Enjoy an evening of music at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum on Saturday 16 May when Indie folk band Stornoway will play material from their latest album supported by Nuala Honan & Kit Hawes and Cavermouth.
Part of Stornoway’s nationwide tour to celebrate the release of Bonxie, their eagerly anticipated third album, RAMM is an ideal venue. Songwriter Dr. Brian Briggs has sought inspiration for the new album from his previous life as an Ornithologist. ‘Bonxie’ is the nickname of a Hebridean sea bird, the Great Skua, and the album features the calls of 20 different species...
The University of Exeter hosted a prestigious visit from the Spanish Ambassador, as part of the 60th anniversary events surrounding the formation of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
His Excellency Don Federico Trillo-Figueroa attended the Association’s annual conference (13–15 April) and opened the 'Spain and England, Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More' exhibition on the Streatham Campus. Academics from the department of Modern Languages organised this year’s conference on behalf of the Association, which aims to promote scholarly research into the study of...
We're Going on an Iron Hunt but I'm not scared....Don't miss Carousel's last stop on the Iron Working Storytelling Tour at Honiton Museum on Saturday.
Join in the fun as they meet Noni the Blacksmith in a brand new story adventure for children and explore her Iron Age world through exciting play activities.
Travel back in time and join them in an Iron Age roundhouse for storytelling and discover how people in the past made metal from fire and rocks. Find out about Noni, the little girl who wants to be a blacksmith and Dumdum her pony, dip your toes in the river and use your...
The RSPCA’s annual figures for 2014 show that cruelty complaints investigated by the charity in the south west and central England have gone up once again.
More worrying still is that the numbers of complaints involving direct cruelty including beatings, improper killing, mutilation and poisonings formed 12.5% of the total number of complaints.
The charity investigated 28,800 complaints in the south west and central England in 2014 compared to 28,573 in 2013. A shocking 3,594 of these complaints involved alleged deliberate and often violent cruelty being inflicted upon...
Update: A man has been arrested in connection with a burglary at an elderly woman’s home in Tiverton. A 26-year-old man from Newton Abbot has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and has been released on police bail until 5th August pending further enquiries.
The incident took place on Monday 13 April while the woman, who is in her 80s, was in her garden.
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Police have issued an Evofit of a man they are seeking in connection with a burglary at an elderly woman’s home in Tiverton.
A man entered the house around 4pm on Monday 13 April while the woman...
The first major exhibition dedicated to Devon-based artist Benedict Rubbra’s search for a harmonious relationship between form, colour and light starts at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum on Saturday 2 May.
Paintings and drawings spanning four decades trace the development of his singular technique; the art works all originate from three-dimensional forms constructed from various materials such as paper and card or wire and wood. Vibrant shapes of light are then projected onto these forms, creating unexpected spaces and colours, tones and shadows. Changed lighting transforms...
East Devon District Council has been alerted by concerned residents to a council tax refund scam, currently being operated in the district.
Residents need to be aware that if anyone contacts them by telephone, claiming to be from East Devon District Council and asks them for bank details due to their account being in credit, they must NOT give them this information. These are hoax calls made by fraudsters.
If residents have any concerns over the legitimacy of a call regarding Council Tax then please contact the council's customer service team on: 01395 517446 to confirm....
A Festival will take place in May at Exmouth Rugby Club to celebrate cider made by those people dedicated to keeping Devon's traditional apple varieties and pressing methods alive.
The type of musical acts you would expect and hope for at a festival like this will be playing, such as London Irish “psycho-cèilidh”band Neck, 50s psychedelic punk from GoGo Cult, blues- grass from Big Joe Bone and folk rock from Ash Mandrake and the Redhillbillies.
RNLI Exmouth will be providing village fete style games during the daytime to promote their volunteer and fundraising initiatives,...
New research has shown that the ability to make a Stone Age hand axe depends on complex cognitive control and memory.
The recently published results knock another chip off theories that pre-historic hand axes are simple tools that don’t involve complex functions of the brain made by ape-men just banging rocks together.
University of Exeter Archaeologist Professor Bruce Bradley co-authored the research with Emory University (USA) and Aix-Marseille University (France) colleagues, which highlights how making stone tools provide some of the most abundant evidence of human...
