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Off Grid Festival comes to Devon

After seven successful years Off Grid Festival has found a new home in Devon.

Off Grid festival is a green family event that has grown out of the British grassroots festival movement. Over the last seven years the event has educated and informed thousands of people about the skills and knowledge required to live a low-impact ‘off-grid’ lifestyle.

The festival brings together some of the UK’s most progressive thinkers and practical activists . It’s mission is to share the tools and technologies needed to move humans towards sustainable living. Participants of all ages will...

Polar Explorer relocates to Plymouth Science Park

CELEBRATED Polar Explorer and international adventurer Antony Jinman is to relocate his Plymouth headquarters to the city’s Science Park.

Antony, who has travelled to both the North and South Poles, is one of only 12 Britons to have made it to the geographical South Pole.

As well as being an explorer, Antony Jinman is a climate change educator. He visits schools to deliver presentations on his experiences in the Arctic and elsewhere. He has also set up and runs Education Through Expeditions, which aims to provide climate change education resources for teachers and pupils...

Missing Devon teen found safe

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 07/13/2016 - 11:17am

Missing teenager Mia Sens has been found safe and well.

The 15-year-old girl, from the Tiverton area, was found at around 7pm on Tuesday 12 July in Exeter.

She had been reported missing after last being seen in Broadclyst on Wednesday 6 July.

Officers would like to thank the public for their assistance with the appeal.

Decisions made about residents’ parking in Wonford

Authored by andyhannan
Posted: Wed, 07/13/2016 - 11:16am

At the meeting of the Exeter Highways and Traffic Orders Committee on 12th July it was decided to approve a residents’ parking scheme for the area north of the Chestnut Avenue roundabout on Burnthouse Lane on both sides of Rifford Road.

The only exception to this will be that part of Woodwater Lane to the south-east of Rifford Road, on the park side.

The area to the south of the roundabout on both sides of Burnthouse Lane will not be part of a residents’ parking scheme, however there will be several places where double yellow lines will be introduced to tackle parking...

David Bowie to hit the big screen

Vue is set to give the UK an all singing, all dancing glimpse into the life of one of the most creative showmen of our time, David Bowie.

David Bowie Is was the fastest selling exhibition in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s history.

Now a cinematic,you can get a look behind the scenes on the big screen. The creative piece charts the fabled history of one of the world’s biggest and most iconic pop stars.

Featuring original flamboyant costumes, never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, film and music videos, Bowie’s own instruments, album artwork and diary entries, the...

Thank You For The Music celebrates 40 years of Dancing Queen

Event Date: 
27/08/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Princess Theatre, Torquay

Thank You For The Music is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Dancing Queen, the hit song by ABBA.

The event will take place in Torquays Princess Theatre at 7.30pm on 27 August.

The show will feature all of ABBA's number 1 hits such as Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Gimme Gimme Gimme and many more.

The show will also be followed by The Bee Gees.

To book visit www.atgtickets.com/torquay . Tickets cost £22.50 plus £1.25

Thank You For the Music celebrates 40 years of Dancing Queen

The world’s longest-running ABBA concert show is coming to Torquay to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Swedish super group’s biggest selling hit, Dancing Queen.

The event will take place on 27 August 7.30pm at Torquay’s Princess Theatre.

The song was a million-selling, number-one hit in 13 countries and it forms the climax to the international hit stage show Thank You for the Music.

The production, which also features the UK’s most successful Bee Gees revue, is now in its 23rd year.

Show producer Michael Taylor boasts that the spectacle has been...

Russell Watson heads to Exeter

Russell Watson will be at Exeter Corn Exchange on Wednesday 10 August, and there are only a few tickets left.

Russell Watson’s Corn Exchange date is one of a number of intimate evenings with the artist giving his fans the chance to see him in a local venue rather than having to travel long distances.

Russell Watson is one of the world’s most prominent tenors, selling in excess of 7 million albums worldwide. His first offering ‘The Voice’ held the number one spot simultaneously in the US and the UK – a world’s first. It spent a record breaking 52 weeks at number one in the...

It all ADs up for South West law firm

A team of lawyers from a leading South West law firm have won a prestigious national industry award for their work to further understanding of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants, which produce biogas from waste as a source of renewable energy. Stephens Scown LLP, who are based in the South West, with offices in St Austell, Truro and Exeter, and have clients nationally, won the Best AD Support (Legal/Accounting/Consulting) category of the annual Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) awards, which were announced on 6 July in Birmingham. Lawyers from the firm’s renewable energy...

A fifth of Exeter workers confess to working in Pyjamas

Office dress-codes go out of the window when it comes to working from home, with nearly a fifth of Exeter’s workforce confessing to working in their pyjamas.

Workplace provider Regus asked 3000 professionals in the UK about home working habits, and results showed an anything goes attitude when away from work colleagues. Exeter respondents showed a relaxed attitude to the home working business day with 19 percent working for some of the time in their pyjamas, and 16 percent even confessing to conducting business in their underwear.

This compares to a national average of 33...

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