Dunkeswell Parish Council been presented with a Queen's Birthday Youth Award from East Devon District Council in recognition of the support they have given to Dunkeswell Youth Club - In particular 'The Big Show' was supported by the council and through the hard work of Anne Barratt and her team the Youth of Dunkeswell put on a showcase of their talents.
The Judges praised the initiative of Dunkeswell Parish Council for supporting and sustaining a local youth club of over 100 members. The Youth Club has a lot of enthusiasm for performing arts and so as a celebration of the tenth...
Back by popular demand Topsham Rugby Club will be hosting their Car Boot Sale on the August Bank Holiday (Monday 29th August) from 9.30 am to 1 pm.
Public entrance is free, and sellers will be welcome to set up at 8 am with fees from £6 per car. The clubhouse will be open with hot food and drinks available.
For more details, visit www.topshamrugby.co.uk or call Bee Jenkins on 01392 873651.
A small safe has been stolen from St Mary’s Cottages, Exeter Street in Dawlish.
The burglary took place between 10am and 6pm on Thursday 9th June.
The burglar entered the property through a front groundfloor window, stealing the safe from inside.
The safe is a black ‘Sentry’ fireproof model, about the size of a home printer with a handle and a key lock on the front.
Police are keen to speak to anyone who saw anyone acting suspiciously in the area, and ask the public to be aware than the safe and its contents may have been dumped.
On Friday 24th June, Powderham Castle is inviting everyone to join in the National Cream Tea Day celebrations at the Castle.
Wholesome Devon cream teas will be served in abundance at the Courtenay Café, situated in the courtyard of Powderham Castle, with lashings of full-fat Langage Farm clotted cream and locally produced jam and tea.
The Castle will be open as usual and following a delicious cream tea, visitors can join a guided tour of the Castle and walk through the Castle grounds to burn off any extra calories.
Powderham has recently been included in Hudson’s ‘...
Activities at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) using the museum and its objects to boost people’s wellbeing were recognised with an award from Arts & Health South West, an umbrella group promoting and supporting arts activities to benefit people’s health.
Like RAMM, Arts & Health South West believes that the arts, creativity and the imagination are agents of wellness, helping keep the individual resilient, aiding recovery and fostering a flourishing society. RAMM’s wellbeing programme uses the museum collections to help people make the most of...
When Crediton-based Hedgerow Print installed a new order processing system back in 2013, they never imagined that barely three years later they would be processing the 10,000th order to go through that system.
“Our order processing system automatically numbers each order and we realised a few weeks ago that we were approaching the number 10,000 and thought it might be nice to mark that milestone,” said Gary Radford, Managing Director at the Company.
In order to mark the event, Hedgerow Print contacted all their customers and contacts to let them know of the plan to award a...
1,000 Office workers from Exeter have recently taken part in an EU referendum survey and the city was named as the most pro-brexit city on the list.
Office search engine FreeOfficeFinder asked 10,000 office workers across the country whether they wish to leave the EU, remain in the EU or whether they were unsure about it . The participants were from ten different UK cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leicester, Bristol and Exeter) and the results varied massively between different locations.
Award-winning West End producer Paul Taylor-Mills will be raising the curtain on his hugely popular Summer Play Festival at Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre on Thursday (June 23) with a three-month run of productions featuring works from iconic playwrights including Coward, Wilde and Ayckbourn.
Theatregoers are in for a real treat this year with an amazing programme of 12 plays in as many weeks, which include such classics as The Ladykillers, Pygmalion, One Man, Two Guv’nors and Private Lives.
The town is bucking a national trend as the Manor Pavilion Theatre – owned and...
Exeter City Football Club will be remembering four former players who died during the Battle of the Somme at a special ceremony to be held at their St James Park war memorial.
The memorial service, in partnership with the Royal British Legion, will take place at 2pm on Friday 1 July. This is the exact centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. That day alone saw 57,470 British casualties including 19,240 who were killed. Two Exeter City players - Fred Bailey and Evelyn Lintott died on this first day and two others Arthur Evans and Percy Worner during the rest of the...
Police are appealing for information after a large quantity of sentimental jewellery was stolen from a property in Dawlish.
Several gold and silver rings, necklaces, bracelets and anklets, similar to the items pictured, were taken during the burglary at a property in Badlake Hill on Wednesday 15 June, sometime between 8.10am and 7.20pm.
A sapphire and diamond gold eternity ring, a ruby and diamond gold ring, a silver necklace with a green Chinese letter pendant and a Rotary gents’ chronograph watch were among the items taken.
