Top local and national artists will headline at the 39th Dartmoor Folk Festival, which will be held at South Zeal, near Okehampton, on August 5, 6 and 7 in 2016, it was announced at the annual meeting of the association which runs the annual three-day festival.
Jason Rice, chairman of the Dartmoor Folk Festival Association, spoke of the success of the 2015 festival, which included a packed programme of concerts, a ramble on Dartmoor, a ceilidh, folk service, craft displays, dances, a children's festival, a Dartmoor Fayre, music hall, pub sessions and music, song and dance workshops...
A new campaign aimed at tackling domestic abuse has been launched by Devon and Cornwall Police.
The campaign will highlight the fact that domestic abuse can happen to anyone, at any age, in any kind of relationship.
Messages around types of abuse are being communicated across the Force area to show the forms that domestic abuse can take, such as intimidation, financial control, psychological abuse and others.
Domestic abuse survivor, Kate Bolsover, describes her experience: “My abuser made me feel as if I was the one in the wrong, that I deserved the abuse and that...
Your essential guide to what's on in and around Exeter this weekend (4-6 December).
THEATRE
A Christmas Carol Daily, Exeter Northcott Theatre Creative Cow present a magical new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ much-loved Christmas classic. Ebenezer Scrooge is a notoriously bitter old man who is determined not to let Christmas interfere with his miserly routine. But one Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unexpected supernatural visitors who are determined to show him the true spirit of Christmas and the error of his ways. Tickets £12-£28. Show runs until 3 January. https://...
Are you looking for something fun to do with the family the week after Christmas? Look no further! Hopster Showtime’s Winter Special screening is coming to a Picturehouse near you, from Monday 28th December to Saturday 2nd January 2015.
The UK’s favourite kids learning and entertainment app is spreading the festive cheer with 22 special nationwide screenings of hit TV series Pingu, Bob the Builder and Thomas & FriendsTM. Sponsored by fun and healthy snack provider, Fruit Bowl, who aim to help mums naturally fuel their kids’ daily fun and Nature’s Own, a specialist in vitamins...
Rob Baxter admits there is real excitement in and around the Exeter Chiefs camp as they gear up for tomorrow’s crunch Aviva Premiership encounter with Wasps.
Devon’s finest will head to the Ricoh Arena looking not to maintain their lofty placing within the division’s top two, but at the same time inflict another telling blow on one of their potential rivals for a play-off place this term.
Like the Chiefs, Wasps are themselves in a rich vein of form and with an equally proud home record – they’ve only lost twice at their Coventry base since moving their a year ago – it has...
Next Friday 11th ignite your imagination with some 21st century travelogues; songs of beautiful and flawed humanity, love, death, desire and hope. Join us for a special night at Hope Hall Arts, Exeter on 11th December, 7.30pm. The Little Unsaid (solo), Tobias Ben Jacob + Jacob Riddall .
A Devon County Show steward is preparing to embark on a 200-mile charity cycle ride from the showground in Exeter to London on Monday (December 7), to raise money to develop a new rural hub.
Fifty-one-year old Deborah Custance Baker, who is a Director of the Devon County Agricultural Association and the County Show’s chief steward of the Crafts and Gardens Pavilion and the Spring Sausage competition, hopes her gruelling ride will raise thousands of pounds.
“The Wadsworth Pavilion on the showground is a terrific building and full of character but sadly it can’t be used to...
Nominations are now being accepted for the prestigious Exeter Foundation Devon Sports Awards, which will take place at the home of the Exeter Chiefs, Sandy Park, on 13th May 2016.
The awards, which are held in association with Active Devon and in partnership with Exeter College, celebrate the best in sport throughout Devon, with all funds going to the Exeter Foundation.
Organisers of the event are keen to celebrate a wide cross-section of sport from community to elite level and there has been a reorganisation of the categories from previous years to reflect this.
Retail traders and businesses will benefit from council’s exclusive short term reserved winter car parking offer in run up to Christmas Following a meeting between East Devon District Councillors Matt Booth, Cathy Gardener and John Dyson (ward members for Sidmouth) and Andrew Ennis, the service lead for Environmental Health and Car Parks at East Devon District Council, it has been agreed that car parking spaces in East Devon District Council’s Mill Street and Holmedale car parks will shortly be available to rent on an exclusive basis, from Monday 7 December to Sunday 27 December, to raise...
A man has been charged with murder after a body of a 71-year-old woman was found in a vehicle near Fenny Bridges, East Devon on Wednesday 2 December.
Charles Robert Broom, 66, from Honiton has been charged with murder and is remanded in custody to appear before Exeter Magistrates Court today, Friday 4 December.
Formal identification of the victim will take place later today.
See also: http://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/business-daily-local-news/man-arres...
