Not Bad For A Girl: Get ready for the gig – Sunday, April 26, Barrel House, Totnes

Katie Marie gears up for the April 26 gig at the Barrel House, Totnes

This Sunday is the big gig that I’ve been plugging like a crazy plugging person for the past month or so and last week I went on a massive poster and flyering mission, my idea of a good day’s

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Actors and make-up artist needed for South Devon short film

Filmmaker Ashley Wing, him of Poppies, A Hard Day’s Knight and OMG, is looking for cast and a make-up artist for his next film Robbing Peter.

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Share your images on the PRSD with Flickr

It is now easier to share your photographs on the People’s Republic of South Devon, with the PRSD Flickr group.

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Free compost giveaway in Buckfastleigh on Saturday, April 25

There will be a compost giveaway in Victoria Woodholme car park in Buckfastleigh on Saturday, April 25 – but get there early, apparently it goes like… something… off a shovel.

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Ethical business: Ethical Investors

In our on-going series on ethical business and social enterprises we got in touch with Chris Deacon of Ethical Investors UK

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Community event in Bakers Park, Newton Abbot, for May 3

Transition Town Newton Abbot and the Friends of Bakers Park are holding a community event in Bakers Park and Vicary’s Field Community Garden, Newton Abbot, between 2pm and 4.30pm on Sunday, May 3, which will involve a Wiggly Worm Quiz, make-and-play junk percussion sessions from litter found in the park and woods, as well

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Young Critics Competition calls for reviews of The Snow Queen at the Exeter Northcott

Young theatre critics have a chance to sharpen their prose in the Young Critics Competition when they write about what they think of Teatro Kismet’s The Snow Queen – it plays the Exeter Northcott theatre from Tuesday, April 28 to Thursday, April 30.

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Ide, near Exeter, community venture steps in to replace loss of village shop

Community shops are being set up to step in where commercial ventures sell up and move out, and the latest of these is in Ide, near Exeter.

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Free spring walk at Primley nature reserve, Paignton

A free nature walk around the Primley nature reserve to celebrate Spring and Plant Conservation Day, will take place on Saturday, May 16.

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British National Party set for electoral breakthrough, says new study

The British National Party has grown more rapidly than any other in 21st-century Britain, and is on the brink of an electoral breakthrough which would bring media attention and serious European cash.

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Plymouth-based label OneC release new limited edition album from Dr Ake – Stonehouse Dreams

If you give the Pirates of the Caribbean synthesizers and some life lessons they still wouldn’t come up with something so toe-tappingly visceral as Dr Ake’s Stonehouse Dreams, the new album on the Plymouth-based Onec label.

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David Challice chunters inanely (as usual) as the UKIP posse rolls into Exeter

‘Ask the American Indians what happens when you don’t control immigration’ begins the David Challice’s piece on this week’s Trago Mills advert, on the eve of the UKIP grand meeting Euro Election launch at Exeter University this weekend.

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Around Exeter – images of the city. Send in your own pictures of Devon

One of our intrepid reporters was in Exeter today on a totally unrelated story, but managed to take some snaps in the city. The Exeter Food Fair is taking place at the moment – this is as close as we got.

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Singtastic singers wanted by Teignmouth composer David Haines

Are you Singtastic? Teigmouth composer David Haines is looking for confident singers to join The Singtastic Singers, whose first public performance was at the World Museum in Liverpool as part of the British Science Association’s 2008 festival.

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