18th century Georgian country house, The Deer Park Country House Hotel, is the perfect setting for Blue Fizz Event's Festive Winter Bride wedding fair on Sunday 1 February.
This fair will be beautifully styled and very ambient with candles and fire pits helping to create the dream of a festive winter wedding.
Between 1.30pm and 4pm some of the finest handpicked suppliers in the South West will be showcased. You'll also find:
Hot cocoa bar, marshmallows and blazing fires
A glass of cranberry spice cider or prosecco wine on arrival
Staff and volunteers are preparing for toddlers to take over the Knightshayes for its first ever Toddler Time on Thursday 12 February.
Between 11am and 3pm the National Trust property on the outskirts of Tiverton, is opening its doors to tiny explorers and their families. Each Toddler Time has a seasonal theme, with sensory activities for little ones to enjoy.
This February, the under-fives can discover the wonder of the weather, with messy play activities exploring ice, snow and muddy puddles. Children can take part in crafts, explore the gardens, listen to stories and...
An evening of myths and legends at Higher Uppacott, Dartmoor National Park’s grade one listed medieval longhouse.
Higher Uppacott forms the backdrop for this exciting and fun evening of storytelling and songs featuring just some of the spine tingling myths and legends of Dartmoor.
A wonderful atmosphere awaits you and your family, with the house lit by oil lamps and candles. The evening begins with a quick tour of the house before settling down to see if the hairy hands will put in an appearance!
Booking is essential as places are limited and family half term events...
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...
