Housing For the Future: Buck the Trend investigates at Buckfastleigh Town Hall

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Buck the Trend have organised a Housing for the Future event in Buckfasleigh

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Landmatters permaculture co-op open day

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The Landmatters permaculture co-op near Totnes is holding an open day for people to experience the area where adults and children live and work lightly on the land and have a tour of the impressive infrastructure

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People-Centred Economic Development puts the human element into profit

The People-Centred Economic Development, based in Gloucestershire, has been redefining profit for in human terms. Jeff Mowatt from the company spoke about the social business

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Geoff Clams is fixin’ to die

The weekly column from the world of Geoff Clams

Given the media tumult surrounding the Iranian presidential elections, accusations of stolen votes and an inflammatory cultural split, one might be tempted to say that, by comparison, political passions in Britain are either dying, dead or extinct.

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Find the funding opportunties you need for your next new project

You know how it is when all the cupboards are bare, and you’ve got so many projects you want to pursue but for a little lolly (that’s money to you). We know that feeling only too well. Well, here’s some funding opportunities that have come across our desk

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Anti BNP protest takes place in Totnes

Totnes, you know the constituency of everyone’s favourite mansion-owning MP, Anthony Steen, will be the setting a protest against the BNP’s Euro Election gains today (June 13).

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More greenhouse gases and fewer affordable homes at Sherford development says South Hams FoE

Any changes in energy efficiency and affordable housing levels at a development at Sherford, the planned new community between Plymouth and Brixton, has been condemned by South Hams Friends of the Earth.

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Credit Union increases accessibility in South Devon

The Teign Reach branch of Plough & Share Credit Union is looking to gain more members and has improved its accessibility with the addition of Teignbridge Council’s Forde House headquarters as place to make payments to savings and loans accounts.

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Plymouth home to new graduate dance programme from Attik Dance

Graduate dancers who’ve been kicking up their heels, rather than high kicking, and are looking to work with dance in education and community settings could join the new Fast Forward project in Plymouth.

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Devon County Council up for green Ashden Award for RE4D scheme

Devon County Council is up to win £30,000 for its Renewable Energy for Devon scheme in the local authority section of the famed Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2009, which take place in London on Thursday, June 11.

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The Geoff Clams column: Premiere Time

•This is a new regular column on the adventures of Geoff Clams

On an impossibly sunny and happily recent Thursday, it so happened that I caught the local premiere of John Tomkins’ new feature-length movie, Like an Angel, at Torre Abbey’s Spanish barn.

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Ems reviews The Pied Piper – A hip hop dance revolution at the Exeter Northcott

This performance made me feel cooler just watching it.

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Sustainable Steward Community on Dartmoor wins planning appeal to stay

There is a whispered debate among some of the Dartmoor inhabitants which ponders on who the national park is for – those who live and work on it, or those who want to look at it. The attitude towards the Steward Community Woodland, near Moretonhampstead, might be part of that debate, or it might

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Independent apologises for printing picture of Devon swine flu girl

It’s bad enough getting swine flu, let alone getting your picture in the paper. The Independent has apologised to 12-year-old Paignton girl Amy Whitehouse for publishing a photograph of her without her parents’ consent.

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