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Compensation
12 Mar 2018

Diana Mond, does it matter what council it is? the point of me placing this on Dawlish.com, was to show just from one department, (Transport) how much money is wasted on claims when in the majority of cases, the problems could have been fixed. Maybe by those that are trying to fix Exeter Road. In Devon, we have a team of men called "linesmen", There job as I understand it is to drive around and ...

11 Mar 2018

1: Total claims for compensation your council received. 832 # 2: Total claims your council paid out compensation for. 142 3: Highest single amount your council paid out in compensation. £1,972.00 4: Lowest single amount your council paid out in compensation. £25.20 5: Average single amount your council paid out in compensation. £42.94* 6: Total compensation your council paid out ...

Wandering can be benificial/imformativ/educational. I see nothing wrong with having a good wander. Ever wondered what would happen if we didn't wander?

4 Mar 2018

A lot of people don't know this, but then again there are lots of things that drivers don't know when it comes to driving. "Stationary idling is an offence under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988," says Jeanette Miller, a managing director of Geoffrey Miller Solicitors. The Act enforces rule 123 of the Highway Code which states: "You must not leave a vehicle engine running ...

4 Mar 2018

Vehicle drivers are the worst when it comes to polution. They do not switch off when they could and I am told that a vehicle that is going no where but with it's engine running, causes more polution than a moving one. Exeter road is a classic at the moment. They are sat waiting for five or more minutes for the lights to change and do not switch off. I have noticed that some bus drivers are ...

4 Mar 2018

"To consider". I would have thought it is a no brainer. Air polution is another topic they should consider, that is a threat to all of us.

There is talk and there is doing. If, as is stated in other places, there is a shortage of skilled work forces in most countries, and the car industry employ's many of those skilled workers. There would need to be a lot of planning to move a factory from one country to another. Does anyone remember the so called "brain drain" rubbish that was designed to scare some people. Talk about moving car ...

Pics 23 02 2018
28 Feb 2018

Perhaps the vehicle is classed as a medical aid. If it is/was, then no traffic laws can touch it. Strange things can happen every day.

28 Feb 2018

May not have been such an idiot parking on the pavement. The photographer will know whether or not there may have been a mechanical problem, and the driver got the car out of the way from the rest of the traffic on the road. The traffic on the pavement still had room to pass.

most of the F1 cars are british made--- so I understand, and Made in Britain MINI – MINI, MINI Clubman and MINI Countryman, in Cowley, Oxford Honda – Civic and CR-V in Swindon Toyota – Auris, Auris hybrid and Avensis in Burnaston, Derbyshire Nissan – Juke, Qashqai, Note and Leaf and Infiniti Q30 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Lotus – Elise, Evora and Exige in ...