Shakespeare's wonderful fantasy comedy has always been a firm favourite for open-air production. As in the Bard's day, The Festival Players will be performing with an all-male company of skilled professional actors, and invite you to share in the colour, poetry, and magical mayhem. Summer fun for the whole family!
Tickets: £14
An open air production in the grounds of Tiverton Community Arts Theatre, presented as part of the Two Rivers Festival.
An official turf cutting was held at the Grand Western Canal on Monday (8 July) to mark the start of restoration work.
The Canal suffered a serious breach of its northern bank near the Swing Bridge at Halberton on 21 November last year, after water spilled over the top of the embankment during torrential downpours and flooding.
It is estimated that more than 16 million litres of water (the equivalent of more than 100,000 bathtubs or 6.5 Olympic swimming pools) flowed through the 23-metre wide breach onto neighbouring farmland. Emergency services spent days pumping water...
An innovative and award-winning programme for pre-school children is being launched in Exeter and Mid Devon.
The Creation Station’s hands-on art and craft exploration sessions give even very young children the chance to safely experiment with a wide range of materials, tools and ideas.
Erin Blake is leading the weekly, term-time programme for youngsters and their parents/carers at various locations around Exeter and Mid Devon.
At the age of 25 years Erin Blake has taken on The Creation Station business. Erin is an enthusiatic new mum to 10 month old daughter Emily,...
The garden at Pine Lodge in Tiverton has come a long way since Hospiscare opened the Day Care Unit based on Post Hill in 2011.
What was little more than a dumping ground just over a year ago is almost unrecognisable today.
A team of volunteers have worked tirelessly to take the garden in hand and transform the green space ready for an open garden event being held on 8 June.
The garden had been an overrun mass of trees, bushes and rabbits, but has since become a haven for patients at the unit, which is now beginning to burst with spring colour.
Libraries across Devon are encouraging residents to ‘think differently’ this month as part of a project to inspire creativity.
A series of events and activities associated with experiment, discovery, play, learning and reflection will be held throughout June aimed getting people to try something new.
Designed for those of all ages, they include activities such as learning to use a smart phone, creating treasures at a free play table, cake decorating, knitting and discovering how e-book readers work.
Councillor Roger Croad, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member for...
An innovative scheme developed by Devon County Council to support residents affected by the government welfare reforms is being extended.
Delivered by the Council’s Library Service, the pioneering ‘Free Fridays’ scheme has been piloted in three towns across Devon and has proved so successful it is now being expanded to include a further eight.
The sessions, which offer those seeking work or claiming benefits up to two hours free computer and internet access each Friday, will be available in Bideford, Barnstaple, Tavistock, Okehampton, Honiton, Exmouth, Dawlish and...
Tiverton and Honiton MP Neil Parish has shown his commitment to protecting animals by pledging his support for the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW) campaign against wildlife crime. Neil Parish, who is chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, hosted the IFAW’s ‘Wildlife Crime – The Fightback’ event at the House of Commons on Monday 29th April. Key speakers included Environment Minister Richard Benyon MP, and Kelvin Alie, Wildlife Crime Programme Director, IFAW. Neil Parish is working with IFAW to highlight animal welfare issues and send a clear message...
Spring is finally doing its thing at Knightshayes, a National Trust property on the outskirts of Tiverton in Devon. It has come not a moment too soon, as Friday 10 May sees the property hosting its annual National Gardens Scheme open day.
The National Garden Scheme (NGS) was founded in 1927 to raise money for the nurses of the Queen's Nursing Institute by opening gardens of quality and interest to the public. Knightshayes was one of the first to join the scheme on its inception, well before the Trust took on the house and its hugely significant gardens in 1972 and each year it...
Exeter City’s Football in the Community Trust is once again running a full programme of popular children’s football roadshows during the May half term, following the success of the Easter events which were attended by around 500 children from across the region.
There will be three different events in Exeter, plus courses in Dawlish, Exmouth, Sidmouth, Crediton, Tiverton, Seaton, Feniton, Okehampton, North Tawton and Barnstaple.
A two-day course on the astroturf at St Luke’s Science and Sports College kicks off half term, starting on Tuesday 28 May and costing £27 for the...
