Share energy and ideas at the Torbay and South Devon Energy Exchange

Torbay and South Devon Energy Exchange

The Torbay and South Devon Energy Exchange aims to help share skills and services in a system similar to bartering

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Torquay United brew up for Rowcroft Hospice’s Care for a Cuppa campaign

Torquay United join Care for a Cuppa campaign

The Torquay United team are ambassadors for Care for a Cuppa, Rowcroft Hospice’s fundraising coffee mornings and tea parties, brewing up in South Devon

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South Devon at night - taking pictures in challenging conditions

photography

Photography is fun and challenging. Here’s just a few tips on taking pictures in South Devon

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Council Tax in South Devon: there may be trouble ahead...

Hammer smashing house

New council tax plans are set to hammer the poor again

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Call The Police! It's The Humanitarians

The Humanitarians

Check out The Humanitarians – South Devon alt pop/rock four piece combo – and their latest video to get your toes tapping, your pulse racing and your mind spinning

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Torquay’s Other History: The Adverts’ Torquay Punk Connection

The Adverts

Punk band The Adverts hit the charts with their controversial tune Gary Gilmore’s Eyes

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Torquay’s Other History: War Poet Wilfred Owen in Torquay

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen, the young poet to be, caught up on some hero worship in Devon, investigating Coleridge and making a pilgrimage to Keats’ former lodgings

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South Devon activists make stand against 'legal loan sharks'

Anti legal loan sharks

It doesn’t take much head scratching to work out why companies which are signalled out as ‘legal loan sharks’ are allowed to continue, but activists in South Devon were out and about highlighting what these companies are all about

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Torquay’s Other History: Torbay’s original anti-Royalists

Prince Maurice

While the Queen is flying high in the ratings, South Devon has a history of being anti-monarchy

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Newton Abbot or Newton Asda? New song captures the essence of living in the South Devon town

Asda Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot has become the subject of a new song showing the real experience of living in the South Devon (super) market town

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South Devon Link Road: 'the biggest single act of environmental vandalism perpetrated against the County of Devon since the Luftwaffe visited Plymouth'

South Devon Link Road

A Devon councillor has expressed his concern about the impact of the South Devon Link Road

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Low Tides: A Halloween Story of Strange Shaldon

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A short story of eerie goings on in Shaldon

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National sponsors for your local MP? We take a look at South Devon MPs' register of interests

Money

Who sponsors your MP? We take a look at South Devon MPs’ register of interests

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By chastising a teenager, Newton Abbot Tory is 'defending the welfare state', apparently

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Newton Abbot Tory (and Unionist) Cllr Neil Wilson claims his chastising of Rory Weal was to defend the welfare state… from those who would defend it.

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