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Ill behaviour

The number of meningitis cases traditionally peaks in February, which is why a beezer new website has been launched to offer advice about the illness.

MeningitisUK.org is designed to encourage citizens to become familiar with the symptoms of this devastating disease and to support the charity’s search for a vaccine.

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Melting Pot podcast #5

Getting to grips with the underbelly of the Devon music scene.

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Featuring tracks from David Sanders, Smith and the Lushious Ricky’s.

Or check out the Melting Pot site.

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Muddy waters

‘Would You Drink This?’ may sound like a game you’d play with your girlfriend after too many bottles of wine (erm, possibly), but it’s actually a new campaign from the lovely folk at WaterAid.

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Innovate or die

Media innovations? Why, us li’l ole things? Well, yes, and stop talking like Penelope Pitstop.

The Melting Pot has been shortlisted by Plymouth Media Partnership for its innovations award – huzzah! But what’s innovative about getting young bands together for an interview and live session with an audience, streaming it all and then pulling certain tracks

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Morsels on which to suck

Art/protest; protest/art. Hey, who knows, but whether it’s partying on down down on the underground or taking apart the shopping psychology A-Z in the Bullring, you’ll get a healthy dollop of both from the Vacuum Cleaner in their 13 Morsels to Suck On at the Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday, January 30.

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Eaze does it

Who needs a farmers’ market when you’ve got foodeaze?

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All for inconvenience

The truth was inconvenient for about 100 residents of Bovey Tracey a couple of Sundays ago, who turned out in their Sunday Best/100s/indignation* to view the Inconvenient Truth at Bovey’s Town Hall. Most stayed for the climate change discusion afterwards and then quite a few signed up to Bovey Climate Action, the grassroots and practical

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A lotto support

Does buying your weekly lottery ticket leave you with a deep sense of self-loathing and disgust? Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself, citizen.

Thanks to your money-grubbing chancery (and a heap of dosh from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards For All programme) teenagers leaving care can have a go at a scheme leading to some

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Branching out

We at the People’s Republic have finally twigged (geddit?) to sculptor Andy Goldsworthy’s exhibition at Plymouth College of Art and Design – thanks Jo. The man of nature, who uses stones, twigs (see that was funny), ice and even snow in his work, will have his work on display at the college in Tavistock Place,

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Film round-up

I want Candy! Sang Bow Wow Wow. But if you want Candy, or even Heath Ledger, check out the arthouse film roundup on D+CFilm.

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I need a hero

Any kids who watched Bryan Singer’s recent film would be forgiven for thinking Superman spends his days convincing Lois to ditch her hubby and getting chinned by skinny bald blokes. Wadda swizz.

That’s why (kinda) ChildLine is giving youngsters the chance to put the spotlight on their own everyday heroes by nominating them for the BT

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Josie Long jokes

Stand-up comedian Josie Long has been taking the biscuit all over the place, that’s touring around the country to you granddad! She’ll be in the Exeter Phoenix tonight.

And according to her promotional literature, she’s really rather funny. But wait, those outrageous claims are backed up by funny people we know and love, like Stewart Lee,

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