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Breast cancer is not yesterday’s problem says Neil Parish MP

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has joined leading UK charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s call to make the issue of access to drugs a top priority, and help put breast cancer back on the agenda. Neil Parish joined more than 70 MPs at a reception hosted by Breakthrough Breast Cancer on Tuesday 8 October at the House of Commons. There, the charity called on the Government to bring about a new focus on breast cancer, with a priority of introducing an equitable system through which effective new treatments are routinely made available to patients. Earlier this year Breakthrough...

Neil Parish MP shows support for the humble spud as part of Potato Week 2013

Devon is firmly on the map, after Neil Parish MP showed his support for the humble spud by potato printing onto a UK map to demonstrate his commitment to the UK Potato Industry. The event on Wednesday 9th October in Parliament organised by the Potato Council was part of celebrations to mark this year’s Potato Week (7-13 October). Neil Parish MP, who is also a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, was quizzed at the event to test his knowledge of the health, economic and environmental benefits of potatoes before given hints and tips on how to achieve the best...

Win £5,000 towards a mobile app with Exeter-based Rokk Media

Authored by Team Rokk
Posted: Mon, 10/14/2013 - 5:07pm

Rokk Media will be joining the best of Exeter's businesses on Thursday 17 November in the b2b exhibition taking place at Sandy Park. b2b@SandyPark is a unique business to business event, which is teaming up with the Exeter Chiefs for companies to showcase their products and services, meet new contacts and develop new opportunities.

Rokk Media’s digital specialists will be providing valuable information to visitors about website development, app development, software development and digital marketing. Rokk Media's Marketing Director Ian Creek will be presenting on the day, with some...

Charlie Baker - Baker’s Dozen

Event Date: 
26/10/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Charlie Baker’s versatile talent as a stand-up comedian and highly acclaimed jazz-singer and actor have their perfect platform in this critically acclaimed show where he takes the biggest selling songs of the last thirteen years putting a brand new twist on them mixed with Baker’s “comedy gold”.

Tickets: £12 (£10)

Box office: 01392 271808

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

Andy Rouse: Wild about Animals

Event Date: 
28/11/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Andy Rouse is one of the most well-known & respected wildlife photographers with a worldwide following. He has won numerous UK & International Awards including BBC wildlife photographer of the year & Royal Geographical Society Awards.

Andy travels the globe in order to capture some of the most dramatic and spectacular images of the worlds most dangerous and inaccessible creatures.

His inspirational images are published worldwide and are used to highlight the plight of endangered species on this planet.

Andy’s talk will be packed with stories, musical...

West End Showcase 2013

Event Date: 
29/11/2013 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The new Theatre School for the West End triple threat performer in acting, singing and dancing opened in January this year and now has over 40 talented students with some already enrolling in London Drama Schools.

Come and support them and enjoy original numbers from ‘Legally Blonde’, ‘Hairspray’, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, ‘Tarzan’, ‘Les Miserables’, acting scenes from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ and ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ensemble singing from ‘Rent’ and many more.

Richard Dale trained at Arts Ed under scholarship and as an actor performed in West End productions...

Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt

Event Date: 
23/11/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt is a spiritualist medium who currently travels the UK doing Psychic/Mediumship shows.

As a medium Nikki aims to provide evidence of life after life by giving messages to people in the audience from their loved ones in spirit along with amazing accuracy in descriptions, personalities and all sorts of information.

Tickets: £10

Box office: 01392 271808

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

Nedski and Mojo

Event Date: 
16/11/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

NEDSKI : Ned Luberecki plays banjo with Chris Jones & The Night Drivers and is an On-Air personality for SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction. He is a first call banjo instructor at banjo camps across the US and Europe and a part time journalist for Banjo Newsletter.

MOJO: Stephen Mougin plays guitar with The Sam Bush Band and owns Dark Shadow Recording. He has been producing and engineering a myriad of up-and-coming bluegrass acts as well as artists outside the genre. Stephen holds a degree in Vocal Music Education and leads many vocal workshops and private vocal coaching sessions...

Exeter Musical Society present Footloose

Event Date: 
19/11/2013 - 7:30pm to 23/11/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Footloose the musical tells the story of Ren McCormack who is forced to move from Chicago to a small town nobody has ever heard of – Bomont.
He soon finds himself at odds with the repressive atmosphere there where the spiritual life of the community is overseen by the power local minister Reverend Moore.

Ren is stunned to learn that dancing is not allowed anywhere within the town limits of Bomont, but discovers that this law dates back five years to a car accident that claimed the lives of four Bomont teenagers. In the flood of grief after the tragedy the Reverend Moore managed to...

Arabian Nights

Event Date: 
13/11/2013 - 7:00pm to 16/11/2013 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Long, long ago in a faraway land of mystery and wonder, celebrations for the wedding night of King Shahrayer are under way. By morning the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to death like all the king’s young brides before her. However she has one gift that could save her – the gift of storytelling. With her mischievous imagination and silver tongue, the young Queen spins magical tales night after night to captivate her vengeful husband and preserve her life. Each story must entertain the king but it must also teach him something about himself so that his heart will soften and he will learn...

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