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

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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,

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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

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BearNav, surely not…

The weekly technology column from those good people at Plymouth’s Orange Crate

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.

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Movie Monkey

posted by Cptn

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Mounting the Scaffold – The Weaver Twins. Directed by Darren Jones

As Mounting the Scaffold, the lastest Weaver Twins music video, is hot off the press and still a little moist, those film fanatics over at D+CFilm decided to get in touch with the pop video power house that is

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Book review – The Bolter

Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.

Frances Osbourne’s great grandmother, Idina Sackville, is the subject of The Bolter, and is the story of her scandalous life in the 1920s. Part of high society at the time, and the inspiration for Nancy Mitford’s character also known as The Bolter, she gained

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