North Devon

Gaza genocide – White Cross Wind Farm – Local Government Reorganisation – The Men’s Shed – The Palestine Solidarity Campaign North Devon

Mark Haworth-Booth — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:00:26 +0000

Thank you, Richard Burgon MP, for what you are doing to prevent the Gaza genocide that Israel is carrying out while the world does nothing much – especially our own craven government. This is my latest email to BBC Feedback: Dear Feedback The coverage of the last two weeks, in which Israel has cut off […]

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Green Party campaigning – retirement just a phase – bird ID and an otter on the Taw

Mark Haworth-Booth — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:16:31 +0000

I owe my election as a district councillor in May 2023 to my North Devon Green Party colleagues. They photographed and designed, had printed and then delivered four rounds of leaflets and cards. They also put in hours knocking on doors. That’s why my wife and I help other Green candidates. Here I am with […]

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Spring moth, Local Government Reorganisation, BBC Moral Panic, Suffolk, Trump and Kompromat, Lambing time.

markhaworthbooth — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:54:33 +0000

The moth that appeared on our summerhouse door to announce Spring on 1 March, which featured in Blog 10, is a Dotted Border, Agriopsis marginaria, which flies Feb-April. The female is flightless and the larvae feed on many broadleaved trees and shrubs – info kindly given me by the North Devon moth expert John Breeds. […]

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Wild Pages, Waste & Recycling, Local Government reorganisation, Spring, Writing Workshop, Medieval Concert

markhaworthbooth — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:23:52 +0000

I have read poems from The Thermobaric Playground to the local branch of the Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) on two occasions. The book, published in 2022, opens with a section on my North Devon habitat. There is another section on birds. The renowned botanist and DWT organiser Mary Breeds asked me to join her in […]

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Sara Wilson for Ilfracombe 2025

North Devon Green Party — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:26:16 +0000

We are delighted to announce that Sara Wilson is standing as the Green Party candidate for Ilfracombe in the Devon County Council elections to be held on May 1st 2025. Sara is an outstanding candidate who has already shown that she has what it takes to make an impact in local government. Since being elected […]

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Lies, fields, housing, frogspawn and a living willow tepee / birdwatching hide

Mark Haworth-Booth — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:19:14 +0000

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 […]

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A Valentine, a memorable public announcement, housing, the corruption league, case work, US hypocrisy, good moves from government, bad faith in our media.

Mark Haworth-Booth — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:05:05 +0000

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 […]

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Making a difference, Public Art, being a Typomaniac, baleful Brexit, Watertesting and London exhibitions

Mark Haworth-Booth — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:28:33 +0000

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 […]

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Holocaust Memorial Day, Defending Our Juries, Speedwatch, the Shoebill and Signs of Spring

Mark Haworth-Booth — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:10:48 +0000

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 […]

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On Water Quality, BT as farce or tragedy, Carnival and RIP Michael Longley

Mark Haworth-Booth — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:36:55 +0000

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 […]

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