The Creation Station workshops will take place on Tuesday 8th December where children can make hand and footprint Rudolph cards, Wednesday 9th December with a focus on Crafty Christmas characters and Thursday 10th December children get to make Christmas tree decorations and super star snowflakes. Visitors can drop in between 10am – 12pm in Mamma Mia’s restaurant at Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park, suitable for all ages to join in with the festive fun.
For more information on ticket prices, visit www.crealy.co.uk/Devon .
The Creation Station workshops will take place on Tuesday 8th December where children can make hand and footprint Rudolph cards, Wednesday 9th December with a focus on Crafty Christmas characters and Thursday 10th December children get to make Christmas tree decorations and super star snowflakes. Visitors can drop in between 10am – 12pm in Mamma Mia’s restaurant at Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park, suitable for all ages to join in with the festive fun.
For more information visit www.crealy.co.uk/Devon.
Massive demand meant that tickets to TEDxExeter 2016 sold out faster than ever before on Tuesday.
Tickets for the live event at the Exeter Northcott Theatre sold out in 20 minutes, and tickets for the simultaneous livestream to the nearby Alumni Auditorium all went before the end of the day.
TEDxExeter is Exeter’s leading festival of ideas, and next year’s conference will be the fifth held in the city. It is also streamed online so that everyone who could not get tickets can still watch it live. Videos of all the talk will also be free to watch online after the event....
A major new visitor attraction is planning to begin the job of recruiting its staff at a special recruitment open day being held in Seaton on Saturday 5th December.
The final phases of work are currently being made at the Seaton Jurassic visitor centre before its opening in spring 2016. The new visitor attraction, which is on Seaton’s Underfleet, will include both indoor and outdoor interpretation spaces as well as a café and retail area.
In preparation for its grand opening Seaton Jurassic is now looking to recruit a range of posts in roles as varied as volunteer...
An international craft media company, with offices across America and its headquarters in New York, has relocated its UK team to Exeter.
Founded in Newton Abbot in 1961, F+W International, part of American company F+W Media, is a specialist publisher and distributer of art and craft books. The company also boasts a range of successful art and craft based ecommerce companies and distributes David & Charles and Dover Publications.
In its 54 years of operation, F+W Media has witnessed significant changes in the publishing industry. With the rise of eBook sales, increased...
Devon-based Hospicecare has been given a welcome boost thanks to a generous donation from David Wilson Homes.
The developer was on the lookout for a local charity which could make good use of the furniture from the show homes at Rougemont Park in Exeter ahead of the launch of a brand new phase at the development and the opening of new show homes.
Items that were donated included beds, sofas, dining tables and chairs, pictures, ornaments and lamps which are now on sale in the charity’s Fore Street store in Exeter.
“A massive thank you to all the team at David Wilson...
Have you had a heating problem in the past year, and been impressed with the plumber or installer who fixed it? Have you undertaken an extension or renovation where your heating tradesman went above and beyond to deliver a job that you were so impressed with that you recommended them to friends or colleagues? Or are you a heating installer who constantly delivers outstanding work for homeowners in the South West?
The search is on to find the South West’s top heating installers as a new industry awards launches to recognise the efforts of leading tradespeople in the UK – and it’s...
District council, Sidmouth town council and Lions Club work together to ensure new defibrillator is now ready for use in town centre
A new defibrillator unit for the public to use is now ready to start saving lives in the centre of Sidmouth. The new unit, which is attached to the exterior wall of East Devon District Council’s Market Building in Sidmouth’s Market Square, was declared officially ready for use on Wednesday 25 November by East Devon Chairman, Councillor Stuart Hughes, the Chairman of Sidmouth Town Council (STC), Councillor Jeff Turner, East Devon District Councillor...
Are you a hotelier, guest house or B&B proprietor in desperate need of a helping hand with business? Or perhaps you’ve recently stayed somewhere that you feel could benefit from the no-nonsense approach of the Hotel Inspector?
If so, the team would love to hear from you.
Now in its twelfth series The Hotel Inspector is one of the most popular on the channel, with previous series attracting over two and a half million viewers in its weekly prime-time slot!
From staffing to menus, from décor to hygiene, the Hotel Inspector will leave no stone unturned in her quest...
Research by the housing and homelessness charity Shelter has revealed that approximately 19,000 renters were put at risk of eviction in the last year - equivalent to over 350 renters per week.
The new analysis, which uses Ministry of Justice figures, showed that 1 in every 86 rented households in the South West have been put at risk of losing their home.
The charity also identified the hotspots in the region where renters are most likely to face losing their home.
The charity is warning that a worrying combination of rapidly rising rents, drastic cuts to housing...
