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Coalition pledge to look into finding a solution to unfair South West water bills

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Torbay MP Adrain Sanders has led a delegation of MPs to meet chief secretary of the Treasury Danny Alexander to discuss the continuing unfairness of high water and sewerage charges in the South West since privatisation

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Ejected UKIP MEP is a ‘disgrace’

Godfrey Bloom MEP an embarrassment

UKIP have again disgraced themselves when a member of their party started shouting Nazi slogans at the Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz

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Plymouth University students occupation in Roland Levinsky building to protest Coalition's education cuts

Plymouth students against cuts

Plymouth University students are protesting the Coalition’s cuts in education and rise in tuition fees with an occupation in the Roland Levinsky building

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Plymouth has got to ‘Raise the Bar’

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Plymouth City Council makes a lot of noise about promoting the city, but when given a real chance to do something positive with the architectural structure of the city it fails. That’s just not good enough say architect Robert Bedner

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Nuclear graveyard? No thanks!

Radiation warning symbol

Plymouth should not be the place where nuclear submarines come to die, says Stuart Bonar. While campaigning for the historic links to the Royal Navy, the city needs to diversify economically and protect itself from death by a thousand cut – but that doesn’t mean putting the city’s population in the potential danger of a toxic incident

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Anger over council’s latest moves in Hollicombe toxic dust campaign

Residents' campaign

Residents groups, Preston School Governors and Community Partnership members are angry at being sidelined by Torbay Council in talks over the plans to redevelop toxic land adjacent to to Preston Primary School

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Protest against broken promises outside Plymouth Lib Dem conference

Plymouth Labour demo

The Lib Dems had education as a cornerstone of their General Election campaign, and there’s real anger now at their u-turn on tuition fees, which was on display outside their conference in Plymouth. The Lib Dems didn’t even have higher education on the agenda, says Luke Pollard, who reports

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