My son has been taking part in Performing Arts club at school with his wonderful teachers and for the last couple of years they have had the opportunity to go to Young Voices in Birmingham. It’s a wonderful event that needed to be celebrated! Read the full article on the People’s Republic of South Devon.

Our first impression of Marans was not a positive one. We had only booked the campsite there because La Rochelle was, predictably for an August weekend, already full and Marans was conveniently close for day trips. We arrived after a hot four-hour drive from our beautiful lakeside pitch at St-Yrieix-la-Perche, and were not immediately impressed. The main road into town from the south pushes brutally through the middle of the town, and we peered silently at the abandoned shops that lined it.

On a day like today, there's nowhere I'd rather be than in the hills and nobody I'd rather be with than my family. We were up holiday early and filling ourselves with porridge and glucose syrup ready for what appeared to be a cold day ahead. The sky was clear and for once we were already packed, scraping the Frost of the windscreen and heading for Dartmoor for what was - for us at least - an early start.

Since the early '90s The Wildhearts have never really gone away. Rich Blagden saw them cloud-pleasing and ear-pumping in Torquay