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FB - my thoughts, for what they are worth, on your post above. Oh dear what a half empty glass you have. There has been lots of discussion on this website and no doubt elsewhere as to the need to improve the sea defences. What happened last month has brought it home just how much the sea defences are needed and that they need improving. Perhaps you haven't read the postings on here or read ...
Isn't Network Rail responsible for maintaining the wall? “Network Rail is a company limited by guarantee, and was established in March 2002. It is a private company with a board of directors, but does not have shareholders. It's members are drawn from the rail industry and the public. Its accountable to its customers and funded through a mixture of access revenue, paid to it by the train ...
I wonder how much the seats for the flights will cost, how much cheaper the discounted train fares will be and what restrictionsthere will be on such discounted tickets.? And just to point out that extra flights into Newquay from London or even discounted train tickets aren't much use if you live in the Exeter/South Devon area where the nearest airport is Exeter and where, as I write this, not ...
Supposing, just supposing, an alternative route was built inland. I wonder just how long it would remain an 'alternative'. After all, why spend goodness knows how many thousands or millions of pounds on keeping open the coastal route when there would be an 'alternative' not needing mega amounts of money spent on it in order to keep it open.
So she is. Sorry, that bit of his post didn't register for some reason.
Who's Val?
I think it is the secure unit and the reasons its patients are there that causes concern. And haven't all the patients there, whatever units they are in, ended up there via the courts? So not quite your run of the mill psychiatric hospital is it? As it happens I totally agree with you Huw about people who have had mental health problems, needing to be treated to get better and then going back ...
According to the FOI request that I believe Kenny has got the figures from the figures are based on: "....................all incidents reported where a person is absent without leave (AWOL). This includes all incidents where a person left a unit without authorisation, irrespective of whether they left the hospital grounds, and all incidents where a person did not return from authorised leave ...
What made me smile was this paragraph: "I suspect many of those who now object are of recent origin and adopt the Nimby attitude now that they are resident in the area and attempt to dictate to long-established business and residents what can be done in the future." Does Mr Stone not know that what can be built and what cannot be built is not determined by local residents (irrespective ...
@stephen15 - Do you know where Sainsbury's is? Well, Langdon Hospital is opposite Sainsbury's, on the left hand side of the main road if travelling towards Exeter. White buildings set back a bit. Sign at entrance by main road says something like - NHS Langdon Hospital. No accident or emergency.
