A Devon-based company is on course for a record-breaking year with hundreds of students heading to Devon in the coming weeks.
As the World Cup reaches the next exciting stages, The Training Partnership Limited (TTPL) is welcoming over a hundred students and graduates from Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and close to 300 arrivals in total by the end of July.
More companies in Devon are partnering with TTPL to provide work placement opportunities, and more host families are needed to offer accommodation in Exeter, Torbay and across South Devon.
Alice crawls through the mirror into a looking glass world where she has to outwit Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and gets the rough end of Humpty Dumpty’s tongue on her journey to become Queen.
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Lewis Carroll’s classic sequel to Alice in Wonderland gets an imaginative treatment in this adaptation by Katherine Kingsford.
Performance Dates: Cygnet Theatre June 28th & 3rd July 7.00pm 12th July 2.00pm
Poltimore House (Open Air) July 18th 7.oopm July 19th 3.00pm
The Cygnet Company with guests in a new production of one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies. The world order is turned upside down: servants dress up as their masters, and men as women. Amid such confusions, what happens to Love and Fancy? Wit changes place with Folly, as Malvolio, Lady Olivia’s puritanical steward, gets ideas above his station, donning ‘yellow stockings, cross-gartered‘ and shipwreck brings handsome twins to shore …
Jacquie Crago, actor, director and RSC voice coach, is currently resident voice and dialect coach on the National...
The Magdalen Chapter is delighted to announce it has been nominated as a finalist in The Food & Travel Magazine Readers Awards 2014.
For the second year running, the Exeter hotel is one of five finalists in the City Hotel of the Year category. The hotel is defending its title, having last year been crowned the winning establishment in this category.
The Magdalen Chapter is one of only two properties outside of London to be nominated in this prestigious category. Other properties nominated include The Berkeley in London, Charlotte Street Hotel in London, Mandarin...
Chief Executive of local adoption charity Families for Children Caroline Davis will receive her OBE from Queen at Buckingham Palace today (Friday).
Caroline was awarded the honour in the New Year for her services to children and families in the south-west.
Caroline has been Chief Executive of Families for Children Adoption Agency based in Buckfastleigh for 22 years and during that time has helped to place over 500 children for adoption.
Caroline said “I was very excited to receive my OBE today. It comes at a very exciting time for Families for Children as we are...
Communities say they are keen to work with Devon County Council to ensure their library service continues.
Towns and villages, which had feared a potential loss of their library services due to budget cuts, are saying that alternative solutions are achievable if people put their minds to it.
So far, more than two out of every three of the 2,500 people (67.7 per cent) responding to the council’s consultation agree with the proposals for their local library.
More than eight out of every 10 respondees agree that sharing library space with multiple services – the...
How can you have a big belly and yet reduce the pounds? The answer is when the Big Belly is a brand of litter bin like the ones being installed at resorts along East Devon’s coastline.
East Devon District Council has invested in a five-year lease for a total of 21 new Big Belly brand litter bins. These have a number of benefits – one being that they largely pay for themselves.
The costs of the lease agreement will be offset by savings on agency and staff overtime due to a significant reduction in the number of times the bins need to be emptied and by greater operational...
Ashfords LLP, a leading UK law firm, is holding a Summer Fun Day at Tedburn St Mary School in Exeter to raise money for Children's Hospice South West.
The Summer Fun Day is set to burst with fun-filled stalls to make for an entertaining and enjoyable charity fete.
There will be a number of different stalls located around the school grounds, including Beat the Keeper, Treasure Island, and Higher or Lower. Some more traditional, classic games will also be making an appearance, such as a Tombola, a Coconut Shy and, of course, a Bouncy Castle!
The bathing water at Budleigh Salterton beach is at risk of failing tough new standards for water quality, the Environment Agency has warned.
The Environment Agency, East Devon District Council, local business leaders and interest groups are meeting later today (June 23) to discuss how to meet the challenge of improving water quality at Budleigh Salterton.
From 2015 much more stringent water quality targets come into force under the revised Bathing Water Directive. The Environment Agency is concentrating on tackling sources of pollution before the targets come into force...
If you've been casting off your clothes to enjoy the wall to wall sunshine and scorching temperatures over the past week, you may want to revisit your wardrobe.
For the forecast published by the Met Office up until Saturday shows a change is on the way.
Whilst the beginning of the week saw temperatures of up to 24C, by the weekend we will be dodging heavy showers and even possible thunder storms.
The Met Office says today (Wednesday) will be the turning point. Although the weather is still forecast to be dry with sunny spells, a drop in temperature is expected....
