Exeter

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend:

THEATRE

Exeter Little Theatre Company: Murder on the Nile Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter On board the paddle steamer Lotus, cruising under the scorching Egyptian sun, honeymooners Simon Mostyn and his wealthy socialite wife Kay find themselves being pursued by an old flame of the newly wedded groom. Then a tragedy strikes, Kay is found shot in her bunk, and all fingers point to Simon’s ex fiancée. Tickets: £12.50 (£10.50 under 16s). www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

Romeo & Juliet...

Forage for your supper in the woods

Event Date: 
15/05/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Holyford Woods Local Nature Reserve

Join wild food expert Chris Holland in the beautiful surroundings of Holyford Woods Local Nature Reserve for a foraging walk and supper.

The walk, organised by East Devon District Council’s Countryside team, is on Friday 15 May from 7 until 9pm. Participants will learn how to safely recognise and prepare at least 15 wild edible plants to be found in the woods during mid May and will also cook up some of their findings en route. Chris said “Foraging for wild food and cooking it together around an open fire is something humans have been doing in small groups for hundreds of thousands...

Leading Women UK Election Special

In the lead up to the 2015 General Election, Leading Women UK hosted a series of Election Special networking events across Devon.

These events were open to men and women and gave attendees the chance to have their questions answered by a panel of political representatives.

On Thursday 16 April the Exeter Election Special took place at the Southgate Hotel.

The network was joined by Labour candidate Ben Bradshaw; Conservative candidate Dom Morris and Green Party candidate Diana Moore.

The ‘Question Time’ style discussion was facilitated by local business-women...

What Matters to You? Politics from our Hearts.....

Event Date: 
05/05/2015 - 7:45pm
Venue: 
New Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter EX2 4AZ

Tarte Noire Women's Playback Theatre Performance (WOMEN ONLY)

This is an invitation for you to come and share your experiences. The evening promises to be fun, poignant and powerful.

What is Playback Theatre?

Imagine theatre where the actors listen to the people who have come to watch, and create theatre from the stories they hear - this is Playback Theatre. Performances are facilitated by a ‘Conductor’ who asks the audience to tell something about their real life, and shapes this into a story for the actors to improvise on the spot. Audiences often find that...

Girls Night Out at the Park

Event Date: 
29/05/2015 - 7:00pm to 30/05/2015 - 12:00am
Venue: 
Sandy Park, Exeter

Exeter venue Sandy Park has been added to the tour schedule of male entertainers, the UK Pleasure Boys.

Billed as the ‘Ultimate Girls Night Out’, the UK Pleasure Boys regularly appear across the UK and Ireland with their sexy show.

Perfect for birthdays, hen nights or just a night out with the girls, the Boys work hard in the gym and with professional choreographers to make sure that they put on the best show.

Tickets are on sale now for just £17.50, or £22.50 to include a meal on the night. Book your ticket here .

Cranbrook’s first town council elected

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 04/17/2015 - 12:17pm

Cranbrook’s first ever town council members have been elected.

There are 12 vacancies on the new body that will be set up to manage local governance for the new community.

Nine people stepped forward for the seats on the new town council and so all nine are duly elected uncontested.

The new council is quorate (it has enough members to carry out its duties) but there will be an opportunity to co-opt three more members in the future.

A notice announcing the result of the search for new town councillors is on display at Younghayes community centre.

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BBC drama The Coroner to be filmed in Devon

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 04/17/2015 - 11:47am

BBC One has announced that Claire Goose and Matt Bardock will lead the cast of a new daytime drama, The Coroner.

Claire Goose (Casualty & Waking the Dead) will play Jane, the Coroner and Matt Bardock (Casualty) will play Davey, the local Detective Sergeant. They will be joined by Grace Hogg-Robinson (Birdhouse) who will play Beth, the Coroner’s daughter, Oliver Gomm who will play Clint, the Coroner’s Officer, Beatie Edney (Poldark) who will play Judith, Jane’s Mother and Ivan Kaye (Layer Cake & Eastenders), who will play Mick, the pub landlord.

The Coroner follows...

Exe Estuary Teaching program wins industry award

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 04/17/2015 - 10:51am

A teaching resource, to help school children learn all about coastal areas, has won an industry award.

Living with a Changing Coast (LiCCo) is a european project helping coastal communities to better understand, prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change, sea level rise and erosion on the natural and human environment on both sides of the channel.

Its UK partners include the Environment Agency, the Exe Estuary Management Partnership, Devon County Council and the National Trust.

LiCCO has been highly commended at the Geographical Association Publisher's...

Pedestrian seriously injured in collision

Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision in Sidmouth which left a 65-year-old pedestrian with life-threatening injuries.

Emergency services were called to Church Street in Sidford at 6pm yesterday (16 April) after a Vauxhall Corsa car-derived van was in collision with the male pedestrian.

The Sidmouth man sustained serious injuries and was flown by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, where he remains in a stable condition.

The driver, a 41-year-old man from Seaton, was uninjured.

Part of Church Street was closed for six hours...

swcomms to expand sales team

South West Communications Group is expanding its sales team,

swcomms is looking to double the size of their current telesales team to make appointments for their field based communications consultants who offer voice, data and Internet connectivity solutions to businesses throughout the Westcountry and beyond.

There are opportunities available now for both full and part-time roles.

Tamsin Abba, swcomms’ telesales manager, said: “We are looking for people who are bright, vivacious, reliable and punctual, and have a cracking sense of humour.

“This is a real...

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