River Cottage's Spring Food Fair is a real family occasion and is packed full of activities and family fun – from chef demos, artisan food stalls, kids’ workshops, talks and live music to garden and foraging tours from River Cottage foraging guru John Wright.
There is an exciting line-up of chefs confirmed who will be taking to the main stage and sharing their culinary tips, including Gill Meller, Signe Johansen, Tom Hunt, Mark Hix, Naomi Devlin and Rachel De Thample to name a few.
New for 2017: the Garden Stage will feature experts on a huge variety of topics related to...
The Exeter Foundation is launching its first Devon Sporting Legacy Project Grant to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Devon Sports Awards.
The Foundation, which is the official charity of the Exeter Chiefs, is making £20,000 available to match fund an existing organisation’s project fund to assist them with the achievement and completion of their sporting legacy project.
The funds will be available for a Devon-based project, which will help enhance the local area and community.
Chairman of the Exeter Foundation, Tony Rowe OBE, said: “We have generated this...
Last week the South West Apprenticeship Ambassador Network and Exeter College hosted the Apprenticeship Expo 2017 for a successful third year.
The Apprenticeship Expo is the largest event of its kind in the South West during National Apprenticeship Week. The college’s Sports Hall was transformed into a 1,000 square metre exhibition space resulting in a record number of attendees.
National Apprenticeship Week, which is co-ordinated by the National Apprenticeship Service, is designed to celebrate Apprenticeships and the positive impact they have on individuals, businesses and...
The UK construction industry could lose almost 200,000 EU workers post-Brexit should Britain lose access to the single market, putting some of the country’s biggest infrastructure and construction projects under threat, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has revealed.
RICS has cautioned that for Brexit to succeed, it is essential to secure continued access to the EU Single Market or to put alternative plans in place to safeguard the future of the property and construction sectors in the UK.
Latest RICS figures show that eight per cent of the UK’s...
Volunteers and Countryside rangers welcome nesting kestrels to Seaton's local nature reserve
In the spirit of spring cleaning, the East Devon District Council Countryside team, with the support of three volunteers, has replaced a kestrel box at Seaton Wetlands. Seaton Wetlands is a popular breeding ground for kestrels and has several boxes located across the reserve. These boxes are mounted high on poles and are therefore challenging to check, clean and repair. Site Manager for Seaton Wetlands, James Chubb said: "Each year checking the kestrel boxes is a tough task, so I set out to...
Cinderella, one of the best-known rags-to-riches fairy tales of all time will be brought to life by the Vienna Festival Ballet when they return to Exeter Corn Exchange this month.
A mistreated young girl, a glass slipper, two comical ugly step-sisters and a handsome prince combine to make the perfect piece of story-telling.
Based on the traditional story, this ballet will surely touch and reach out to everyone’s heart, with its combination of pure classical dancing and a touch of pantomime.
The music contains a collection of Rossini’s most famous operatic...
Devon County Show’s appeal for hand-made poppies has reached its 11,000 target more than two months early thanks to the support of creative, local people.
The appeal was launched in October with a target of collecting the red poppies in time for this year’s Show on May 18-20 at Westpoint, Exeter.
‘Devon Remembers’ will be a tribute staged at the Show to the men and women from the county who lost their lives in the First World War.
The hand-crafted poppies will be put together to form a poignant memorial in the crafts and gardens pavilion.
A deaf student care worker from Exeter Deaf Academy has challenged deaf students to test their grit determination and physical endurance by training them for the Escot Mud Run at Escot Park near Honiton, on Saturday 25 March.
Escot’s new obstacle challenge event is organised by South West Military Fitness.
Tony Whiteley, 51, from Honiton works at Exeter Deaf Academy and has entered with a team of Deaf students to fundraise for the Academy.
Tony said: “We are looking forward to the Escot Mud Run and all its obstacles. Our Deafness is certainly not a barrier though. I...
Lift your spirits and say hello to spring with this wonderful and varied programme from the Exeter Symphony Orchestra.
We are pleased to welcome pianist Richard Deering to the stage to perform William Sterndale Bennett's sparkling Piano Concerto No 4. This is to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth.
For those who like the more familiar, we will be playing the fabulous Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius and the ever popular Serenade for Strings by Edward Elgar.
The programme will end with Cesar Franck's great Symphony in D Minor.
