Former Exeter Chiefs rugby player Chris Whitehead has been named as guest speaker at Teignbridge District Council’s Sports Personality of the Year Awards 2014.
Mr Whitehead, who retired from top flight rugby earlier this year and is using his playing expertise as coach at Western Counties league side Kingsbridge, has been unveiled as a key speaker at the sport gala event on Friday 28 November at the Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren.
The Awards, in association with main sponsor Kitsons Solicitors and supported by media partners Palm FM and the Mid Devon Advertiser,...
A drop-in information day will be held on Thursday 27 November in Seaton Town Hall for people to find out more about Seaton Jurassic, the new visitor attraction for the Jurassic Coast.
From 3pm until 8pm, key people from the many partners involved will be available to discuss the centre, the timescale for the development, what will be inside and how local people can help with fundraising or become a volunteer. There will be displays with plans of the new centre and some of the early interpretation ideas.
Information about the proposed Seaton Jurassic information points, the...
Last month SWH's Nick Ford and his Build team at the Broadmeadow Employment Unit site, Teignmouth kindly took the time to show around 15 students from Teignmouth College.
SWH Build is currently constructing a three-steel frame industrial units at the Broadmeadow site, which is divided into 11 self-contained units.
Works are on-going and currently involve carpentry, mechanical and electrical works. Ground works include drainage services, road construction and tarmac to roads and metal studwork and plaster boarding.
The remaining tickets from the September general sale for Rugby World Cup 2015 go back on sale today.
The sale of up to 300,000 tickets for 25 matches will take place in three stages, with priority access given to applicants who were unsuccessful in the ballot.
Stage 1 – Monday 24 and Tuesday November 25 – Ticket sale open to unsuccessful applicants from the September general sale
Stage 2 – Wednesday 26 and Thursday November 27 – Ticket sale open to partially successful applicants from the September general sale (applicants who did not receive all the tickets they...
Come and buy local crafts and gifts at the Table Top Sale being held in Dunchideock Village Hall from 10am to 1pm. Jewellery, crafts, food, gifts, DVDs, home produce and much more.
Bacon rolls,mince pies, mulled wine, tea & coffee for sale.
Entrance free with free parking.
For further info, visit our website www.dunchideock.org.uk or e-mail dunchideockvh@gmail.com . If you want to have a table (£5 each), please reserve a place by e-mail or ring 01392 834755.
The annual Victorian Christmas Market returns to the Teign Valley on Saturday (Nov 29) with a host of festive goodies and entertainment.
Stallholders, dressed in traditional Victorian garb, will be offering an array of produce, crafts and gifts at the event, which runs from 10am to 3pm at the Teign Valley Community Hall in Christow.
Entry is free, and there is also a complimentary mince pie and glass of mulled wine on arrival.
Organiser Khamal Doderer said: “The Victorian Christmas Market continues to grow and this year we’ve worked really hard to make sure there’s...
An ambitious Exeter based creative and communications agency which can number Tesco, the BBC Global News and Rick Stein amongst its clients has now been appointed to handle the marketing portfolio for Flybe and Paignton Zoo in Torquay.
ab..the ideas agency is also the team behind the Flybe guerrilla marketing campaign to promote flights to London which made the national press when it prompted First Great Western to call the police to Exeter St David’s station last month.
Established over 30 years ago as a two-man graphic design studio, ab today employs 24 staff providing a...
Whipton Youth FC U9s are celebrating after receiving a stylish new set of threads thanks to their local McDonald’s restaurant.
The Exeter restaurant has donated kit to the team as part of the new McDonald’s FA Charter Standard Kit Scheme.
Whipton Youth FC is one of the first teams to benefit from the new community programme, which, run in partnership with The FA and their official kit supplier Nike, enables all 4,600 FA Charter Standard clubs with a junior team in England the chance to order a new strip every year for the next four seasons.
The Exeter Festival Chorus, one of the South West’s premier choirs will be reunited with internationally renowned opera singer Lesley Garrett for a Christmas Gala concert in Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 6th December 2014. Details of this concert can be found on the Chorus’s web-site at: http://www.exeterfestivalchorus.org.uk/
Tickets, £15 to £35 reserved, £12 & £20 unreserved, are available from the Chorus web site, www.exeterfestivalchorus.org.uk , by phone from TicketSource 0333 666 3366 (booking fee), from Exeter Tickets, Dix’s Field, Exeter, 01392 665885 and, in person only...
A crowd of more than 3,000 turned out at Exeter Racecourse yesterday to watch ponies from Dartmoor and Clydesdale horses stretch their limbs in their two furlong races before seven jump races gave racegoers an afternoon to remember.
Six hill ponies went to post and it was a tiny pure bred registered Dartmoor who crossed the line in front with his owner Rachael Watson on board.
“My plan was to stay close to Frolic in the race and keep something in the tank for the finish,” said 20-year-old Rachael who farms with her parents near Poundsgate.
