Exeter

Gordon Buchanan

Event Date: 
16/03/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter

Join Gordon Buchanan, the highly acclaimed wildlife cameraman and presenter of 'The Bear Family and Me' and 'The Polar Bear Family and Me' as he hosts an evening of exciting personal recollections, and lets you into his world of weird, wild and wonderful wildlife.

Listen to his adventures, as he leads you through his life of challenging expeditions and the enthralling wildlife experiences of a man who has encountered danger face to face.

Price & Booking

£18/£14 conc.

7.30pm (doors 6.45)

Box office: 01392 665938

http://www.exeter.gov.uk/...

Radio Clash + from the Specials Neville Staple and his Band

Event Date: 
15/03/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter

In1978 John Hessenthaler against all local authority opposition, promoted THE CLASH on tour at various locations throughout the UK. The support was The Coventry Automatics in the process at that point of changing to The Coventry Specials, later to become known as just THE SPECIALS.

In 2015, almost 37 years later, John Hessenthaler will re-create the 1978 concert at selected locations throughout the UK. RADIO CLASH will recreate THE CLASH in sound and vision together with the set list they performed in 1978 and also on the same night exclusively from THE SPECIAL'S, NEVILLE STAPLE...

Vienna Festival Ballet's 35th Anniversary Gala

Event Date: 
13/03/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter

Vienna Festival Ballet celebrate 35 years with their 35th Anniversary Gala. We are proud to present highlights from the world's most beloved Tchaikovsky ballets which have featured in our repertoire over the past 35 years.

Highlights will include the moment when the Swan Queen meets her prince in Act 2 Swan Lake, the Dance of the Cygnets, Clara's journey to a glittering land of snow in The Nutcracker, and the famous Rose Adagio from Sleeping Beauty, where Princess Aurora is introduced to four princes.

Vienna Festival Ballet's reflection on 35 years of performing classical...

Down to Earth: An Evening with Monty Don ** Sold Out **

Event Date: 
08/03/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter

Monty Don is a renowned gardening writer and BBC television presenter and the nation's favourite and most respected gardener.

Hear him speak about his life and travels visiting gardens all over the world, what really happens behind the scenes when filming, about how he made his own organic garden from a bare field and how understanding and working with nature enriches and empowers us all.

Monty's TV credits include Gardeners' World, Chelsea Flower Show, Real Gardens, Lost Gardens, Fork to Fork, Growing Out of trouble, Around The World In 80 Gardens, My Dream Farm and...

National Portrait Gallery chooses WiFi SPARK for upgrade

The world-renowned National Portrait Gallery in London has upgraded its public WiFi system to allow visitors easy speedy access, with the help of Devon-based WiFi SPARK.

WiFi SPARK, which has provided the SPARK® managed service, is a major player in the competitive market of public access WiFi. The National Portrait Gallery has just gone live with the new free access system, which will allow visitors to log in by simply entering a few details about themselves.

Visitors also have a choice to opt in to receive the gallery’s enewsletter. Future login options using Facebook or...

Bicton Arena to stage Devon's first international horse trials

Bicton Arena is readying itself for Devon’s first ever international horse trials, which take place on April 24-26.

Sponsored by Worcestershire-based Empire Coachbuilders, a well-known horsebox manufacturer, the trials are expected to attract a plethora of stars from the sport of eventing, including some of the world’s most famous names. Arena manager Helen West played an instrumental part in persuading the sport’s governing bodies, which include British Eventing and the FEI, that the Westcountry needed an event of this caliber. She said: “It’s fantastic for Devon to have such a...

Two dead in crash on A377

Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal crash on the A377 near Crediton.

Emergency services attended a reported serious road traffic collision on the A377 at Nymet Cross near Lapford just after noon yesterday (Tuesday 17 February).

The collision involved a single vehicle, a Subaru Legacy which was travelling on the A377 from the Eggesford direction towards Lapford, when it left the road, impacting with a culvert wall and telegraph pole before hitting a tree.

The two male occupants of the Subaru were pronounced deceased at the scene by paramedics.

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Awards success for Exeter hotel

The Magdalen Chapter is thrilled to announce it has been named Bronze Large Hotel of the Year. The announcement was made at a glamorous award ceremony held at the Great Hall of the Grand Pier at Weston Super Mare on Thursday 12 February.

Fiona Moores, General Manager of The Magdalen Chapter, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to have accepted this award. To win bronze for large hotel of the year within the South West is a fantastic accolade, especially with the high level of entries and outstanding calibre of entrants. We are incredibly proud of our team and this achievement!”...

Satellite images reveal ocean acidification

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/17/2015 - 10:32am

Pioneering techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionise the way that marine biologists and climate scientists study the ocean. This new approach, that will be published tomorrow (17 February 2015) in the journal Environmental

Science and Technology, offers remote monitoring of large swathes of inaccessible ocean from satellites that orbit the Earth some 700 km above our heads.

Each year more than a quarter of global CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and cement production are taken up by the Earth’s oceans. This process turns...

River Cottage and Young Devon launch new café

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/17/2015 - 10:24am

Young Devon and River Cottage are teaming up to launch an exciting community project in Newton Abbot.

Under the advice and guidance of River Cottage’s consultancy arm, Young Devon will open a café serving delicious food – made and served by young trainees. Young Devon’s Change Academy in Newton Abbot is undergoing a month of refurbishment, ready for the official launch on 25th March 2015.

River Cottage’s team of chefs will also be working hard to devise a mouth-watering new menu, showcasing tasty dishes of simple, seasonal and locally sourced produce. Led by Chief Executive...

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