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Paignton Zoo runs a careers day for youngsters and swaps keeper with Australian zoo

Fancy a career as a vet, in a zoo? Paignton Zoo is running the Zoo Vet Experience on Wednesday, April 15 and Thursday, April 16.

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TUC calls for changes to redundancy rules that would benefit employees

Redundancy has been on the increase lately, and the TUC is calling for the government to amend statutory redundancy in a move which could benefit nearly 2 million employees in the South West.

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Not Bad For A Girl: Katie Marie gets crazy busy

Crazy busy Katie Marie hits the airwaves, promotes the April 26 gig, sings backing in the early hours, prepares for playing at More Restaurant and there are rumours of a German tour… phew

Hope you’re having a great week thus far! I’ve been really really appreciating all this lovely sunshine… not enjoying the

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Wren Music looking for project worker to help with Devon Tradition project

If you have an orderly mind and a love of music, a job a Wren Music might just be for you, and for three days a week at a pro rata rate of £21,000 the folk music organisation certainly won’t have you singing the blues.

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Air of tension built up as the protests neared: Robert Mark Walsh at G20

After direct action training, and a call to his parents to say he was OK, Robert Mark Walsh experienced the growing tension, police tactics and satisfaction of having done his part by attending the G20 protests

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Not Bad For A Girl: Katie Marie takes to the airwaves

Katie Marie: tune in to Katie Marie on Soundart Radio on Saturday, April 4 at 1pm

Well you certainly did a good job with the old sun dancing last week. I’m loving this gorgeous sunny weather, let’s hope it lasts, ay?

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South West MEP Graham Watson defends guide on equality in language

The suitably angry-looking West Midlands Conservative MEP, Philip Bradbourn, is getting his unisex knickers in a twist over the EU’s new guidelines on language. He’d like to continue defining women on whether they’d bagged a man or not, with impunity. But South West Lib Dem MEP Graham Watson says that the guidelines are an

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Cosmic, Pluss and Skills for Care win Euro dosh for South West jobs

No sooner do we mention the IT social enterprise Cosmic, than they are one of the three organisations getting a piece of funding pie from Europe, that is earmarked to increase employment opportunities and develop people’s work skills. Call it kismit, serendipity or coincidence.

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UKIP pick Central Devon candidate for next General Election

UKIP, the UK Independence Party (not be confused with UKYP, the UK Youth Parliament – you decide which has the more mature politicians) has chosen its Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the new Central Devon Constituency for the next General Election.

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Tweeting TUC to Put People First from annual conference

Trade unionists will become movers and shakers in the socially networked world on Saturday when they tweet and text their support for the Put People First rally, while they attend the South West TUC’s annual conference in North Devon.

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£28,000 for job as advisor for Torbay Tory councillors

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

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Ethical business: COSMIC

In the first of our on-going features on ethical businesses we talk to Julie Harris from the ICT social enterprise COSMIC.

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Intern opportunity at the The Way With Words literature festival

Do you have a Way With Words? The Way With Words literature festival is looking for three full-time interns between May and July.

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End the uncertainty, Devon County Council tells Boundary Committee over local government reorganisation

Devon County Council is calling for an end to uncertainty… about (dramatic pause) local government reorganisation. Details of how the Boundary Committee plan to finish its long-running review of local government in Devon are set to be published (Thursday 19 March).

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