Dawlish News
Hull is the chubbiest town in Britain - while Kingston upon Thames is the leanest, an obesity league table has revealed. Data analysts Experian compiled the tables based on hospital admission records for Type 2 diabetes. The most likely to be overweight were white, working class families who have poor education and do little exercise. In contrast, people in the leanest towns are more likely to ...
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.
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 ...
The mystery of what happened to the ship that ferried Charles Darwin around the world may have been solved. A team led by Dr Robert Prescott of the University of St Andrews has located what they believe are the remains of HMS Beagle beneath an Essex marsh. To explore the site further, technology designed for the UK's recent ill-fated mission to Mars is being considered. The two quests are ...
Spirit used its rock abrasion tool for brushing the dust off three patches of a rock called "Humphrey," during its 55th sol on Mars, ending at 5:53 p.m. Saturday, PST. Before applying the wire-bristled brush, the rover inspected the surface of the rock with its microscope and with its alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, which identifies elements that are present. Brushing three different places on ...
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. ...
People who use air services out of the South West will have a much wider choice of scheduled flights from the start of this month. Air Southwest is launching new flights from Plymouth to Bristol and Manchester on Monday and Flybe will shortly launch new services from Exeter.
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 ...
