A German artist who has been visiting Torquay with his English wife quite regularly over the past thirty years has joined forces with three experienced Devon artists. They would like to invite art students from Germany and the UK to attend courses at the English Riviera. A website has been set up to explain the benefits to interested parties. Back in Germany the painter who is also a member of the Devon Art Society has distributed posters and leaflets to a fair number of organisations near his home town and beyond. So the team are hoping to get people to spend a painting holiday in Devon...
Breakfast with the birds, an Easter treasure hunt and Green Dreamin’ – there are lots of ways to celebrate spring and summer with Teignbridge Council’s Green Spaces Events Guide for April – June.
Twenty activities are being held across the district’s parks, nature reserves and open spaces over the next three months.
And the guide is the ‘go to’ place where families can find out more. In addition we have posters that advertise our Easter craft activities in local parks.
The guide details lots of events across a variety of Teignbridge’s nature reserves and parks...
Exeter Airport can reflect on a busy summer of 2013 where passenger numbers from May until October exceeded expectations and were over forty thousand up on the same period in 2012. The overall inbound and outbound passengers for the five months totalled 415,618, an increase of 11%. Managing Director Matt Roach said: “New flights this year to Barcelona and Nice together with nine other scheduled international routes operated by Flybe, accounted for a 19% increase of that passenger traffic and were the main reason for the successful period. There has also been a growing awareness of the...
From Dartmoor to Hollywood via a zoo - if anyone has got a tale or two to tell it's Benjamin Mee.
And Teignbridge tourism businesses will get the chance to hear it for themselves after Benjamin, the owner of Dartmoor Zoo and author of We Bought A Zoo, was confirmed as the keynote speaker for Teignbridge’s third Talking Tourism Conference.
Teignbridge District Council, in association with Visit South Devon and The Dartmoor Partnership, is hosting the annual event which brings together industry experts, decision makers and stakeholders to discuss issues important to them...