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Honey, leave the lantern on for me

Don’t you just love it when a community comes together? That’s exactly what that little town in the Teign Valley, Chudleigh, has been doing, and what’s more surprising is that it’s all been to do with Christmas.

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House calls

Good health and qualifications should be on the top of the wish-list for 110,000 children in the South West who are homeless or in bad housing. Shelter has launched its Against the Odds study, which reveals the impact the ‘housing divide’ has on kids.

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First amont equals

How’d have thought there was an Equality South West website, let alone that loads of people seem to be looking at it, and it’s won the prestigious web Clarion Award (given to organisations that recognise social responsibility and make positive contributions to society).

Have a look at the support on offer and the issues

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No energy

Whoop di do, local councils are signing up to a declaration on Climate Change and Global Warming. And the South West Climate Change Impacts Partnership (SWCCIP) is holding two seminars in Bristol about the problems facing us all. They didn’t want to travel any further because the acronym needed its own ticket.

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Neighbour hood watch

So, hoodies then – watch out for them, they’re dangerous.

These days, there’s usually the word ‘hoodie’ printed somewhere on the front page of the Herald, Herald Express or Western Morning News; and for what reason I ask? The hoodie is the latest branding given to any youth that’s up to no good and happens to be wearing a hooded sweatshirt of some description. Continue reading…

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Something For The Weekend #7

SAY HULLO TO: Rebuild The Doxa WHO ARE: Lamby (guitar/vocals), Brown Scotch (guitar/E-bow), Tron (sound manipulation), David St James (bass) and Session (drums) PEDDLING: Goat-voiced kook-rock FROM THEIR BASE IN: Plymouth THEY SAY: “We came out in a city with about as much culture as a toilet, because of this any band who’s a

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Arthouse roundup Nov 24-30

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PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE

Volver (15) Lust in La Mancha with the PRSD’s favourite director Pedro Almodovar. Oh, and don’t forget to pronounce it ‘boll-bear’ or Captn will be forced to snort at your extreme ignorance.
Eros (15) Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michaelangelo Antonioni don their dirty macs (that’s not dirt – it’s spunk!) for this erotic anthology. Continue reading…