Dawlish News

The Dawlish Gazette should hang it's head in shame over it's sensationalist coverage of this story, and likewise it's ridiculously biased coverage against the attempt to secure £1m funding to improve our town. It begs the question, what is their agenda????

@Mrs C, I do not understand how you can accuse the Gazette of being biased over the developments for the lawn when the sheer volume of the objections logged with TDC are now over the 200 mark compared to the half dozen letters in support. You appear to be the one out of step with the majority of the people of Dawlish. BTW, as for your skills in proof reading, you need to learn how to use the apostrophe. Lol. 

The majority of the people of Dawlish 200 objections is less than 2% of the population and less than 5% filled out the questionair.  And yet 96% of the students in years 9 and 10 at DCC filled out a questionair it seem,s to me the folk of Dawlish dont give a monkeys yet the young of this town care maybe we should be asking them what we need.

Maggie, how many of those objections are merely pro formas filled in by the uninformed (or more likely, misinformed) elderly rank and file of this town?

I did ponder over the placement of a couple of the apostrophes, and I'm still not sure whether it's right or not. However I bow to your evident superior knowledge of such important matters. 

You do need to look at your lack of comma usage however.  Laugh Out Loud. 

It's Is only ever an abbreviation for 'it is' or 'it has' - the apostrophe is in place of the missing letters.

Its denotes possession.

Predictive text plays havoc with that rule. 

@Mrs C, you are absolutely right about mis-information being given out. Many people were told that the proposed new building was only twice the size of the current bandstand. When people found out the truth they were horrified and started to lodge objections. Views differ on the use of pre-prepared objection letters, but when many people have the same points to raise it is accepted that pre-prepared letters are a good option with objectors filling in their own name and address and signing the letter. At the end of the day all objections signed by individuals have to be taken into account. 

The comma is frequently over used, better to have too few than too many. Lol