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Ever feel like you’re swimming against the tide? We’ve got the low down of all the South West councils with are providing free swimming for the over 60s and under 16s.
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 1 comment - () posted by Cptn Torbay Council has been awarded a Green Apple environmental award for its attempts to promote recycling across the Bay. posted by Cptn Our old friends at RegenSW, the region’s sustainability energy agency, has just got £2 million investment from the South West RDA. 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn Lemanis will be launching their album The Truth About a Push Me-Pull You at the Hippo (the renamed Plymouth Hub) on Saturday, February 28 (that’s two days before Valentine’s Day for those looking to woo). We are assured there will be at least 12 of the band in attendance, and they’ll posted by Cptn As Barack Obama takes his place in the White House, we offer up our own reminiscence of the George W Bush years. 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn According to those sooth-sayers and star-gazers in the South West Observatory Intelligence Network, ‘the increase in unemployment and the downturn in the housing market across the region will be the hot topics for 2009.’ No shit, Sherlock. posted by Cptn Get up and dance – the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, is on the look for Hip Hop dance acts to perform as part of Break in Convention (or is that Breakin Convention?) ,its international festival of Hip Hop Dance Theatre on Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23. posted by Cptn The annual lantern-lit musical procession to scare away bad spirits and bring good luck to your orchard – wassailing – is taking place today at Occombe Farm. posted by Cptn Kolo during the Melting Pot studio sessions, at Malcolm Toft’s Newton Abbot studio, the Music Mill , South Devon music maestro Malcolm Toft, who worked with the People’s Republic of South Devon on the Melting Pot studio sessions, has been awarded a visiting professorship in music technology by Leeds College of Music. Devon peace worker Jenny Linnell‘s images from the Gaza Strip charting an “escalation of the ground offensive”. Read the full report, Jenny Linnell in Rafah, Gaza from 14.01.09. 1 comment - ()“It was the hardest day of our lives.” Wednesday 14th January, 2009. The latest report of what’s happening in Gaza from 33-year-old Totnes resident Jenny Linnell. In an escalation of the ground offensive in the south of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces terrorised the population of Khoza’a, a small rural community east of Khan Younis. posted by Cptn Some £5 million from the sale of Exeter Airport is to be ploughed into a green form of travel as Devon County Council has drawn up a plan to turn Devon into the top destination for cycle tourism. It’s exciting times here at the People’s Republic of South Devon, and here’s why – tea-glugging tunester Katie Marie, who’s preparing to hot foot it to Germany for the next leg on her road to European domination, will be providing a regular Thursday feature entitled Not Bad For a Girl. Over to you, Katie. Lou Brown spoke to South Devon peace worker Jenny Linnell, who is in the Gaza Strip. This is the report of their conversation: “Yesterday they went to a rural area nearby where she worked last time she was in Gaza. There was an incursion there on Tuesday, troups entered and left again. They started bulldozing |
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