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Fine proposals for recycling

posted by Cptn

Exeter City Council has been banging on the door of getting money of out people who put the wrong rubbish in the wrong bins for ages (or should that be wrong rubbish in the right recycling container?) and a proposal to be considered by the council may introduce fines for persistent recycling offenders.
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Kolo go large

Kolo during their PRSD set Melting Pot Studio Session at the Music Mill Studio, Newton Abbot
Kolo during their PRSD set Melting Pot Studio Session at the Music Mill Studio, Newton Abbot

Hard work, dedication and a bucket full of crackin’ tunes are paying off for Devon three-piece Kolo, who are set to embark on their first stadium tour as support for US supa-group Three Doors Down. And who’da thought, just two years ago the PRSD tipped them for the top when we talked about the “power pop trio from Exeter” “twatting around with a synthesiser” .

Lee Morgan spoke to Mark from the band to find out more about the tour, which will start at the O2 Centre (that’s the former Millennium Dome to you).

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Tessa Clarke interview

Tessa Clarke collects all kinds of everything to put together in her multi-media art work. Lee Morgan speaks to her about art and enchantment.

Tessa Clarke has taught her colleagues to collect sweet wrappers. She flattens them and stores them and keeps them until she can use them in her work. Tessa is a hoader, but more than that, she sees beauty in everything and waits until it can shine in her art.
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Exeter gets burlesque

posted by Cptn

The burgeoning Burlesque scene is spreading to Exeter on Saturday night with the unveiling of Kinky and Quirky’s kooky evening of entertainment swaggering up the Tigga’s Bar in Exeter.

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The ‘original’ side of the net

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

Orange Crate

The internet is a bit like a sprawling metropolis, with its huge variety of inhabitants, sections, and contents. We are all familiar with the popular central locations such as Google, Facebook, MSN, YouTube etc, but these only make up a fragment of vastness of the web. So what constitutes the rest?
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Goth march

posted by Cptn

Lest we forget the crime of being different – albeit within an established subculture – Plymouth Goths are getting together on Sunday for a memorial march to murdered Sophie Lancaster.

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Fundraiser makes a splash

posted by Cptn

Continuing summer’s watery theme, members of Dartington Playgoers and volunteers from Totnes Oxfam are getting together tonight at St John’s Church, Bridgetown at 7.30pm, for an assortment of words and music based on, in or around… water.

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