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The Prince's Trust is to launch a new strategy to help one million young people it has identified as disadvantaged in the country. It hopes to get millions of pounds invested in schemes, including apprenticeships, for young people who are not in education or employment. It also wants reform of the benefits system to encourage more young people into work. The strategy was developed after a ...

Dawlish Town have signed free-scoring Brixham United striker Jay Morgan with the intention of playing him for the first time in next Saturday's game at Odd Down. In spite of recruiting front men Darren Bingham and Mark Pepperell, manager Chris Myers has always made it clear he needed an out-and-out marksman from the time he took over the Sandy Lane hot-seat in mid-October.

NEW YORK (AP) -- With a simple adjustment in your e-mail software, you can pretend to be anyone. You can send messages marked as coming from BillGates@microsoft.com. The trick, known as spoofing, is a popular method for spammers to hide their tracks -- you'd blame Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates and not the actual perpetrator of junk mail. To close that loophole, Microsoft and Yahoo! Inc. ...

The vulnerable track is battered by the sea on one side, and is now increasingly coming under attack from cliff falls as well. Ever since Brunel built it in the 19th century, it has given problems and the latest attempts to shore up the line are costing £6 million. Network Rail is installing black netting on the cliff face and has erected a large fence at the bottom to stop rocks falling on to ...

Luccombe Ponds: Ash Pond Re-Stocking The first re-stocking of Ash pond took place this week with the introduction of 250lb of carp. The fish, ranging in size from 2lb-3lb, were carefully released into the pond which will be both for pleasure and match anglers. The Luccombe and Take the Bait, Dawlish midweek series was won by Dawlish's Ron Entwhistle. He was pegged on Birch where he used ...

A couple from Topsham are set to give up a successful taxi business they have run for 15 years for a new life on the sunshine island of Cyprus. Sally Downer and her husband Gary Wills, of Highfields, who own Topsham Cabs, plan to continue in the taxi business after buying a cab firm from a Turkish Cypriot. Miss Downer, 36, said the pair had finally had enough of England's inclement weather and ...

Venue of the Year
4 Feb 2004

The Kenton Castle who has played host to top entertainers such as Elton John, Status Quo, Blue and this year Westlife, Jools Holland and Busted, was given the award by the event services association TESA last week. General Manager Tim Faulkner was delighted with the award and with how successful the concerts have been. The castle has more people arriving at the few concerts held each year than ...

Firewatch Devon League leaders Ottery St Mary have a rare rest this weekend enabling the chasing pack to close the gap and use up one of the many games in hand they possess over Pete Gartrell's side. Second-placed Ivybridge will be looking narrow the deficit to just two points but would normally be expected to pick up an easy three points from a visit to basement club Topsham. However, the Tops ...

No record is safe, warned Dawlish SC coach Chris Chappell in his address after the club's annual championships ""Even the records set by our most-promising graduates, some real Olympic prospects, tumbled this year. ""Last year was a record year for records with 27, this year 30 were set."" Paul Wilson had a great year with six outstanding records and a Devon & Western Counties Championship. He ...

Microsoft Corp. has offered a $250,000 reward for the person responsible for the MyDoom worm, as the reported number of infected computers continues to rise rapidly. The world's largest software maker said Thursday it would pay the money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for unleashing a variant of the malicious software code, called MyDoom.b, which is ...