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The eat local challenge. Can you Eat for Devon?

Devon Countryside

Can you only eat local food for a week? It’s a challenge that Teign Estuary Transition are setting for the end of August to see if such an experiment is possible and affordable.

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Loving local Devon!

social entrepreneur Zion Lights

Devon has a lot to offer for those looking for local produce. Zion Lights highlights a few that have inspired her: Shillingford Organics, Riverford Organic and OrganicARTS (…other organic organisations focusing on local produce are available…).

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Torquay's other history: the inspiration of folk superstars Donovan and Mac Macleod

Torquay Harbour

Folk superstar Donovan spent a summer in Torquay, where he wrote his first hit – and picked up his famous fisherman’s cap in Brixham. The rest, as they say, is history

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Divine Dartmoor Walks: walking the standing stones on Dartmoor with the Fernworthy circular route

Grey Wethers

From forest to open moorland, this seven-mile walk of medium difficulty takes in a wealth of history including stone rows and stone circles.

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In future, let the people decide on unitary status, say Exeter Greens

Exeter Green Party

The Exeter Green Party says important decisions, like the Exeter Unitary campaign, should be left to residents, rather than politicians, who maybe motivated by poltics rather than the well-being or residents

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A sense of demob happiness among MEPs: Graham Watson's email from Europe

South West MEP Graham Watson

Before the MEPs get to enjoy their ‘grande vacancy’, there’s work to tie up, and that has included discussing the heavily charged ‘broad economic policy guidelines’, or the 1.4 billion euro overrun on costs for the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor in southern France, says Graham Watson in his email from Europe

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Save the Hoe Centre campaign in Plymouth is gaining momentum, but will there be anything left to save?

Hoe Centre, Plymouth

Plymouth’s campaign to save its landmark Hoe Centre and former NAAFI building is heating up, even though the demolition has started and the listed building status is being re-examined

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