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Katie Marie is set for a detox diet, but does she know her onions. On a musical note, the studio's almost ready and she's preparing for a Barrel House gig on April 26

The latest exhibition at the Exeter Phoenix gallery is Suspension, by Haddock and Chubb. The painter and sculptor use cast off material from renowned art houses to create some of their playful, modernist work.

Legislation dealing with dog mess on beaches scuppered over fears of divorce.

Exeter City Council is looking at further financial juggling to keep the city's four main festivals going with reduced cash

Architects and mechanical engineers, Gale & Snowden, based in Exeter and Bideford have been shortlisted for a National Civic Trust Award for their Oak Meadow sustainable housing development

New exhibitions are popping up in Exeter at the moment, including Clare Flint and Simon Ruscoe, Haddock and Chub, Laura Kidauka and Dmitry Trubin, to name but a handful

Our very own Katie Marie is in the PL-ease charity gig, along with Sam Ho, Jenny Keegan, Josie Newton, Steve Osman, on March 28.

This year's Aeon music festival, which takes place over August 28 to August 30, will have a sci-fi adventures theme, as well as super music and a whole load of other activities. It's enough to make you mutter "Klaatu barada Nikki."

Dartington Estate has been the scene of what the perpetrators would call 'mindful' (rather than mindless) vandalism. Would you agree?

The WH2Ose is set to take place at Paignton Zoo on Thursday and Friday, March 12 and 13. Among the issue to be discussed will be the role of water in shaping Torbay's past and future

A new scheme that offers support, advice and counselling for young people, as well as accommodation for those who are vulnerable is taking over a vacant high street venue in Newton Abbot

The green industry revolution is gathering momentum and the sector is predicted to be worth nearly £13 billion in the South West in 10 year's time.

A mobile breast cancer screening centre will visit the Steamer Quay car park, Totnes on Wednesday, March 19. More than 2,000 women from Totnes have been invited to attend.

The residents of Heavitree, Exeter, are still angry about the artistic arch that they say has been foisted on the community. They only wanted a mural, afterall

The Great Create, which is a month-long arts festival at Agatha Christie's holiday haunt of Greenway, is calling for submissions for this year's event

A concerted community campaign from Teignbridge Friends of the Earth and Dawlish Against Developing Sandy Lane has protected the town's green fields and playing grounds Sandy Lane against being developed into a supermarket and have called on Teignbridge Council to protect the area

Exeter Edzard Ernst professor attacks Prince Charles' Duchy Original's detox tincture as promoting ill public health as well as exploiting the poor saps who believe him - and would buy Duchy Products in the first place

Chris Goode's King Pelican at the Drum Theatre Plymouth takes at look at the private life of trouble and enchanting man Edward Lear

A Lib Dem and Tory coalition in government would be disastrous for local politics, claims Barrie Wood

The Dartington plaque, removed from a statue at the arts trust, has reappeared in Falmouth (new home to Dartington college of art), where it was either posted or handed in by an anonymous doner. Tipsy high jinx or performance art?

The South Devon Green Party has put together a plan that they reckon would kick start the much-needed affordable homes market

A South Hams councillor is looking to spend his 'locality fund' in his local. The £1,000 councillors get for community projects could go on keeping Cllr John Squire's local pub going

Cohabiting couples are not as protected by law as their married counterparts, new work from Exeter University lawyers adds to the Cohabiting debate and aims to protect vulnerable family memembers

The art exhibition Transition has taken over the dungeons of Exeter Castle. An eclectic mix of work has set up home in the underground spaces, and a selection of the work will makes its way to the Bargehouse (OXO Tower Wharf). Lee Morgan caught up with Volkhardt Muller to find out more about his installation.

The People's Republic of South Devon is setting up a not-too-secret Secret page and we need offers, gifts and downloads for the more diligent denizens of the republic. If you've got something to tout, get in touch

The Torbay Pride event is winning loads of support especially now the dates for the four days of fun have been set.

Poet and ukelele player Colin Shaddick from Devon has been nominated for the Greatest British Eccentric of the Year Award

The West of England School and College in Exeter is holding open days to offer support to parents of babies and toddlers with little or no sight.

A4e, whose name looks like captcha details, are holding a businesses fair in Exeer to help unemployed people find work. They'll also be holding one in Newton Abbot

Job seekers are outnumbering vacancies advertised in jobcentres by seven to one in South West, according to a new analysis of official statistics published today by the TUC. And are 12 to one in Torbay

Love Easter, hate waste. Tips on making the most of your food from celebrity chef Paul Da Costa Greaves

There are fears that the Met Office will be privatised as the government looks at alternatives to public ownership

With the rise a rise in empty homes and a rise in demand for being housed, the government is looking towards new measures to bring empty homes back into housing stock - with things like Empty Dwelling Management Orders

A local paper's campaigning effort on a broken street light found that it was already due to be replaced, doh!

The Boundary Commission has come up with two proposals for local government in Devon, and both of them see the end of District Councils

Katie Marie has been busy being a human juke box for Comic Relief, finishing painting her studio (finally), playing gigs in Exmouth, getting picked of the Cheltenham Jazz Fringe Festival and pushing her gig at the Barrel House, Totnes on April 26

Punch and Judy operators, or professors, gathered on Preston Beach near Paignton to discuss the future. And with the demise of political correctness, claims one 'professor' they are experiencing a come back

Exeter residents can switch on to the city's Big Switch off when they borrow a gizmo that identifies home electricity use and lets you see how much you are using, how much it costs and where you can make cuts.

