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I gather from my young person that the tickets for the Saturday sold out like mega quick. But she and others she knows did manage to get tickets for the Sunday (which as it happens is perfectly okay with her as it was tickets for the Sunday that she wanted). Having booked a day's leave from work so that she could go online as soon as she could, and having succeeded in getting tickets for the ...

Well it's free in the same sense that pensioner bus pass fares are free, and over 60 prescriptions are free, and state schooling is free, and NHS treatment is free (but not dental), and lollipop school crossing patrols are free and so on and so forth. Tax payers money being used to provide a service that not all tax payers will use or are necessarily eligible to use. (note to self - now ...

1 Mar 2016

I was just going to say " hang on a minute I thought the BBC Big Weekend festival was free" when I read MV's post. Easy to get confused though.

To answer my own question about how much Exeter City Council have stumped up - it looks like it was £100,000 as well because in those minutes that I've posted it talks of "a budget be allocated, matched by the partner authority". Anyone know what the reaction is amongst the Exeter electorate about all this? I've only found this (and scroll down to read the comments) ...

15 Feb 2016

Unfortunately the polls for the local councils are some 3 and a bit years away and if a week is a long time in politics then ............. That said, perhaps people would like to ask our Dawlish TDC councillors more about all of this both via e-mail and via letters in the Gazette. And yes, perhaps the top earners at the BBC and the artistes themselves could indeed make a donation/waive their ...

14 Feb 2016

Okay - I've found this minute from the TDC Council meeting held on 8th December 2015. 240. EXCLUSION OF THE PRESS & PUBLIC The Chairman recommended that the following resolution be approved: "That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the Press and Public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business COUNCIL (8.12.15) 177 on the grounds ...

14 Feb 2016

Does anyone know how much Exeter City Council have stumped up? And as much as I would also like to know more about the decision making by TDC concerning all this, I doubt very much if anything will be forthcoming as I imagine all discussions about it had to take place in Part II of meetings which are confidential and not open to the public. So, we will only ever know what we'll get told. I ...

14 Feb 2016

I just wonder if...........assuming that Powderham is being paid for the use of the estate..............and given that the Courtney's can't be short of a bob or two........well.......I just wonder if ......... in this instance the Courtney's would waive any fees they would normally charge for such an event being staged on their land. Because although I am open to persuasion about the concert ...

14 Feb 2016

Okay, so perhaps the shops in Dawlish (and other parts of Teignbridge) won't benefit financially whilst the Courteney's and their estate will, but perhaps other residents in Teignbridge might benefit  financially in a different way? For example - I wonder what the open market price would be for a ticket to this event if it wasn't free? And if, as MV says, locals get first dibs for these ...

14 Feb 2016

Does anyone know how the £100,000 is to be divvied up? Artist fees? BBC? Powderham Estate? Other? I'm just curious

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