladysmith Road, Hamlin Lane, Sweetbrier Lane and Thornpark Rise. There were also calls for measures to improve safety on the roundabout at Sweetbrier Lane and Whipton Lane, as well as requests for electric...
New Exeter Theatre Company launches at this year’s Exeter Fringe Festival
Two South West based artists have come together to found a brand-new theatre company, Yet To Be, which will launch with two original shows, The Geneva Convention of Human F**ks and stories at the end of the world, at the Exeter Fringe Festival this October.
The driving aim for founding the company was born out of a desire to see more original work created here in the South West and to give more opportunities to artists based in the region. Something that is ever more relevant, after the year the arts...
Cygnet Theatre are very delighted to announce our first full season of visiting shows to our theatre since the beginning of the pandemic . It has been a tough year for the Arts, so we are thrilled to be able to offer a line-up of visiting shows for all audiences; from family shows and storytelling to compelling drama. We are especially excited to be able to welcome The Dong with a Luminous Nose for the October half-term, brought to you by the designer/director and composer partnership behind Little Angel Theatre’s Alice in Wonderland and The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.
Fresh off the back of their unprecedented debut album success, and the beginnings of what is set to be a stellar career in the States, ALIENSDONTRINGDOORBELLS will play the Corn Exchange on the 25th October as lead support for the fall 2021 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS UK/Ireland tour.
aliensdontringdoorbells convey a truly timeless sound, proving that it’s possible to reinvent the mainstream, and indeed the wheel, adn bring back feel good, get out and dance music. Proving that rock ‘n’ roll is alive and truly kicking, aliensdontringdoorbells are here to stake their claim on the adult pop-...
A south Devon based firm has received a business boost from Retail Entrepreneur Theo Paphitis.
Last week, OmniPods and Cabins tweeted Theo about their business during ‘Small Business Sunday’ and were one of six weekly winners to gain a retweet by Theo to his near half a million Twitter followers. The weekly initiative, set up by Theo in 2010, now has over 3,000 #SBS winners and supports small businesses around the UK.
OmniPods and Cabins director Paddy Costeloe said, “We are thrilled to have been named winners of #SBS by Theo Paphitis. The #SBS community has given us a...
Businesses in the South West can now apply to The Heroes of Net Zero competition, launched by the Together for Our Planet campaign with partners BT, NatWest and SSE to find the UK’s best small businesses taking innovative steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The best entries will be invited to attend the COP26 international climate change summit in Glasgow on November 2, where the winners will be announced and receive an exclusive prize package worth £4,500:
21 hours consultancy with an Energy Manager and one-year free access to ‘Business Energy Intelligence’
This year’s Senior’s Open Bowmaker competition had sufficient entrants to allow the allocation of two prize funds: one for home teams and another for visitors.
The best score of the day was recorded by Rich Stevens, Andrew Vickery, and Chris Hazelwood of The Warren Golf Club, which is located on the Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve. Their score of eighty-three stableford points saw them tied with the Moors Valley Golf Club trio of Alan Newman, Gary Rogers, and Graham Cherrett who ended up in second place by virtue of a countback.