New boardwalks to enable visitors explore the woodlands behind the lake and open up a range of new walks through the reed beds at Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve will be opened today.

The initial hurdle of a £1.4 million new community centre for Torquay have been passed when outline planning permission was granted. It will focus on working with socially-excluded people

Dartington Plus has bagged a £1.3 million grant from the Arts Council for funding over two years. It will work towards further the artistic work of the D+ partnership - but surely, for that kinda cash they should be getting straight As.

While he loves the film and agrees with the aims, the Age of Stupid Campaign makes the transition movement's founder Rob Hopkins a little uncomfortable with the introduction of polarity that goes with labelling things 'stupid'

The second piece of Volkhardt Muller's Pastoral has made its way to the Bargehouse, in London's Oxo Tower as the of the Transition exhibition. The shimmering prints, which used prisoners' own etchings is an investigation in class, identity, ownership and how to make a space your own.

Public meetings for the Devon Primary Care Trust to explain its plans to merge services to Plymouth's Derriford Hospital - some do not want the move to take place

Devon beekeepers offered a day of free advice and health checks for all those interested in bees and beekeeping.

Project: Renovate 2009 has up £15,000 for three winning projects to give their nursery a green makeover. Plus £1,000 for ten runners up.

Proposed bus stops could get in the way of parking, says residents. What a to do for the councillor – a fan of accessibility and public transport

Paignton library is faced with rising costs and they haven't even started building it yet.

The BNP holds a secret meeting in Exeter, but was it catered?

New research has found the origins of the domestication of one of the most important crop of the Americas.

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Julie Harris from Devon ICT social enterprise COSMIC talks about ethical business

Artist Clare Flint has had a whirlwind of a time lately - two winning shows and the cover of arts+culture magazine. We caught up with her to ask a few of our burning questions

Torbay is part of a scheme that will be funded to gain an apprentice to work on the area's green spaces

Campaigners look for support and cash (and liability) to reopen the historic Clam Bridge at Lustleigh Cleave, Bovey Tracey

Moretonhampstead will get a face lift in the form of a community centre, exhibition space and workshops, with a slice of £1.8 million from Europe

Some Beans take the top slot in this month's Radio Free South West audience chart of signed and unsigned acts from the south west. Listen to the internet radio station and vote for your favourite

Land to build two affordable homes for wheelchair users has been sold by Teignbridge District Council for £1 in return for the homes to be used to cut their waiting lists

arts+culture magazine is holding a competition for artists to promote themselves and could win them a place on a future cover of the magazine

The job as researcher for the Torbay Council Tory councillors, at around £28,000, is for grabs, but you do need a high degree of political judgement

The non-scandal of another Exeter streetlight that's on the way to being fixed, even before the UK Campaigning Newspaper Of The Year sticks its oar in

The TUC will tweet support for the Put People First rally in London from its North Devon annual conference

Katie Maries has been pushing to get airtime on radio to promote her Barrel House gig (April 26) and ended up with her own show

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has picked their candidate to stand in the Central Devon constituency in the next General Election

Teenage fiction author Luisa Plaja is signing her latest release Extreme Kissing at the acclaimed independent Torbay Bookshop on Saturday at 10.30pm

Cosmic, Pluss and Skills for Care win European money to increase employment opportunities to disadvantaged groups in the South West

Torquay town centre traders have been told to indulge in a little spring cleaning and spruce up the town centre for the Easter holidays

Dawlish wins £25,000 to looking into an arts cafe on The Lawn as part of the seaside town's regeneration programme

Exeter's heat loss survey gives residents a quick colour-coded result on how efficient their home is at keeping the heat in

A new exhibition celebrating the south west work of world renown sculptor Peter Randall-Page is kicking off at the CCANW, Haldon Forest, at Easter

Five people from the Plymouth area are being held under the Terrorism Act on suspicion on plotting with bombs to disrupt the forthcoming G20 summit

The Tabernacle Arts Cafe, which is featured in the latest arts+culture magazine is the 'go to' organisation for this year's Exeter Open Studio.

South West MEP Graham Watson has defended the EU's new guidelines on eliminating sexism in language

Ethical jeweller April Doubleday talks about her journey into the ethical side of the jewellery business and how she maintains those standards

Equality South West calls for equal pay despite the quote from Nicola Brewer, outgoing chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

The Google Earth camera car has apparently been spotted in the sunny streets of Paignton, Devon this week

Torquay's Herald Express adds fuel to the fire of the cost of a stretch of cycle path

Paington Zoo is making the most of a donation of tyres from South Devon College, which they themselves had been given. What goes around, comes around?

Ellie Harrison' s Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector will coincide with her PCAD exhibition. Here are her tips on being the 'Perfect Artist'

'On the whole a day of peaceful protests with a mix of people': Abigail Edge reports from London on the day's events at the G20 protests

The Dear Gordon, What if... campaign calls on Teignbridge residents to come up with proposals for central government which will benefit the community

Sarah Clarke of the award-winning Torbay Bookshop, which is up for another Independent Bookseller prize, has the low down on some of her latest reads

After a week of successful gigs, Katie Marie gets ready to take to the airwaves on Soundart Radio with her own show

Two UFOs were spotted flying over Torquay by two people in February, which might go to explain a little bit more about the town

Abigail Edge was close to the front when the 'trouble' broke out, but there was no blood-thirsty mob, more a bunch of curious protestors