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The weekly column from the world of Geoff Clams continues with his investigation into alleged voter intimidation in Preston, Paignton
Last week’s instalment, The Patriarch comes to call
Outlook: Overcast, but hot and humid. A slight chance of some heavy summer downpours.
Lots of moisture in the air.
The morning of our local and European elections on June the 4 was, for this voter at least, one of deep spiritual malaise and forbidding dread.
Continue reading Geoff Clams and the Intimidation Game

The Flavel arts centre in Dartmouth got a £10,000 make over thanks to cash from Cllr Jonathan Hawkins’ local projects fund – fuelled with dosh from the sale of Exeter airport.
Continue reading Dartmouth’s Flavel Centre gets £10,000 facelift

A £1.7 million programme to keep highly talented people in the region has been approved by the South West Regional Development Agency.
Continue reading TARDIS deployed to fight the brain drain

Talk about earlier every year. The Muscular Dystrophy charity is looking for a someone to be Santa for the morning of Saturday, July 4.
Continue reading Feeling Christmassy? Santa needed for July 4!
Katie Marie’s taken a trip down memory lane, and has turned out to have been a quite cool ’80s chick. How cool were you?

It’s been a real emotional roller coaster for me, mainly due to the very sad news of MJ Like so many people he was someone that I grew up with as a child and his music has inspired me a huge amount, it’s all very sad on a lot of levels. So 30mins of last week’s Acoustic PM show featured listeners’ requests for Michael Jackson tunes which was so kewl So many great songs that sparked off oodles of memories for me!
Continue reading Not Bad For a Girl: Katie Marie was ’80s cool. How cool were you?

Ben Bradshaw, Culture Minister and Exeter MP, will visit the Exeter Northcott theatre on Friday, July 3 at 2.30pm. What with his long list of credentials and support for the Northcott in the campaign to save the theatre in 2008, you’d think its future is secure for some time…
Continue reading Culture Minister and Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw to visit Exeter Northcott theatre

Plaster penguins and people in odd places is a response to Gormley’s the Field, on display at Torre Abbey, Torquay, from June 27 until August 23.
Continue reading Plaster penguin response to Gormley’s the Field at Living Coasts

Families at risk of homelessness through repossession or eviction in Mid Devon could receive financial to secure their housing future.
Continue reading Funds available to keep families in their homes during the recession

Lenkievicz, the controversial Plymouth artist, has an exhibition at Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery at the moment, but if you’d like to be surrounded by his work all day, a job at the Lenkiewicz Foundation might be just up your street.
Continue reading Arts job: gallery manager for Lenkiewicz Foundation
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