03/03/2025 / 30/05/2025 by Marcus
We are delighted to announce that Sara Wilson has been elected as County Councillor for the Ilfracombe division on Devon County Council. She now joins five other Green Councillors at County Hall and, along with two Independent councillors, have joined with the Liberal Democrat majority to form the new administration. Sara was an outstanding candidate […]
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24/02/2025 / 24/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
President Zelensky rightly said that President Trump is trapped inside a bubble of Russian disinformation. This has been widely reported for obvious reasons but I have not seen one mention of the source of Trump’s dangerous misinformation. Fox News, or Fox ‘News’, has been pumping out pro-Russian propaganda for years. This is part of Rupert […]
18/02/2025 / 18/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Photo: the Valentine I received on Friday My wife has a great gift for creating or finding the soppiest cards to give me on 14 February each year, all of which I treasure. I gave a talk at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon last Tuesday to its Friends group. My subject was ‘Great […]
10/02/2025 / 10/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Making a difference? I wonder, quite often, how much difference I am making as a district councillor. This week I found that I had helped in a way I had not expected. I serve on the joint committee (with Torridge District Council) of the North Devon Crematorium. At our meeting last Friday afternoon, the Crematorium […]
03/02/2025 / 04/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Spring – Snowdrops in St James’s Churchyard, Swimbridge Last Monday was Holocaust Memorial Day and, like many others, I listened on the radio to heart-rending testimonies broadcast from the Auschwitz death camp. They were followed by short updates from Gaza. I was not alone in feeling that the Holocaust visited upon millions of innocent Jews […]
28/01/2025 / 28/01/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Welcome to my latest blog post… I am a member of the Taw Torridge Estuary Forum, which met last Monday evening. Louise Wainwright, chair of Avon River Champions in South Devon, was our special guest. She gave a rousing speech about the abject state of our waterways and our dysfunctional regulations but proposed a solution […]