Very special guests, nineties girl band All Saints, have added their name to a sensational line-up of artists performing at this year’s Sounds of the Summer festival at Newton Abbot Racecourse.
The multi-million record selling group along with eighties rock/pop band China Crisis are the latest acts announced for the annual music festival, which takes place on Sunday July 16th.
The news comes just days after it was revealed that reggae royalty UB40 will be appearing live on stage at the racecourse, which is fast becoming a hotspot for live music in the South West. All Saints...
The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking people across East Devon to comment on its draft proposals for new council ward boundaries.
An eight-week public consultation on the recommendations begins today and will end on 3 April 2017. The consultation is open to anyone who wants to have their say on new council wards, ward boundaries and ward names across East Devon.
The Commission’s draft recommendations propose that the East Devon should have 60 councillors in the future (one more than the current arrangements), across 30 wards (two fewer...
Chagstock Festival organisers have announced that UK country superstars, The Shires will headline the main stage on Saturday night.
Hailing from the Home Counties, The Shires made music history by becoming the first UK country act to score a Top 10 album. The duo are at the forefront of the British country music movement and the runaway success of their recently released album ‘My Universe’ has made them not just the fastest selling UK country artist ever, but one of the biggest-selling breakthrough UK acts of any genre in recent years. Across their two albums, Ben and Crissie have...
Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (17-19 February).
THEATRE
The Curious Case of the Watchmaker's Daughter Friday & Saturday, Silverton Millennium Hall Silverton has a timely mystery to solve, a 150-year case involving clocks, treachery, bungling police and mad-cap inventions! The Victorian steampunk drama promises an alarming tale as Her Majesty’s finest investigators pit themselves against cunning criminals hell bent on deceit and fraud. Silverton’s players, the Silverton Luvvies, have sharpened their senses in the countdown to the challenge of...
Reception children at Exeter Cathedral School have rounded off their recent scheme of learning by holding their very own Dinosaur Day.
The pupils have been studying dinosaurs since returning to school in January, and this special celebration day saw them come to school dressed as their favourite prehistoric creature and perform a musical story of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs to an appreciative audience of parents and guests.
Liz Bowles, Reception teacher at ECS, said 'Dinosaurs has been a fantastic topic which has captured the imagination of both the children and...
Raising funds to improve the lives of older people in Exeter.
It is our 30 year Anniversary celebration this year so we are turning back the clock to 1987 with an 80's Retro Run theme for our March 10K - same great run - lots more fun!
This popular event attracts both experienced runners and those new to running.
The flat course with its City Centre start and finishing at Exeter Quayside is great for a PB or a first 10K.
For more information Tel:01392 202092 or enter online at www.ageukexeter.org.uk
Rob Gibson wants his Exeter Chiefs Under-18s side to finish their season on a high note when they tackle Wasps in tomorrow’s Academy Finals Day at Worcester’s Sixways Stadium (2.30pm).
Having finished their Southern Group league fixtures with a 45-0 thumping of previously unbeaten Harlequins last Saturday, the Chiefs will head to the Midlands in buoyant mood and looking to put the seal on a campaign which has brought plenty of high points.
With only one defeat all season – that was at home to Saracens – the Devonians have come together well to produce not only a series of...
Exeter Baby Activities has announced the launch of the first Family Favourite Awards to find the businesses and individuals who work to create a vibrant and exciting city for local and visiting families.
The Awards celebrate the vital contribution made by local businesses and volunteers to support the families that live in and visit Exeter.
This year nominees and applicants will compete in seven categories and be adjudicated by a panel of judges. Arabella Greatorex, editor of Exeter Baby Activities said of the launch, “Exeter is our city of choice for raising our families....
In 2017 Somerset and Devon-based West Country Windows is celebrating 40 years of being in business and as one of a handful of West Country manufacturers with a business that is still run by two of the same directors who set it up in 1977; it holds a particularly unique position in the double glazing sector.
When the idea of West Country Windows was born in 1977, directors Ken Ashplant and Tim Earle remember the world as a very different place. Tim recalls the first Concorde flight between London and New York - something which was of particular significance to him as he was studying...
Fresh from appearances on ‘Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central’ (Comedy Central), ‘As Yet Untitled’ (Dave) and a month of packed houses at the Edinburgh Fringe, Stuart Goldsmith presents a new hour of funny, not entirely about becoming a parent at Exeter’s Bike Shed Theatre.
The host of the ‘Comedian’s Comedian Podcast’ (over 6 million downloads) finally shakes off an invigoratingly misspent youth.
Finding himself uprooted from his adoptive city and press-ganged into a pastoral existence by a cunning girl, Stu considers the big questions and wonders: how much compromise is...
