Several miles of ballast which supports track on the railway line was washed away and one hundred feet of sea wall collapsed at Dawlish during the evening. More floods are expected and coastguards are warning of gale force 9 for Wednesday morning. Source: http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2014-02-04/people-evacuated-as-storms-hit-devon-cornwall/ Pictures: ...
@michaelclayson , I will have a think about this. We used to have separate forum sections for politics, the council and holiday information, but people still posted everything in the general section.
A coastal erosion expert has warned that the new year storms could see more cliffs collapsing later this year. Storms have already caused a number of collapses around the coast, including at Porthcothan Bay in Cornwall where a landmark rock arch fell into the sea. Read News Article ... Powerful waves hit the sea defences at Dawlish in Devon
Merry Christmas to all and thanks @FredBassett & agreers for your kind words. Also, this site would not be much without the contributers and posters so many thanks to you all and keep posting. Every year I give out the statistics for dawlish.com, so here are this years compared to last years (in brackets): Period: 24 Dec 2012 - 23 Dec 2013: Pageviews: 650,859 (599,827) ...
Police are appealing for witnesses after sporting equipment for the disabled was stolen from Dawlish Community College. The thieves took £100 of white guttering from the Sandy Lane Skate Park, used by disabled children playing ball games. They struck on December 17 between 9.45am and 11.30am.Anyone with information should call the police on 101 and quote JG/13/2392. Read more: ...
@Lynne , Please feel free to debate any subject. I didn't remove Paul's thread because of the subject matter, but because of Paul's comments. It would be the same, for example, if you had posted the links you have with racist comments, but you haven't.
@FredBassett , I agree with free speech and rarely remove comments. I didn't remove the thread because of the news article. I believe that paul's comments were offensive and hateful towards a particular group of people and hence in breach of the terms of the forum. The thread could be reinstated but I think I am right. I am happy to consider people's objections. I don't want to be unfair or ...
I've decided to kill the 'India bans gay sex' thread started by Paul since it was clearly intended to express a homophobic prejudice rather than to start a legitimate debate on the news story. Since the comments by Paul were offensive - to gay men in particular - it breached the t&c's of the site. Apologies to those who took the time to comment, especially Neilh who contributed a poem.
@User 4549 , your last post with the same title 'Islam at its best' turned out to be a hoax for which you apologised. In your new post, some Muslims broke the law and were jailed for doing so. So why is this Islam at its best? I have already had complaints about racism on this forum and I am concerned about the tone of your posts and where you intend these posts to go.
@HuwMatthews2 , there is some formatting in your post reducing the font size to 0.8 em . Were you doing anything in particular when you posted your comment, e.g. did you paste something in or could you have accidently hit a function or control button? I've seen it a few times on here but have not been able to find out why it sometimes goes small.