Another major lift is planned to take place at the South Devon Link Road site this weekend, as the next set of bridge beams are lifted into place.
On Thursday night (21 August) a large crane will begin to lift a series of steel bridge beams, measuring up to 30 metres long, into position at Hamelin Way, Torquay. This operation will take place over three nights with a fourth night, Sunday 24 August, being available as a contingency.
The beams, each weighing up to 40 tonnes, will form part of the construction of Torbay Ring Road Underbridge, Structure 34 and will span the...
The world's original and best One Direction tribute band come to Exmouth Pavilion on their 2014 theatre tour!
Traveling all over the UK, Europe, as far out as Dubai and having played to over 150,000 people, Only One Direction have secured themselves as the most popular band on the market.
Capturing the charisma, energy and enthusiasm of the famous five this show features songs from all 3 of One Direction's smash hit albums including What Makes You Beautiful, Story of My Life, Best Song Ever, Midnight Memories and many more.
2013-14 will see the Joe Loss Orchestra celebrating it's 80th anniversary and Todd Millers 40th year with the Orchestra.
The orchestra is now Britain's longest running live entertainment company of any kind.
TODD MILLER joined the Orchestra in 1972.His vocal prowess and versatility has received acclaim from many eminent professionals from within the music industry and most importantly, from audiences and fans around the world. He has performed at 2 Royal Weddings.
Many Royal Commands and Premieres, within the film and television industry
Devon will have featured in The Friends Life Tour of Britain more times than any other venue outside of London when it hosts Stage Five on Thursday 11 September.
The 2014 edition of Britain’s most prestigious race will be the eighth time that The Tour has ventured into the county and it will re-visit some of its most popular locations from previous editions of the race.
With less than a month to go, communities across the county are gearing up to cheer on some of the world’s best riders when Britain’s most prestigious cycle race returns to the county.
Exeter-based gig promoter Dave Meyland today said Exeter could punch above its weight after the successful visit of superstar rapper Snoop Dogg to the city.
The American performer played a sell-out show at Timepiece last week drawing fans from across the UK.
Dave (pictured left) said he had received dozens of messages of appreciation for pulling off the gig of a lifetime.
And as our exclusive back stage picture shows, one of Snoop's entourage, Kurupt from the Dogg Pound (second left) raised a toast to a successful night afterwards.
The National Theatre’s thrilling broadcast of Frankenstein returns to the Exeter Picturehouse for a limited time, due to unprecedented audience demand.
Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years a Slave, Star Trek into Darkness) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Mansfield Park) alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck...
Where to build the walls that protect us is an opportunity for us all to imagine a future city. Our city of Exeter. We’ll try not to get too distracted by Utopian visions or logistics. But, with one eye on the persistent fiscal crisis and the challenges of climate change, and the other on Hope, let’s look again at the fundamental fabric of our city and envisage it afresh.
Each day, we’ll pop up unexpectedly in a central Exeter location. Each day, one physical model of a possible future Exeter will evolve through seriously playful interactions between invited experts and Exeter’s...
A £9.1 million programme to restore some of the roads damaged during the wettest winter on record has been announced by Devon County Council.
The County Council has developed a programme of almost 400 repair schemes, using the Pothole Repair Funding that Devon received from central Government, to improve the surface or drainage resilience of more than 80 miles (129 km) of roads in the county.
This is in addition to repair work which started in Devon in June using the £7 million Severe Weather Recovery funding, in response to the damage caused over the winter months to the...
An online booking system has been introduced by the Sandy Park events team: www.sandypark.co.uk/book Designed to streamline the booking process for events held at the award-winning venue, the booking system allows clients to book onto events and pay instantly via credit or debit card. The system can be used to book onto the first networking event in the redeveloped Sandy Park, the b2b Business Breakfast on 19 September.
This event features guest speaker Jon Paul Hedge, who was recently appointed editor of the Exeter Express & Echo. Mr Hedge will be discussing ‘Disruption to...
Exeter's Unexpected 2014 Festival, running 29-31 Aug, brings some of the UK's most explosive street theatre and circus shows to the open-air streets, cultural venues and public spaces of Exeter in an extraordinary three days of family festival fun to end the summer holidays. Best of all, almost the entire programme is free and unticketed – meaning families can enjoy all the fun at their leisure, on what promises to be the most exciting Exeter weekend of the summer. Returning after Exeter City Council's huge success producing Unexpected 2013 - the Festival's stunning debut, this major 2014...
