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The past week was Local Democracy Week and Exeter City Council organised several events, including a Question Time from Exeter College.

During the event, I live-tweeted questions and answers. To what end?

Well, local councillor, Catherine Dawson hasdbeen signed off sick and was unable to attend Full Council on Tuesday and the other events during the week - she felt isolated from what was going on. At least she had Twitter.

She followed the Question Timeevent on Twitter as Ilinked my tweets from Exeter College with the hashtag #ExeQT.

She made the following...

In view of The Exeter Daily 's recent partnership with the Exeter Phoenix, as sponsor of the main auditorium now renamed theexeterdaily.co.uk Auditorium, we asked the popular arts centre's director Patrick Cunningham what he loves about living and working in Exeter.

Patrick has been responsible for artistic and chief executive direction at Exeter Phoenix since 2003. With a long history of music promotion in the South West, including the co-founding of the famous Cavern Club in Exeter and the publishing of What's On South West events magazine, Patrick also programmes live...

In the last week it has become official – 97% of scientific research papers on climate indicate that the earth is heating up and that this is due primarily to human activity. The catastrophic consequences of the release of gases into the atmosphere whose particles trap heat is now abundantly clear. This is as close to scientific proof that we get, and is on a par to evidence that smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases.

We might be sceptical, as all good science is because it needs to continually review what is happening, but to deny that global warming is caused by people is...

No one ever accused Larry Winget of mincing words. Larry, who is often referred to as the Pitbull of Personal Development, wouldn’t take very kindly to it anyway. His books, speeches and television appearances leave no doubt about where he stands and why he feels the way he does. Screen shot 2013-09-19 at 10.21.42 AM I admire Larry’s courage to speak plainly and without concern for “political correctness,” particularly when writing about a topic that involves convictions and self-confidence. His latest book is bound to pop a few eyeballs, probably starting with the title: “Grow A Pair: How...