Chagstock Festival has been nominated for 'Best Small Festival' at the prestigious FestivalKidz awards.
The awards honour the very best family and child-friendly festivals out of the thousands taking place across the UK every year.
Attendees who enjoyed this year's Chagstock Festival are heartily encouraged to cast their vote at http://www.festivalkidz.com/blog/festival-kidz-awards-2015 .
Chagstock festival organiser Si Ford says: "We are delighted that the hard work of all our staff and volunteers has been highlighted with this shortlisting for a national festival...
Following on from a very successful event in August, local brain injury charity Headway Devon are looking forward to a Christmassy Coffee & Crafts by the Quay event this Saturday.
Taking place at the XCentre on Commercial Road on Saturday 7th November from 10am-4pm, this coffee and crafts event is the perfect place to get ahead on the Christmas shopping and discover some unique gifts!
With lots of local craft stalls to browse selling a huge range of beautiful items there should be something to suit all tastes and budgets.
Figures from the Department for Transport reveal that out of all the highways in the county, rural roads carry the highest number of fatalities - with 83 per cent of the 23 deaths in 2014 occurring on Devon's rural network.
Last year there were 1,668 casualties on Devon’s rural roads - 19 of who lost their lives.
A rural road could be any class of road away from main areas of population that may join towns and villages – but often not the road that runs through them.
Although rural roads include the county's extensive network of narrow country lanes, most rural road...
Suppliers and customers noticed something different about the AnTech team last Friday as they wore pink to support ‘Wear It Pink’ Day, a national campaign to raise funds for Breast Cancer Now.
As well as wearing a whole spectrum of pink shades, the AnTech team also held a pink raffle with local companies’ kindly donating prizes, children’s toys and a homemade Mary Berry’s White Chocolate Cheesecake to take home – who could resist?
AnTech’s team of keen bakers also took to their kitchens and created fabulous pink sweet treats including cheesecakes and cupcakes to sell on the...
A leading Exeter law firm has performed strongly in a national independent guide to the legal profession, Chambers 2016, with a number of teams and individual lawyers achieving band 1 status. Stephens Scown LLP achieved band 1 rankings in the Exeter region for family law and corporate M&A. It also saw its private client ranking rise from band 3 to band 2. The firm’s “fantastic” family law team, widely regarded as the best in Devon and Cornwall, has retained its number one status, and once again partner Liz Allen, based in Exeter, has been placed in the individual band 1 rankings. The...
Meridian RAW CIC, the Exeter-based social enterprise, has announced an exhibition at the Exeter Picturehouse to celebrate the culmination of their community project in central Exeter.
This diverse exhibition is part of the Our Lives, Our Community, Our Voice project which was a two-year community project in Exeter and used photography as a means of engagement and empowerment. The project was managed by the Olive Tree Association/Devon Grapevine in partnership with Meridian Raw and has been generously funded by the People’s Health Trust.
Meridian RAW CIC, the Exeter-based social enterprise, has announced an exhibition at the Exeter Picturehouse to celebrate the culmination of their community project in central Exeter.
This diverse exhibition is part of the Our Lives, Our Community, Our Voice project which was a two-year community project in Exeter and used photography as a means of engagement and empowerment. The project was managed by the Olive Tree Association/Devon Grapevine in partnership with Meridian Raw and has been generously funded by the People’s Health Trust.
A new exhibition at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) will appeal to visitors with an interest in art, science and both.
Starting on Saturday 21 November, Whatever the Weather exposes humanity’s relationship to the elements.
Constantly changeable, occasionally extreme and always unpredictable, the weather has always affected our lives. Our desire to understand, predict and control the weather has led us to invoke the gods and harness science and Whatever the Weather brings together a lively mix of historical paintings and prints, artefacts,...
A new exhibition at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) will appeal to visitors with an interest in art, science and both.
Starting on Saturday 21 November, Whatever the Weather exposes humanity’s relationship to the elements.
Constantly changeable, occasionally extreme and always unpredictable, the weather has always affected our lives. Our desire to understand, predict and control the weather has led us to invoke the gods and harness science and Whatever the Weather brings together a lively mix of historical paintings and prints, artefacts,...
One of the world’s most pioneering and influential developmental geneticists has been appointed as the inaugural Director of the University of Exeter’s Living Systems Institute.
Professor Philip Ingham FRS will join the University to take up the pivotal post at the LSI, a £52 million world-class, next generation collaborative research community.
Prof Ingham is currently Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor and Vice-Dean for Research at the Lee Kong Chain School of Medicine, a partnership between Imperial College, London and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore A...
