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2 new jobs Crossroads Care

crossroads care

Fancy working for a not-for-profit organisation supporting carers and helping people over 60 with IT and traverse the mire of benefits?

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All aboard the Clipper for a Torquay beer festival

the Clipper Inn Torquay

The historic Clipper Inn in Torquay is dedicating this year’s Clipper Beer Festival to ales of the South West

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See inside the Torquay Arts House with artist in residence Marksy

Torquay Arts House

Torquay Arts House is a new venue in Torquay. Here’s a short film of artist in residence Marksy as he introduces his work and the cafe

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Violet Tweedale & Mrs Meurig Morris: “We see dead people”

Violet Tweedale

Torquay resident Violet Tweedale was called into Newton Abbot spiritualist Mrs Meurig Morris’s battle with The Daily Mail

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Torquay Arts House Cafe arrives

Torquay Arts House cafe

Torquay Arts House Cafe has arrived in the town with an invitation to all progressive artists, musicians and political activists

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A Torquay exorcism

Torquay’s Castel-a-Mare

Haunted house Castel-a-Mare in Torquay had a 50-year reputation before Violet Tweedale penned her own experiences of the house in her 1920s memoirs Ghosts I Have Seen

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The Monastery: Alfred and the church that rocked

Alfred Edersheim

Originally Torquay’s Presbyterian church, it was to become the third best nightclub in the world. Kevin Dixon on the church that rocked

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Minnesota’s Great Seal turns up in Torquay

Great Seal of the US State of Minnesota

The Great Seal of Minnesota managed to find a home in Torquay for two decades before returning its rightful place in St Paul

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Torbay MP to meet firefighters over service cuts

Torbay Firefighters in action

Torbay MP Adrian Sanders is meeting Torquay firefighters as they face proposals for cuts to the service

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The homoerotic poetry of a Torquay Vicar

Poetry by Reverend Edwin Emmanuel Bradford

Reverend Edwin Emmanuel Bradford was born in Torquay and was to become a leading gay poet of the early 20th century

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Torquay's Other History: the origins of Torquay's gay community

Torquay

There’s a history of Torquay’s gay community waiting to be written, says Kevin Dixon, who offers an insight into The Bay’s gay visitors and residents

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Religion & Belief in Torbay: the future?

church Some rights reserved by Vik Nanda

The 2011 Census unearthed some interesting facts about religion in Torbay. Kevin Dixon investigates the findings

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Torquay’s Other History: Torre’s Odd Orangery

Torre Orangery

The origins of the ‘Orangery’ on Torre’s St Efrides Road is shrouded with mystery. Kevin Dixon explores

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Kevin Foster is the Tory choice for Torbay at the next general election

Kevin Foster has been selected as the Tory candidate in Torbay for the next General Election. The Coventry City fan was born in and has family in Devon

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