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Phonic FM’s Rugby Stories

Event Date: 
15/10/2015 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: 
Phonic FM: 106.8FM in Exeter + online at phonic.fm

Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.

Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/

In this programme, Encounter Theatre & Therapy (in association with CEDA) follows a group of people with learning disabilities as they participate in Exeter’s host city festivities.

For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories

Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories

Phonic FM’s Rugby Stories

Event Date: 
08/10/2015 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: 
Phonic FM: 106.8FM in Exeter + online at phonic.fm

Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.

Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/

In this programme, Chris Mockridge and Greg Newman follow a match day, from early morning until closing time, meeting the behind-the-scenes characters who make the event happen.

For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories

Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories

Phonic FM’s Rugby Stories

Event Date: 
05/10/2015 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: 
Phonic FM: 106.8FM in Exeter + online at phonic.fm

Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.

Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/

In this programme, Neil Rose explores anticipation and preparation, comparing the rituals that competitors and spectators undertake before an important game.

For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories

Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories

Phonic FM’s Rugby Stories

Event Date: 
28/09/2015 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: 
Phonic FM: 106.8FM in Exeter + online at phonic.fm

Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.

Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/

In this programme, Alice Armstrong and Shelley Hodgson lead you on a sonic journey from the moors into Exeter, exploring team spirit and personal achievement.

For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories

Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories

Schools take part in RWC team scarecrow competition

To celebrate Exeter’s Host City status in the Rugby World Cup, Princesshay has invited eight local schools from across Exeter and surrounding villages to take part in its Rugby Team Scarecrow competition.

Each school has been designated a team which is playing at Sandy Park in the Rugby World Cup, plus England, South Africa and Wales. Pupils have been set a challenge to use that team’s colours to fashion a bright and colourful decorative scarecrow to represent their chosen team.

Andy Littlejohns, operations manager at Princesshay said: “We wanted to become involved with the...

Exeter mum writes healthy kids' meals recipe book

Keziah Bell, 23, has written a recipe book to encourage healthy eating following news that a 5.5st child of three is the youngest person to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes

A single mum of one from Exeter has written a recipe book to help parents cook healthy meals for their children following news that a three-year-old weighing 5.5st was the youngster person to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Experts believe that an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise made the US toddler, who has not been named, to balloon to twice the normal weight of a child of that age.

Full...

Help add sparkle to Killerton's cider

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 09/26/2015 - 12:40pm

At Killerton, the National Trust estate near Exeter, the apple harvest is fast approaching. This year looks to be a bumper crop and the trees are heavy with fruit.

But now Killerton needs help to collect the fallen apples that make its award winning cider and apple juice and is inviting visitors to join the ‘Big Pick Up’ in Sparrow Park Orchard on the weekends of 3 and 4 or 10 and 11 October.

Armed with a trusty wheelbarrow, the volunteers will head into the orchard to collect their bounty. Andy Bramwell, Outdoor Visitor Services Officer, said: “Wheels will be spinning,...

Barbering training transforms lives of Exeter’s long-term unemployed

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 09/26/2015 - 11:41am

A group of long-term unemployed people from Exeter, who recently qualified as barbers and are setting out on their new careers, have described how the training enabled them to develop confidence and transform their lives.

The 19-week course is funded by Learn Devon – Devon County Council’s adult education service – and delivered by Hair @ the Academy, a salon at the Exeter Deaf Academy that offers hair and beauty training to disengaged adults and young people. The course is free to unemployed adults who are drawing benefits in their own right.

Natalie Hirst, who has started...

The Great Crediton Jam Night

Event Date: 
06/12/2015 - 7:00pm to 07/12/2015 - 12:00am
Venue: 
Buccaneers Bar, East Street, Crediton, EX4 3AZ

The Great Crediton Jam Night is Crediton's most successful Jam night, which happens on the first Sunday of the month. Just 15-20 minutes drive from Exeter. This is a well equipped open mic/jam night, with guitars, amps, drum kit, p.a., keyboard. All types of music welcome, be it, folk, jazz, rock, punk, metal, what ever floats your boat, we even get a bit of poetry! All levels of ability welcome in this relaxed atmosphere, a great way to try out stuff to an audience. We are all about live music, so if you're a singer, you will need to bring a musician with you unless you're...

The Great Crediton Jam Night

Event Date: 
01/11/2015 - 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Venue: 
Buccaneers Bar, East Street, Crediton, EX4 3AZ

The Great Crediton Jam Night is Crediton's most successful Jam night, which happens on the first Sunday of the month. Just 15-20 minutes drive from Exeter. This is a well equipped open mic/jam night, with guitars, amps, drum kit, p.a., keyboard. All types of music welcome, be it, folk, jazz, rock, punk, metal, what ever floats your boat, we even get a bit of poetry! All levels of ability welcome in this relaxed atmosphere, a great way to try out stuff to an audience. We are all about live music, so if you're a singer, you will need to bring a musician with you unless you're...

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