Over the last 50 years, drugs, always illegal, have moved from the groovy colourful 1960’s, through the grungy 1990’s to blissed out 2000’s rave scene, through to now. An underground criminal industrial underbelly that polite society would rather ignore? There have been increasing concerns over the drug culture here and as part of a Totnes…
They’re coming to take it away!Vire, twin town of Totnes has warned they are making preparations to take back Vire Island following Brexit by the UK. The lovely idyllic outcrop was gifted to Totnes in 1974 to great excitement when the entire town stood on the harbour to welcome it’s arrival by tugboat. The specially…
Macabre goings on at the top of town…At the time of year when the veil between the worlds grows thin, Val Jones, Nancy Pickard and Verity Newman present an exhibition taking an irreverent romp around the certainty of death. Work from these three established West Country artists, Val and Verity from Totnes and Nancy has…
The beautiful twin town of Totnes, Vire in the Calvados region of France have introduced a ground breaking plan to drastically reduce waste and inefficiency by recycling cheese. The towns forward thinking environmental campaign group, Visionary Village Vire (VVV for short) (Pronounced Veh Veh Veh in french) (The V’s are in a different order in…
Last week heralded the 6th year of the Pride event with more than 100 revelers marching through the town. Proud2Be, organisers of the event, laid on a whole host of events in the town, including speeches from Mayor Judy Westacott MBE and Proud2Be founders Jae & Max Price and trans campaigners Fox and Owl.…
We, here at the Totnes Pulse, need help! We have about a million ideas and are working on getting them realised. Probably number one on our list is the What’s On events listings. We believe these are essential and should be up to date, accurate and comprehensive. We are doing our best to achieve this…
