Sustrans TravelSmart team will help Exeter residents switch to greener ways of travelling

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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Study reveals what’s in store for increasingly popular Tiverton Parkway station

Tiverton Parkway, a railway station stuck in the sticks, seven miles from Tiverton town (and you have to get past Junction 27 of the M5 just to get there), is nevertheless becoming an increasingly popular station, and the culmination of the research into this phenomenon will be launched on Wednesday, April 29, at 11pm

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Free compost giveaway in Buckfastleigh on Saturday, April 25

There will be a compost giveaway in Victoria Woodholme car park in Buckfastleigh on Saturday, April 25 – but get there early, apparently it goes like… something… off a shovel.

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Ide, near Exeter, community venture steps in to replace loss of village shop

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.

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British National Party set for electoral breakthrough, says new study

The British National Party has grown more rapidly than any other in 21st-century Britain, and is on the brink of an electoral breakthrough which would bring media attention and serious European cash.

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Singtastic singers wanted by Teignmouth composer David Haines

Are you Singtastic? Teigmouth composer David Haines is looking for confident singers to join The Singtastic Singers, whose first public performance was at the World Museum in Liverpool as part of the British Science Association’s 2008 festival.

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What would you write to Dear Gordon…?

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

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Exhibition celebrates Peter Randall-Page’s work in the South West

A new Peter Randall-Page exhibition is launching at the CCANW on Easter Sunday, which is kinda what you might expect for the sculptor whose most famous piece has a more than passing resemblance to an egg. But this is a celebration the South West sited sculptures, and you even have the opportunity to sample

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Torbay Care Trust to open stop-smoking service and young people’s advice centre in Torquay

Torbay Care Trust is to open an NHS stop-smoking service and a young people’s advice centre in two empty units in Union Street, Torquay.

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South West MEP Giles Chichester on Devon local government reorganisation

We received an email from Giles Chichester, Conservative MEP for the South West and Gibraltar about the Devon local government reorganisation issue, so we thought we’d share it with you. Take it away Giles…

I hesitate to dip my toe in the troubled waters of Devon local government reorganisation but, having read the latest

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Not Bad For A Girl: getting airtime

Katie Marie: at the Barrel House, Totnes, on APRIL 26 gig, on your airwaves, and for the charity PL-ease in Devonport on Saturday, March 28

Well yet another week has gone whizzing by! For me it’s mainly been taken up with organising the Barrel House gig (yes, it’s still on the April 26!

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Broken streetlight scandal pt 213: Express & Echo demands (more) answers

Now look – this is getting silly. There we were feeling guilty about poking fun at the Express & Echo’s streetlight obsession, and they go and print another streetlight story. Are we missing the joke or something?

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European cash to revamp Old School House in Moretonhampstead

European cash is to be spent on turning the Old School House in Moretonhampstead into a community centre, exhibition space and workshops.

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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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