The Sustrans TravelSmart project team is set to contact more than 10,000 households in Exeter and explain how to switch to greener ways of travelling.
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 Community shops are being set up to step in where commercial ventures sell up and move out, and the latest of these is in Ide, near Exeter. 2 comments - ()‘Ask the American Indians what happens when you don’t control immigration’ begins the David Challice’s piece on this week’s Trago Mills advert, on the eve of the UKIP grand meeting Euro Election launch at Exeter University this weekend. 2 comments - ()Morale is pretty low at Torbay council at the moment because of the pay evaluation the staff are going through, according to Mayor Nick Bye. It probably didn’t improve when the £150,000 wage of chief executive Elizabeth Raikes was published. 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. It seems that all we’re telling you about at the moment is jobs and opportunities. And here are some more. Equality South West is in search of an Equality Development Officer; the South West Observatory needs an Administrator, Teignbridge District Council is after an Equality Officer, and Disability Cornwall requires an Administrator. To find A new floodgate design, based on rotary valves in motorcycle engines, has been installed at Black Hole Marsh, near Seaton. It promises to create new habitats, protect property and look after fish. We’re always keen to hear about citizens who wanna start their own political party so we were interested to see a Torbay Freedom Party page on Facebook. In a bid to make the sometimes dry messages of recycling and composting a little more engaging, Teignbridge District Council launched a ‘design your own recycling and composting themed tea towel competition’ – thankfully, the results were a lot more fun than the name suggests. 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 Torbay Council has spent £120,000 on a 170 yard stretch of cycle path near Brixham. Jolly good news, eh citizens? The Tabernacle Arts Cafe, which is featured (poetically) in the latest arts+culture magazine, is the ‘go to’ organisation for this year’s Exeter Open Studio. The results of Exeter’s heat loss survey are online, so residents of the city can see straight away can find out how efficient their home is at keeping them snug. The possibility of creating an arts cafe in the heart of Dawlish is being investigated to the tune of £26,000. |
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