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Paul Rowntree aged 36 from Dawlish was jailed for 19 years, Rikki Ward aged 28 from Sunderland was jailed for 15 years 3 months, and Ross Morton aged 29 from Dawlish was jailed for three years for their role in the attack and robbery that took place in Dawlish on Monday 30 January 2017. Read more... http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2017-10-14/three-jailed-for-37-years-after-ammonia-attack/
There are two things that are annoying me about this. 1. How the figures were, and still are, being spun by some (for example 77% of the people in Dawlish voted for a playpark and/or the Dawlish public voted for their to be a playpark on the lawn). Actually 77% of the just over 500 who answered the questionnare did so. and 2. The absolutely fallacious argument that having ...
Calm down Lynne. We all know the numbers and we all know the outcome. How many of the Dawlish public voting in favour of it would be enough for you to accept the outcome? A la Brexit A la Scottish independence. Irony alert.
Back in 2008 a report was published concerning how Dawlish might be regenerated. click on this link to read it https://sites.teignbridge.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=33319&p=0 Chapter 10 is of particular interest as it is concerned with transforming the heart of the town.
Jeez!!!!!!! How many more times!!!!!! It was only circa 500 of the Dawlish public who chose to take part in last year's consultation that voted in favour of a play park on the lawn. And remember that all the questions asked were concerned with their being a playpark on the lawn somewhere.
Yet the Dawlish public voted in favour of the pavilion on the Lawn, just like it has with the playpark. I also don’t know how much the project cost prior to the central funding being allocated to elsewhere. At least you don’t call it the Termite!
Unlike Councillors, the public do not have access to Council Tax funds to satisfy a vanity project. I wonder how much the doomed woodlouse on the Lawn folly cost local taxpayers, before it was binned?
Network Rail, who own the sea wall, are very reluctant to put seating along it. Sadly. And not through the lack of trying by past and present town councillors.