Just heard Dawlish Skip Hire has closed down.
The meeting was postponed because too many people turned up!! The next meeting is to take place on Thursday 28th January 7.30pm at St. Gregory's Church. Please tell as many people as you can as there seems to be quite a bit of confusion over the venue and date.
Well done to Gatehouse Primary School for their 'good' Ofsted report.
Ofsted Inspector Hazel Callaghan spent two days at the school with two other Inspectors before Christmas. The English results at Gatehouse were above the National average. Despite children starting at Gatehouse with a limited range of knowledge and skills for their age, they were also achieving national expectations in maths by the time they left at 11. Head teacher Martyn Boxall said "I am ...
I notice work going on in an empty shop in the High Street. Anyone know what it's going to be?
Dawlish has been affected by the snow and ice. Refuse collections and Postal services have been disrupted also all school have been closed. People on estates having problems getting onto the main roads because of the lack of gritting. The forecast is more of the same to come.
Couldn't agree more, the problem being health and safety!! Before health and safety went way over the top rubbish carts had some sort of chains on their wheels, postmen had special rubber attachments to connect to their shoes, milkmen always seemed to get your milk on your doorstep, you could lie in bed and see orange lights and hear the gritter lorry scattering grit on the roads,the schools never ...
If you have an elderly neighbour or someone who cannot venture out in the present weather conditions please call on them and make sure they have everything they need. Or maybe locate necessary help.
This forum shows the town to be what it is, very dull with a few shops struggling to survive so much so that they have to charge more than neighbouring towns, even Stokes put 10p a pound on their sprouts Christmas Eve and took it off their first day open after Christmas. The new shop in the strand charging £1.50p for six fat balls for the birds, the same ones in Teignmouth £1 for six and if in ...
Investigator i think you misunderstood, the shops that were closed were normally trading, that's why i was surprised they were closed as i thought they were struggling to survive!!