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Power talker

posted by Cptn

Advocate of nuclear power, Giles Chichester MEP, has been invited by the Industry Forum to give the keynote address at their Meeting on Climate Change at the Chemical Industries Association in London today.

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Phig’s comic workshops

Friends, republicans, countrymen… lend me yer eyeballs. Phig Billy here, the PRSD’s resident gonzo cartoonist, eager to report back on his very first all-day comic book workshop last weekend. The event was supported/enabled by the Farringdon Society of Arts and took place at the village hall in Farringdon on Saturday June 21.

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Births, deaths and marriages

posted by Cptn

A Humanist wedding on Slapton Sands

Friday’s a funeral and Saturday’s bride, as the song goes, and we have hot news from the humanists that non-religious weddings, baby-namings and funerals are becoming far more popular in Devon.

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The Old Men of Computing

The weekly technology column from those good people at Plymouth’s
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Being accustomed to our compact desktop computers and even smaller laptops (and even smaller pdas), it’s easy to forget how it all began. Forget Charles Babbage and his complex 19th century tinkerings for a second – as important as they were, we’re going to bypass

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Book review – Russia

Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.

A five-part BBC2 series on Russia, with Jonathan Dimbleby as the presenter and the author of a meaty tie-in is a no-brainer as far as I am concerned. In Russia, A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People, the authors travels thousands of

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Laban dance bursary

posted by Cptn

Rudolf Laban is to dance what William Morris is to upholstery. And as part of its 70-year celebration of his shimmy across Dartington’s doorstep (and 50th anniversary of his death) the place is offering a limited number of bursaries to local people on its four-day Laban dance programme.

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North Devon art trek

posted by Cptn

News has reached us, with a following wind, that our comrades up north, North Devon that is, have an incredibly thriving arts scene, thank you very much. ‘What about our Art Trek? Came the collective creative cry from the North Shore.

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Northcult (review)

Greetings people’s republicans. Phig Billy hereby apologises for the delay writing this up, but I had an extremely eventful weekend including the rip-roaring success of my first all-day comic book workshop. (You know, for kids.) More on that later, but first…

On Friday I was invited to attend the launch night of the first xNorthcult exhibition

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Exeter Beyond the Car

posted by Cptn

If yesterday’s cycling fun in Exeter is to make more a lasting impression (saddle soreness notwithstanding), then it might be advisable for all those peddle pushers to freewheel it to the Exeter Beyond the Car talk by Peter Lipman, organised by Low Carbon Exeter, which takes place at the Music Room, Exeter Central

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A single bill

We got notification from Equality South West that on Wednesday, June 24 Harriet Harman, Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, is expected to make an announcement on the Single Equality Bill.

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The Smaller Things of Politics

posted by Jess Sains

There has been considerable strife over the last few months,as we live in a mainly rural community with many older people in its demographic, about the closure of post offices. Now the Royal Mail has announced which offices will be closing in Devon, the strife is reaching fever pitch in some areas.

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BearNav, surely not…

The weekly technology column from those good people at Plymouth’s
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I wasn’t planning to do another story on robots this week, but I came across this and was forced to change my mind. Meet the teddy bear who will finally put an end to those age-old arguments between driver and navigator. The days when romantic

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