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Exeter’s Dream-A-Way charity raises record fundraising total

Exeter-based charity Dream-A-Way, which sends disabled and seriously ill people on holidays and trips, raised a record fundraising total of £133,173 in 2008.

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Devon community hospitals to introduce new recycling initiative

Hospitals in Devon are set to introduce a recycling initiative that will reduce the NHS’s carbon footprint.

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Not Bad For A Girl: Acoustic gig at the Barrel House, Totnes, a success

Katie Marie the gig at the Barrel House, Totnes, was so good, another one is planned (although not just yet – there’s the Cheltenham Jazz Festival first)

You probably know (because I’ve been going on about it for the past month or so) the Acoustic gig, which I was organising at The Barrel

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Devon Goes Orange: have your say on the literary prize winning wannabes

Who needs literary judges? Make your own mind up about the merits, or lack of them, for the shortlist of this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction (OPF to those in the know), with Devon libraries.

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Barbican Jazz and Blues Festival youth photography competition winner a homage to Bird

The Barbican International Jazz and Blues Festival’s youth photography competition IMPROVISE! has been won by Felix Stephens, of Marlborough, Wiltshire, with his photo Bird/Bird Lives (up trees!) – that’s a reference to Charlie Parker to those missing their beep bop reflex.

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Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty team and Devon Wildlife Trust to host free workshop

The Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty team and Devon Wildlife Trust are hosting a free workshop to show gardeners how to create a haven for birds, butterflies, bees and bugs in their backyards.

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Rewards offered for strange sea sightings

The Association of Maritime Research (AMR) is offering rewards for sightings of strange phenomena on the South Coast after a couple spotted a ‘something’ as they walked along Boulogne Harbour.

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