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Volunteering information

Picture this. You’re a silver surfer who’s just retired but wants to remain active. And it stands to reason you’d like to ‘give a bit back to society’, being a PRSD reader and all. But what to do?

Well, Sharon Woodhams, from the Royal National Institute of the Blind no less, has got in touch looking

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Spidey sense

Our chums over at D+CFilm are getting pretty excited about Spider-Man 3 being released next week.

So much so, they’re running a five-part interview with director Sam Raimi next week, leading up to the movie’s release on Friday. He goes into some detail about making the film, working with the cast and, erm, photographing sand.

Of course,

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Gift of the garb

It may come as a surprise, especially given our hip’n’swinging PRSD T-shirts, but we actually know very little about the world of fashion.

But as our dear old mudder used to say about art (and indeed literature, films and music), ‘we don’t know anything about it, but we know what we like’.

Which is why we

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Watch Kolo

Fantasmagoric? You decide when you watch Kolo on SpectralWorkshop.tv in the Melting Pot Studio Session at the Music Mill Studio, Newton Abbot.

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Pressure points

According to new figures, citizens of the People’s Republic have the UK’s highest incidence of undiagnosed high blood pressure.

That’s bad news because anyone with hypertension (as the boffins like to call it) is several times more likely to have a stroke.

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Paignton the town red

Hullo viewer, Thin White Duke here. We were just wondering if you fancied a Bit On The Side?

If so, get yourself to Paignton this very evening for the first-ever Aeon Indi sesh, and catch PRSD Melting Pot faves Nixon And The Burn, Supenik and Memo in action.

The Bit On The Side ‘joke’ refers to the

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A beautiful friendship

If you’re thinking the problems of three people aren’t worth a hill of beans in this crazy world, you may be right. Pop over to D+CFilm arthouse listings to find out what you can do about it.

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Working model

Trade unions in the People’s Republic are calling on MPs and employers to formally commemorate the two million people killed globally each year as a result of work.

For while April 28 has been designated International Workers Memorial Day by trade unions worldwide since 1990, the UK Government has failed to mark the occasion.

Now the TUC

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Business deal

A support programme for disabled citizens interested in starting their own business will be launched on Friday by disability charity Leonard Cheshire in partnership with Barclays.

The Ready To Start initiative offers support and training to help 600 disabled people nationwide realise their ambition of starting their own business.

The local launch will take place at Plymouth

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Reel busy

Ecky thump, it’s been all go over at D+CFilm. But don’t video your kids fighting cos you missed it all – we’ve cherry-picked the best movie-type stories from round the region and listed them below.

1. Julien Temple ‘turns rebellion into money’ jibe

2. Poshos pay to watch ‘glorified telly’ bobbins

3. ‘Homoerotic scrapping’ frowned on at film

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Melting Post podcast 16

Paignton hear our plea – get some good music in your gut. First, listen to the podcast, featuring Nixon and the Burn, Zach Nolan, Less than Me, and Kolo (as a preview to their spot on the Melting Pot Studio Session on SpectralWorkshop.tv).
Second, get down to the Bit On The Side (that’s next to the

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Who’s your daddy?

The whole notion of fatherhood is explored by Jonathan Brown in his one-man show, The Father Monologues, which is at The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter, on April 26 and 27.

He told us here at the People’s Republic (via his website of course), that he wanted to ‘write, and perform, a series of plays so involving that

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