By PRSD, on Friday, April 27, 2007 | 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
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By PRSD, on Thursday, April 26, 2007 | 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
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By PRSD, on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 | 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
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By PRSD, on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 | 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
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 - () By PRSD, on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 | - () 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
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By PRSD, on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 | It may have passed you by (as Ringo Starr might sing), but today is Devon Carbon Day. Yup, those carbon footprints leave a heck of a mess on the carpet, don’t they?!
Ah, we jest. The day is actually part of Devon County Council’s Discover Devon Naturally wheeze – aiming to highlight the impact of
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By PRSD, on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 | If you’re worried you’ve already reached your quota of tv, you can turn off the darn thing by being a moral crusader rather than toadying to the whims of the loons who want to ban it completely – hey, some of us were educated by the telly back in our toddlerage, and who can be
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