Even when you get retro when it comes to this recession, there are still some marked improvements since the 1980s. For example, now when people say get on your bike, they could be talking about the new Cycle This Way project for older cyclists to gain skills and confidence, which starts in Ashburton on
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 Friday, July 17 marks the 175th anniversary of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and as part of this year’s commemoration, there will be a screening of the 1986 Bill Douglas film Comrades, followed on Monday, July 20 by an exhibition at the Bill Douglas Centre, Exeter University. Katie Marie is preparing for her next German tour, and her album is coming together, meanwhile, she takes in Barron Brady at The Great Hall in Dartington After spending the past two weeks in the ’80s, I thought I’d best step back into the present – as I think telling you all about my 2 comments - ()Roll on school summer holidays and there’s a crackdown on illegal child employment in Devon, cue work experience person’s sigh and ‘I was going to try to get a job, but I won’t bother’. Does the Morgan Stanley intern have such woes, we wonder? Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross has been busy asking questions in Parliament, and not just about his usual hobby horse, heritage buildings, these questions could be said to have a daringly real relevance to his constituents. Go Richard! The headline news for the South West from the government’s low carbon strategy is the centre for marine energy with the Wave Hub project. There are plenty of other strong environmental commitments too, but it’s delivery of these commitments that really count, says RegenSW’s chief executive Merlin Hyman, and in many areas there are 4 comments - ()The Orwellian-sounding ‘Information Commissioner’ is apparently investigating a local website which exposes the “disgusting behaviour” of open-air sex around Haldon Wood. 1 comment - ()There’s (surprise, surprise) a delay to the announcement on the Devon local government make up, which gives us more time to ponder the figures that have emerged about the cost to Devon councils. So far it seems that only Exeter and East Devon spent anything significant on the process – at least £650,000 and 9 comments - ()The Totnes Tories have picked their candidates to fight it out to fight the next General Election. They are Nick Bye, the oft reviled mayor of Torbay, Sarah Randall Johnson, who led East Devon into spend at least £175,000 to fight the Devon unitary plans, and Dr Sarah Wollaston, a, er GP. 3 comments - ()What is it with South Devon Prospective Parliamentary Candidates? Not only has Lib Dem Sally Morgan ‘let off some steam’, but Newton Abbot Tory PPC Anne Marie Morris has been caught out claiming a candidate in the Devon County Council election was a Communist – heaven forfend! 1 comment - ()There’s been plenty of opposition to a waste incinerator on the flood plain in the middle of Barnstaple – the Green Party has been banging on about it, and so have the Devon Socialist Party, along with the North Devon Socialists in their Devon Residents Against Incinerators in their Drain campaign. And worryingly private Dartington and Duchy College team up for horticulture course, as Seale-Hayne in final stages of saleDartington has teamed up the Duchy College, Cornwall, to create a new course on sustainable horticulture just when former agricultural college Seale-Hayne is in the final stages of bids to sell off the estate. Why did East Devon DC spend more than £175,000 on fighting the Boundary Committee and the plans for unitary Devon? After digging up the minimal sum spent by East Devon District Council, we asked all the district councils how much they have spent on this whole unitary Devon business. 1 comment - ()A 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern told the world that his peers wouldn’t pay for websites and they spend most of their time downloading songs illegally. We at the People’s Republic of South Devon also have interns, although we call them work experience people – they are, after all, putting in the graft for not-for-profit |
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