Exeter

Rock for Heroes

Event Date: 
16/06/2018 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exmouth Pavilion

Are you ready to ROCK! Immerse yourself in the incredible new live music experience with Rock For Heroes.

Bringing the perfect combination of your favourite Rock & Pop artist across the eras, in celebration of an incredible cause Help for Heroes. There will be a collection for this amazing cause after every show.

Performed by a full live rock band and superb singers, It’s the must see show of the year. With music from artists such as Dire Straits, Status Quo, Queen, David Bowie, Madonna, Spandau Ballet, Bryan Adams, Elton John, Simple Minds and so many more. You won’t...

Croydon Male Voice Choir

Event Date: 
06/07/2018 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
South Street Baptist Church, 25 South Street, Exeter

Croydon Male Voice Choir, known throughout the Home Counties for choral excellence, will be holding a concert at the South Street Baptist Church, Exeter on Friday 6th July at 7.30pm.

CMVC, singing under the baton of Musical Director Richard Hoyle, will be over 50 members strong and will sing an eclectic selection from the wide repertoire of music for which the choir is noted. Founded in Croydon in South London more than 40 years ago it has grown from small beginnings to a well balanced choir of some 70 voices. They have performed in venues ranging from village halls and country...

Croydon Male Voice Choir

Event Date: 
07/07/2018 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Croydon Male Voice Choir, known throughout the Home Counties for choral excellence, will be holding a concert at Exeter Cathedral on at 12 noon.

CMVC, singing under the baton of Musical Director Richard Hoyle, will be over 50 members strong and will sing an eclectic selection from the wide repertoire of music for which the choir is noted.

Founded in Croydon in South London more than 40 years ago it has grown from small beginnings to a well balanced choir of some 70 voices.

They have performed in venues ranging from village halls and country churches up to some of...

RD&E gives green light for new patient-centred comprehensive health record system

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 06/06/2018 - 4:36pm

RD&E has received NHS Improvement approval to proceed with a new clinical transformation programme. As well as fundamentally improving the way services and care are delivered to patients, the programme will see paper-based patient records at the RD&E becoming a thing of the past.

The MY CARE Programme is the cornerstone of a broader programme of change that will engage those people who need our services together with those people entrusted to deliver them, to transform the way that care is delivered and make services at the RD&E more clinically and financially...

Wimbledon Screenings in Princesshay

Event Date: 
02/07/2018 - 12:00pm to 15/07/2018 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Princesshay, Exeter

Make it a day at Princesshay at our free Wimbledon event from Monday 2nd – Sunday 15th July.

With live screenings of the legendary sporting event, free tasters and competitions, there’s no reason to stay indoors, come over and soak up the atmosphere.

Forget Murray Mound, the place to catch all the action this year is Princesshay! This year, for the first time, join others to watch the matches, free of charge, on an outdoor screen in Princesshay Square. Pull up a deck chair, drink in the atmosphere and cheer along to each of the matches.

Wimbledon matches will be...

Exmouth watersports centre given green light

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 06/06/2018 - 10:29am

Queen’s Drive in Exmouth including associated facilities for water sports users such as a café, restaurant and retail spaces as well as associated car parking.

Members of East Devon District Council’s Development Management Committee have voted in favour of granting planning permission for the construction of a new water sports centre and facilities for water sports users such as a café, restaurant, retail spaces and car parking at Queen’s Drive in Exmouth.

The development also includes new stepped and ramped accesses to the beach.

The application that was approved...

Exeter Dissenters Graveyard open days

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 06/06/2018 - 9:48am

The Dissenters Graveyard will be open to visitors between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June.

Visitors can:

Take the opportunity to walk through the nearly restored graveyard and browse through the range of information on the histories of the Graveyard, of Dissent, of the monuments and the people associated with site.

Hear about previous excavations including an investigation of an intact underground vault with visible burials.

Hear about the histories and sometimes the transatlantic connections of families represented in the Graveyard....

Tour of Britain Stage 2 marked by historic race through Victorian market

World class cyclists will race through the South Molton Pannier Market in September – the first time in the history of the modern Tour of Britain that it is has been routed through a building.

Stage 2 of the race will take place on Monday September 3, starting in the UK’s newest town, Cranbrook, in East Devon and finishing in Barnstaple, North Devon.

The route was announced at the 2018 OVO Energy Tour of Britain national launch in central London on Tuesday evening (5 June).

The race is being hosted by Devon County Council, supported by East Devon District Council...

Community knitting events in Exeter this summer

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 06/06/2018 - 12:34am

Wool on the Exe is an Exeter based yarn shop with a mission to share the benefits of fibre arts with the community. This summer they are running free community knitting events in Exeter;

World Wide Knit Public Day at Exeter Central Library on Saturday 9th June 12pm-3pm

and

The Big Knit Swap at St Stephens Church on Saturday 23rd June 10am-2pm

Knitting and crochet are often reported to be good for our health. At Wool on the Exe the emphasis is on knitting, crocheting and creating together for added benefits to wellbeing. The shop was established in 2016 as...

County Council unwraps new strategy to reduce plastic waste

Devon County Council has pledged to phase out its use of the most polluting single-use plastic products within two years.

The move is part of a new action plan the Council has developed to help cut the amount of single-use plastic waste in Devon.

The ‘Plastics Strategy’ outlines how various single-use plastic food and beverage packaging and tableware (such as cutlery and cups) will be removed from Council work locations by 2020.

It also summarises how the Council will use its position and responsibility to raise awareness of the issues surrounding single-use...

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