The Crediton Parish Church Flower Festival has introduced some unusual visitors to the church in the last few years.
In 2016 a 1929 Austin car was part of the exhibits with flowers and last year a rhino became part of a flower display. More information, including photos and videos of previous Flower Festivals can be seen on the Flower Festival Facebook page www.facebook.com/creditonparishchurchfestivals .
Flowers will arrive this week from Covent Garden and from local flower producers in the Southwest, before being made into entertaining, colourful and creative floral...
When Devon artist Jennie Rhodes was asked to create a picture in aid of the Torbay Special Care Baby Unit and Exeter Neonatal Unit, little did she realise the units’ tiny tots would play a major part in her design, which raised an amazing £10,000 at a charity auction.
Jennie’s aim was to produce a picture that was not only unique but also relevant to the babies cared for at the units, so she enlisted the help of Vanessa Diamond, Ward Sister at Torbay Hospital’s Special Baby Care Unit.
With parents’ permission, Vanessa and her staff captured the babies’ tiny footprints in...
Budding photographer Patrick Dixon, from Exeter, is announced the regional winner of nationwide photography competition Patient Portraits: A New You and will be going on to represent the South West at the national phase of the competition.
The competition which is run by UK heart valve disease charity Heart Valve Voice and The Royal Photographic Society aims to raise awareness of heart valve disease; a growing health concern with approximately 1.5 million people over the age of 65 currently affected by the condition in the UK.
Patrick submitted 5 photographs depicting heart...
Employee-owned law firm Stephens Scown LLP has promoted four members of staff. Ellie Hibberd from the firm’s employment team has been promoted to partner, as has family law expert Sarah Walls. Two further promotions have been made in Stephens Scown’s intellectual property team, with Thomas Chartres-Moore becoming an associate and Charlotte Trussler promoted to team co-ordinator. Stephens Scown’s managing partner Robert Camp said: “Our clients often need our help at stressful times in their lives – they may be a business owner launching a new product, a manager handling a dispute with an...
The cost of funding one year’s specialist therapy for an 11-year-old with cerebral palsy has been met by a local housebuilder.
Persimmon Homes South West has made the donation to fund conductive therapy for Harriet Dunn from Exeter.
The £1,000 grant was made through its hugely successful Community Champions campaign.
Anna Dunn, Harriet’s mum, said: “Harriet has cerebral palsy and is partially sighted and has weekly conductive therapy sessions with her therapist Viktoria Pavlics.
“The therapy helps her with sitting unaided, standing and walking with sticks...
Devon’s international folk star Steve Knightley, of the award-winning roots-acoustic duo Show of Hands, experienced a strange coincidence at the media launch of the band’s upcoming performances at Exeter’s Wyvern Barracks.
Steve had recently discovered a family connection with the 6 Rifles battalion who are based at the Barracks – his grandfather Thomas Knightley had been in the Devonshire regiment, one of the Rifles’ forerunners, during the First World War.
But he was astonished when, during the media launch in the Officers’ Mess at Wyvern Barracks, the battalion’s...
Global thought leaders Like Minds return to Exeter this September for their annual flagship event, the Like Minds “Innovation & Ideas Festival”.
Run in collaboration with a number of regional and national businesses including the Environment Agency and the Cleaner Seas Project, the festival will run over two days from the 27th-28th September and will play host to over 16 high-profile guest speakers from across the globe.
The festival is an unmissable gathering for startups, entrepreneurs, business leaders and innovators. The theme of the event is the sharing of ideas,...
Exeter City is delighted to announce that St James Park will be hosting a World Cup Fanzone which features a giant screen in the stadium for a minimum of England’s three group matches and the World Cup final.
St James Park will be a hive of activity, with drinks promotions, music and then of course the big matches live from the IP Office Main Stand at St James Park.
Guarantee yourself a seat to watch the games with the best possible view of all the action whilst being part of the stadium atmosphere to cheer England on from the home of football in Exeter.
From the devastation of the Leningrad Blockade , 1941, came one of the most life-affirming pieces of music ever to be composed. Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony lifted an entire city in its darkest hour, instilling renewed faith in our capabilities as individuals, as well as the unifying spirit of a people as one. The Conductor is a concert-play: a story told, and woven within the music of the symphony itself. They watched the skies, waiting for anything to lift their hearts, and their prayers were answered in a moment that revealed the true dignity and power that art may serve....
