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That makes £4,000,000 extra paid in during the last 5 years that's were our money goes, Gordon Brown and Ed Balls killed final salary schemes when they robbed them of millions but all the time civil service, Council employees and NHS workers pensions are gold plated.

Or it will change to a block of flats and be counted as affordable or part rent part buy. That's what happened on the Redrow site.

1263 the reserves are mainly held for protection of the pension fund. Teignbridge accounts showed I think three years ago that they managed to find an extra 1 million pounds to pay into the staff pension fund, this was at a time when they were closing toilets and cutting services.

I have just had to pay £150 before I have even seen the dentist as a private patient. Seems they are all on the same now.

Chance that there are going to be no buses as the Exeter drivers have voted to strike as they are upset at relocation of the depot to matford.

So will we the residents of Teignbridge be forking out for a builders cockup, but then the residents of Carhaix must be grateful as they wont like it when they get heavy constuction traffic using Carhaix as a short cut to the Gatehouse building site because the link road will not be built first.

According to SWW the problem was a blockage after cleaning the pumps at Shutterton pumping station and is not a broken pipe.

Quite correct Lynne and that I think is known by TDC Planning and the councillors

Wonder were the next load of houses are going to be built after 2033, next to Port Road maybe, and were is the starcross / Kenton bypass going to go.

So that description of the "avenue" makes it almost certain that Carhaix will be the rat run.

The existing cycle path finishes before the 2nd set of residents parking bays along the Exeter Road, so as the pavement will need widening are the options 1          Take away the residents parkng along the Exeter Road. 2           Widen the path / cycle path retain the residents parking and narrow the Exeter Road. I cannot see that the path can be widened seaward but then there is 1.3 ...

Why do planning regs not insist that all new builds should have solar panels installed on roofs, that way we would not have to cover green fields with them.

Thank you for the feedback Michael

And thats why the country needs welfare reform.

I take it you have done a scan for new channelsas directed by freeview a week ago. If not give that a try.

Well done Ziggy for using Dawlish.com to do something that is good for the town, without nastiness

Yes sorry Clive have a view but away from laptop at present and typing on android with its missing characters on Dawlish.com drives me mad.

Never mind what it is called, we had a nice walk in the rain to Red Rock Cafe today and enjoyed our cup of coffee and bread pudding. Well worth the walk.

More houses more council tax , retain jobs in the council and the fat cat pay packets to the senior employees in the council.

I can see some problems with that, bridges, tunnels etc and areas where the track is curved. The idea of a new line is to make it as straight as possible. the question if the line is worth the cost or spend the money elsewhere is very debateable.

Holiday makers have gone home so now they have to fight for a reduced trade

Working time directive says not allowed, must have minimum 11 hours between shifts. So 14 + 11 = 25 and there are only 24 in a day.

Only  £5.44 on Amazon,corporation tax free or kindle download for £3.54

Just sent an email to the company asking them to tell their driver not to do it , lets see what happens now.

And on an eviromental reason why cut down forests to print books that just sit on a shelf.

Just noticed that this stretch of road has had it's centre line added. It used to be mainly double  white line that prevented overtaking but now is single.  Today we watched a near head on collision in the making as some idiot overtook two cars with out sight of oncoming traffic. Wonder why DCC changed the marking, they were doing far more than 40 by the way.

Barbaric, ought to flog the bl***y goverment

Quite right willosindawlish unless of course you tuck it into an ISA. But in the Cyprus case the are going to take a percentage of the capital sum.

These will become part of Dawlish history in years to come. Thank you for taking the time Ziggy

There is a lights controlled crossing at the top of Secmaton Lane, after the lane the footpath goes onto Langdon hospital ground. The road after Secmaton is not wide enough to support footpath both sides. Also once the bridge works are completed the footpath on both sides will be re-instated over the bridge so I am told.

MPs have told the watchdog reviewing their pay that they deserve a 32% hike to £86,250. A survey carried out by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) also found more than a third believe they should keep generous final salary pensions. The findings emerged as Ipsa published a report on its initial consultation into pay and pensions, which ended last month. The research, ...

I agree Lynne, in the last 7 years it seems to me that every time Teignbridge asks for public opinion and gets it then ignores what the majority say.

When we last visited 2 weeks ago the coffee was good and the atmosphere was excellent. Will try to get a visit today, just to congratulate him.