Exeter

Rebecca Loebe. With special guest Greg Hancock

Event Date: 
23/02/2018 - 7:30pm to 10:30pm
Venue: 
Matthews Hall, Fore Street, Topsham EX3 0HF

Rebecca Loebe is an Austin-based singer/songwriter who has spent the past decade on the road performing in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. Along the way she has honed her voice as one of the Americana music scene’s most exciting new songwriters and earned a place on Alternate Root Magazine’s annual listing of The Top 10 Female Singers in America.

Since quitting her job as a full-time audio engineer and moving into her car to pursue a music career, Rebecca has received an armful of songwriting accolades, including the prestigious Kerrville New Folk award, as well as...

Luke Jackson and Andy Sharps

Event Date: 
10/02/2018 - 7:30pm to 10:30pm
Venue: 
St James Church Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH

Luke Jackson and Andy Sharps 2018

Luke is a Singer/Songwriter from Canterbury, Kent, who in 2013 was nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and The Young Folk Category. With a bold, distinctive voice and a sweet, percussive guitar style, Luke is a confident and captivating live performer. He was also winner of Fatea’s “Male Artist of the Year 2014” and again in 2016.

He regularly tours across Europe playing in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany and in 2016 made his first visit to the USA to play at the...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 01/14/2018 - 12:57pm

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (12-14 January).

THEATRE

Magic and the Muse Friday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter An amazing Magic Lantern spectacle featuring unique hand-painted images with live music. Lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker, using an original nineteenth-century triple lantern, combine with multi-instrumentalists Richard Navarro, Nicholas Thurston and Miriam Gould to present a unique combination of music, performance and projection. The show includes specially created images, original historic material, and a rare sequence...

EDDC in top 30 best recycling councils in the country

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 01/14/2018 - 12:17pm

The extraordinary achievements of East Devon households who are now recycling more than ever before following the introduction of a new recycling service this year has won local, national and international environment awards for the district.

Since February, the district council, in partnership with its contractors SUEZ, has rolled out a new recycling service to all 68,700 East Devon properties and extended the range of items residents can now have collected from the kerbside every week. Cardboard, plastics, cartons and small electrical goods have been added to the extensive number...

New facilities at Atkinson

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 01/14/2018 - 11:16am

A therapeutic secure children's home for young people has had major improvements, thanks to funding from the Department for Education.

In formally opening the new two storey extension, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Patron of Northbrook Community Trust, said that she felt honoured and delighted to be associated with the home. She said that the home does a wonderful job and is such a positive and important influence on the lives of many very vulnerable young people. The £1.1million improvements to the current building provides a new reception area where young people are welcomed...

Volunteers needed to help train puppies for life-transforming charity

The New Year is a time for reflection and making resolutions, so what better time to answer the call from national charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, who are actively seeking volunteers in Exeter to help train adorable VIPs (Very Important Puppies) on their path to becoming fully-fledged hearing dogs. One in six people in the UK suffer with some form of hearing loss and the effects can be devastating. The lack of independence, loss of confidence, reduced self-esteem and feelings of anxiety often lead to loneliness, isolation and often depression. However, fully qualified hearing dogs...

MBE awarded to local property developer chairman

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 01/12/2018 - 6:14pm

The Chairman of Exeter-based Burrington Estates has been awarded an MBE in recognition of his outstanding service to the construction industry.

Peter Andrew, who is also Deputy Chairman of the Home Builders Federation, was recognised for his achievements in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. During his 40 year career in construction, Peter has gained a wealth of industry experience and an unrivalled understanding of the issues affecting house builders. He was one of four practitioners who helped draft the National Planning Policy Framework for then Planning Minister Greg Clark....

Football: It’s a family affair!

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 01/12/2018 - 10:22am

By Lee Alexander, Coventry & Exeter supporter.

I fell in love with football at an early age; standing on a wooden stool, supported by my Dad, watching Coventry City at home in the “covered end” at Highfield Road, or away on the asphalt banks of Fellows Park, Walsall.

It was a family thing; not just my family but being part of the football club “family”.

I was lucky enough to be at Wembley in 1987, to witness “one of the best FA Cup Finals ever” (quote: John Motson); I was with my Dad and both of my brothers and a “family” of friends. So, where’s this leading to...

Man charged with murder after woman's body discovered in Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 01/12/2018 - 9:58am

The woman whose body was discovered in a property on Alphington Road in Exeter on Wednesday 10 January 2018 has been formally identified.

The body of Geraldine Mallor, 32, from Exeter, was located by Ambulance Services who informed police. Her next of kin have been informed.

Darrell Rose, a 36-year-old man from Exeter, has been charged with murder and will appear before Exeter Crown Court on Monday 15 January 2018.

Exeter City sign Kane Wilson on loan

West Bromwich Albion defender Kane Wilson says he is looking forward to ‘kicking-on’ and ‘progressing further’ having agreed a loan deal with Exeter City until the end of the season, subject to Football League approval.

Kane, 17, made eight appearances for the Grecians in the first half of the season having joined the club on transfer deadline day in August.

However, following his performance against Barnet on December 30 – where he scored his first goal in senior football – the highly-rated full-back returned to his parent club following the end of his initial loan deal...

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