Will Plymouth public transport to go private? Go Ahead buses offer £20.2 million for CityBus

Plymouth council has been offered more than £20 million for CityBus, the city’s bus service, from the firm Go Ahead buses

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Tree planting enviro-thon at Crealy

Crealy leisure park is pushing to become carbon neutral by the end of 2010 and is holding tree planting parties (along with other enviro-measures) to make sure it reaches its environmental target

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No fare on bus fare! Teignbridge MP rallies support for free bus pass scheme

Teignbridge’s Lib Dem MP Richard Younger-Ross will be in Newton Abbot campaigning to keep the concessionary bus fare scheme on Saturday

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Not Bad For A Girl: Katie Marie prepares for her gig at the Barrel House, Totnes

Katie Marie is playing the Barrel House, Totnes, with Dan Crisp on Sunday November 22. She’s really excitied because ‘last time we put on a gig @ The Barrel House I was so humbled by how many peeps showed and we had such a great time’, says Katie.

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Countryside Alliance is tallyho! for a Tory win, but will they get their hunts back?

Torbay Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Marcus Wood might have burst the bubble of the Countryside Alliance’s hopes for a reintroduction of hunting

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Goodbye to donkeys wearing rosettes, but only if turkeys vote for Christmas! The week of Teign MP Richard Younger-Ross

Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross has had a varied week of discussing electoral reform, opening Christmas Markets, and promoting healthy living and climate change, as well as saying goodbye to actor Edward Woodward

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What is land for? (You may be surprised at the answer. Clue: it's to do with food, fuel and climate change)

Exeter Univeristy’s Professor Michael Winter edited the book What is Land for? The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate, it includes contributions from more than 50 leading academics, including key researchers from the UK research councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use Programme

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You'd have to be "an imbecile – or a government minister" to believe the guff on ID cards

Exeter No2ID announce the arrival of voluntary ID cards in Manchester, which it says aren’t as straight-forward as the Home Office claims

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Fight against increase in student top-up fees. Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross joins the battle. Where do you stand?

Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross is standing up for students and young people. He told the PRSD: “I believe that a university education should be free and everyone who has the ability should be able to go to university and not be put off by cost.”

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Totnes MP Anthony Steen asks questions on human trafficking

Totnes MP Anthony Steen has been in the House of Commons asking questions about human trafficking

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Rare photography exhibition in Newton Abbot to aid Devon Wildlife Trust

Photographer Vicki Gardener is donating 25 per cent of her takings from her Devon Rarities book to the Devon Wildlife Trust. An exhibition of her work is part of the Newton Abbot Art Trail

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Extreme Kissing at Exeter Waterstone's as Children's Authors' Roadshow rolls into town

Extreme Kissing children’s author Devon’s own Luisa Plaja, will sign copies of her books at Exter Roman Gate Waterstones with Carnegie prize nominee Elen Caldecott in a Children’s Authors’ Roadshow event at the store’s Christmas Shopping Evening

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Working from home? Make your office child friendly PLUS a 15% discount on Greener Products for PRSD readers!

Euro Office have offered the readers of the PRSD at 15 per cent discount on their Greener Products range, plus some tips on keeping your home office child friendly

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How does parliament affect the voluntary sector? Find out in Dawlish

Dawlish and East Teignbridge Volunteer Bureau will be hosting a Parliamentary Outreach Team workshop on how the Voluntary Sector can work with parliament

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