A valentine's treat from this gifted live performer, aptly named after Louis Armstrong by her jazz-obsessed father.
Louise's powerful vocal delivery and skilful interpretation of swing, blues and gospel classics have made her a regular on Radio 2's Best of Jazz.
She blends an effortless, rhythmical style with a sweet warm tone, passion and spirit to create performances that simply stir the soul. Louise "swings like fury" (Humphrey Lyttelton). With pianist George Cooper.
Go along to Escot and help us celebrate Red Squirrel Day!
Events for the day include: Games-including Crack the Nut, Nut and Spoon races, Nut Rolling (with your nose!), Story Walks, The Great Squirrel Hunt Falconry displays and you can meet Cyril our 6 foot squirrel who will be popping into the Coach House Restaurant to say hello.
Children must be accompanied by a resposible adult. All children qualify for free entry but normal entry fee applies to adults. Members are free.
Police in Exeter have issued a warning following a burglary in the city today, Friday, 24 January 2014. The incident took place at a house on Mincinglake Road, Stoke Hill at around 11.25 am. A man knocked on the front door of the property and told the occupant – a woman in her 80s – that his football was in her back garden. As the victim went to unlock the back gate, the suspect entered the front door and went upstairs. The woman shouted at him and the man left the scene empty-handed. The suspect is described as being around 30-years-old and 5ft 6in tall. He was wearing a dark woolly hat....
Families will have the opportunity to get creative by making their own bird box with the guidance of Escot's Nature Rangers!
You will be given fun information sheets about what birds to keep your eyes open for and how to care for your bird box when you take it home with you at the end of the day!
Cost: £5 per box. Places are limited. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
A new project to help over 5,000 Exeter residents fight fuel poverty through solar energy is looking for a volunteer site for their first panels.
The scheme operated by Exeter Community Energy (Ecoe) will see a portion of the revenue they raise through the solar panels re-invested into community projects around the city, including projects that tackle fuel poverty.
The model has already proven successful elsewhere in the country with projects in Lewes and Bath well established and already providing advice and support on how communities can improve their fuel efficiency....
Frontman Jack Steadman, guitarist Jamie MacColl (grandson of folk legend Ewan, nephew of the late Kirsty), bassist Ed Nash and drummer Suren de Saram formed the band at school in north London in 2006. They won a competition to play at that year’s V festival, released two EPs the next year and wrote their debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose, while still at school. It came out in 2009 and went gold.
This is where most new bands would take a year or so to regroup and plot their next move. Instead, Bombay Bicycle Club took a left-turn with 2010’s folk-influenced Flaws,...
Much anticipated improvements to Payhembury’s play area are now complete, after improvements chosen by local children were put in place.
Payhembury Playing Field Committee and East Devon District Council have been working closely together with Payhembury Primary School to make £6,700 worth of improvements. This money has been contributed by developers through Section 106 funding for play. This type of contribution was a condition of planning approval for a number of housing developments in the area.
Children had a choice of four designs and voted for their favourite in a...
Moretonhampstead Festival of food and drink has been rained off despite not due to take place for another six weeks.
The Organising Committee of the festival took the decision to cancel the Festival due to the exceptional level of recent rain making the fields used for parking unsafe for users.
Bob Small the festival’s lead organiser explained the decision of the committee: “Even if we had six weeks of no rain from today the fields would still be far too wet.
“The ground on the fields would be unsuitable, unsafe, possibly even dangerous to use.”
Skills coach Ricky Pellow wants Exeter Chiefs to use last week's Heineken Cup win at Cardiff Blues as the springboard for another big performance against Welsh opposition again tomorrow. A week after claiming an impressive 19-13 success at the Arms Park, the Chiefs switch their attentions from European battle to that of the LV= Cup and the impending visit of the Ospreys to Sandy Park (3pm). For a third successive season the Anglo-Welsh tournament has pitted the Chiefs against the Ospreys on Devon soil - and the home side will be hoping that past experiences continue as they have twice...
Over 160 drivers, including a man who four times the legal limit at 11am, were arrested during Devon and Cornwall Police’s Christmas drink driving campaign.
According to figures released today police officers gave 1,326 breath tests of which 167 were positive, refused or failed to provide.
One man stopped in Devon was found to be more than four times the legal limit at 11am while another stop also in Devon found a 28-year-old woman four times the limit at 4:30pm/
In Plymouth, two readings of over 3½ times the legal limit were provided, one by a 33 year-old woman and...
