Running from Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 7th December 2013, The Recruiting Officer is a true delight for theatre-lovers, with everything from swashbuckling soldiers to women dressed as men. The play is a Salisbury Playhouse Production, originally written by George Farquahar and produced by Gareth Minchin, also a member of the cast.
Described as “a regional theatre with all guns blazing” by the Daily Telegraph, the Salisbury Playhouse puts on a raucous and wonderfully English comedy of bawdiness, disastrous sexual exploits and meddling servants. As well as a beautifully designed and...
A local artist and Christmas market trader is desperately seeking help to recover her lost portfolio.
Mary Tempest, who also works for Exeter City Council’s tourism centre as an illustrator misplaced the portfolio after stopping at a busy cashpoint in the City Centre yesterday evening.
After realising she had misplaced her work Mary returned to the cashpoint but it had already gone. The portfolio held in a black A3 size Art bag held many finished and unfinished pencil drawings that Mary had sold on her stall in the Christmas market on the Cathedral Green.
A University of Exeter professor is on a research team creating videogames which blur the boundaries between real and virtual worlds.
Gabriella Giannachi, The University of Exeter’s Performance and New Media Professor, is part of the Videogames Research Network being led by the University of Lincoln’s Games Research Group.
The Network aims to bring together games developers, performance practitioners and academics to explore new concepts in the design and creation of movement-based games.
An Australian organisation called Arts Queensland is also part of the...
70,000 business premises in the South West will see their business rates freeze or fall in new cap to business rates introduced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement today.
In the plans many businesses will continue to receive discounted rates from the Small business rates relief while business worth less than £50,000 will gain a £1,000 discount to their business rates.
The plans will also see 44,000 South west businesses pay no rates at all.
The cap is introduced alongside a range of other measures designed to aid businesses and the high street. These measures...
Irishman Ian Whitten is looking forward to exciting times ahead after he became the latest Exeter Chiefs player to commit his future to the Aviva Premiership club.
The 26-year-old back follows club-mate Jack Yeandle in agreeing terms on a new two-year contract to remain at Sandy Park.
Signed in the summer of 2012 from Ulster, Irish international Whitten has settled well to life in the Westcountry, establishing himself as a prominent member of Rob Baxter’s first-team squad.
To date, Lisburn-born Whitten has featured 34 times for the club, either in the centre or on...
In the Autumn Statement today, George Osborne has revealed that the UK economy is growing but the job of recovery was “not yet done”.
The chancellor said growth is "significantly more than forecast" with expected growth more than doubling from 0.6% to 1.4%. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts that with growth at current levels the country will no longer be in debt by 2018-2019. Osborne also warned of further cuts to service and acknowledged the affect to families : "The hard work of the British people is paying off and we will not squander their efforts...
The students and staff of Exeter University will be putting on their annual Christmas craft fair tomorrow (Friday 6th December) in the Forum building, from 12-4pm.
Come along and support your friends, colleagues, staff and the university in their largest event so far. Music and food and a Farmer's Market will be on-site too!
Exhibitors include:
- Mehndi~B - a freelance henna artist who specialises in the application of beautiful, traditional designs as well as the supply of henna starter kits.
- Stunning individual paintings and images produced by Jo Thomas...
Judges have ruled that the Devon-based marine who shot and killed an injured prisoner will be publicly named as Sgt. Alexander Blackman.
Three of the UK's most senior judges made the ruling this morning and say that the two acquitted marines should also be named.
Lawyers defending the 5 servicemen involved in the case have argued that naming the defendants will put their families at risk of retaliation from terrorists.
There have been concerns however that the Marines remaining named goes against the British legal principles of open justice.
John Lewis are trying to contact Faith, a 5-year-old girl who wrote to the store to apologise for accidently breaking a Christmas bauble.
In a hand-written note to the John Lewis store in Cambridge Faith wrote: “To John Lewis, Cambridge. I’m sorry I broke a Christmas bauble on Saturday. It cost two pounds. Here is the money for it. Sorry again” and signed the letter “Faith, aged five”.
She also attached two £1 coins and drew a self-portrait.
The store manger published the letter on Twitter and has started a #findfaith hash tag to thank the girl.
The date at which someone must be 68 to draw a state pension has been brought forward by around 10 years.
The change to be announced today as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn statement will see the current scheduled date to be forward from 2046 to sometime in the mid-2030s.
Many commentators expect that the state pension age will rise again to 69 by the late 2040s and to 70 shortly after that.
The recent changes will affect people aged in their 40s while further changes could see people in their 20s work until in their 70s.
