Devon is to receive nearly £7 million in Government funding to repair roads damaged by the winter storms, the Transport Secretary has confirmed today. The funding comes after Devon County Council reported last month that at least 11,500 potholes had been reported on Devon’s roads in January and February alone. The number of potholes reported on Devon’s 8,000 Mile road network is unprecedented and significantly higher than a normal winter which typically only sees around 2,000 potholes across a whole season. Confirming the funding earlier today, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said...
The Devon County Show has rolled out a brand new mobile website designed to be used on all smartphones and small tablet devices.
The new site, available to view at the usual web address - www.devoncountyshow.co.uk - helps visitors using handheld devices to get the most out of their day at the Show on May 22-24 at Westpoint, Exeter.
Show Secretary Ollie Allen said demand from users of mobiles and tablets is growing rapidly: “Visits to our website from mobile devices increased by 85 per cent over the last year and numbers are set to increase dramatically again this year....
Manic Chord Theatre's production of 'After What Comes Before' at the Bike Shed Theatre last Monday (17th March), was a real treat for the senses, leaving the audience in fits of laughter from start to finish.
The story follows a Neuroscientist, Psychologist and Physicist as they try to create a machine which can extract thoughts. Highly energetic and playful, the company submerged the audience in a mad world of Quantum partying, flying cashew nuts and absurd game play. Surprising twists in the tale kept our attention firmly on the three confident young men on stage as they took us...
Chagfarm, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, has nine days left of its 8-week Crowdfunder campaign to raise the much-needed £5,300 and secure the farm’s future.
With £9,700 already raised via 136 backers from the philanthropic Crowdfunder community, the Farm Directors have stepped up their campaign and introduced a new prize draw for all pledgers to encourage last minute donations, including an Ashburton Cookery School voucher and a meal for two including wine at Parke Café in Bovey Tracey. In exchange for donations starting at £5, there are a wide-variety of rewards up...
Inspired by courageous protesters who risk everything for what they believe in, three women decided to take action. These women resolve to stop their ineffectual moaning and complaining and to find playful ways to stand up for what they believe in. Playful Acts of Rebellion questions what makes something worth the fight, what effect can an individual have? and how does trying to change the world end up changing us?
Charting the performers journeys, from unusual concepts to moments of desperation, despair and human triumph, Playful Acts of Rebellion uses exciting visual storytelling...
Fish are one of our great natural resources, and one we must care for and treat properly, rather than constrain with legislation and abuse through overfishing and carelessness. Half a Cod a Day, is a fun new agitprop theatre piece that demonstrates the need for change - it's a call to action individually and globally. Parrabbola make theatre that tells the stories of communities and which allows the people of that community to have a voice - to be heard.
This play has been made with the stories and histories of the fishermen of the Hastings Fishing Fleet - fishing is an important...
“Matilda is my Grandma. She migrated from Jamaica to England in 1962. Now all of her memories have faded. I need to remember for her, for me, for us”
A woman makes a decision that will change the course of her family’s future. Five decades later this performance considers the eminence and consequence of that choice voiced through the third generation granddaughter who is speaking from both perspectives of herself and Matilda.
Reflecting on the history of the two islands, Great Britain and Jamaica, the storyteller is faced with contradictions in her in-betweeness as she...
"Art is a cupboard! We are not cakes!" Kharms Award winning Clout Theatre invite you to dive head first into the absurd world of the Russian poet, iconoclast and false moustache wearer Daniil Kharms. Three bouffonesque characters intent on telling ‘The Old Woman’ story let narrative escape them as comic vignettes, metaphysical ponderings and bouts of senseless violence provide constant distraction. Expressionist silent film meets grotesque slapstick in a world where clocks have no hands and a cucumber can kill a man.
When all is quiet on the farm, when everyone is asleep, when the snow coversthe ground and stars twinkle in the frosty sky -that’s when Tomten wakes up. He looks after everyone on the farm while they are sleeping.
No-one has ever seen the Tomten, but sometimes you can see his footprints in the snow.That’s how you know he is real.
Tomten has seen generations come, and generations go. But where do they come from, and where do they go? A deep riddle plays on Tomten’s mind…
One thing he knows for sure is that spring is coming; soon cows will be grazing in the fields and...
How do we express our spleen? Whose business do we stick our noses into? When did we start wearing our hearts on our sleeves, and why are we up to our elbows in heels and bums? BBC R4 Slam Champion Ben Mellor takes you on a stand-up poetry and music fuelled tour around the body, attempting to get the measure of modern life. With sounds, beats, beeps and whistles by Dan Steele.
Anthropoetry is inspired by anthropometry, the study of measuring the human body. Informed by science, politics, comedy and hip hop, combined with searing social and political commentary and some personal...
