It’s time to dig out those Union flags for the popular Proms at Bicton Park, East Budleigh on Friday 22 July.
The event promises to be a wonderful evening featuring the South West Telecoms band, a male voice choir and opera, in the idyllic setting of the grade 1 listed Italianate gardens, surrounded by immaculately manicured lawns with beautiful flower beds and specimen trees.
More than 800 people attended the last Proms in 2014 raising money for local charity Hospiscare.
The Proms will include songs from musicals and popular operatic arias to be performed by India’...
Den Miller is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumental musician and entertaining solo performer, whose fifth studio album, A Headful of Fancies, was released to great reviews in April 2015. Den's songs mix the silly and the serious, often in the same song, but always with his trademark mission statement of a strong melody plus intelligent lyrics.
Den is both an accomplished guitarist and pianist, often using a loop pedal to play both at once, and also plays harmonica and drums. Den has an impressive vocal range and a love of singing harmony, something which the loop pedal also...
Great Western Railway (GWR) will run extra trains on Sundays between Exeter Central and Exmouth from 15 May.
Trains will run every half hour through most of the day on Sundays throughout the year, instead of the previous hourly service; with a number extending to Exeter St Davids. All trains will call at Digby & Sowton, Newcourt, Topsham and Lympstone Village stations.
Morning trains to Exmouth and afternoon trains back will also call at Polsloe Bridge, providing more opportunities for a seaside day trip to Exmouth.
On Friday 6 May a man from Starcross was sentenced at Truro Crown Court to 28 years in prison for historic sexual abuse dating back to the 1990s.
Robert Singleton, 33, was convicted of committing ten serious sexual assaults against four young girls in Starcross and nearby villages between 1995 and 2013.
At the conclusion of the trial at Exeter Crown Court on Friday 29 April 2016, Singleton (pictured) was found guilty by the jury of all of the offences.
The court heard that one of the victims was as young as five when the abuse started and Singleton threatened her...
A Devon-based orchestra has left its usual habitat of rehearsal studios and concert halls behind to take part in a very different kind of photoshoot promoting its latest concert.
Members of the Exeter Symphony Orchestra recently went wild to promote ‘A Concert for Wildlife’ which takes place at 7.30pm on Saturday 16th July at Exeter Cathedral.
The concert, which is being generously supported by South West Water, aims to raise funds for the charity Devon Wildlife Trust. It seemed only natural to the organisers that the musicians should pose with their instruments in the...
Calling all Plymouth-based start-up stars: local marketing agency owner launches exclusive competition to win £5,000+ worth of office space and marketing support!
As supply for Plymouth office space dips in the local area*, the recently appointed Managing Director of a local marketing consultancy, Nick Burrage of LOGO COMMERCIAL CREATIVE PARTNERS, has come up with a great way of supporting local start-ups – in the form of a competition to win office space for three months and a marketing package worth in excess of £5,000.
Burrage, a former Londoner who moved to Devon back...
Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) is celebrating Dementia Awareness Week (Sunday 15 to Saturday 21 May) with a dementia-friendly art session and a slideshow highlighting the museum’s monthly programme of events.
RAMM aims to be a welcoming museum to all its visitors. Its dementia-friendly programme – Living Each Season – provides regular opportunities for people with memory problems and their carers to do something enjoyable together.
Photographs projected in the courtyard will bring to life the steps being taken alongside local partner organisations to make...
Shoppers in Newton Abbot have the chance to win a £100 trolley dash as Teignbridge District Council team up with market traders in support of Love Your Local Market 2016.
The annual Love Your Local Market campaign, led by the National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA), is now in its fifth year and runs from Tuesday 17 May to Tuesday 31 May.
To mark the occasion and encourage people to shop locally, Teignbridge is offering a special markets trolley dash prize draw to attract people into the market town.
Visitors can pick up an entry form from various...
