Last weekend it was the turn of Honiton Gymnastics Club’s stars of the future to display their prowess, as 52 gymnasts competed at the South West Club Development Championships in Sherborne, Dorset.
The results included two golds, a silver and three bronze medals.
Taking top honours were Grade 2 Group Daisy Spiller, Abigail Wilson & Libby Wray and Grade 1 Women’s Pair Chloe Hutsby and Hettie Behan. Chloe and Hettie raised the level even further, taking the top score of the whole day out of 133 partnerships.
Sisters Abigail, Katharine and Christiana Wilson also...
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For anyone that was looking forward to our “ Sail The Seven Seas ” theme, we’ve rescheduled it for April, so you can still bust out your pirates, sea creature, mermaid outfits and get your rave on!
Headline DJ Aston Harvey (The Freestylers), plus resident DJs Little My & High Eight play (grown up) dance music on the multi-sensory dancefloor with glitter cannons, bubbles and giant parachute dance.
Craft tables with giant colouring mural, themed crafts and...
Communities in Devon and Cornwall will be able to research the history of Roman, Iron Age and medieval settlements in the region by helping experts on a major archaeological dig and associated surveys this year.
Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players, the University of Exeter has been awarded initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a £222,500 grant and development funding of £38,500.
A series of projects will allow people to take part in an excavation near Ipplepen in South Devon this June. They will also have the opportunity to take part in...
Bampton residents and library staff were joined by Julie Dent CBE, Chair of Libraries Unlimited and local MP for Tiverton and Honiton Neil Parish, as they celebrated the successful relocation and official opening of the new Bampton Library on Thursday 6th April.
The library moved into its new, spacious and bright location within the Library and Resource Centre, Old Schoolroom, Bampton last month.
Libraries Unlimited and the Library and Resource Centre Supporters (LARCS) provided refreshments as guests were invited to take a look around the new facilities and hear speeches...
Come to our Spring performance of Handel's Messiah for an uplifting evening of choral music.
We are conducted by Laurence Blyth and the orchestra is led by Julie Hill.
We welcome our soloists Julia Featherstone (soprano), Olivia Jane Gomez (mezzo-soprano), Michael Graham (tenor) and Matthew Cann (bass).
Tickets are £12 (or £6 for NUS students) from Exeter Visitor Information & Tickets, Dix's Field, Exeter 01392 665885. Ticket price includes interval refreshments and a programme.
The concert will support a local children's diabetes group Snackpack, part...
Come to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) on Saturday 22 April and meet metal detectorist Laurence Egerton, the finder of the Seaton Down Hoard. He will be sharing his stories and showing his finds, along with other members of the East Devon Metal Detectorists club, on the opening day of RAMM’s Seaton Down Hoard Weekend.
Seaton Down Hoard Weekend
The Seaton Down Hoard weekend (22 and 23 April) is a Roman celebration with family activities, object handling - including coins from the Seaton Down Hoard - and a range of experts: curators,...
The River Cottage Spring Food Fair, taking place across the late May bank holiday weekend, 27th – 29th May 2017, is set to be a hit with adults and children alike. The Fair provides the perfect opportunity to get the whole family down to River Cottage, to explore the farm nestled in the stunning East Devon countryside and to celebrate the majesty of the spring season and all it has to offer.
Under 16s go free and will be kept entertained with a plethora of free activities including forest school where youngsters will connect with nature and have fun building shelters and collecting...
It is one of the most spectacular sights in nature – the magnificent aerial ballet of ‘murmurations’ taking place as a flock of tens of thousands of birds ebbs and flows across the skyline, moving as one.
Such collective behaviour is a cornerstone of the complex and often mysterious natural world, from miniscule cells interacting in the human body, to co-ordinated displays of insect swarms, fish schools and even the behaviour of crowds of people going about their day- to-day lives.
The riddle of how these often vast numbers of individuals synchronize their movements so...
Gardener, writer and broadcaster Toby Buckland has replanted the flower beds leading up to the Garden entrance to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery as a tribute to its collections.
Devon is a county of plant hunters with famous historical nurseries like Veitch and Pinces. This rich history has long been reflected in the displays and exhibits at RAMM. It is now also mirrored in the at RAMM’s Garden entrance.
Toby explains “I’ve been visiting RAMM since I was boy and love the fresh thinking and thought-provoking exhibitions and displays. I go there...
Exmouth householders are now recycling almost 60% of their waste every week thanks to a new improved recycling service introduced by East Devon District Council in February.
Provisional findings show that recycling in the town has risen from 44% before the service was launched, to 59% in the first six weeks of the new scheme. Significantly, the amount of rubbish people are throwing away has dropped during the same period from 56% to 41%.
The council’s contractors SUEZ is now collecting, on average, around 90 tonnes of recycling from the town every week – an increase of more...
