Money worries feature high for the South West in the Samaritan’s latest annual survey, with more than half the people in the region worried they will not have enought money to live comfortably next year
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The Companionship Of People who are Elderly at Xmas campaign (COPE@Xmas) is offering older people (that’s 55+) a free lunch and an overnight stay this Christmas. Organised by the Abbeyfield Charity, the deadline to register is Tuesday, December 21 2 comments - ()
Social campaigner Charles Kinglsey, best known nowadays as the author of The Water Babies, which changed attitudes in Victorian England, spent some time in Livermead. Kevin Dixon explores 1 comment - ()
Somerset County Council is set to close libraries, but the Green Party there says the cuts are ideologically fueled rather than an economic necessity 
Office socks will keep the office staff warm at Newton Abbot Town. The stripy toe-warmers were presented by Dean Turner of Winner’s Gym Kingsteignton as part of the Newton’s Cradle energy saving project and organised by Jane Baker of the Transition Newton Abbot Energy group 
South West MEP Graham Watson is in the running for the British MEP of the Year 2010 award. But of the five other contenders two are Tories, and get this, two are from UKIP! Still its conducted by ‘Conservative blog’ Political Pundits. Nevertheless… Go Graham!? 
Budding artists aged between 11 and 16, who are passinote about Mangas, Animes, Comics and Graphic Novels, can get expert tuition and support at a special two day workshop at Soundart Radio, Dartington |
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