Your essential guide to What’s On in an around Exeter this weekend (29 April - 1 May).
THEATRE
Jungle Book Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Theatre Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale re-imagined with street-dance, circus and spoken word. Mowgli is finding her way in the urban jungle. With a beat-boxing bin man Baloo, graffiti artist Bagheera and a skateboarding Wolf crew, this heart-warming coming of age story will astonish and amaze. http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/
Puppetry of the Penis - The Vegas Show Friday, 7.30pm, Exeter Corn Exchange Two near naked men...
Exeter BID Board is pleased to announce that Philippa Rutherford has been appointed BID representative for the Gandy Street, Harlequins and Queen Street area of the city, following a ballot among members within the area.
Philippa Rutherford, who owns and manages the independent jewellery, accessory and gift shop, Mantis on Gandy Street said: “As a BID board member my focus will be to raise awareness and increase footfall in the area. Gandy Street, Queen Street and the Harlequins shopping centre have some of the best independent and big name retailers, cafes, restaurants, bars and...
Members from Ladies in Beef and the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution were giving away British tender-top steak butties to passers-by in Princesshay, Exeter as part of the Great British Beef Week celebrations of Red Tractor Assured British Beef.
The humble sandwich is still the staple of Britain’s mealtimes - breakfast, lunch and dinner, as an easy to make nutritious food. With over 5.6 billion sandwiches eaten in the last year alone, the British sandwich has no competition with its closest rival being Italian meals at 1.9 billion.
Students from Exeter College honed their debating skills and awareness of legal issues with a debate on divorce and the role of women in modern society organised by young lawyers from a leading local firm. Organised by Exeter-based Stephens Scown LLP’s young marketing group, the debate, which took place on 20 April, centred on divorce and separation and the challenges facing working women who are increasingly important breadwinners in the family as well as mothers. Students debated the topic from both the home maker and breadwinner point of view. Young lawyers from Stephens Scown devised...
Great news for everyone who missed out on tickets for this summer’s Radio One Big Weekend!
Bassline, the South‐West’s biggest dance music festival, will take place in the grounds of the magnificent Powderham Castle, Exeter on the weekend of the 9th - 11th of September 2016.
Phase One acts now confirmed: Rudimental, Krept & Konen, Sigma, Wilkinson, Sub Focus, Charlie Sloth, Shift K3Y, Yungen, Friction, Founation, Culture Shock, Frankee Calyx & Teebee, DJ Cartier and many more to be announced.
Bassline will be spread across four stages on the Saturday and...
On Thursday evening, April 21, East Devon District Council’s Chairman, Councillor Stuart Hughes, officiating the event, was joined by the leader and deputy leader, Councillors Paul Diviani and Andrew Moulding, to watch a beacon on Sidmouth’s seafront being lit in celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th birthday.
Situated on a rock groyne near Fore Street, the beacon – one of a chain of 1,000 beacons, which were lit across the country to mark the occasion – was set ablaze by Charlie Plowden, the council’s Service Lead for Countryside and Leisure, viewed by a large crowd of local...
Motorists parking in Exeter City Council pay and display car parks are being advised that facilities to pay by credit card are not currently working.
The City Council apologised for any inconvenience caused and is doing everything possible to rectify the problem. A spokesman said that a company working on behalf of the Council was trying to fix the problem, which was related to telecommunications, but it could take a number of days to resolve.
“In the meantime we would ask people to either pay by cash or the Pay by Phone system, which can be set up in advance by going to...
ENGLAND and Exeter Chiefs rugby star Jack Nowell has discovered that a family member was among the soldiers who fell on the first day of the battle of the Somme and who will be commemorated in an astonishing centenary project this summer. The 19240 Shrouds of the Somme project aims to remember all 19,240 allied soldiers who died on 1st July 1916. Artist Rob Heard has created hand-stitched, shrouded figurines to represent every one of them and the installation will be unveiled on July 1st. Cornishman Jack discovered that his great, great Uncle Frank was among them at a charity dinner at the...
Police in Exeter and East Devon are warning residents about rogue traders, claiming to be from Devon County Council, who are offering to tarmac driveways.
A number of residents, some elderly, have been approached this week by a number of men with Birmingham accents.
They were dressed as builders in high visibility clothing and told residents that they had excess tarmac which they could use to tarmac driveways at a reduced rate.
Residents who have agreed to this have had very poor sub-standard or incomplete work carried out, and large amounts of money have been...
Devon and Cornwall Police has appointed Chief Superintendent Jim Colwell to lead frontline policing across the whole of Devon.
Rising from a bobby on the beat across Plymouth in 2001 to a member of the Force’s senior leaders, C Supt Colwell aims to sustain the professional standard of policing service across the county, as well as collaborate with partner agencies to assist community policing across the county.
C Supt Colwell joined the Force at a tender age of 27 after graduating from Leicester University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications and...
