One of our intrepid reporters was in Exeter today on a totally unrelated story, but managed to take some snaps in the city. The Exeter Food Fair is taking place at the moment – this is as close as we got.
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 The parade’s on! A parade, which will also celebrate Lammas, will mark the start of Exeter Summer Festival, and incorporate large-scale sculptures, banners, masks and music from schools and communities throughout the city. We’re digging Diggin It, the organic community garden in Plymouth. And we particularly like that they gave us a bell to tell us about the project which provides gardening skills and fruit, veg, herbs and flowers on formerly unused allotment land. Kaleido Arts, the South West disability and deaf arts development agency, is looking for a communications officer, at £14,000 for three days a week. Exeter’s next Eco-Fayre will coincide with St Sidwell’s 50th anniversary, which means loads more bopping fun, including a bouncy castle, the Exeter University World Choir and the band Spin 2, who are featured in the latest arts+culture magazine. Those South Devon book lovers down a the Torbay Bookshop have yet again been shortlisted for the Independent Bookseller of the Year award. Sarah Clarke, of the already award-winning shop, dropped us a line of some of her latest reads. You get the idea that Gordon Brown will be penning the political equivalent to a Dear John letter come some Friday morning in the future, meanwhile Teignbridge residents are being asked to write their ‘what if… wish-list’ to the PM in a hope that it will offer a coherent plan of action for the A new Peter Randall-Page exhibition is launching at the CCANW on Easter Sunday, which is kinda what you might expect for the sculptor whose most famous piece has a more than passing resemblance to an egg. But this is a celebration the South West sited sculptures, and you even have the opportunity to sample A plot of land at Lloyd Avenue in Torquay could be designated an official village green, protecting it from future development. Around £17 million has been earmarked for three transport links around Devon to make sure people can get to their new homes, of course. We received an email from Giles Chichester, Conservative MEP for the South West and Gibraltar about the Devon local government reorganisation issue, so we thought we’d share it with you. Take it away Giles… I hesitate to dip my toe in the troubled waters of Devon local government reorganisation but, having read the latest 1 comment - ()It is nice to know there are still jobs knocking around, especially in deprived areas, which is why the job as an assistant to help Conservative Torbay councillors with research, communication skills and a high degree of political judgement is so refreshing. Those areas have been lacking in the Bay for years… and who European cash is to be spent on turning the Old School House in Moretonhampstead into a community centre, exhibition space and workshops. Campaigners fighting to keep open the historic Clam Bridge at Lustleigh Cleave, near Bovey Tracey, want to gather support from the community and South Devon walkers. |
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