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Dawlish News

Complaints Flood In
16 Jan 2004

Occupants of Leeclif including Ann James, Edna Davison and Allan Seaton are finding the lakes of rainwater in Beach Road outer and inner car parks are causing them serious problems. Residents have been complaining to the council for a long time, however, Cllr Ted Hokin recently stated that the car parks have been upgraded. Residents do not agree that enough has been done. One resident said: ...

Exeter magistrates imposed a community punishment and rehabilitation order for 18 months and ordered him to carry out 50 hours unpaid work in the community. He was also ordered to pay £400 compensation to the victim. Ed Canning, prosecuting, read a statement from a 17-year-old boy who said he had been skateboarding with friends in the street outside Worley's home when he was approached by the ...

The grisly find was made by man walking his dog in the grounds of Manor Gardens Park, Barton Terrace, Dawlish just before 8.30am. The walker reported the find at the nearby council offices, and the police were called. Police said the the death was initially being treated as suspicious. Detectives from Newton Abbot CID were being sent to the scene, which was cordoned off.

Wave Dodgers
13 Jan 2004

Dicing with death - these youngsters risk their lives in a deadly came of 'chicken' played against massive waves whipped up by storm-force winds. The laughing schoolboys are just one slip away from being dragged out to sea - provoking an urgent warning from coastguards to parents. Devon's 'wave dodgers' were spotted on the seafront at Dawlish trying to avoid the huge breakers, many towering over ...

Longhorn at the PDC
10 Jan 2004

At the end of October, Microsoft held the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. With the largest number of attendees of any previous PDC, we presented details regarding many upcoming developer-oriented technologies, including "Whidbey" (the codename for the next version of Visual Studio), "Yukon" (the codename for the next version of SQL Server), as well as the much anticipated ...

LAS VEGAS -- RealNetworks Inc. and IBM Corp. plan to team up to offer other companies a method for protecting and distributing digital audio and video. The partnership will combine IBM's Internet, database and content-management software with RealNetworks' software for disseminating audio and video over the Internet and setting up pay subscription services, RealNetworks said. The companies will ...

VSP Software recently launched its new website to promote the company and products. The website was designed by VSP and is hosted on VSP's in-house servers. VSP hope you like the look of its new website and would be grateful for any comments.

Sixty-year-old Peter Harry was accused of exceeding the speed limit in a 30mph restricted zone along the A379 at Starcross on March 27 2003. But when Harry presented his not guilty plea at Totnes magistrates court the crown procecutor David Bowen offered no evidence and invited the bench to dismiss the case. Mr Bowen explained that under the Trafic Regulation Act the prosecution had to prove the ...

Even manager Chris Myers, who has spoken highly of the players' attitude over the past month, had to accept the seasiders were poor, and that there must be more surgery if they're to climb off the bottom of the table "I'm not going to give up, but we looked like a bottom of the table team," he admitted. "It was frustrating, disappointing, annoying: it was everything from my point of view, ...

Repeated attempts to find Susan Hale, 52, from Dawlish a bed in the Teignbridge area have failed and she is currently in Brighton, after being remanded in custdy more than a year ago. Now a judge at Exeter Crown Court has ordered a representative from the Teignbridge Primary Care Trust to come to the court and explain why no bed has been made available. Also despite a report being ordered by the ...