Stagecoach South West is to introduce brand new timetables for one of their most popular routes which will now connect Devon with Dorset.
The new Service 9 will replace the existing Service 52 from 2nd May 2016, connecting Exeter to Sidmouth, Sidford and Honiton. A new Service 9A will operate between Exeter, Sidmouth and Seaton, replacing the 52A and including a new extension to Lyme Regis.
The service will run hourly Monday to Saturday and every 2 hours on a Sunday. These new timetables will give customers an enjoyable and convenient coastal connection as the summer season...
Glastonbury is over for another year, but Lyme Regis is preparing to go global on Saturday (4 July) as this year’s Big Mix family youth music festival welcomes a world of talent to the town from near and far.
Fresh from their appearance and having a massive impact at Glastonbury, dance band KOG and the Zongo Brigade will headline the festival. Fronted by the irrepressible Ghanaian-born songwriter and performer Kweku Of Ghana their blend of West African rhythms, soul, funk, reggae and Latin jazz has taken them all over Britain and Europe and they arrive in Lyme Regis on the back of...
A world of sound will fill the air as Lyme Regis prepares for the third annual Big Mix youth music festival on 4 July. This year’s line up promises everything from West African dance rhythms and beatboxing, to indie power pop and opera, all in a fabulous open-air arena on the Marine Theatre Square, overlooking Lyme Bay and the stunning Jurassic Coast. Promoted by young people’s music charity B Sharp, whose core values of creativity, expression and integrity run through the festival, the Big Mix is placing the spotlight on youth enterprise and opportunity with a range of fringe activities...
CHILDREN and young people from across the region will come together on Sunday (DEC7) for the second in a series of three B Sharp Voices concerts of music and song inspired by Beer Quarry Caves.
The afternoon show at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis finds secondary school age soloists who have been working with professional musicians as part of the B Sharp Voices project performing with the 94-strong choir of primary school children from St Michael’s and
Mrs Ethelston’s in Lyme Regis, Marshwood Primary and Bridport St Mary’s who made their concert debut in October.
Jaunt with Jane is a Jane Austen themed weekend held in Lyme Regis.
The ultimate Janeite experience, Jaunt with Jane is hosted in the town Jane Austen absolutely adored and featured in Persuasion.
On Jaunt with Jane you will Meet Jane Austen’s relation, Diana Shervington and hear a talk by her as well as meeting with Diana, hearing her stories and seeing the items she has that once belonged to Jane. All this while enjoying a full cream tea in the function rooms used as the Harvilles’ house in the 1990s adaptation of Persuasion on the world famous Cobb Harbour in the cottage...
Lyme Regis is set to become a top annual venue for folk music when it hosts the first Lyme Folk Weekend at the end of August.
Lyme Folk Weekend will round off the summer with some of the country's finest folk acts at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis, as well as a full-on programme of singing, dancing and entertainment - in pubs and cafes in and around the town and on the sea-front - plus lots of free family events.
Headline acts Turin Brakes, The Albion Band, Spiers and Boden and Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, will be supported by a host of rising stars, the...
South West Water today (Thursday 23 May) announced an extra investment programme to protect bathing water quality at key tourist beaches, maintain nearly six million metres of sewers and help customers in the most need. This investment will be funded from efficiency savings in the company's current five year programme and will not impact on average household bills which will fall in 2013/14 following the Government's £50 reduction implemented in April.
Highlights of the programme include:
Bringing forward £20 million of Improvement to sewers and treatment works at
Exeter-based photographer Jenny Steer, whose work has been published in The Times , Daily Express and Daily Mirror among others, is holding an exhibition of the section of her work that features the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis, its boats and its people. Jenny started photographing the Academy’s twice yearly student boat launches in 2010. Principal of the Academy, Yvonne Green, says "Launches are a very important part of the Academy’s calendar, celebrating the end of our ‘long’ 38 week courses and the beginning of students’ new careers as boat builders. Students’ families and...
