There’s a fear of low turn outs at the June 4 election, and that local politics are getting tainted with that anger at shenanigans of national politicians.
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 2 comments - ()Katie Marie and the hectic life-style of a multi-talented musician. Heya there everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful bank holiday weekend – as promised in last week’s article, here’s a full breakdown of my musical (and rather manic!) week/weekend! Which dolts came up with the sickly moniker “Devon Games To Inspire” the new name for Devon Youth Games? The Landmatters community, who live in low-impact dwellings near Totnes, are opening their doors to demonstrate transition and permaculture in action on Sunday June 7. 2 comments - ()Liberal Democrat European Parliamentary elections candidates for the South West of England and Gibraltar are bemoaning their claims about the no-shows from the Labour Party candidates in election hustings and public meetings across the region. The PRSD caught up with Plymouth-based alt-rockers Crazy Arm ahead of the release of their debut elpee Born To Ruin and the Broken by the Wheel single. Here’s what frontman Darren Johns had to say for himself. 1 comment - ()Heather Smith reviews The Cattle Market Cafe, Tavistock 1 comment - ()We here at the PRSD have adopted Twitter strategies to stimulate involvement and debate for the June 4 elections, so far not to much effect admittedly, but we put that down to the insular world of most politicians, whatever level of government they’re involved with. Devon airwaves have been the testing ground for the latest audio experiment. Katie Marie gives us a run down of her music packed long weekend ahead. Oh, and remember Vote Katie Marie in ‘Local Record of the Week’ competition So any exciting plans for this bank holiday weekend? As you may have probably guessed mine is full of lots of musical type stuff which is always 4 comments - ()Totnes Tory MP Anthony Steen, who has been caught up in the expenses row, told the BBC that he had been ‘too honest’ in claiming expenses to protect his trees from rabbits, and when asked if his trees being protected from rabbits means he could do his job as an MP, he told the Animated Exeter is more than just watching cartoons, there’s a whole programme of workshops and development to ‘increase the awareness of animation and the digital moving image’. Plus it’s a whole lotta fun. Now the festival is after an education and training officer to assist in its work with schools, colleges and young people It’s day two of Walk to School Week, and this year’s theme, Walk ‘n’ Talk, is giving rise to a Devon County Council competition to design a cartoon journey to school which features a speech bubble conversation. It all sounds like a great photo-story opportunity to the former ‘Jackie’ readers in the PRSD offices. 7 comments - ()Looking to a smaller party to demonstrate your dissatisfaction with the political classes? Disenfranchised traditional Labour voters should bear in mind that the BNP are the most unBritish of any party – and UKIP, who have a stronghold in South Devon, have already been sullied by expenses issues. Which could mean The Greens pick |
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