Tucked away in Killerton House, you'll find a culinary secret - the award-winning Killerton Kitchen restaurant. Book a table for an exclusive fine-dining experience within the splendour of the Georgian mansion. Savour seasonal flavours from estate producers expertly prepared by our team of chefs.
First Wednesday of the month from March, from 6.30pm. Booking is essential on 01392 881345.
The Exeter Pound has launched a crowdfunding campaign today (15 February) in order to prepare the way for the community currency to go digital. Exeter launched its own paper currency in September 2015 and its reach has been growing ever since. There are now 131 local, independent businesses where shoppers can spend the local cash, and 9 exchange points across the city where the public can swap sterling for Exeter Pounds, at a 1:1 exchange rate. But the scheme is already looking to the next stage in innovation: a digital Exeter Pound. Exeter Pound user Hannah Watson explains, “there is a...
Writer and performer Rose Collis brings her acclaimed one-woman musical cabaret show to Exeter Library next week (Monday 15 Feb), as part of an Arts Council-funded tour for LGBT History Month 2016.
‘Trouser-Wearing Characters’ is the first ever musical cabaret show written and performed by a British female author. This original entertainment, written and performed by one of Sussex’s favourite personalities, is a unique mixture of music, history and comedy.
It combines stories, vignettes and songs about some of her favourite, eclectic LGBT ‘trouser-wearing characters’, from...
West Country accountants and business advisers Old Mill are celebrating after being named ‘Emerging Partner of the Year’ at the Xerocon Awards in London on Tuesday.
Xero offers a real-time accounting software solution for small businesses which includes a variety of features that in many ways are life-changing for the small business owner. Indeed, these life changing features were recognised by Forbes, which has named Xero the “World’s most innovative growth company” in both 2014 and 2015.
Old Mill have been working with Xero since 2014, setting up their own clients with...
Painting the sunny beaches of Perth, Western Australia, or the changeable scenery of Devon?
For Devon Artist Network painter Julie Dunster, there is no contest - and she is celebrating her return home with her first solo art exhibition in this country, at the Boston Tea Party in Honiton from 27 February to 7 May 2016.
The exhibition will feature original oil paintings produced through sketches and photographs on location and completed in her Mid Devon studio. Julie captures the season’s differences, whether depicting avocets at tide’s out in deserted Dawlish Warren, or the...
A third (33 per cent) of South West parents want their children to have professional careers, a poll from Action for Children has revealed with two thirds (65 per cent) wanting their children to go to university once their compulsory education is completed.
The results are from a survey of over 2000 parents across the UK, with the South West subsample showing that the second most popular sector behind professional was public services (11.7 per cent).
A further sub sample, of parents who think their children will struggle to get a job in the area they want them to work in,...
Greg Hancock returned to the UK in 2012 after many years overseas and quickly established himself as a regular performer on the music scene in Exeter and the surrounding region.
He has been writing his own songs ever since he first picked up a guitar at the age of ten. He always tries to find innovative and surprising new song structures and to avoid musical and lyrical cliches.
His songs deal with a wide range of topics – from love-gone-wrong and personal emotions to topical issues and current affairs but all share an unusual, slightly skewed view of the world and...
The huge success of Exeter community energy group’s recent call for investment will make possible some significant new renewable energy projects in the region.
Stephens Scown has advised Exeter Community Energy on a range of projects, including the installation of solar panels on the roofs of buildings across the city in 2015, at Wonford Community Centre, Exeter Central Library, Great Moor House and Shillingford Organics.
With four projects under their belt, Exeter Community Energy will not be stopping any time soon. There are five projects in the pipeline which, together...
Concerts in the West is delighted to welcome the exciting young cellist Amy Jolly, who together with pianist Gemma Beeson, will be making exhilerating music at venues in Devon, Somerset and Dorset from April 21 to 23, 2016. A recent graduate of the Halle/RNCM String Leadership Diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music, Amy Jolly won the 2014 Charles Halle Award and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Stavanger University of Music, Norway. She graduated with distinction from the MA programme at the Royal Academy of Music, achieving a DipRAM for an outstanding final recital...
Equipment hirer GAP Hire Solutions is continuing with its robust growth strategy and will be opening three new depots in the South West of England in February 2016. Langage Park in Plymouth has opened its doors to new Non-Mechanical Plant and Welfare Services locations, whilst Bristol’s Rockingham Park has welcomed the addition of a Non-Mechanical Plant depot. Already well established in both cities, GAP currently has a Plant & Tool Hire and Survey & Safety Hire depot in Bristol’s Avonbridge Trading Estate, whilst Jubilee Way hosts Lifting Hire & Sales and Welfare Services...
