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Artists – a big, new public work at Brixham Fish Quay needs you!

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 18, 2009

Artists are being sought to create ‘an impressive landmark to enhance and promote the new Brixham Fish Quay redevelopment’.

People-Centred Economic Development puts the human element into profit

By PRSD, on Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The People-Centred Economic Development, based in Gloucestershire, has been redefining profit for in human terms. Jeff Mowatt from the company spoke about the social business

The origins of eccentricity, according the official eccentric Colin Shaddick

By PRSD, on Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Devon Eccentric Colin Shaddick (no it’s official – he came third in this year’s competition), dropped us a poetic line to explain a bit about the origins of his award-winning eccentricity. You could get more of an insight at the Salon del Eccentrica, an Eccentric evening at the Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple on Thursday, June

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).

More greenhouse gases and fewer affordable homes at Sherford development says South Hams FoE

By PRSD, on Friday, June 12, 2009

Any changes in energy efficiency and affordable housing levels at a development at Sherford, the planned new community between Plymouth and Brixton, has been condemned by South Hams Friends of the Earth.

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.

Not Bad for a Girl: Katie Marie goes sci-fi

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 11, 2009

Katie Marie sci-fi specialist Katie Marie gets out to the flicks

Hope you’ve had a super dooper week enjoying all this lovely sunshine – my week has been pretty chilled out for a change and I’ve been able to for the first time in ages enjoy the finer things in life – such as a tub

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.