Arts |

See Lenkiewicz's unfinished Foot at Plymouth Arts Centre

Michael Foot

It’s a rare treat to see Lenkiewicz’s unfinished portrait of Michael Foot – a print is on show in Plymouth to raise funds for the memorial

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Violet Tweedale & Mrs Meurig Morris: “We see dead people”

Violet Tweedale

Torquay resident Violet Tweedale was called into Newton Abbot spiritualist Mrs Meurig Morris’s battle with The Daily Mail

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Claire McCarthy |

Alzhir – Kazakstan's reminder of the Stalinist years

Alzhir

There is a museum just outside Astana, Kazakhstan, which charts the history of former Alzhir gulag. Claire McCarthy visited it

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Society |

Call to cease fire service cuts consultation

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Torbay TUC has called on the government to stop its consultation on cuts to the fire service

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Politics |

Warning signs: Coalition creates the UKIP circus… then runs away to join it

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Apparently there have been warning signs about the rise of UKIP for a while, but can the main parties do enough to win the skeptics back?

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Society |

Official opening of new Paignton Centre for Unpaid Carers and Healthwatch Torbay

HealthWatch Torbay

The new consumer watchdog for the NHS, Healthwatch Torbay, has launched at Paignton Library alongside Torbay Carers Services

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Half of women working in the South West earn less than the Living Wage

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Fair Play South West has found that half of women working in the South West are earning below the Living Wage

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Torquay |

Torquay Arts House Cafe arrives

Torquay Arts House cafe

Torquay Arts House Cafe has arrived in the town with an invitation to all progressive artists, musicians and political activists

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Visa problems in Kazakhstan

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Losing your white slip of visa paper can be very important in Kazakhstan. Claire McCarthy reflects the bureaucracy of international travel

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Torquay's other history |

A Torquay exorcism

Torquay’s Castel-a-Mare

Haunted house Castel-a-Mare in Torquay had a 50-year reputation before Violet Tweedale penned her own experiences of the house in her 1920s memoirs Ghosts I Have Seen

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The Night Sky |

The Planets

The photo of Saturn was taken by Torbay’s Simon Harding

As star-gazing becomes more difficult in the summer months, David Love of the Torbay Astronomical Society sets out what you can expect to see

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Food and Drink |

Newton Abbot gets its first craft beer pub

Teign Cellars, Newton Abbot

Teign Cellars opens a brand new craft beer pub in Newton Abbot for a taste of the finest beers and ales from throughout the South West

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Health |

When food changes everything

Gluten free by the sea

Being diagnosed with Coeliac Disease can be a life-changing experience. Kevin Gollop of Gluten Free By the Sea explains what he went through

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MPs and Wannabes |

UKIP owes us all an explanation for backing outrageous tobacco subsidies.

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UKIP has been under pressure about its policies. Here’s a glimpse of what they get up to when they are in office

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