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Looking for Organic Places to Stay: It’s our Green Book of the week

Linda Moss’s Organic Places to Stay: UK and Ireland is our Our Green Book book of the week this week, not least because it’s a finalist in the People’s Book awards.

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Save Plymouth CityBus campaign – watch Luke Pollard’s video

Public transport in Plymouth has gained support across party lines, according to Luke Pollard, one of the most influential Labour people on the web. Lib Dems and Tories, he says, have joined the Labour campaign in Plymouth to keep CityBus public.

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Wildspace Buckfastleigh, town centre community garden mosaic to be unveiled on July 24

Wildspace Buckfastleigh, the town centre community garden, has had a mosaic sign created for it by artist Shelley Wilcox.

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Got photos? Share them with the People’s Republic of South Devon

If you’re a photographer from Devon, or you take pictures of Devon, we’re keen to show off your work on the People’ s Republic of South Devon. You could be a photo-journalist, an portraitist or a happy snapper – it doesn’t matter, as long as your images do the talking (and if there’s a

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Shopaholics, help is at hand

How to deal with the negative effects of shopaholic over-consumption were investigated during an Exeter conference when delegates heard how cognitive behaviour therapy is proving to be effective in treating compulsive buyers.

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Journalism and the People’s Republic of South Devon: the work experience view

During the week I spent on work experience with The People’s Republic of South Devon, who’d have known how many important issues we’d report on.

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Get ready for the latest media revolution! Er… local paper limps into technology

With the quaint hyperbole of ‘pushing the boundaries of information technology’, it seems the Mid-Devon Advertiser is taking its turn to follow what we’ve been doing on the People’s Republic of South Devon for ages – page-turning technology for publications, and apparently you can click on ‘links’ to get through to ‘advertisers’. Now that’s

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