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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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. 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. 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 being discussed. 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. SAY HULLO TO: Rebuild The Doxa Follow the main cinema links for dates, times and matinee screenings. 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. Talk of shoes? What’s going on? Has the Melting Pot gone mad? Not on your nelly. You should have seen the shoes, now you can hear the sounds. Supenik and Civilian in voice on the sofa and on stage, such as it is. And this is just the start, served up soon will be the How could we fail to like the work of Kate Marshall? The Dartmouth artist’s favourite colour is red, for goodness sake! But if you want a deeper perspective, go see her work in her first solo exhibition at the Eyestorm Gallery in Exeter from November 24. We’re sure that some people might be taken in by The National Autistic Society is bringing its Make School Make Sense campaign to the People’s Republic with an event at Exeter’s West of England School and College, on Thursday, November 23. It’s Melting Pot again tonight. ‘Is it?’ we hear you froth. Yes, it bally-well is. This session will see the region’s great and good (oh, and the parvenus from PRSD) gathering to watch top combos Civilian and Supenik strutting their stuff. We’ll tell you all about it tomorrow, by which time you should be able to have a listen It isn’t ‘arf odd some of the flotsam and jetsam that bob past us here at the People’s Republic news wharf, but we would not be doing our job if we didn’t tell you about at least a few of them. And we deal with such a broad church of (lefty) thinking, that this just |
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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
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