Tickety-boo

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

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…//Cafe Concrete gets bleary and rainy\\…

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.

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Fairtrade giveaway

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

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Stepping out with Ems

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

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Devon’s new strategy

posted by Cptn

Today the Devon Econonmic Parternship (DEP) will publish the Devon Economic Strategy (DES). And those def lot at DEP have sorted out the DES for up to 2015, which consists of six priorities, and from our reading could just be one sentence – doh!

One priority for a council, or anyone,

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Birds, Orphans and Fools present…

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

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S-OS: Social Operating System for Plymouth – i-DAT (art review)

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

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