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 Matt Newbury organiser of Pride got in touch to talk about the new fun festival on the Bay’s calendar. It’s been a bit of a roller coaster three months since I somewhat drunkenly agreed to organise Torbay’s first summer pride event. Since that time, I have not only sobered up, but have developed the Morwellham Quay is hosting the Taste of the Tamar event this weekend, profits from which will be going towards the Children’s Hospice South West’s Precious Lives appeal to build a third hospice in Cornwall. While the rest of the political world is worried about their moral credibility, we can only suppose that Teignbridge Lib Dem MP Richard Younger Ross is preparing to stoke his ire over the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest following his criticism of last year’s event. Just the one Communist is standing in the Devon County Council elections, and if you want to vote for him, you need to be registered in Barnstaple, where the red flag continues to fly (over some beaches at least). In all there are 284 committed souls of various denominations (we presume) fighting it out Exeter-based charity Dream-A-Way, which sends disabled and seriously ill people on holidays and trips, raised a record fundraising total of £133,173 in 2008. Hospitals in Devon are set to introduce a recycling initiative that will reduce the NHS’s carbon footprint. 1 comment - ()Sam Ho, the Plymouth singer/songwriter, is through to the finals of the Live and Unsigned competition. He spoke to the PRSD about what the competition, performing and Prince’s Trust mean to him Who says museums aren’t sexy? The Royal Albert Memorial Musum is set to host the Sex and History exhibition in 2012, after its facelift of course. The Devon + Cornwall Film Show 2 from Alex White on Vimeo. South Devon filmmakers Elizabeth-Jane Baldry and Ashley Thorpe are feature in the latest D+CFilm Show enchantinly entitled Fairytales and Nightmare, over on the D+CFilm. Elizabeth-Jane gets the whole town of Chagford, including such film luminaries as Oscar winner Alan Lee to take Somerset’s Wookey Hole-based singer/songwriter Roscoe bagged the number one spot in this month’s Radio Free South West audience chart for his tune Devil Were Dead. Sandwiching the number two-slot by taking third place with his track 1 in a Million. It is now easier to share your photographs on the People’s Republic of South Devon, with the PRSD Flickr group. In our on-going series on ethical business and social enterprises we got in touch with Chris Deacon of Ethical Investors UK Young theatre critics have a chance to sharpen their prose in the Young Critics Competition when they write about what they think of Teatro Kismet’s The Snow Queen – it plays the Exeter Northcott theatre from Tuesday, April 28 to Thursday, April 30. 2 comments - ()Morale is pretty low at Torbay council at the moment because of the pay evaluation the staff are going through, according to Mayor Nick Bye. It probably didn’t improve when the £150,000 wage of chief executive Elizabeth Raikes was published. |
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