Emergency services attended a serious one-vehicle collision on the old A30 at Honiton.
Police, fire and ambulance crews were called at 8am today (27 April) after a car left the carriageway and ended up upside down in a field close to the showground.
The male driver of the car has sustained serious injuries and was treated by paramedics at the scene.
The old A30 road is closed in both directions between the Fenny Bridges junction and the Honiton junction.
Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to email 101@dc.police.uk or phone 101, quoting log number 89...
Castle Drogo has been successfully shortlisted for Museums at Night for the second time in three years and the race is now on to win artist Peter Liversidge to host the after-hours event in October 2016. Peter Liversidge is a British contemporary artist who has exhibited in the Tate Liverpool and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He is most notable for his use of proposals, written on a manual typewriter. The Castle Drogo team loved the link between Peter’s approach and the idea that the original idea for Castle Drogo may have started as a proposal on paper in the 1900s. If...
Fiddle and violin players from across the South West are invited to an exciting day of music-making led by expert tutors in Okehampton.
The Wren Music Fiddle Day on Saturday 25th June is a chance for experienced players and complete beginners to develop their playing and their knowledge of the instrument.
The day focuses on learning new skills and techniques as well as repertoire development, with a chance for other acoustic instruments to join in the afternoon.
This year's tutors are world-renowned fiddle player Tom McConville and Wren Music tutor Becki Driscoll...
Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival returns to Powderham Castle with some of the country’s best plant specialists, gardening stars and plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and fun.
Main Speakers Tent
Friday: Toby Buckland, Christine Walkden, Jim Buttress
Saturday: Toby Buckland, Joe Swift, Jim Buttress, Earl of Devon with Caradoc Doy.
Open 10am-5pm both days.
Tickets: Adults £7.50 on the day, £6 with advance booking online, children under 16 free.
For full details and tickets www.tobygardenfest.co.uk
From the theatre company who recently brought A Christmas Carol to Exeter Northcott Theatre, vibrant and innovative Creative Cow promises an evening of intoxicating adventure in an adaptation of Graham Greene’s most entertaining of books ‘Travels With My Aunt’.
Described by Greene as ‘the only book I have ever written for the fun of it’, the play takes its audience on a whirlwind journey, plotting one very ordinary man’s extraordinary journey of self-discovery. Touring venues around the UK the play comes to the Northcott Theatre, Exeter between 10-14 May.
Exeter-based travel group Ticket to Ride (TTR) adds a series of new trips to its 2016 portfolio.
Specialists in surf and snow adventures across the globe, TTR offers instructor courses, gap year experiences, career break opportunities and camps to a variety of worldwide destinations.
With over ten years of experience catering to boardsports enthusiasts, the brand prides itself on its unique product offering. With a wave of exciting new surf trips available this season, TTR now visit Sri Lanka as well a host of other sensational surf hotspots, including Costa Rica,...
The curtain comes down on Exeter’s season next Tuesday when the winner of the prestigious intermediate point-to-point final will be crowned.
Eight qualifying races took place across the Devon and Cornwall point-to-point area and all 45 horses horses that came under starters’ orders are qualified to participate in Tuesday’s grand finale
The series started at Black Forest Lodge in November. That day the imposing grey Argentato made all under 17-year-old Jordan Nailor who comes from Moreton In the Marsh and works for jumps trainer Charlie Longsford.
Film fans will be heading to Pavillion in the Park, Okehampton at the end of June as after details were revealed for a new open air cinema festival weekend.
Firm Open Air Film and Chill is set to bring two iconic films to the big screen, an all time favourite Top Gun on Friday 24th June and musical Dirty Dancing to the site on Saturday 25th June. Tickets are available to purchase online priced from £12, full details of purchase are available on the facebook page. Tickets are unlikely to be available to purchase on the night.
Organiser and Owner Mo Davies, 31, from Hereford...
2016’s Broadclyst Fun Day and Family Dog Show will take place on Saturday 25th June on the Recreation ground, Broadclyst, kicking off at 11am with an action-packed day of kids races, events, displays, stalls and the very popular Family Dog Show with 10 classes commencing at 2pm.
For the young and young at heart, Fun Day offers a plethora of activities, entertainment and stalls to delight engage and wear off some youthful excess energy (where do they get it from…?). The ever-popular kids’ races will start promptly at 11.30 so under starters’ orders: 1-2-3-Go! Entries for the Dog...
Everyone who owns or looks after land of any size will be encouraged to sign a new Devon Pollinators’ Pledge, being launched this week (Friday 29 April) by the Devon Local Nature Partnership (LNP).
From window boxes, to gardens, allotments, orchards, parks and fields, the aim of the pledge is to encourage everyone to make practical changes where they can to enhance local biodiversity.
The Devon LNP will be launching the Pledge at its conference, ‘What Does Nature Do For Devon’, this Friday.
The Pledge will ask people to sign up to one or more of the following...
