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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Environment Agency was alerted by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer at Shutterton, Dawlish who spotted sewage discharging from an overflow. The resident checked the discharge and noticed it had a foul smell. Samples were taken by and Environment Officer and South West Water were taken to court for causing pollution and pleaded guilty. The Environment Officer claimed that this was another ...

For Dawlish go for properties along Exeter Road or the estates nearby. Not too sure about Teignmouth.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new Internet virus was spreading fast throughout Asia, Australia and Europe but computer security experts were divided on the seriousness of the threat from the "Bagle" worm. Experts expected some impact in the United States when people returned to work Tuesday after a holiday weekend. The "Bagle" or "Beagle" worm arrives in an e-mail with the subject "hi" and the word "test" ...

The Federation Against Software Theft, known as FAST to its friends and enemies alike, is encouraging company directors to make the use of unlicensed software a thing of the past. And this time any directors unwilling or unable to make such a new year's resolution could face more than a large fine and guaranteed public embarrassment; gaol could be on the cards. FAST was set up by software authors ...

POLICE have confirmed that they are not treating as suspicious the death of an elderly woman whose body was found in a stream in Dawlish on Thursday 13th January.

The warranty, part of a new project called the Open Source Assurance Program, is for all existing and future customers of the Raleigh, N.C.-based company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system products, the company said in an announcement Monday night, shortly before the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that begins Wednesday in New York. SCO alleges that IBM improperly moved Unix intellectual ...

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 ...

Kingscare League of Friends recently won a minibus and are looking for volunteers to make up a sub-group whose sole responsibilty will be the bus. The bus will provide support to patients of Kingsteignton Medical Practice. They would welcome volunteers with driving skills, organisational skills and someone who would be able to ensure the bus is kept clean. Tel: 01626 203050.

Gooding took over the the Sandy Lane Club last autumn and has ambitions of seeing Dawlish playing Southern League football within a few years, identifying DML Premier Division club Tiverton Town as his role model for success. Gooding has installed a new management set-up at Sandy Lane, with the intention of improving both on and off field activities at the club and he admits some difficult ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

I think its the 14 - 21 August. Carnival day is 19th.

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 ...

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And that would complete the first part of a three-point plan which chairman Nigel Gooding outlined when he fronted a three-man take over at the cash-strapped club in October. "I think it safe to say we'll still be a Western League club next season, even if we don't stay up," he says. "My view is that we're now a mid-table Premier Division side, given some of the performances against the likes ...

Heavitree's point put them level on points with Exeter Civil Service who lost 1-0 at Alphington, but not one club moved into a different position in the league. Crediton did close the gap on seventh-placed Vospers, to goal difference, as their victory at Lords Meadow took their unbeaten run to 11 games but they were made to fight hard by a determined Cullompton. "Our boys had too much Turkey ...

A policewoman is in hospital after a double stabbing incident at her home. Mother-of-two Fay Hurved suffered knife wounds to her neck, back and chest and is in a stable condition at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Her 52-year-old estranged husband Ian is also stable at Torbay Hospital after being found at the house with a knife embedded in his chest. Officers investigating the incident ...

The NHS is suing seven pharmaceutical companies for £30m over allegations that they fixed the price of common antibiotics, it has emerged. Documents lodged with the high court on December 17 by health secretary John Reid claim that the companies agreed to artificially raise the price of a range of penicillin-based drugs. The case is part of a wide-ranging investigation into alleged ...

Headteachers today condemned the latest expansion of Government school league tables to cover results achieved by 14-year-olds as an “unnecessary irrelevance”. School standards minister David Miliband said that, for too long, too many pupils had “drifted” in the first three years of secondary school and publishing the results highlighted the work schools were doing to improve their performance. ...

Dawlish Water Wheel Project has already come across the first unexpected problem. When lifting the wheel off the bearing housing it was found that both were broken in half. These will now need to be repaired, adding to the cost. This first phase should be completed early in the new year. The next phase will be the rubbing down and painting of the main wheel structure. Also, the pointing in of ...

Opened in the early 80s, the factory made quiches, fruit pies and sponges that were sold to supermarkets, catering companies and hospitals. Last Friday, staff turned up at 9am as usual, only to find that they no longer had somewhere to work. Instead of going into the factory as normal they were told to wait in the canteen. News of the liquidation was broken to them by a representative of Lamey ...

Spam – It’s the stuff that clogs up your inbox in the hope of selling you anything from the latest money spinning tool to plastic surgery. It's considered the biggest downside to the internet revolution. 90% of unsolicited email is from 200 spammers. 50-70% of email traffic across the world is spam. Healthcare products - mainly Viagra - accounted for nearly half of all the spam received in ...

Owner of Black Country Properties, Simon Steel Perkins, said: `Black Country Properties Limited submitted the Planning Application on September 1, 2003, for the Regeneration of Shutterton Bridge after many months of pre-application local consultation, together with a considerable amount of research and studies, including undertaking a comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment in relation to ...

Dawlish resident Jack Chadwick, raised more than £350 for the National Wheelchair Association, by leaping out of a perfectly good aeroplane.

The big 'Switch On' event was held on Monday evening, with the switch operated by Dawlish Carnival Claire Barnes and Dawlish Mayor Bill Forrow.

The town council planning committee gave several reasons for its refusal of the scheme by Joe and Margaret Adams for two houses and a garage in the garden of their property, at Channel View, off Fordens Lane. They said that the development would be dangerous on highways grounds, because of poor access, and that it represented overdevelopment. It would mean a loss of amenity through the ...

The 31-strong fleet, now ranking amoung the largest in the South West, had been a family run business for half a decade employing 50 staff. But after a casual conversation between Neil Tomlinson, the prior owner, and John Weaver, the new managing director, the business is now in new hands. Mr Weaver, a former employee, bought the business along with partner Gill Byers, the former accounts manager. ...

I recently have become interested in Radio Controlled Model Aeroplanes. Is anyone else, who lives locally also interested?

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