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By PRSD, on Friday, February 29, 2008
posted by Cptn
Stand up Teignbridge District Council and take a bow. The plans to to scrap free companion bus passes for carers has been dropped.
But such sensibility is not always present in councils.
“The last-minute decision to retain the passes for carers shows how Teignbridge is committed to carers and those they care for, and how
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By Neil, on Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday morning I sat bleary eyed looking at this computer screen while these words appear, my mind flicks back like an excited elastic band, to the events of the previous night. (Had to past tense it because I didn’t get round to posting it yesterday….)
Monday the 25th February was relaxed at Café Concrete. Amidst
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By PRSD, on Thursday, February 28, 2008
posted by Cptn
As Fairtrade fortnight rumbles around, we thought we’d remind you that we have a box of super Fairtrade goodies from those good people at the EthicalSuperstore.com
All you have to do is drop us a line about what you’re doing to promote Fairtrade in Devon, and we’ll pick the winner out of a suitably
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By PRSD, on Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Super starlette-in-waiting Ems Coombes will be taking those first steps into the pantheon of theatrical folklore on Saturday at 10am in Totnes. Ems is raising money for her own theatrical troupe as well as Headway, the brain injury charity, by walking up and down Totnes High Street between the Seven Stars and the Barrel House.
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By PRSD, on Tuesday, February 26, 2008
posted by Cptn
Our friends, the Birds, Orphans and Fools have got in touch to tell us about an event on March 9 at the Voodoo Lounge, Exeter Phoenix.
They say, in a ‘roll-up, roll-up’ stylee: “Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal should expect a DJ soundscape of space-age Turk Surf, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats,
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By PRSD, on Monday, February 25, 2008
posted by Kroak
- Plymouth Art Centre, 8th Feb – 6th April
stanza image from www.stanza.co.uk
Inspired by online social networking software, which to you and me is Facebook and Myspace etc, ‘the artists and researchers from i-DAT try to form a real life hub for a Plymouth’. The accompanying Introduction to the Exhibition leaflet explains the concept
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By PRSD, on Sunday, February 24, 2008
posted by Cptn
Denizen of the republic, and super person to share popcorn with, Josie McCoy is showing several new paintings (including the Christina Ricci picture above) at the Suburbia show – a night of performance and musical pleasure – at the Foreign Press Association, London, on March 1.
Josie’s work will also be included in another
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By PRSD, on Saturday, February 23, 2008
The EthicalSuperstore got in touch with us to offer a giveaway and a bit of inspiration for Fairtrade fortnight, which started today.
If you’re organising an event to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, here’s a kit that contains everything you need – posters, samples, cards and flyers. We’ve got one to give away, just let us know what
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By PRSD, on Saturday, February 23, 2008
posted by Jess Sains
Evian. Volvic. That one that turned out to be basically Peckham Springs. All bottled waters, all brand names, all an issue this week. In Britain alone we spend some two billion pounds a year on the stuff. Stuff we can get clean and treated from our taps, in our houses. Stuff which
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By PRSD, on Friday, February 22, 2008
posted by Cptn
Lemanis are all set to chalk their mark in history when they play the Reel Cinema, Plymouth, tonight.
Following in the footsteps of the Beatles, Deep Purple and Cream, these guys have been likened to the Pink Floyd, the Beach Boys and even the Polyphonic Spree… (but you’d like them anyway).
To us, they’re just
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By PRSD, on Friday, February 22, 2008
posted by Cptn
What delights there are for Fairtrade fortnight.
Brixham-based ethical fashionistas Quail are offering loads of discounts of their hip and happening range of clothes online.
Not only that, but Quail has banded together with Traidcraft and have nabbed a free rent shop on the Brixham high street for two week, temporary shop.
Quail’s Shauna Chapman told
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