WAM -Weather Art and Music, an award-winning Special Interest Group of the Royal Meteorological Society, is to hold its next event in Exeter.
In collaboration with the University of Exeter, Double Elephant Print Workshop, the Met Office and the Royal Meteorological Society, the WAM Extreme Weather Event will be a diverse day of exploration and interaction for all ages, and an evening of entertainment and discussion.
The Extreme Weather Event will look at our experience of extreme weather in Devon, and how it fits into a pattern of changing climate.
People are being reminded that they can have their say on plans for a new bus station in Exeter at an open forum today Thursday (3 March).
Exeter City Council will be holding the event at the Corn Exchange in Exeter between 8am and 5.30pm.
The Council want to hear from members of the public and interested groups to inform the concept design of the new bus station. The Council want to hear people's views on:
• user facilities • coach arrangements • on street bus stops • arrangements during construction
For more information go to www.exeter.gov.uk/busstation
Someone paying rent for an average two bedroom home in the South West would have forked out £38,137 to their landlord over the last five years, new analysis by housing and homelessness charity Shelter reveals today.
This is just under the sum needed for a 20% deposit on the average first time buyer home in the region, which is currently priced at £195,672.
With millions of renters caught in a ‘rent trap’, paying sky high housing costs and unable to keep up with rocketing house prices, the research pulls out the areas where ‘generation rent’ are forking out the most....
Young people across the UK will to continue to benefit from lower bus fares after Stagecoach extended a national offer.
Following the successful introduction of a £2 Dayrider ticket for under 19s, the offer has been extended for a further six weeks to allow young people to benefit over the Easter period. More than 300,000 tickets offering unlimited travel within local regions were sold across the country during February.
The special tickets offer substantial discounts when compared to current Dayrider ticket prices and build on the existing offers Stagecoach South West has...
A house in Silverton was badly damaged by fire on Wednesday evening (2 March).
Firefighters were called to a blaze at a property in Poundsland shortly after 8pm.
Two appliances from Exeter were sent to the scene. Upon arrival crews requested further pumps which came from Topsham, Tiverton and Crediton, along with the command unit from Honiton.
The fire involved a two storey house, garage and a gymnasium.
The cause of the fire was believed to be accidental; crews had extinguished the fire by midnight.
With Craig Campbell’s record Everest base camp show looming ( www.standuponeverest.co.uk ) beyond his hip-reshaping operation and a winter of snowboarding comedy shows, the challenge of keeping the wounded Moose’s chin up ensures ‘Don’t Look Down’ to be his most appropriately titled show yet!
This internationally acclaimed comedian is one of stand-up’s most charismatic and inventive performers with hilarious tales of globetrotting adventure never failing to impress (one expectant mother laughed so hard her waters broke!).
Producer, remixer, DJ and Rinse FM host, Birmingham UK’s Chris Lorenzo is widely acknowledged for pioneering his hometown’s emergent and increasingly popular Jackin’ house come Bassline hybrid sound, which he terms simply ‘House & Bass’.
Having built up specialist support with releases on a plethora of tastemaker labels, including Claude Von Stroke’s Dirtybird label and Shadow Child & Kry Wolf’s lauded Food Music label, Lorenzo has also been called upon to remix My Nu Leng for Black Butter and Disclosure for PMR.
News of the Birmingham wunderkind has spread far and...
Field Music are a band from Sunderland, made up of brothers David and Peter Brewis. Celebrated as one of the few bands to transcend and outlast the short-lived NME generated post-punk revival of the noughties, they released their latest album Music For Drifters in April 2015.
Bring the whole family and come celebrate with us this Mother’s Day! Local lad. West End leading man and now star of BBCs Casualty. Alistair Brammer returns to the Exmouth Pavilion, singing your favourite songs from the shows as well as hits by Michael Buble, Abba, Bon Jovi, and much more...
'Alistair will be joined by west end leading lady Nikki Butcher, Centre Stage and other special guests to make it a night of music and merriment that you will not forget!
