Month: January 2025
Museum announces talk on Seaton Down Hoard
Tickets are available from Paperchain or online by clicking this Paypal link.
Tickets are available from Paperchain or online by clicking this Paypal link.
How to support your local bookshop
My New Year’s resolution is to support our local bookshop, the Owl and Pyramid in Fore Street, Seaton. Not just by popping in there from time to time – also by ordering my books online from the Owl and Pyramid page on Bookshops.org. You have to sign up and choose their page to order through (you can find it with the name or the EX12 postcode).
Bookshops.org has discounts like other online booksellers and postage is free if you spend £25. Your books arrive quickly in the post, but the Owl and Pyramid gets a hefty chunk of the price, helping to keep our local bookshop and town centre thriving.
Also this way, my money is not going to Amazon, whose founder Jeff Bezos has just given $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration!
EDDC makes proposal for dividing Devon into two unitary authorities
As the government pushes ahead with its plans for replacing the county & district councils by unitary authorities, EDDC and its leader Paul Arnott have made a proposal for how thus could be done, with two councils each covering a large area, one based in Exeter and the other in Plymouth. If this has to happen, thus seems a sensible proposal, at least from an East Devon point of view.
The key thing in my view is that this should be properly discussed and put to the electorate, not steamrollered through by an unholy alliance of the Labour and Conservative parties. This needs time and in the meantime the Devon county election should go ahead, so that those who make these decisions are reflecting the current views of the electorate.
, www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/24848437.east-devon-merged-exeter-unitary-authority/
Library move needs proper public discussion
It has been announced that in a cost-cutting exercise, Seaton Library will move from its present site to the Town Council’s Marshlands building. This will mean a serious contraction of the service which is valued by many members of the local community, young and old.
The move is another sorry consequence of 15 years of Conservative austerity, during which the library service has constantly been run down. Seaton Town Council has apparently agreed to this behind closed doors, because they will gain income from the move.
However, Library users and the community deserve their say – this cannot be yet another decision railroaded through regardless of local people’s views.
Devon democracy denied as elections postponed
In the County Council, an unholy alliance of the discredited Conservative Party and Labour has just recommended cancelling May’s county council elections, because the Labour government wants to abolish the council together with the district councils and impose a system of unitary authorities on Devon.
We the voters have not been consulted about the idea, there are no definite plans, and now the whole business will be left in the hands of local politicians who are literally past their sell-by date. It is good to see that Richard Foord and other Lib Dem MPs are opposing this stitch-up.
We must assume that Seaton’s present invisible Conservative county councillor, Marcus Hartnell, who has already decided not to stand for re-election, has gone along with this.
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