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New report says the South West must speak up or face being hit the hardest by the expected Coalition cuts

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A new report called Let’s Hear It For The South West from South West Stakeholdersan alliance of social and economic organisations in the region from the Confederation of British Industry to Citizens’ Advice, warns that the South West could become ‘the forgotten part of England’, if expect Coalition cuts go ahead

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Exeter Green Party manifesto offers ways to fight ‘savage’ Conservative-Lib Dem spending cuts

Exeter Green Party

Exeter Green Party says selling council generated renewable electricity to the grid, implementing a workplace parking levy and higher rates of Council Tax for top band properties will help protect essential services in its campaign for the forthcoming city council elections

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Transition Newton Abbot gives guidance on 'future shape of Teignbridge' consultation

by Simples Comparicus

Want to take part in your local council’s consultation, but don’t know where to start? Transition Newton Abbot has responded to Teignbridge Council’s Local Development Framework Core Strategy, and urges you to do the same (psst, you can take some pointers from them, if you fancy!)

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Posters to make the case for fairer votes

Stuart Bonar's fairer votes poster idea

Stuart Bonar's fairer votes poster idea

Take Back Parliament, the group campaigning for a YES vote in next May’s fairer votes referendum, is a real grassroots effort. When they needed to come up with ideas for campaign posters, they didn’t go to some swish London advertising company, but instead ran a competition to crowdsource ideas from amongst their own supporters.

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Tell Sid, shares to be offered in Totnes Renewable Energy Society!

Totnes Renewable Energy Society

Totnes Renewable Energy Society shares are set to be offered to the public. They will only be for the denizens of Totnes and its environs, and it promises to be one of the biggest community project undertaken in Totnes. Plus it claims to offer a great rate of return for investers. How’s that for combining the sensibilites of the 80s, 90s and noughties!

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Exeter council elections after unitary fiasco

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The hurly burly of the five mintues Exeter City Council affected unitary status left the city missing the elections. Now the unitary status, and the millions spent on it, have been chucked out the window the good people of Exeter go to the polls to elect 13 councillors

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Promoting respect on Devon roads (sponsored post)

The combination of the back to school run and the end of the summer (ha!) holiday season can see Devon roads snarled up at all the hours of the day, and if the temperature outside the vehicle is less than seasonal, blood can certainly be boiling on the inside. None of this is conductive to the South Devon way of life, and the Axa Respect on the Road campaign is looking to bring courtesy and respect back to British roads.

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