It’s only been nine months since Holiday On Ice was last at Westpoint with Robin Cousins‘ excellent Tropicana , but given the reception the latest spectacular, Speed , received last night, it has lost none of its appeal for Exeter audiences.
Much has been made in pre-publicity about the use of motorbikes in the show, so we went expecting a full-on evening of leather and two-stroke oil on ice - what we got was something completely different.
Speed is merely a premise around which the show is choreographed: each half has five distinctly separate pieces - Speed of Love,...
An Event Exeter venue, The Forum at the University of Exeter, will tonight host BBC Children in Need in the South West.
Starting at 1.30pm, there will be live feature broadcasts by the BBC Spotlight team on BBC1 as well as live links to the national TV network programme throughout the evening.
Opened by Her Majesty The Queen in May this year, the Forum is the newest venue in Event Exeter’s portfolio and boasts state-of-the-art technology and a range of attractive spaces suitable for any event.
Sarah Snow, Assistant Director for Campus Services (Sales & Events),...
The Met Office and PA Consulting Group last night scooped two awards at the prestigious UK IT Industry Awards - ‘Best use of cloud services’ and ‘IT project demonstrating most effective use of collaborative technology’ - for the Met Office’s Weather Observation Website (WOW).
The winning project, developed by the Met Office with teams at PA Consulting Group and Google, used the Google App Engine to build and host web applications exploiting cloud and collaborative technologies. This allowed the Met Office to launch the WOW service with zero up front infrastructure costs,...
Police in Exeter are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 50 year old woman who has not been seen since Wednesday 8th November.
The woman, known as Karen Woodger went missing from her home address in the Magdalen Road area.
Karen is described as white, five feet two inches tall, of slim build with short straight, collar-length hair which has been dyed a reddish brown and is greying. She has a mole on the left side of her neck and a scar on an ear lobe. It is not known what clothing she was wearing.
How about getting a loved one an early Christmas present which money normally can't buy? Hospiscare is running a silent auction of a pair of tickets for one of the semi-finals of X Factor Live, which is being held in London on 2nd December.
The auction prize also includes watching the results show, 15 mins of the Xtra Factor and access to the backstage bar area afterwards.
To be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize, send a pledge for your highest bid along with your full name and address, daytime contact number and payment method to fundraising@hospiscare.co.uk...
The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance has increased slightly by 195 claimants.
Between September and October claimants went up from 9,010 to 9,205. Despite this, the rate of the working age population claiming this out of work benefit remains at 2%. This bucks the UK trend, which has seen a slight decrease of 0.4% over the same period.
However more positively, for the third consecutive month the number of people claiming JSA is lower than a year earlier.
This follows the trend seen nationally although the yearly drop has occurred at...
This year’s Christmas show at Exeter Northcott looks set to be a winner with children and grown-ups alike.
Tall Stories, creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom , bring their latest production, The Snail and the Whale , to the theatre for a festive run on 12-30 December.
This charming play of bravery tells the story of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale. What an adventure the pair embark upon, as they journey together across the seas.
Staff at Exeter based Integrity (Europe) Ltd, were thrilled to learn that one of its clients, Oreck, cleaned up at the 2012 House Beautiful awards with the gold medal for Best Cleaning Product being awarded to its XL Graphite upright vacuum.
One of the newest models in Oreck’s renowned upright collection, the XL Graphite swept away stiff competition to win the award. Extremely light at 4.15kg, it is less than half the weight of most uprights. Using only 350 watts of power, significantly less than the standard 1,400 – 2,000 watts, XL Graphite is eco-friendly as well as cost...
Exeter Farmers’ Market has been given a silver award in this year’s South West Flavour Awards organised by Taste of the West.
The market, which is organised by Exeter City Council, takes place every Thursday at the junction of Fore Street and South Street and opens for business from 9am until 2pm. Produce offered for sale includes meat, poultry, fish, organic vegetables, bread, cheese and eggs.
The judges praised the excellent service offered by the stallholders and were impressed by the atmosphere at the market.
The managing director from one of the South West’s leading housebuilders says he’s pleased with the performance of the business and believes it’s firmly on track to meet end of year expectations.
Simon Perks, managing director for Exeter-based Persimmon Homes South West says the autumn selling season has seen visitor rates rise six per cent ahead of this time last year and weekly private sales rates rise four per cent.
Speaking as Persimmon plc releases its Interim Management Statement which covers the period from 1 July 2012 to 12 November 2012, Simon said: “House buyers...
