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Over the past year, a volunteer team has been working hard to redisplay Dorset’s smallest museum, the Corfe Castle Town Trust Museum at Corfe Castle, in Purbeck.
On Saturday 16th September from 10 am until late, the bustling Newquay Harbour will celebrate all it has to offer with the inaugural Newquay Harbour Festival.
Roseberry Road Studios, the newest exhibition space in Bath, is to host a major retrospective in October featuring past and new works from one of the UK's foremost video artists compiled over 50 years of continuous practice in the moving image.
A specialist firework company from Bristol has taken home the top prize at the prestigious British Firework Championships 2023.
Dorset History Centre, the county’s archive service has been awarded a £35,000 grant by the Archives Revealed programme at The National Archives.
After a four-year hiatus, the epic two-day cycling challenge, Hilly Hundred is back with a bang for its tenth birthday. This September (Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd), participants will yet again don their fabulously fancy-dress costumes to brave the elements and take on the gruelling hills of Cornwall in aid of breast cancer education charity, CoppaFeel!
Mark your calendars as The Cotswold Cup is coming to Pontispool on September 9th and 10th.
A brand-new collaboration between Newquay Business Improvement (BID)’s Love Newquay and Boardmasters will see additional exposure for 16 local businesses via their inclusion on the popular Boardmasters festival app.
Three members of staff who have each given more than 30 years’ service to the DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre have been recognised for their commitment.
The St Austell community came together at the town’s annual Garden Festival on Last weekend (Saturday June 24) to celebrate the landmark completion of St Austell’s Townscape Heritage Scheme – a five-year project to reimagine the town for the benefit of residents, visitors and the local economy.
Litter Free Dorset have partnered with Weymouth Town Council and Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project to expand their beach toy library, with two additional locations on the busy Weymouth Seafront just in time for the start of summer holidays. The toy library allows visitors to borrow and reuse toys for free, meaning visitors save money, help reduce waste and stop plastic entering our oceans.
Organisers of Cornwall’s surf and music festival, Boardmasters, will donate £50,000 to Newquay’s Concrete Waves Skatepark between now and 2025.
The Falmouth Cringe Comedy Festival is returning to Cornwall from 6 – 9 July and this year and the festival is expanding, promising to bring a programme of events that everyone in the community will enjoy. 2023 headliners include Shaparak Khorsandi and Tim Key.
Over 120 artists and makers will exhibit their work at venues across BS5 next weekend.
In 2022, to celebrate the modern Matthew’s 25th anniversary and the 525th anniversary of John Cabot’s voyage across the Atlantic on the original Matthew in 1497, The Matthew of Bristol Trust embarked on a year-long project to further advance the educational aims of the ship and the Trust.
Bristol Stanza Group and Lyra Festival present 'Walking Words'. Both a book and a digital walking trail, accessible through a mobile app where spoken versions of the poems are triggered on your mobile phone as a participant walks past the specific poem sites. The book, published by Bristol Books is based on the poems and is on sale throughout the Lyra annual Bristol Poetry Festival, which this year runs from April 22 to May 1.
Local artists will have the chance to showcase their work as the popular BS5 Art Trail returns for its third year and The Chocolate Factory visitor centre in Greenbank has confirmed it will once again be one of the venues.
Cornish hedgers are being asked to complete a short online survey which will help determine whether the ancient skill should be classified as an endangered craft.
The challenging financial climate is not preventing people in Bristol from planning to party this Christmas, city hoteliers say.
