Leading South West law firm Stephens Scown is working with a fast-growing Devon brand and licence holding company, Mandarin Creative, to review and protect its intellectual property portfolio. Mandarin Creative, a subsidiary of Frontline Image Ltd, based in Plymouth and established for last 19 years, specialises in design and brand development with sales across street wear, music and surf inspired lifestyle markets, along with Character licences in both the adult and children’s sectors. The company works with over 20 global brands and licences including Marvel, Disney and Ministry of Sound...
Featuring city landmarks, national landscapes and the work of the English visionary Cecil Collins, the new exhibition of Exeter’s Fine Art starting at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) on Saturday 24 October will delight art lovers.
Drawn from RAMM’s extensive collection of topographical prints, drawings and watercolours, distinctive city landmarks include Mol’s Coffee House and the Higher Market. The fine art collection also includes outstanding British landscapes and some of the finest are included providing dramatic views of Wales, the Lake District and Yorkshire.
Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre present ‘Ghost Opera’: a mesmeric two-hander, spoken and sung, accompanied by a string quartet and devised in development with The Lowry and the Tobacco Factory Theatres.
Two strangers, both haunted by living ghosts in their everyday: one, her dying mother, and the other, his celebrity idol. Escaping to seek refuge at a spa retreat, the thirty year-old woman and the seventeen year-old boy meet, and together they try to resist becoming that which haunts them.
FellSwoop Theatre are a Bristol-based company exploring the relationship between...
The first car parks in the UK to be fitted with solar car port frames are set to re-open to the public.
Both car parks are in Exeter.
Mary Arches will re-open on Saturday (24 October) and John Lewis the week after (31 October). The installation of solar panels on the car parks is a UK first.
The pioneering initiative at John Lewis and Mary Arches Street Car Parks has been delivered by Devon firm Sungift Energy on behalf of Exeter City Council.
Cllr Rachel Sutton, Lead Councillor for City Development, said: “It’s great that Exeter is leading the way in green...
Twiggy, Ben Fogle, Bill Oddie and Chris Beardshaw are backing Wild About Gardens Week this autumn and urging gardeners to save hedgehogs. The annual celebration of garden wildlife hosted by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and The Wildlife Trusts has joined forces with Hedgehog Street this year to highlight what gardeners can do to help this much-loved yet fast-declining species. See wildaboutgardensweek.org.uk for inspiration, competitions, events and booklet. High profile supporters of Wild About Gardens Week explain how we can all help: Ben Fogle, Patron, British Hedgehog...
On Saturday 5 December the Force Cancer Charity Christmas Fair is taking place in the Cullompton Community Centre, organised by Dorcas Philips for the fourth year running.
Four years ago, Dorcas Philips’ mum was diagnosed with cancer and received an overwhelming amount of support from Force Cancer Charity, fuelling the family to want to return the kindness and support other families who are suffering from cancer.
Last September Dorcas and her fiancé completed the Force 10k superhero run dressed and Batman and Bat Girl, raising £400 for Force Cancer Charity but they are...
A popular Exeter hotel has donated television sets to a charity fundraising body, after undergoing a major re-furbishment.
The Mercure Exeter Southgate underwent a £2.5m re-furbishment earlier this year. The hotel donated 20 television sets, which were previously in rooms, to the Exeter Foundation.
As a fundraising body, the Exeter Foundation offered the televisions to its member charities on a first come first served basis. The televisions were snapped up within 2 hours by a number of different charities.
Headway, Exeter Youth Section, Age UK, Exeter Leukaemia Fund...
Gregory Distribution Limited will be displaying one of its 44–tonne articulated vehicles at Exeter City Centre’s Bedford Square on Princesshay inviting the public to “get up close and personal” with a lorry.
The event is part of the Road Haulage Association’s National Lorry Week, a UK-wide awareness campaign developed to demonstrate to the public and politicians the vital role that lorries and road freight play in moving the economy and daily life. The theme of the week is ‘Love the Lorry’!
Paul Willis, Gregory’s Head of Business Support and Compliance and Chairman of the...
Devon County Council is encouraging more people to start car sharing this autumn by launching its popular ‘Win a Tank of fuel’ competition once again.
Everyone who registers a journey on the CarShareDevon website, sending a request to share, between now and 30 November 2015 will be entered in the draw to win a tank of fuel, up to the value of £100.
CarShareDevon is a well established website which matches drivers and passengers from across the county who are doing the same or similar journeys. The website allows you to search for others travelling in the same direction as...
Join us at the climate cycling parade of Exeter! We will cycle from the University, through the city center, down to the Quay. If you want to show that we are numerous to take care of the climate, environmental and social crisis you are warmly welcome! Come with your bike, bring your friends and wear something green. Everybody is welcome, so join us and share to make it massive! :)
