20th February 2019 Dr Wollaston MP Resigns the Conservative Party Whip Dr Wollaston MP for the Totnes Constituency resigned the Conservative Party whip today and will now sit as an independent MP. Dr Wollaston has switched to the new centre grouping of independent MPs: https://theindependent.group/ Dr Wollaston said: ‘It is with great sadness that I have…
Totnes XX is a brand-new boutique festival combining music, film, comedy, art, debate and workshops, and taking place in multiple venues across the town over the weekend of 7th-10th March to coincide with International Women’s Day 2019. The packed programme of events kicks off with a special edition of the popular Chapter 12 Comedy Club in…
New year – New you? Learn Devon are based in the Mansion on Fore Street and are putting forward the new courses for this year. Learn Devon “seek to deliver high-quality learning experiences to support the personal, social, health and economic development of individuals and communities creating a safe and healthy place where people have…
12th February 2019 Over the last two years a dedicated group of young people have been working locally to provide creative spaces for themselves and other vulnerable people in the community. They are concerned by the increasing challenges they see around mental health which as they say “remain invisible to most”. The aim of the…
Perpetual arguments about Brexit spit forth on social-media often creating more heat than light. So The Totnes Pulse are trying a pragmatic approach to the discussion by asking 4 local businesses the same questions to see what they have to say – with limited success! If you also own a local business, have your say…
Totnes Town Council Flies in the Face of Best Practice With Market Square Consultation The Council has demonstrated an interesting sense of timing in announcing the consultation period over improvements to the Market Square.So interesting as a matter of fact that it flies in the face of best practice as espoused by the UK’s Local…
Following the heartbreaking death of Reuben Williams in a car crash this time last year, his grieving grandparents have made every effort to generate positivity from real tragedy. Reuben, 3, was in a car on Plymouth Road, when it was hit by a drink-driver, Andrew Vass who is now in prison on a charge of…
There’s no denying that providing genuinely affordable homes in the right places is one of the greatest domestic challenges of our times. More than 150 people packed a seminar in Tiverton this month to hear the key findings of a major new independent report into Devon’s future housing needs, commissioned by our charity – the…
The 3 imprisoned anti-fracking protesters …have now been released, having previously been given custodial sentences on “manifestly excessive” punishment terms, by a judge with alleged links to a firm profiting from fracking. One of the protesters, Rich Loizou, a nature connection and land-based learning facilitator at Schumacher College in Dartington and a tutor at a primary…
They say its rather difficult to maintain your equilibrium on the deck of a rolling ship.That is the sentiment that comes to mind when I think of Totnes, a ship constantly caught in the waves generated by the South Hams District Council. As long as I’ve lived here, the town has been having to fight…