Dawlish News
Controversial plans for university top-up fees have run into trouble on the first day of detailed Lords scrutiny. The House of Lords inflicted three defeats during the report stage debate of the Higher Education Bill. Ministers want English universities to be able to charge students up to £3,000 a year for courses from 2006. Peers voted to defer the fees for those on gap years in 2005, to limit ...
Venus made a rare transit across the face of the Sun on Tuesday, giving stargazers from Australia to the Middle East and Africa a celestial view that no living person had seen before. To the delight of hundreds of people around the globe armed for the occasion with telescopes, pinhole cameras and special glasses, Venus appeared at 0520 GMT as a small black dot on the lower edge of the Sun at the ...
Plymouth Civil Service romped back to the top of the C Division with a crushing seven-wicket win at Stoke Gabriel. Heathcoat were top on Saturday morning, but their defeat by Dawlish & Teignmouth opened the door for Civil to take pole position. And Dawlish are up to second now with Exeter St James newly installed in third - they easily accounted for lowly Mount Wise by six wickets - with Heathcoat ...
SpaceShipOne and the White Knight, are the unconventional designs of the California-based aerospace visionary Burt Rutan, who in partnership with the billionaire founder of Microsoft and space travel enthusiast Paul Allen, has invested between USD $20 million and $30 million USD in the project. A small rocket plane will power into a steep climb over California's Mojave desert later this month and, ...
Controversial plans to split Exeter's Parliamentary seat along the River Exe have been scrapped, the Echo can reveal today. The Boundary Commission for England has abandoned proposals to cut a chunk off the city's seat west of the river. In a dramatic U-turn, the commission has ditched plans to hive off Alphington, Cowick, Exwick and St Thomas into a massive 'Mid Devon' seat stretching to ...
Exactly seventy years to the day that the county association (DCLBA) was formed and affiliated to the English Women's Bowling Association (EWBA) at an hotel in the town, a Devon President's team took on the England President's team at Courtenay Park. Seven past presidents of the DCLBA and section secretaries were among a bevy of officials in Margaret Shillabeer's side, while Devon's Sue Harriott ...
Ian Langler of Dawlish Coasters holds a narrow lead in the Fox River/Ironbridge Runner Devon Race Series going into the fourth round at Plymouth on May 30. The Plymouth Half-Marathon, for which entries have now closed, includes the next round of the popular series which has already seen fierce competition during the early races of the season. Langler was eighth Devon runner in the opening race, ...
Veterans Dennis Gibbs and Don Beesley both added to their silverware collections at the South Devon and Torbay Table Tennis League awards night at Torbay Hospital Social Club. Others to swell their trophy cabinets included Halwell's Kevin Nicholls and Sonja Wicks and Supa-Roofing's Shaun Gibbs. 2004 South Devon & Torbay Table Tennis League Roll of Honour Collins Cup (h'cap singles): 1 Kevin ...
Proposals to increase the frequency of connections to London and dual almost the entire length of the region's main track have gone down well with transport campaigners. One of the most exciting plans is to reinstate the line between Exeter and Okehampton and build a new station near the town. By re-opening the tracks south to Tavistock and onto Plymouth operators could provide a commuter service ...
Flying cars, transparent cloaks, technology which can read minds and games played by brain waves - the stuff of fiction, surely? Not so, these seemingly far-fetched inventions - and more - are now reality. What lies beneath the cloak. For a vision of what the future holds, thousands of nay-sayers and believers alike have got an up close and personal glimpse at NextFest, an expo in San Francisco ...
