COUNTRY music fans will be in for a treat when award-winning tribute acts to Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers perform in Tiverton.
Kelly O’Brien and Peter White, both winners at the National Tribute Awards in 2013, are bringing The Dolly and Kenny Show to Tiverton Golf Club on Saturday 14 May.
Tickets cost £12 and are now on sale to the public from the club bar.
The event will coincide with The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration at Windsor Castle from 12 to 15 May.
Kelly is an Australian-born singer, dancer, comedienne, actress and writer who has been...
Work to replace a safety barrier and road re-surfacing on the A396, north of Cove, Tiverton, will take 13 days longer than originally planned.
Following a review by contractors, it is predicted that the current full time road closure will remain in place until the 24th March 2016.
The reason for the delay is due to a short section of the river bank not being strong enough to support the proposed safety barrier (road restraint system).
Additional piles and a raft foundation have to be constructed and to do this the contractor must drill through very challenging...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (4-6 March 2016).
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Betrayal Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Emma is married to Robert. But for seven years, she’s been having an affair with Jerry, Robert’s best friend. Betrayal begins at the end of the affair, and pursues an enthralling journey to its very beginnings. As memory reels backwards towards the moment the affair started, the lies tangle into a web of deception. Is Emma betraying her husband? Is Jerry betraying his best friend? Or are they all betraying themselves. https...
A traffic calming scheme near a Tiverton school, which includes 20mph zones in Blundell’s Road and Blundell’s Avenue, has been backed by the county council’s ruling cabinet.
The estimated £1.1m scheme includes raised tables at the main junctions along Blundell’s Road and an additional raised table with a new puffin crossing along the front of Blundell’s School.
A new 20mph zone will also be introduced within the vicinity of the school extending south into Tidcombe Lane and carriageways along the front of the school, and at the sites of the other raised tables, will be...
Designs for a new play area at Knightshayes are to inject new life into four fallen trees which were the victim of some of the worst storm damage the National Trust estate has ever seen.
The designs, which include a tree house and tunnels bored into the trunks, will form a new natural play area looking to reintroduce risky play into a safe world.
For 150 years, the cluster of four oak trees towered over the gentle rolling Devon landscape at Knightshayes – until the high winds of in the winter of 2014 resulted in all four blowing down.
Three Year 12 pupils at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, will be representing the West at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Schools’ Analyst national final, having just won the regional heat.
The team of Yuli Lu, Francis Huntingford and Toby Whitehead finished first in the Western Region, ahead of schools such as Exeter, Cheltenham Ladies College and Bristol Grammar School. It’s the second successive year that a Blundell’s team has won this event, which is organised by the RSC Analytical Division for first year sixth form students studying chemistry.
An 85-year-old Tiverton man has been jailed for historic abuses against children.
Kenneth Tucker from Rackenford, near Tiverton, was jailed for 21 years and six months at Exeter Crown Court today (21st January) after being found guilty for a string of historic sexual abuses against children in the 1990s.
Following an eight day trial, Tucker was found guilty of four counts of rape and 17 counts of indecent assault on four separate victims who were children in the early 1990’s at place at his home address in Rackenford.
Knightshayes is undergoing some important, though rather unusual, conservation work this winter including the repairing of a tiger’s ears.
Traditionally, National Trust properties are closed during the winter, but the team at Knightshayes feel it’s the perfect time to witness conservation first hand and discover new items from the collection. Over the next few months visitors will get to see a different side to the gothic mansion as staff and volunteers set about deep cleaning the rooms and collection. Although the team work hard to take care of the estate all year round, the most...
Work to replace a safety barrier and road surfacing on the A396, north of Cove, Tiverton, will begin on Monday January 25 and last 16 weeks.
The works will seriously disrupt traffic travelling between West Somerset and Mid Devon.
Throughout this period a mixture of traffic management will be used including traffic signals with a convoy vehicle and road closures.
During periods the road will be closed to traffic entirely. During the times that the road is closed, traffic will be directed to a designated diversion route which will be towards Tiverton, via the A361,...
Police are appealing for witnesses to an attempted robbery in Tiverton.
On Wednesday 23 December 2015, at around 9.15pm, a 57-year-old local man was walking through the car park in the Market Walk and Pannier Market area of the town when he was approached by another man who demanded money.
Following an altercation the two separated and left the scene.
A 31-year-old man from Tiverton was arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery and released on police bail until 2 March 2016 pending further enquiries.
Officers are keen to speak to anyone who witnessed the...
