A new community musical, which Transition Towns’ founder Rob Hopkins has referred to as the 'West Side Story of rooftop gardeners’, is set to become a huge hit with schools, amateur dramatic societies and Transition groups.
Transition Town: The Musical – the brainchild of Matt Harvey, writer and host of Radio 4’s Wondermentalist; award-winning composer Tomas Hewitt Jones; and arts and energy programme manager Chloe Uden – sets out to explore questions and issues presented by oil dependency, sustainable energy and climate change in a friendly, uplifting and inspiring way. Transition...
A man has died following a collision on the outskirts of Exeter.
Officers, along with paramedics, were called to Exhibition Way, Pinhoe at 2.30pm today, 27th January after reports that a pedestrian was seriously injured.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances of the death but police are investigating if he was in collision with a lorry.
The man has not been formally identified and his family are currently being traced.
The road is closed at Exhibition Way and Cumberland Way.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision on the M5 northbound near Cullompton in which a woman died.
Police and other emergency services were called to the scene of the fatal collision involving a car and a lorry just after 12.10pm on Tuesday 27 January.
The collision involving a heavy goods vehicle and a silver Vauxhall Omega happened about one mile before junction 28, Cullompton.
The car driver, a 57-year-old woman from Tiverton, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police and other emergency services are at the scene of a serious collision on the M5 northbound near Cullompton.
Officers were called just after 12.10pm on Tuesday 27 January after reports of a collision between a car and a lorry, about one mile before junction 28, Cullompton.
The female car driver has been seriously injured.
The extent of injuries of the other occupants in the vehicle and the lorry driver are not yet known.
The northbound carriageway has been closed between Exeter, junction 29, and Cullompton.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service today issued advice to the owners of thatched properties following a blaze which destroyed a thatched cottage in Ide, near Exeter last week.
Twelve fire engines were at the incident in Little John’s Cross and fire crews have re-visited throughout the weekend to dampen down hotspots.
Firefighters covered neighbouring thatched properties with foam to prevent the fire spreading and worked hard to save as much of the building and its contents as possible.
The fire is believed to have started inside the building before...
Tickets are selling fast for the ultimate Vaudeville Theatre experience! Comedy, Cabaret, Music & Magic! Get yours before they sell out!
The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter UK, 7th March 2015.
Tickets are only £12.50 from Barnfield Theatre box office 01392 271808
Following its hugely successful debut back in October 2014, The Rogues Gallery Tour returns to The Barnfield Theatre with its award winning comedy, burlesque, music and magic. The Rogues Gallery brings a modern twist and a hint of darkness to the Victorian vaudeville variety genre with eleven acts, a fast...
The latest Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme will be launched across Devon’s libraries on 2 February, to support people with dementia and their carers.
The scheme, which already helps over 275,000 people across the country with common mental health conditions feel better through self-help reading, is now turning its attention to the enormous need for quality-assured support for dementia care in the UK.
The national Books on Prescription scheme supports people with book-based therapy for common mental health conditions, through local libraries. It has played an...
Local artists have again been brightening up the corridors of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital with their annual Friends and Family art exhibition.
Now in its 16th year, the exhibition has been organised by Exeter HealthCare Arts to showcase the work of the local arts community who have a connection to the hospital. The exhibitors include talented RD&E staff, outpatients and former patients, who have all loaned their work to help brighten up the hospital environment.
Exeter HealthCare Arts (EHCA) is the ‘arts for health’ project for the RD&E. It delivers a range...
Last year the Exeter City FC Supporters’ Trust, with the help of others, did a great deal of work in pulling together all the facts, photos and other information about Exeter City FC’s historic tour of South America.
While the Club planned the amazing centenary trip to Rio de Janeiro, the Trust helped with the production of the book Have You Ever Played Brazil? and the Northcott production of The Day We Played Brazil.
The Trust also produced an exhibition and set up a website www.grecianvoices.com
Now, for anyone who may have missed out on last year's events or...
One of Devon’s biggest independent holiday parks is enjoying a record-breaking start to the year, with bookings up nearly 50%.
Multi-award winning Ladram Bay Holiday Park, on the Jurassic coast overlooking its own bay and beach between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, saw bookings rise by 46% in the first full week of January, and then by 52% the following week, compared with the same period in 2014.
Ahead of re-opening after the winter break on Friday March 13, work is well underway on phase two of a £10 million re-development at the family-run park, with the swimming pool...
