Pet-ty cash

Plymouth’s Woodside Sanctuary is appealing for citizens of the People’s Republic to sponsor their resident animals – and the good news is, the scheme has nothing to do with sitting in a bath of baked beans with a puppy.

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Soft Shell

Fledgling businesses in the People’s Republic will probably want to compete in this year’s Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year compo and snap up a £10,000 top prize – and seeing as the company made around £20 billion last year, largely through environmentally damaging operations, mabybe it’s about time these suckers gave something back.

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Remembering Jamie McCullough

Now approaching its second week, don’t you think it’s about time you pulled on your shoes and experienced some living art – ok, go for a stroll in the wood then? But if you do venture out to Haldon, you’ll be reliving an artistic vision of interaction and involvement – but don’t just take our

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Turn on the style

Much anticipated. Just tune in and turn on to the best in music.

Still Numb

You’ve heard the tunes, now see the pictures – Numb performing at the Music Mill studios, Newton Abbot, for the Melting Pot. What next, moving pictures? Why, yes, of course. Check back tomorrow night for SpectralWorkshop tv.

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Supporting role

The NSPCC is urging all 1,419 of their campaigning supporters living in Devon to back their call to the Government to ensure all child witnesses have the support they need to bring abusers to justice.

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Melting Pot Podcast #9

Catch up with top new sounds and boy is it worth it. Ben O’Sullivan pines for Putney, Lynch Rider Lulu goes singing in the rain, and Victoria Hulme makes you go weak at the knees. Plus Niki goes behind the scenes at the Plymouth Media Partnership innovation awards show, err almost. And we preview

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Healthy response

Hullo viewers, Thin White Duke here. We’ve had a lengthy email from a PRSD citizen called David Howard about our NHS story. He’s obviously gotta load of stuff to get off his chest – waaaay more than we have room for. Nevertheless, we’ve decided to post an abridged version below. Hey, if you can’t have

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Screen idol

The People’s Republic of South Devon may have missed out on a gong at Thursday night’s Plymouth Media Partnership innovation awards but there was good news for local director and PRSD fave Emma Kempton.

Flip over to D+CFilm to find out why and watch her latest film.

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Club MED

They came, they saw, they conquered! The Romans? Err, kinda. But I’m thinking of MED Theatre, who just over 18 years ago set up their company on the moor. And, barely recovered from the hangover of celebrating the modern coming of age, they will be touring Devon with Cassiterides – The Romans on Dartmoor

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Pound notes

And you thought Totnes’s bid to become The Nut Tree Capital Of Britain was kooky.

Now, as part of the Transition Town Totnes wheeze, a limited number of Totnesian ‘pounds’ are being put into local circulation to launch the Economics and Livelihoods group on Wednesday, March 7 at St Johns Church, Bridgetown.

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Post pop pickers

Angelina Jolie may be the sexiest person alive ever (or something like that) according to Channel 4, but you can check out a different side to her in Josie McCoy’s paintings – a kind of post Pop Art lost look, perhaps.

McCoy, one of the Republic’s favourite painters of people from telly, will be showing

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Every loser wins

Shucks guys, the Melting Pot Sessions – the musical collaboration between The People’s Republic of South Devon, AEON and some other third thing – was just pipped to the post by the incredibly exciting Plymouth Music Zone to win the Plymouth Media Partnership Innovation award for best community website – and they are quite cool,

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Booted and Suited

So us here at the People’s Republic are getting booted and suited, ready for the prize ceremony of innovative media (pah! anyone can do this, but don’t tell them). Niki of AEON and Melting Pot fame will be on hand – and you never know we might be able to give you a bit of

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