Exeter

One Women show Musclebound set for five West Country dates

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 02/18/2024 - 9:29pm

Intelligent, provocative and very funny one-woman show examining Rosy Carrick’s real-life quest for tortured beefcake, 80s action, pleasure, freedom and real sexual power.

In her multi-award-winning theatre debut Passionate Machine, feminist powerhouse, Rosy Carrick became the world’s first female time-travelling doctor. In her new show, she is Musclebound to examine our most shameful secrets. The show is undertaking a UK tour in March, stopping off in Exeter on 21 March.

At the age of five, Rosy, was watching live action films featuring characters like He-Man and Conan...

Vigil For Ukraine: 2 Years of Full-Scale Russian War

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Posted: Fri, 02/16/2024 - 10:47pm

Exeter, Devon – Amidst the beginning of the 2nd year of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, a vigil for Ukraine will take place at Exeter's city centre on the 24th of February. Organised by the local Ukrainian community at Devon Ukrainian Association, and the local artists at Maketank, the vigil will start with a rally at Bedford Square, followed by a short prayer and a set of arts activities at St. Stephens Church.

In partnership with the Exeter City of Literature and the University of Exeter, the vigil joins the worldwide Ukrainian War Time Poetry reading event, '...

Masterchef: The Professionals 2024 Applications Now Open!

Authored by Daisy Hall
Posted: Fri, 02/16/2024 - 7:26pm

MasterChef: The Professionals is back for its 17th series! Once again we are looking for undiscovered new talent and exciting food within the culinary world.

We are calling out to all chefs who want to enter the ultimate cooking competition, to test their skills on a national level under the wings of culinary legends.

Throughout the years, MasterChef: The Professionals has discovered rising stars. Past contestants have gone on to open restaurants, judge competitions on television, write cookbooks, and even win Michelin stars of their own. This is an opportunity like no...

Data-day life: Exeter museum’s Youth Panel create new data-based exhibition

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Posted: Fri, 02/16/2024 - 3:38pm
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM)’s new Youth Panel café exhibition opens Tuesday 27 February.

Following the success of last year’s Youth Panel exhibition Picked and Pressed: The Appeal of Edible Plants, the newly developed Data-day life exhibition explores how data from our daily lives can be creatively expressed in engaging and innovative ways across twelve individually designed banners.

Visitors to the Exeter City Council museum will be able to see the creative presentation of a wide variety of data sets collected from the routines of Youth Panel...

Student Swap Shop returns to encourage sustainable behaviour

Authored by Daisy Hall
Posted: Fri, 02/16/2024 - 9:14am

Vita Student in Exeter, located at Portland House, is thrilled to announce the return of the Vita Student Swap Shop, an initiative that aims to encourage sustainable behaviour, increasing the lifecycle of products and reducing waste for students.

The average amount of waste thrown away by each person in the UK is 409kg each year*, meaning the average person is having a significant impact on the environment.

The Vita Student Swap Shop will teach the next generation about the significance of giving their items a second lease of life and help to reduce the impact on the...

Browne Jacobson’s intellectual property lawyers ranked in World Trademark Review 2024

Authored by Daisy Hall
Posted: Thu, 02/15/2024 - 10:12pm

Intellectual property (IP) lawyers at Browne Jacobson have once again been included in the World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000 – an independent global ranking of the best trademark experts.

The UK and Ireland firm’s IP practice maintained its silver ranking in the enforcement and litigation category of the 2024 listing , a definitive resource for those seeking stellar trademark expertise and partners worldwide.

It also received a bronze award for prosecution and strategy, and was recommended for its transactional work, after the team was praised for its “ability to deliver...

National Awards for Exeter Motor Retail Colleagues

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Posted: Thu, 02/15/2024 - 4:26pm

Two colleagues have been honoured with prestigious Vertu Motors plc 2023 CEO Management Awards.

Anthony Pearson, who works at Vertu Jaguar Land Rover Exeter and Ben Williamson, from Vertu Volvo Exeter, have been named Sales Manager of the Year and Service Manager of the Year.

The awards acknowledge colleagues who have performed exceptionally well and delivered the highest levels of leadership throughout the year.

Nominations are made by Operational Directors to the plc Board, which selects the winner of each category.

Like all the winners, Anthony and...

Devon community groups receive funding boost

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Posted: Thu, 02/15/2024 - 3:48pm

Three community groups across Devon* have received over £2,700 from The Co-operative Bank in the latest round of grants from its Customer Donation Fund.

Among the recipients was Exeter-based Sweetpea Smallholdings, a community interest company (CIC) that aims to reduce social isolation by bringing people from a variety of backgrounds together to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs.

Made up of mostly disabled volunteers, the CIC grows produce at sites across Exeter all year round, which is delivered to those in the community who are most in need. As well as growing produce,...

South West hauliers receive national industry awards at Pall-Ex Group ceremony

Authored by Daisy Hall
Posted: Thu, 02/15/2024 - 2:57pm

M Pinches and Sons Ltd, founder members of the network, won the Pall-Ex Regional Operational Award for the Southwest , and Pall-Ex Southwest, received the award from Fortec at an exclusive ceremony, sponsored by Tile Mountain, held to celebrate independent hauliers from across the UK and Europe.

Both businesses are shareholder members of Pall-Ex and Fortec – palletised freight distribution networks made up of over 160 independent hauliers that operate together to distribute freight across the UK and globally.

Worcester-based M Pinches and Sons Ltd and Exeter-based Pall-...

Devon authors to share tricks of the trade

Three Devon authors, who are all members of the same writing group, will be sharing their experience of the rocky road to publication, in an attempt to help other writers get published.

Yaara Lahav Gregory, Anna Lunk, and Sophie Pierce will be in conversation at Exeter Central Library next month (March 12th), in an event entitled One Writers’ Group: Three Routes to Publication.

All three have had books published in the last year, but know what a lonely business writing is, and how difficult it is to get published. The trio will share their experiences in an event at Exeter...

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