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Crapfest! One of the last celebrations of summer... and local bands

Crapfest wickets

Right at the end of the festival – and cricket – season is Crapfest (named after the place where it’s based… Crapstone), and taking place, as it is, on Saturday, September 11, it could well be your last chance to get that festival vibe from a host of local bands.

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Youth singing day in Exeter with Wren Music

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Devon’s folk and community arts development charity Wren Music is to present a day of singing workshops for young people in Exeter on Thursday, July 29.

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MP gets on her bike to push for cycle network link in Totnes

Sarah Wollaston on a tandem with her hubby

The last time Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston was on her bike  she cycled the 61 miles around the Totnes constituency with husband Adrian to meet voters. Now she’s asking people to join her on Thursday (July 29), for her a “mobile surgery” to listen to the problems of constituents while cycling from Totnes to the Dartington Cider Press Centre along the River Dart.

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Head of Programmes album launch and onec birthday bash

Onec fifth birthday

Crikey how time flies! onec is five years old at the end of the month and to celebrate they are having a combined birthday bash/Head Of Programmes album launch show on Friday, July 30 at the White Rabbit, Plymouth.

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Plymouth City Museum responds to call for cost-cutting sell off to raise funds for arts prize

Plymouth City Museum has responded to Stuart Bonar’s call sell some of its collection to create a local arts prize his story Commodes, a Tutu and an Asparagus Holder – or a Local Arts Prize? Take it away guys…

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

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Literary Lights Writes: Elsewhere

Zion Lights is a writer, poet and social entrepreneur. This week on the PRSD we have poem Elsewhere

social entrepreneur Zion Lights

I grew up in a country of

fish & chips

& 9 to 5.

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Torquay's other history: The Mod squad in Torquay

Torquay Harbour

The site by Torbay Mods is well worth a visit. The gallery features Max Bygraves on a Vespa at Castle Circus in 1967 and some of the estimated 1,000 scooters who visited Torquay on Easter Monday 1966. Make sure that you have your sound turned on!

 Later Mod photos from the late 70s and early 80s are to be viewed in The Torbay Mod Squad site. I remember the Mermaid well.

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