Torquay

Totally TINA

Event Date: 
20/02/2016 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Princess Theatre, Torquay

Having headlined the 2015 Glastonbudget Festival last year (the biggest tribute festival of the year), Totally TINA comes to TORQUAY – Princess Theatre on Saturday 20th February 2016!

Totally TINA is an award-winning tribute to the Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner, being given the “Official UK number one” honour by the Agents Association of Great Britain.

Currently touring the UK theatres in a full production version with live band, dancers and our leading lady Justine Riddoch. Rather than being a biography, this show focuses on Tina's live concert career, replicating...

Police concerned for missing Kaya Kelly

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 01/20/2016 - 4:07pm

Police are concerned for the welfare of a 20-year-old woman who has gone missing in Devon and may be in Bristol.

Kaya Kelly was reported missing at 9.15pm on Thursday 7 January from Torbay District Hospital in Torquay.

She was last seen at Bristol Temple Meads train station at 11.30am on Monday 11 January.

A woman, believed to be Kaya, was seen later that day in the Corn Street and Wine Street area of Bristol, heading towards Union Street and the central Broadmead area.

Kaya is described as slim, 5ft 6ins in height, with dark shoulder-length hair which can...

Have you seen missing Kaya Kelly?

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 01/12/2016 - 9:39am

Police are concerned for the welfare of 20-year-old Kaya Kelly, who is missing from the Haytor Unit, Torbay District Hospital, Torquay, Devon.

Kaya is described as slim with shoulder length dark brown which can be tied in a pony tail. Last seen wearing a white fluffy top with bits of red, black jeans, white pumps and carrying a handbag.

She went missing on the 7th January 2016 and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. She has links to Torbay, Newton Abbot, Exeter and Surrey.

Anyone with information should contact police on 999, quoting police log 710 for the 7th of...

Totally Tina plays Torquay

Having headlined the 2015 Glastonbudget Festival last year (the biggest tribute festival of the year), Totally Tina comes to TORQUAY – Princess Theatre on Saturday 20th February 2016! Totally TINA is an award-winning tribute to the Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner, being given the “Official UK number one” honour by the Agents Association of Great Britain. Currently touring the UK theatres in a full production version with live band, dancers and our leading lady Justine Riddoch. Rather than being a biography, this show focuses on Tina's live concert career, replicating scenes from...

Did you witness Torquay seafront crash?

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 11/23/2015 - 5:40am

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman and child were seriously injured following a road traffic collision in Torquay at the weekend.

The collision happened shortly before 1.20pm on Sunday 22 November 2015 near the junction of Torbay Road and Sea Way Lane.

A group of five pedestrians, two adults and three children, were walking along Torbay Road when a silver Daihatsu Sirion mounted the pavement and collided with a six-year-old girl and her 35-year-old mother.

The silver Daihatsu, heading in the Paignton direction, also collided with a Ford Focus that was...

Visitors to People Fair impresses employers

Twenty-nine people are a step closer to entering the workplace thanks to a People Fair held by Prospects, the education, employment and skills company, and Westward Pathfinder on 17 September in Torquay.

The People Fair concept was developed by Prospects to bring together employers with jobseekers on the Work Programme. Prospects is a prime contractor for the Work Programme in the South West supporting people who are furthest from the job market and have been long term unemployed. At the People Fair, unlike at a traditional job fair, employers directly approach invited jobseekers...

Devon artists stage exhibition in Germany

Authored by PatHarrison
Posted: Wed, 07/29/2015 - 11:14am

Artists from Devon have been invited to exhibit their works in Essen, once a centre of the German mining and steel industry.

They will be presenting paintings of the beautiful landscapes of Devon and Cornwall. The German people are particularly interested in this part of the United Kingdom since more than a hundred of Rosamunde Pilcher's novels have been adapted for television by a high ranking German TV station, earning the German producer and Rosamunde Pilcher the British Tourism Award in 2002.

The paintings will be interpreting the colours and structures of the...

Dawlish businesses join Riviera Line campaign

Thirty Dawlish businesses have joined the campaign ‘Get here on the Riviera Line’ launched by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership’s Citizens’ Rail project. Window stickers encourage visitors to shops and cafes to travel there by the train on the line which runs from Exeter to Torbay through Dawlish.

David Force, Chairman of Dawlish Chamber of Trade, said, “The Dawlish Chamber of Trade is proud to be associated with this positive initiative. Dawlish shops and businesses are ready and prepared for a bumper summer season and welcome the support from the Citizens’ Rail Project in...

TTPL joins forces with Globe English Centre

An Exeter language school has teamed up with a Torbay-based work placement company to forge a new partnership set to bring business benefits to both.

The Globe English Centre, based at St David’s Hill in Exeter, provides English classes to people who want to learn it as their second language. The Training Partnership (TTPL) works with hundreds of Devon firms to provide placements in different sectors for trainees from across Europe and beyond.

The new partnership will see TTPL offer Globe’s teaching programmes to complement its own teaching packages and work placements,...

Challaborough fun day with the emergency services

Authored by Lucy
Posted: Tue, 07/28/2015 - 4:43am

Children will have the chance to clamber on fire engines, get locked inside a police car and inspect an ambulance and first responder vehicle at an Emergency Services Blue Light Day, which takes place at Challaborough Bay Holiday Park on Saturday August 8th.

The event is free to attend and takes place between 10am and 4pm and is being held to heighten awareness of Devon’s emergency services.

Organiser Pete Watts, Watch Manager from Modbury fire station, said: “It’s a really fantastic opportunity for families to come along and find out all about the emergency services and...

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