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Newton Abbot festival day, set for Saturday, July 25

By PRSD, on Monday, June 22, 2009

Newton Abbot is set to turn itself into a fun venue for all the family on Saturday, July 25 (put it in your diary), when the inaugural Newton Abbot Festival swaggers into town.

Check out a weekend of arts events throughout South Devon and beyond

By PRSD, on Saturday, June 20, 2009

What a weekend for arts (starting Saturday, June 20). The contemporary dance troupe Task Force, led by Stephan Koplowitz, begin stepping their way around the historic South Devon with their Liquid Landscapes tour. Over on arts+culture there’s a run down of the venues, plus a diary of South Devon artist Helen Snell’s involvement with the

Tory Plymouth Councillor complains of Nazi jibe to the fascist BNP

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 18, 2009

Plymouth Council leader Tory Vivian Pengelly has jumped to the defence of the BNP after leader of the Labour group on the council Tudor Evans was rude on his Twitter feed about BNP member Adrian Romilly.

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

Torbay arts market takes place in Paignton

By PRSD, on Sunday, June 14, 2009

If you’re looking for the creative offerings that Torbay and Devon has to offer, to quote the literature, pop along to Creative Torbay’s Arts Market and Creative Happening, which takes place today (Sunday June 14) at the Palace Avenue Gardens, Paignton.

Behind the scenes of the North Devon Art Trek on artsculture site

By PRSD, on Saturday, June 13, 2009

Our friends in the north (that’s North Devon) are up to all kinds of crazy art antics. Powerhouse of the North Devon arts scene Stella Levy, who’s organising this year’s Art Trek, June 19-21 and June 26-28, has started a blog over on artsculture.

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).

Wallaby spotted jumping around Teignmouth, South Devon

By PRSD, on Friday, June 12, 2009

On a cool evening in a seaside town you can often do with a woolly jumper. Although that’s probably not what David Evans had in mind when he and his family saw a wallaby cavorting around a field in Teignmouth.

Culturally homogenized Devon debate over on D+CFilm

By PRSD, on Friday, June 12, 2009

A few things over on D+CFilm have caught our eye this week, not least South West Screen’s notion that naming something after a Devon myth alienates people from up-country.

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.

Can you make the world cry with your voice?

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 11, 2009

Are you talented Tenor? Dartington International Summer School is looked for one to be the dastard Pinkerton in Madam Buterfly.

Lemanis’ The Truth About a Push Me Pull You set for physical release on June 15

By PRSD, on Thursday, June 11, 2009

The latest Lemanis album The Truth About a Push Me Pull You is set for a physical release on June 15, which means we need to make sure we publish the our review, so you know just what you’re getting into when you shuffle off to buy it from actual shops. For all you potential