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Book review – Our Own Piece of Paris, How We Fell in Love with the City of Light,

Sarah Clarke of The Torbay Bookshop reviews the latest releases.

Your own little apartment in Paris? Could be an impossible dream for most but not for Ellie Nielson and Our Own Piece of Paris, How We Fell in Love with the City of Light, is her witty and charming account of how she set about doing

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Summer poets season – Bill Greenwell

The PRSD summer poets season continues with a piece by the incredibly prolific Bill Greenwell.

Writer, poet, teacher and journalist, Bill writes every day (!), and has been doing so for 30 years (!!).

His work has been been featured in pretty much everything and pretty much all over the place, most notably (for us anyway) a

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Torquay Fringe – Tone Holman

We’re all for recycled art here in the People’s Republic of South Devon, and making something useful out of what others throw away, things that the everyday folk leave behind… err.. reminds us of our youth. This year at the Torquay Fringe, Jerwood Prize short-listed Tone Holman’s offers up life-size polar bears made of recycled

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Torquay Fringe – Emma Carter

Today Emma Carter steps into the limelight on the PRSD as a participant in the Torquay Fringe. Emma takes her inspiration from the ever-changing natural land and seascapes and her work is on display during the Fringe at The Blue Walnut cafe, Walnut Road, Chelston between August 15 -30.

Listen to Emma Carter talk about her

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Torquay Fringe – Beth Hughes

In the second of our series bigging up the next big thing in Torquay – the Torquay Fringe – we have a quiet word with Beth Hughes.

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Torquay Fringe – Anne Radu

August sees the advent of the first Torquay Fringe, with exciting exhibitions being held in alternative venues across the town throughout month. We got in touch with a mere handfull of those involved to find out a little more about them. Today it’s the turn of oganiser and all-round indomitable good-egg, Anne Radu.

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Driven to abstraction

posted by Cptn

Original prints by Wassily Kandinsky, the doughty Russian and tub-thumper of the abstract will be at the Brook Gallery in Budleigh Salterton, and the father of abstraction with share the billboard with Exeter-based Patrick Jones.

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The World According to Google

The weekly technology column from those good people at Plymouth’s
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It has been said by many (and proudly quoted by Google) that Google’s search engine is “the closest thing the Web has to an ultimate answering machine”. And it is because of Internet searching that Google has become a worldwide household name. But how many

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Are you a Global Player?

posted by Cptn

They don’t often pong, but they don’t arf ping – the Blind Ditch artist group is at it again, and this time with all the thrills and spills that is the white-knuckle ride of outdoor table tennis.

As a lead up to the Beijing Summer Olympics a custom built table tennis table is being

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Comment on the RSS (on this occasion that’s Regional Spacial Strategy)

posted by Cptn

Did you know that communities minister Baroness Andrews has come out with such photofit quotes as: “The South West needs a long-term development vision that tackles the threat of climate change, addresses housing shortages and strengthens the region’s economy.”?

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Totnes Transitions to triumph, p’raps

posted by Cptn

There can be no losers in the Big Green Challenge, and the Transition Town Totnes crew have found themselves not losing right into the last 21 finalist of the competition which could give them a share of £1 million, but will definitely reduce the town’s carbon footprint,

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Rising tide for wave energy

posted by Cptn

Much as EquiMar might sound like the company behind Time Share apartments, the group is in fact, made up of 62 scientists for 11 European countries working on marine energy – that’s wave energy to you – and the south west looks set to be a leader in the renewable energy.