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Clive

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So there you have it - comprehensively self outed. This may now be white washed as a mistake etc etc, but it would never had happened in the first place if some tiny little arragant brain cells weren't quietly firing along these lines on a regular basis in the first place. For me, crase use of the 'they' word is not particularly new news, it's the clarification of the who and what ...

20 Mar 2014

@Lynne - tweeted by 'the conservatives' - please, please tell me it was someone having a laugh and not actually endorsed by party officials?

Many heavily used beaches (certainly in the SE) have zones that ban dogs in summer months for lots of good reasons.

Yes I can see that as a great idea, a stopper from Ex.S.D. to Honiton via the airport to allow for passing.  Main SWT service could then run fast Honiton to Ex.Central.  As you say, a bit more complicated than that with all the single line restrictions along there.

19 Mar 2014

Very interesting 'fly through' to watch on the interactive.  I may be wrong but it seems that there planned new are east and west chords to the mainline railway into a 'freight terminal'.  The interesting thing is that it heads fairly directly towards the runway but stops short of it .... so while constructing it, surely there would be some sense in extending it just a little further and bingo you ...

Dawlish station
19 Mar 2014

@leatash - totnes has some exemplary flower beds on the platform.  makes passengers think, 'this is a town where people care about things'.  well it does to me anyway! @Lynne - a few years ago hundreds of tonnes of timber spectacularly washed up on worthing beach from a ship.  there is now a stained glass display of the event along the windbreak on the pier.  so yes, good idea to make a ...

Budget
19 Mar 2014

Be reasonable, how else do you expect the 'five richest ('hard working!') families' to maintain their status of equal to bottom 20%?

Well that's certainly 'painted the roses red'

This is another very effective one ... just to spur everyone on to treasure and appreciate the nice new station canopies and lease of life that Dawlish Station has just been given. http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/artist/paloma-varga-weisz/ and yes the old Folkestone Harbour 'boat train' station really does look this forlorn

18 Mar 2014

I should add that the 'Folkestone Triennial' successfully brings a lot of extra business to the town...