Headlining this month’s Edge Comedy Club is Dan Thomas who is an award winning Welsh comic who is now performs at all the UK’s high profile venues such as The Glee Clubs, Highlights, The Comedy Store, Komedia among others. He has also made appearances at several festivals including Green Man.
In 2011, Dan was hand chosen to support Russell Kane on his national tour of the Perrier Award winning show “Smokescreens and Castles” and also toured with Russell on his last “Manscaping” tour.
As well as stand up, Dan works as a TV warm up artiste for several shows, including Channel...
Romilla Arber, award-winning author of What's for Dinner? Second Helpings and founder of The Food Education Trust ( www.foodeducationtrust.com ) is challenging the report prepared for the government on nutrition that recommends free school meals for all primary school pupils. Arber believes that most school meals have little nutritional superiority to the food contained in packed lunches and that the type and quality of ingredients used in school meals needs to be improved. Then, by all means, make the meals free.
Arber comments, "There is nothing wrong with the state setting down...
New figures from leading rural insurer NFU Mutual reveal rural crime in the South West totalled an estimated £780,000 in 2012, while the UK-wide cost of ‘agri-crime’ fell by 20% to an estimated £42.3 million (£52.7m in 2011). The figures, based on claims data, have been released to coincide with the publication of the annual NFU Mutual Rural Crime Survey. Unlike other crime reports, the insurer’s includes claims for crimes against homes, farms, commercial premises and vehicles. Machinery tops the thieves’ wish list in the Devon and Cornwall while tools and quad bikes have also proved...
Exeter’s very own award-winning company of four clowns, Le Navet Bete, have been successful in their funding bid to develop and tour their new original show, Once Upon a Time in a Western . A local success story, the company who originally met at Plymouth University and who have since gone on to tour internationally, have been awarded £34,000 by Arts Council England.
Their new show promises to take audiences on an interactive, fast-paced journey across the Wild West as the town of Kidneystone is threatened by outlaw and all-round bad guy Loco Pedro who is secretly in cahoots with...
From September, popular cultural hub and subterranean venue, The Bike Shed Theatre bar will host a new monthly live music night featuring some of the most exciting hotly tipped upcoming music acts from across the UK. The new night is curated by Devon-based independent live music promoter Assemble.
Assemble is headed up by promoter Danielle Rose, previously Live Art Producer at Dartington Hall, and currently one of only 12 producers across the UK selected by the PRS Foundation for their New Music Plus UK programme. With events already taking place in Totnes and Plymouth, Assemble...
The National Apprenticeship Service has launched a raft of new measures designed to help guide employers through the process of recruiting an apprentice. This follows yesterday’s announcement of the extension of the £1,500 Apprenticeship Grant for Employers of 16-24 year olds for another year. The grant, which is designed to help businesses (with fewer than 1000 employees) to recruit apprentices, has so far enabled over 30,000 young people to start an Apprenticeship. Two new films, ‘How to hire an apprentice’ and ‘Why hire an apprentice’, have been launched on apprentice.tv to guide...
The recently opened Radiance MediSpa, based in central Exeter, is opening its doors to local companies to offer complimentary venue hire. This includes a light and airy conference room with the latest technology, which seats up to 80 and is perfect for meetings; presentations and training. Evenings will be available for corporate networking events including bespoke ladies and men only events which can be tailored to the individual company’s requirements.
Owned by dynamic mother and daughter duo, Dr Ros and Katie Debenham the luxurious and spacious 7,300 sq.ft premises has 11...
On Tuesday 30 July, Teignbridge District Council’s Executive approved a series of amendments to its social housing allocation policy.
The changes, which come into effective on 1 April 2014, are aimed at creating a fairer system while giving people access to the most suitable housing advice and support that is right for them, especially in more rural areas. It will also provide the council with greater flexibilities so those who are on the housing waiting list stand a better chance of getting the home they want.
Allocation policies used to be subject to tight legislative...
Families have the chance to celebrate summer in one of Teignbridge’s open spaces as National Playday comes up next month.
Some of the district’s best places will be filled with fun and games as part of the event, which sees thousands of children and their families get out playing at hundreds of community events across the UK.
As well as a celebration of children's right to play, Playday is a campaign that highlights the importance of play in children’s lives.
The Playday 2013 campaign theme is ‘Playful Places’. The campaign is calling on everyone to help make sure...
On 29 and 30 July, members of Exeter Youth Squad took part in a sponsored 24-hour famine to raise money for Exeter-based charity St Petrock’s.
The group of 13- to 19-year-olds are raising awareness of homelessness in and around the city as part of a community action project devised by the young people themselves over the past few months.
After identifying homelessness as a key issue in the local area, they decided to hold the sponsored 24-hour famine, which involved participants not eating for a whole day.
Amber Lovelock, a member of the Youth Squad, felt that the...
