On Tuesday 5th May, fundraiser and 53-year-old father of four, Richard Farquhar, will arrive at Exeter Racecourse’s race meeting having walked all the way there from Taunton Racecourse. Two days later, Farquhar will walk on to Newton Abbot Racecourse - a hop, a skip and a jump, in comparison - arriving at the race meeting on Thursday 7th May. These two walks are the next stages of his 2,750...
Businesses across Devon will gather at a sponsorship lunch to hear about the Venus Awards, which were specifically created to recognise and reward local women in business.
The lunch, which will take place at the Bishop Fleming offices in Exeter, has been designed to celebrate the achievements of hard working women and to inform businesses on how they can get involved.
After the success of last year, Toby Buckland's Garden Festival at Powderham Castle is back and bigger than ever on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd May!
There will be explosive 'daytime fireworks' with coloured smoke and showering steamers down from the Gate House. Toby and the Countess of Devon will be cutting the ribbon.
Teign Trees will be swining from the trees at the entrance of the castle! There will also be live music from the Cataclews and much more.
Topsham Flower Club are decorating the Chapel at Powderham with incredible flower arrangements themed on the work...
Social ventures in Devon, which have been chosen to benefit from a share of £600,000 in funding and development support, have met for the first time at the official launch of the exciting South West social accelerator programme Seedbed.
Representatives from the 19 ventures selected to take part in the cutting-edge Seedbed project, came together at the SPACE Creative Centre at...
Fans will have further opportunities to buy tickets for Rugby World Cup 2015 matches from Tuesday April 28, via tickets.rugbyworldcup.com, from 10am.
25,000 tickets will go on sale for an additional 12 matches at Sandy Park (Exeter), Kingsholm Stadium (Gloucester), Brighton Community Stadium (Brighton), Elland Road (Leeds) and Villa Park (Birmingham). This is in addition to the 16...
Plymouth Adoption Agencies which include Plymouth City Council, Families for Children and is pleased to announce that it will be part of the unique partnership of adoption agencies based in Devon, Adopt South West.
Michelin-starred celebrity chef, Michael Caines, MBE, announced the launch of Adopt South West yesterday, which includes the adoption agencies of Plymouth City Council,...
MusicLab – iOrchestra’s touring musical truck – is back in Plymouth.
Fuelled by the latest digital technology, the free pop-up ‘play-and-create’ truck will be visiting North Prospect, Whitleigh, Efford, Stonehouse and Devonport until Saturday 9 May.
MusicLab offers schools, community groups and the public the chance to put themselves in the shoes of a horn, timpani, cello or...
School-age teenagers who have previously engaged in risky online behaviour are much more likely than young adults to repeat such behaviour in the future, according to a new study by Plymouth University.
In an attempt to understand the psychological mechanisms contributing to young people’s online risk taking, researchers examined their tendency towards behaviours seen by parents and...
The popular BBC One antiques programme Flog It! presented by Paul Martin, is set to visit Powderham Castle in Kenton on Thursday 7 May 2015.
Flog It! - the major BBC antiques show is now on its fourteenth series and regularly achieves an audience of over two million viewers in its weekday afternoon slot.
Powderham Castle, the home to the Earl and Countess of Devon near Exeter...
