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General Discussion

Licensing
9 Jul 2017

The licensing committee are part of Teignbridge Council and you can contact them at Forde House, Newton Abbot. It's best to put any formal complaint in writing and keep a record of dates and times. Send a copy to the police at the addresses previously mentioned.

No, Brooklyn Bridge, it's not just you. I for one would much rather have the reassurance of seeing a police car parked in plain sight and this would probably act as a deterrent, to a certain extent. Of course, this also requires them to implement the law, something they seem curiously reluctant to do.

14 Jun 2017

@Brooklyn Bridge You are quite right to"rant on". This morning a shopkeeper from Piermont Place had a group of lads in her shop, probably school kids who have finished exams at a loose end. While she was trying to assist them, they walked out with several items of clothing and when she followed them in the direction of Coryton Cove, they just ignored her. If we could have put a group of ...

I've just read the article as we don't get the paper delivered until Sunday evening and I can't get my head round this at all. Regardless of the sums of money, as I understand it Ms Bulbeck is being made redundant and this means that the post of Chief Executive Officer to the council is being axed, therefore there will be no-one replacing her. However, it appears that this is contradicted by Cllr ...

Dog poop
10 May 2017

Well, good for you, Brooklyn Bridge, but I have witnessed a dog owner who didn't pick up his dog's poo. There was an old man in the Manor in the middle of the afternoon and his dog left a great steaming pile right by the side of the footpath, just handy for one of the kids to step in. I spoke to him about it and said that he could be fined and he just looked at me blankly as if I was talking a ...

Presumably, falsehoods going out in print would be potentially libellous.

French Election
24 Apr 2017

I think " the ability to vote is wasted on some people " is one of the nastiest comments I've read on here for some time.

Pics
20 Apr 2017

Lovely pics, especially the old car.

I would hope that current environmental protection laws would still apply, sadly there doesn't seem to be much evidence of them being implemented at present as it appears that the building of houses on green fields takes priority.

and @tom , the cyclepath was built by the council to ensure the safety of cyclists by taking them off the road, which they are choosing to ignore, and not much thought seems to have been given to the safety of pedestrians on said path.