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Dream up your own wildlife-themed ice-cream and win a year's supply!

By PRSD, on Saturday, February 20, 2010

Devon Wildlife Trust and Langage Farm have got together for an ice cream competition. Dream up your wildlife-themed flavour and you could win a year’s supply of ice cream, and help Devon Wildlife Trust at the same

'Made in Wakefield - and proud of it!' New Statesman supports small business

By PRSD Contributor, on Sunday, December 20, 2009

The New Statesmen has an add extolling the virtues of that Wakefield based firm, Coca-Cola

Musings on the Emma Thompson / Exeter University 'racism' story

By PRSD, on Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Emma Thompson and Exeter racism story has had us musing over the reaction. Here are some of our

Peter Wilby's Panglossian view of the political future

By PRSD, on Sunday, October 4, 2009

Peter Wilby in the New Statesman predicts the General Election result and the outcome of England in the World

Turning the air Blue – David Cameron says ‘twat’ on the radio

By PRSD, on Wednesday, July 29, 2009

No angel – David Cameron goes radio ga-ga

It seems strange to be sat here again wondering about the word ‘twat’.

Yes, only a month after the Stuart Cullimore ‘greasy-haired twat’ debacle, David Cameron went on Absolute Radio this morning and tried the word on for size.

Not only that, maybe inspired by Plymouth City Council’s recent

Fruit and veg fashion parade to end

By PRSD, on Wednesday, November 12, 2008

posted by Cptn

You may be familiar with ugli fruit, but get yourself prepared for ugly vegetables, too. Yup, those EU rules which meant fruit and veg conformed to a particular perception of beauty are to be scrapped, which means our five-a-days aren’t going to be judged by looks alone.

Write from the heart

By PRSD, on Thursday, November 29, 2007

Posted by Cptn

To all you writers out there, of which there are many, Impress Books (based at Exeter University’s Innovation Centre) has teamed up with the university’s creative writing centre to pluck new talent from the ether to offer a publishing contract.

The winner will be announced Monday December 3, and they’ll get a Â£500 advance

Changing climate in Bovey

By PRSD, on Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Posted by Cptn

Good ole Bovey Climate Action. One year old and it’s still ploughing the furrow of small scale individual action that can make environmental gains. And small initiatives can grow – there’s a network of 15 towns around Dartmoor that are sharing knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm about environmental action.

Going through the year’s achievement, Simon

The LunchBox #4

By PRSD, on Saturday, October 20, 2007

I understand there is a big rugby match on this evening, and that England and South Africa are to compete for the right to be called world champions.

This is quite a big thing for those chaps who like grappling with odd-shaped balls, and a large part of me would like to see an England victory,

The LunchBox # 1

By PRSD, on Saturday, September 29, 2007

In the same week that Gordon Brown ditched his pretensions to socialism by glad-handing Lady Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, I became aware of the existence of a group called the Socialist Health Association.

According to their website, the SHA exists to: ‘promote health and well-being, social justice, and the eradication of inequalities, through the application

Now you’re Talking

By PRSD, on Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Remember we told you about Talking Liberties – a rather excellent bloggy site with a winning line in righteous outrage? You know, the site that gave a Mendacity Award to the Plymouth Herald’s Tristan Nichols?!

Well, from Saturday, the person behind Talking Liberties, is gonna be scribbling a weekly column for PRSD.

Yes, there may be no

On your bike

By PRSD, on Wednesday, August 29, 2007

So, Bank Holiday Monday saw the number of biker deaths in and around Plymouth rise to 12 this year.

All this despite a high-profile campaign backed by the police and the Plymouth Herald warning bikers to, yknow, be a bit more careful. Gee, thanks for that.

Donâ€™t get us wrong â€“ weâ€™re all for promoting driver safety,