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Geoff Clams is fixin’ to die

By PRSD, on Monday, June 15, 2009

The weekly column from the world of Geoff Clams

Given the media tumult surrounding the Iranian presidential elections, accusations of stolen votes and an inflammatory cultural split, one might be tempted to say that, by comparison, political passions in Britain are either dying, dead or extinct.

Find the funding opportunties you need for your next new project

By PRSD, on Monday, June 15, 2009

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

Anti BNP protest takes place in Totnes

By PRSD, on Saturday, June 13, 2009

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).

Primitive Huts and lasers to engage at Skylines, the Ecopoetics exhibition at the CCANW

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 11, 2009

It was the Laser Poetry that caught our eye from an immensely eye catching, not to say tongue twisting, ecopoetics event called Skylines that’s taking place at the CCANW until the end of the month, with a big festival day on June 20.

Credit Union increases accessibility in South Devon

By PRSD, on Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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.

Devon County Council up for green Ashden Award for RE4D scheme

By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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.

Devon turns to Tories

By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 9, 2009

“The voters have spoken quite convincingly!” says Anne Marie Morris, the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Newton Abbot on her blog. “Devon was a landslide in favour of the Conservative Party – and locally there was a strong vote for change. Across the country as a whole the Conservative vote share was 15 percentage points

The Geoff Clams column: Premiere Time

By PRSD, on Monday, June 8, 2009

•This is a new regular column on the adventures of Geoff Clams

On an impossibly sunny and happily recent Thursday, it so happened that I caught the local premiere of John Tomkins’ new feature-length movie, Like an Angel, at Torre Abbey’s Spanish barn.

Ems reviews The Pied Piper – A hip hop dance revolution at the Exeter Northcott

By PRSD, on Monday, June 8, 2009

This performance made me feel cooler just watching it.

House prices are falling, but if you work in Devon can you afford to buy in Devon?

By PRSD, on Friday, June 5, 2009

With the recession and the drop in housing prices can people afford to get on the property ladder in Devon? Er, no.

I am suppose to write about the local and Euro elections but…

By PRSD, on Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Disabled Kevin asks do we know or care about local politics

Despite being a semi-professional politician, I have still not become aware of any local issues which may influence my decision of which party to vote for on June 4. Living in Plymouth I can only vote in the European elections, but still do not know