Exeter Phoenix and Blind Ditch are offering two £1,000 commissions to develop itinerant new work for new project Street LAB, a micro-festival of live art busking hitting the streets of the city during Art Week Exeter (13 – 21 May 2017).
The festival organisers are looking for entertaining and politically engaged concepts that bring audiences in public sites into lively encounters with contemporary live art practice with a musical twist. Street music is at the heart of historical debates around taste, place and disruption; often described as being democratic and open to anyone,...
Exeter businesses Slingshot Six Ltd, Wellity and Speedy Freight Exeter have made it to the final of Devon’s Fast Track to Growth Programme.
Fifteen companies across the county have been selected from over 60 entries to the free business support programme backed by Devon County Council, to help them develop their plans for growth in 2017. One, following a pitch event at Exeter Innovation Centre, will win £20,000 worth of on-going business support for the rest of the year.
The finalists include Exeter based Wi-Fi specialists Slingshot Six Ltd, fitness tracker social media...
The next generation of construction specialists studying at Exeter College had a behind-the-scenes tour of an innovative low energy building project.
Seventeen first-year students studying for their Construction and the Built Environment BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma visited the development next to Rennes House, Whipton, in Exeter. The project is being built on behalf of Exeter City Council.
Contractors C G Fry and Son Ltd and architects Gale & Snowden Architects gave a tour of the project and gave insights into its modern Passivhaus or ‘Passive House’ design and...
Exeter Airport has notched up its fourth successive year of growth in 2016 with passenger numbers up to 847,372.
Latest CAA figures show that 25,583 more passengers used Exeter last year, up 3% on the year before. The figures include the airport’s best August in eight years, when more than 100,000 people passed through the terminal.
But the strongest growth was in November and December, up 11% and 13% respectively on the back of new winter sun flights to Alicante and Malaga in Spain, which started at the end of October.
Deaf footballers in Exeter hoping to become coaches have been given a £1,000 boost to help pay for sign language interpreters.
Exeter City Football in the Community have a deaf football team known as Exeter City Knights who train weekly and play in monthly Ability Counts tournaments.
Some of the players are keen to become coaches but need support to take the FA courses.
Housebuilder Persimmon Homes South West has stepped in with a £1,000 donation to help pay for two sign language interpreters to translate alongside FA Tutors during the course.
Cranbrook Country Park is hosting a wildlife gardening session this Saturday morning, February 25.
The session will take place between 10am and 12pm; families are invited to take part in building homes for the wildlife in the area.
Children will have the opportunity to create bird feeders for their own gardens and build a safe environment for bees using a baked bean tin and bamboo.
There will also be the chance to help build a bug hotel which is made from leftover materials.
Cranbrook Country Park has already carried out three sessions so far this year....
Reed Hall, Exeter University was the perfect setting for Life Education Wessex's very first fundraising event in Devon to help raise funds to support health, wellbeing and drug prevention education for children in primary schools across the county.
The event was hosted by Travelling Trends who provided all the latest high street branded clothing at highly discounted prices. Miss Devon, Brianna Evans along with Eliza Tidball, Fran Rigby, Gail Russell, Zilla Harford and Juliette Dubieniec modelled the latest high street fashions including spring and summer collections for all shapes...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced it will open a new Foodhall in Exmouth on Wednesday 29 March at 10am.
The new store located on Royal Avenue, just a minute’s walk from Exmouth train station, will offer customers the very best of M&S’s innovative, high quality food and drink products. Customers at M&S Exmouth will be assisted by a team of 59 colleagues, the majority of whom have been newly recruited from the local area. The Foodhall will offer a variety of M&S’s everyday essentials, popular prepared meals, delicatessen foods, beers, wines and spirits. For...
An investigation has been launched to determine how the blaze started at Exeter’s Riverside Leisure centre yesterday.
Emergency services worked together to tackle the major incident.
At around 4.20pm on Tuesday 21 February, Devon and Somerset Fire Service (DSFS) alerted police to a major fire within Riverside Leisure Centre, near to the Exe Bridges junction. A number of emergency support vehicles including around 17 fire appliances attended the scene to deal with this incident.
A number of local roads were closed, including Exe Bridges and Alphington Road, to allow...
Devon’s multi-award winning family attraction, Crealy Adventure Park & Resort is recruiting for the busy spring and summer seasons with hundreds of opportunities available.
The recruitment drive comes alongside news that Crealy is investing further in the Park and Resort this year with the launch of new rides, attractions and leisure facilities planned. Josh Haywood, General Manager said: “2017 is set to be Crealy’s biggest and best year ever with two new rides being added to the theme park as well as a range of top class events taking place throughout the year. We continue to...
