With New Year’s resolutions of better health and fitness for 2017 firmly in focus, an astonishing 65 Exeter residents turned up in the first week of January to try out a new Couch to 5k beginner running group in Heavitree.
On Monday, one week on, nearly 100 people came along and joined in.
The running group was set up by Park Life Heavitree, a community organisation based in and around Heavitree Pleasure Ground. They were granted funding to provide new opportunities for residents in Heavitree to be active, by Get Active Exeter, the local health and wellbeing partnership...
More than 48 tonnes of real snow are to be delivered by lorry to the University’s Streatham Campus and dumped outside the Forum to create a giant ski slope.
The spectacular transformation of Forum Hill is being organised for a regional snow sports competition which will see 30 skiers and snowboarders from six universities from the South West region perform freestyle tricks.
Rails and boxes will be placed at various points down the slope (or Chill Hill) in what is known as a rail jam. This will allow the contestants to perform various tricks whilst descending, ensuring...
Essential remedial work will have to be carried out to traffic calming on Blundell’s Road in Tiverton, starting from this Saturday (21 January).
Devon County Council has confirmed that it cannot accept the structures on the public highway as the profile and shape of ten of the traffic calming ramps have not met specifications.
SIAC Construction Ltd will carry out the repair work at its own expense. It will undertake the work over the next three Saturdays between 8am and 5pm. Stop/go boards will be used while work is ongoing.
Six Blundell’s pupils, who all live in Mid-Devon, are celebrating after being offered places at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Both Bertie Frankpitt and Toby Whitehead have offers for St Edmund Hall, Oxford – Bertie to read Earth Sciences and Toby for Biochemistry and he also has a choral scholarship. Harriet Nash has had an offer to read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge, where she will be following her brother Edward to Gonville and Caius College.
Three post A level students have secured places: Euan Friend to University College, Oxford to read Earth Sciences...
Exeter Northcott Theatre is proud to announce its inaugural Easter School and is looking for creative youngsters to take part.
The week long Easter School will take place from Monday 3 April – Friday 7 April 2017 and will see participants create a piece of devised theatre from scratch. The week will culminate in a sharing of work for friends and family on the Friday evening.
The Easter School is open to enthusiastic and creative youngsters aged 11 to 14 who love drama.
Lisa Hudson, Exeter Northcott’s Education and Outreach Officer said “We’re so excited to be able...
Police have released images of a number of people they wish to identify in connection to a large-scale fight in Exeter City Centre.
Police were called at around 2am on New Year's Eve (Saturday 31 December 2016), with reports of a fight outside Natwest Bank in the High Street, Exeter.
A number of people were taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital following the disorder, including a 24-year-old man from Exeter with a suspected fractured eye socket and vertebrae.
One man was arrested at the scene and was bailed until the 19th of January pending further enquiries...
Chagstock Festial organisers have confirmed that British Funk & Soul legends Soul II Soul will headline Friday night! Indian singer-songwriter extraordinaire Raghu Dixit has also been added to the bill, alongside the inimitable Dub Pistols.
Soul II Soul need little introduction. Best known for the timeless classics Back To Life and their breakthrough smash hit Keep On Movin’, they’ve sold over 10 million albums, performed live in over 20 countries, and headlined some of the most famous venues in the world, including Wembley.
Italians, allegedly, are fanatical about three things: Opera, football and wine in that order. Devonians have altogether different priorities, with Folk ballads, rugby union and cider high on the agenda. But perhaps this is about to change; because the Opera Dudes are coming to your aria (sorry) this February.
Before the month is out, amateur renditions of “Nessun Dorma” will be ringing out from shower cubicles across the county.
“We get a lot of blokes coming up to us at the end of the show,” says Tim Lole, one half of the duo. “They say, “Hate opera. Only came ‘cause my...
Red Dragonfly Productions, the team behind the critically acclaimed 'DiaoChan' and 'The Autumn of Han' are proud to present an evening of new writing from first time playwrights at Crediton Arts Centre on 10 February.
Six months ago Red Dragonfly launched Taking Flight a competition aimed at finding three new short plays from writers within the British East Asian, South Asian, and South East Asian communities, and from the many entries the Red Dragonfly team chose three plays to be taken through to final production in a unique evening of theatre.
Red Dragonfly Productions, the team behind the critically acclaimed 'DiaoChan' and 'The Autumn of Han' are proud to present an evening of new writing from first time playwrights at Crediton Arts Centre on 10 February. Six months ago Red Dragonfly launched Taking Flight a competition aimed at finding three new short plays from writers within the British East Asian, South Asian, and South East Asian communities, and from the many entries the Red Dragonfly team chose three plays to be taken through to final production in a unique evening of theatre. The plays are: Ketchup - By Sammy Wong Her...
