Plymouth Council leader Tory Vivian Pengelly has jumped to the defence of the BNP after leader of the Labour group on the council Tudor Evans was rude on his Twitter feed about BNP member Adrian Romilly.
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 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 2 comments - ()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). 1 comment - ()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. 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. A Tree Warden scheme is set to be relaunched by Teignbridge District Council and the Tree Council, and they need volunteers. You don’t have to be an expert, but you kinda need to like trees. 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. Disabled Kevin wonders where the county election fits in the move towards a General Election In other years the Tories clearing out of the Liberal Democrats from County Hall would be headline news but Gordon Brown has managed to demote the Conservative’s success to an election item in the news. Personally, I was 3 comments - ()UKIP have been doing their best to make us smile – and now they come up with a song, dance and shouting act to entertain us from one of their candidates at the county council election count in Torridge. UKIP are unhappy – now tell us something we don’t know. Apparently the party has ‘received hundreds of phone calls from confused voters in yesterday’s elections’. No surprise there. 1 comment - ()Things do get pretty heated in the political arena but it’s not often a candidate is described as a ‘greasy-haired twat’. More’s the pity, we reckon. Just two days to go for the European and the county election and we’ve got more election messages that could fit in a Tweet, and some evidence that the Devon election is simmering up nicely. Three more county council candidates have got in touch to share their Twitter-esque manifesto – summing up their political message in 140 character or fewer. A useful and fun exercise we thinks. What do you reckon? Disguising a mobile phone mast as a thicker, taller flagpole has side-stepped planning issues in Newton Abbot. |
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