Stagecoach South West has unveiled a new fleet of open-top buses for the Bay. The sneak preview took place for businesses attending this year’s Tourism Exhibition & Conference at the Riviera Centre on 15 March.
The Golden Hop122 will start on 29 April and run right through the summer season up to every 20 minutes, 7 days a week. The fleet of six buses will connect St Marychurch, Torquay, Paignton and Paignton Zoo. Visitors will be able to enjoy a unique sightseeing experience and hop on and off as often as they like to visit destinations and attractions along the route. As well...
Local Vanessa Fyles-Legg, Bus Driver and Customer Service Advisor for APCOA Parking at Exeter Airport, has won the Inspiration Award at this year’s British Parking Awards.
Vanessa won the prize for her dedication, fantastic work ethic and fundraising efforts. Vanessa is a model employee who, despite living with cancer for the last seven years and undergoing at least one operation every year, is entirely committed to her role. In a rollercoaster awards ceremony, Vanessa was passed up for ‘Parking Person of the Year’, the award she was originally nominated for, but went on to win the...
After enjoying ‘boom’ conditions last year, consumer spending growth is expected to fall to a four-year low in 2017, according to the EY ITEM Club’s special report on consumer spending. Household spending power will be hit by a sharp deceleration in real income growth as a result of a triple-whammy of rising inflation off the back of sterling’s drop in 2016, stagnation in the jobs market and the impact of cuts in welfare spending on non-work incomes. Lower earners are likely to be hit disproportionately hard. CPI inflation is expected to average 2.8% this year, a five-year high, and the EY...
Ali Hepher believes Exeter Chiefs still have areas to work on as their Aviva Premiership season heads towards the final straight. Undefeated in the top flight since late October, the Chiefs have produced an impressive run of results that has not only propelled them to second in the current standings, but has put them firmly on course for home advantage in the end of season play-offs. With just five rounds of the scheduled season remaining, three of which will be played at Sandy Park, Hepher says it’s imperative his side not only maintain their current performance levels, but in turn also...
East Devon District Council and LED are proud to announce that Seaton’s new Jurassic themed adventure golf course at Seafield Gardens, is now ready for play and will be opened officially at 10.30am on Friday 7 April, although people will be able to play on it from 1 April 2017.
Built on the site of the former putting green, the course’s eye-catching design features plenty of fun Jurassic themed course decorations and timber or stone obstacles, in the shape of stone fossils, dinosaur bones, dinosaur eggs, rocks/boulders and fossil style edging of the golfing areas.
This spring Dartmoor National Park Authority is pleased to be able to offer a limited number of tours of its grade 1 listed medieval longhouse which has been closed to the public while it undergoes extensive renovations.
The work has been carried out with support from the Heritage lottery funded Moor than meets the eye (MTMTE) landscape partnership, with additional funding from the National Park Authority. We have reached a point in the project where, for a limited period, we are able to run some tours in April before the final phase of internal work commences (probably sometime in...
History of much loved East Devon parks and gardens will be captured for posterity thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund award of £9,500
Interpretation panels for each of East Devon District Council’s eight parks and gardens are currently being developed by the council using information provided by local museums and local community members/groups. East Devon’s in-house design team are currently producing these ready for installation this spring.
The panels and a trail leaflet for this project have been made possible thanks to a £9,500 grant, which East Devon District Council...
Devon Local Nature Partnership has launched its ‘Build for Bees’ competition to inspire the public to provide habitats for pollinators.
It was launched at the Devon Outdoor Learning and Sustainability Conference at Buckfast Abbey as part of the ‘Get Devon Buzzing’ campaign.
Prizes include an exclusive tour of Goren Farm near Honiton, memberships to the Devon Wildlife Trust, Buglife and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and wildflower seed packs.
A great activity for schools, the competition aims to encourage the public to get outdoors and to take part in practical...
If you have ever considered taking on the ambitious challenge of running a marathon but haven’t got round to it yet, then Liz Searle may be the inspiration you need to sign up.
Already having five marathons under her belt and at 74 years young, Liz is about to embark on her sixth, joining the other 38,000 people who will take part in this year’s London Marathon.
Liz commented, “I follow the marathon training programme and around a month before the event itself you do your longest run. I have just completed a 22 miler from the centre of Exeter to Dawlish Warren and back, so...
Musicians from four Devon schools had the chance of a lifetime to perform alongside some of the country’s leading instrumentalists in an inspirational concert of work by modern composers. The concert was the culmination of a series of workshops for pupils at Blundell’s, Blundell’s Prep, Uffculme and Exeter Cathedral Schools with the London Chamber Orchestra.
More than a 100 young musicians performed in the main part of the concert which was the piece Simple Gifts by Paul Edlin. The fourth movement of this was generated during improvisation workshops with twelve Blundell’s musician...
