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Fans of ‘Only Fools and Horses’ and ‘The Green Green Grass’ are in for a treat on Sunday 6th May. That is when John Challis, best-known for playing the role of Boycie, will be visiting Waterstones in Drake Circus to sign his book ‘Being Boycie’. His book now includes a foreword by fellow ‘Only Fools’ [...]
An events management graduate has bagged a good deal since leaving university thanks to the help of a local shopping centre. Alex Ludlam worked with Drake Circus in Plymouth to organise a unique ‘student only’ shopping event as part of his degree at Plymouth University. The event proved to be so successful – attracting 7,500 [...]
Saturday 3rd December will be 2000AD Day at Waterstones Drake Circus, when artists from “The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic”, 2000AD, will be holding an epic event in-store. Artists from 2000AD are responsible for some of modern animation’s greatest creations, including Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Nikolai Dante, Zombo and Sinister Dexter. Those visiting Waterstones Drake Circus and [...]
Iconic TV presenter and campaigner, Esther Rantzen, is to visit Waterstones Drake Circus on Friday 2nd December to sign copies of her new book, “Running Out of Tears: 25 Years of ChildLine”. The launch of ChildLine was broadcast on BBC TV on October 30th 1987. Watching in her quiet, respectable home in a small rural [...]
The Guildhall Shopping Centre Great West Santa Run is taking place in Exeter on 4th December – and it’s not too late to enter. So far over 220 people have entered the Santa Run, but there is room for more. Everyone gets a Santa suit and the chance to raise money for charity Dream-A-Way. Entry [...]
The Drake Circus Christmas television advertisement, which included input from PR Works, has beaten off tough competition from around the UK to win a rare gold at the prestigious Cream advertising award. Owned by British Land, the Westcountry’s leading shopping centre’s Christmas advertising campaign won the Low Budget TV/Cinema Advert (£20,000 max) award, which was presented [...]
Fans of the iconic “Star Wars” series of movies are in for a treat on Sunday 30th October, when Darth Vader himself will be visiting Waterstones in Drake Circus. Dave Prowse MBE, who played the role of Darth Vader in the films and who is also well-known by a generation of pedestrians as the Green [...]
Adam Hart-Davis, one of the UK’s best known TV science experts, is to visit Waterstones in Drake Circus on Wednesday 19th October to talk about and sign his new book – “The Book of Time”. Adam has brought a number of science-based television programmes to our screens, including “What the Romans Did for Us”, “Science [...]
Henry Winkler, instantly recognised and admired by audiences of all ages for his role as the Fonz in Happy Days, is to come to W H Smith in Exeter on 22nd October to sign his latest book for youngsters – “Hank Zipzer: The World’s Greatest Underachiever Takes on the Universe.” The book combines two highly [...]
After months of successful fundraising for the NSPCC Dragon’s Challenge, which saw Drake Circus raise the winning total of £10,308, Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden will be visiting the shopping centre on 11th August to congratulate the team and take part in a varied and fun day of activities. Coinciding with Deborah’s visit will be [...]
