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Green travelling or time travelling?

“I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything. Then (.) a flow of disappointment rushed across my mind. For a moment I felt I had built the Time Machine in vain.” H. G. Wells, The Time

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Great, what railway?

Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the railway, further cuts to an already depleted and erratic service are announced as the Government plans to cut its rail subsidies.

With the A38 clogged up around Ashburton because of the programme of road improvements, for many the train to Plymouth was becoming a

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Hold on to your hats

Experiments in renewable energy are taking place in South Devon.

British Gas has teamed up with Windsave to trial pole-fixed roof-top propellor-type wind turbines.

But before we throw our hats up in the air with a collective whoop of joy, only for them to be taken far and wide on the prevailing winds, these turbines are not without

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Music to my ears

Vibraphonic, the Exeter music festival is hitting the streets next week. So listen out there for some funky and original sounds. There’s even the reappearance of the radio station that will dance upon the city’s air waves.

Fair trade fortnight is fast approaching (March 6 – 19), but can anyone tell us what the heck’s going

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Who’s responsible?

Three cheers for those socially responsible hacks at the Evening Herald, who yesterday reported that the city council is all ready to remove the ‘potentially racist’ mural at Bretonside Bus Station.
The graffiti image of a Kalahari bushman trying to start a fire with sticks of dynamite has apparently prompted outrage from a support group for

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This bird has flu-n

A swan, ah go on! With a bird curfew imininent, this may be the last time we are able to see such avians (and this picture was taken from a bridge – sur le pont, avians I would say if I wanted to push my European credentials, although I have a feeling that my latin

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Skanks, but no thanks

It seems to have passed everyone by but NoComply are NoMore. The soi-disant horn-fuelled punkers announced the split on their website a couple of weeks ago.
Here’s what their ’statement’ said:  ‘After a total of nearly eight years as a band, NoComply have decided to call it a day and finish as a band together.
‘We’ve all

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Grave situation

Hooray for the Herald Express. Their community minded hacks have tipped off the cops about a website prank involving a face-off between ‘Jesus and Satan’, filmed in Torbay’s glamorous Churston church.
The judicious journos also flagged up another website video which apparently boasted acts of vandalism and ‘crude approaches’ to members of the public.
Police have given

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Clutching at straws?

‘When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for
present delight nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our
descendants will thank us for.’ John Ruskin 1849.

Picture this. Tucked away on the old turnpike road just below the busy
A381 Western Bypass on the hill out of Totnes

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Political. Correctness. Gone. Maaaad.

Do you remember the recent hoo-ha about the Bretonside graffiti? It all seems like a long time ago now but it was only the beginning of last week. Which is a shame because it gave everyone who piled into the debate the chance to feel terribly smug and ever-so right-on, daddio. The work, which depicted

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With a film

The second part of the Creative Collective short film screenings takes part at the Lamb Inn, Sandord, near Credtion today at 2.30pm. Included in the varied and imaginative films on show will be a selection from the 2 Short Nights film festival 2004­2005. Admission, as ever, is free.

The Creative Collective is a monthly short film

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Chiefs and Villains

Rosa Luxemburg, I have been lead to believe, was a great fan of rugby union. It was her one guilty, decadent pleasure.

So I found myself with an invite to the Exeter Chiefs. Thrills, spills, excitement, a good crowd and a win for the West Country boys from a stonking second-half performance.

The club moves later this

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