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Haldon Heartbeat
29 Mar 2012

Has anyone run the Haldon Heartbeat before? 9 mile charity run through Haldon Forest on 28 April. Just wondering how easy/difficult a course it is.

Tarmac Dawlish
29 Mar 2012

Thanks Lynne. The reason I asked was that I was at the Red Rock cafe where I met a couple of cyclists heading for Dawlish who had been turned back and told that there was a new cycle path from the Warren to Dawlish

29 Mar 2012

Is there now a cyclepath between Dawlish Warren and Dawlish or is it still along the road - does anyone know?

29 Mar 2012

Sorry, should have been great-great grandmother. Bizarrely though, after doing a bit of historical research, I've found a Devonian connection. It appears that the original bicycle (or similar design) was actually brought back from the New World by Sir Walter, who of course also gave us potatoes and tobacco. Iconographs of bicycles have been found on Mayan temples and it is believed that they were ...

Dawlish in the sun
29 Mar 2012

@bryony . thanks bryony, sounds like you're an expert. so, if a bakery is not vat registered because it hasn't reached the turnover limit does that mean it doesn't have to charge the extra vat now on hot takeaways? If thta's the case what's to stop a bakery business from just becoming a sort of cooperative of several similar businesses (e.g. one making bread, one making pies etc etc) sharing the ...

29 Mar 2012

Sorry. The sun must have got to me. Complete mental block. A hairdressers chair is effectively an "ingredient" to the business so the VAT can be reclaimed if you are VAT registered and there will be no cost to passon (I think?). The ingredients to the pasty would be treated similarly - so if they are VAT rated zero (because they are food) then a VAT charge on the "product" i.e. the pasty will have ...

29 Mar 2012

I'm never quite sure how the impact of VAT is passed on. If you look at the thread on "hairdressers chairs" you'll see that Taverner suggests that if the business is VAT rated then there would be no impact on hairdressing prices because the additional VAT is offset against VAT the business already charges (I think?). So I guess that the pasty tax affects bakers who trade below the VAT limit who ...

Tarmac Dawlish
29 Mar 2012

Could be. I do know that his great grand-mother was called Penny Farthing and I believe his uncle was Chopper Charlie.

28 Mar 2012

He's Cyclist Cyril's cousin.