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Topsham Town undid title chasing Exeter Civil Service 2-1 with another top notch performance. Charlie May scored both goals and former Topsham player Darren Thomas was the Civil scorer.

Dawlish Town maintained their challenge for the Premier Division title with a 4-3 win over North Molton. Rivals Plymouth thrashed Galmpton Utd 14-1.

Lauren Oke, Laura Ferguson, Sam Jones, Emma Davies and Catherine McMorrow will begin a 16-hour, sponsored trampoline marathon at Dawlish Leisure Centre at 6.45am and finish at 10.45pm. The 15 and 16-year-olds, from Dawlish Community College, are raising money to subsidise the cost of a school visit to Uganda being undertaken by a party of 26 this summer.

Coroner's officer Ric Parsons told the hearing in Torquay yesterday that the exact cause of death had yet to be established. He said the results of toxicology tests were awaited. Leicester-born Jamie, who was single and unemployed, was formally identified by his uncle Jeremy Smith, a hotel services assistant from Paignton. A full inquest will be held at a later date.

A man today pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder his estranged police officer wife. Ian Hurved, 53, of Dorset Avenue, Exeter, also denied a charge of wounding with intent at Exeter Crown Court. Hurved is alleged to have tried to to kill Fay Hurved at her home in Dawlish, Devon, on December 21. No application for bail was made, and Mrs Justice Hallett remanded him in custody until his ...

Purchased for just £60 in 1930, the one-bedroom railway carriage, at Cockwood near Dawlish, is now being sold by formal tender and is expected to fetch somewhere between £215,000 and £260,000. The carriage has recently been restored and now boasts its original brown and cream Great Western Railway livery. Julie Drake of Stags, who is the negotiator overseeing the sale, said there had already ...

The property was later recovered from Anderson's Dawlish home when the pair were arrested. Jailing 22-year-old Anderson for two years, Judge Jeremy Griggs told him the family had to live with the consequences of what he had done. "The wife of this family says her eldest daughter no longer likes to be at home alone. The youngest daughter slept with her parents afterwards. "She was very scared ...

The man, 26, was attacked in Elm Grove Road, Dawlish, just after 5.30pm on Saturday. He was taken to Torbay Hospital, where he had an emergency operation, but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. Police say a man was arrested in a Dawlish pub in connection with the attack four hours later. A 38-year-old man from Exeter has been charged with wounding, criminal damage, ...

Westlife's summer concert at Powderham Castle will go ahead in August, despite the decision of band member Bryan McFadden to quit the group. Bryan has decided he needs to spend more time with his wife, former Atomic Kitten and I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! winner Kerry, and their two young daughters. There were fears among the thousands of Devon fans that the split could mean an end to ...

A Woman suffered slight ill effects from breathing in smoke during a chip shop fire at Dawlish. But she did not need hospital attention, or an ambulance and soon recovered. Two appliances, one from Dawlish and the other from Teignmouth, were called to the premises in Queen Street yesterday morning, but the fire was out on arrival. The outbreak was in ventilation ducting.

The battle to save an historic signal box from demolition has been won. A planning inspector has ruled that Network Rail cannot knock down the redundant box on Dawlish Station. The company claimed the listed structure needed major renovations at great cost, but railway enthusiasts argued it should be preserved and another use found for it. In her summary the inspector, Jennifer Armstrong, states ...

A landowner of a Topsham farm was given police protection when he served notice to quit on a group of gipsies who had set up camp on his farm. Around 30 travellers of Irish origin occupied land at Seabrook Farm off Topsham Road on Monday evening. They claim they are in Devon to see the confirmation of a family member. One of the owners of Seabrook Farm, who asked not to be named, claimed that the ...

The golden sandstone cliffs between Teignmouth and Dawlish are a landmark feature. BUT the mile or so of rail track here has been nothing but trouble. Chris Arnold, Network Rail: "We get a lot of falls, rock falls onto the line, and we've got to sort that out". After a couple of major landslips, an 18 million pound programme of repairs began - starting with a huge fence. Local people are ...

A lorry shed a barrel on the A38 yesterday, spilling 100 litres of a highly flammable resin over the road. Two fire crews from Exeter and one from Topsham attended the scene on the northbound side of Haldon Hill, shortly after 3pm. Firefighters wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus cleaned up the spillage, while police closed one lane and directed traffic around the liquid. Minor ...

A teenage arsonist who wrecked a house and a shop causing £1 million damage in a Devon seaside town has been jailed. Recorder John Williams told the 17-year-old at Exeter Crown Court on Monday that the offences were so serious they could only be dealt with by a custodial sentence. The teenager was 16 when he set fire to a wheelie bin outside Pinder Fashions, in Dawlish, which was subsequently ...

The fire brigade were called around 7:30pm after a fire broke out in the ground floor of 4 High Street, opposite the Somerfields car park entrance. Four fire engines, two ambulances and the police attended the scene, as the high street had to be cordoned off for several hours. The fire, which seemed to have started on the ground floor of the building, had blown away most of the glass from the ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — A European rocket blasted off Tuesday to launch a pioneering 10-year journey to land a probe on a comet and search for clues to the solar system's origins. The Rosetta lander soared into the skies above South America aboard an Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, the third attempt after two launches last week were scrubbed. After a final countdown in French, mission ...

Hull is the chubbiest town in Britain - while Kingston upon Thames is the leanest, an obesity league table has revealed. Data analysts Experian compiled the tables based on hospital admission records for Type 2 diabetes. The most likely to be overweight were white, working class families who have poor education and do little exercise. In contrast, people in the leanest towns are more likely ...

The Prince's Trust is to launch a new strategy to help one million young people it has identified as disadvantaged in the country. It hopes to get millions of pounds invested in schemes, including apprenticeships, for young people who are not in education or employment. It also wants reform of the benefits system to encourage more young people into work. The strategy was developed after a ...

The mystery of what happened to the ship that ferried Charles Darwin around the world may have been solved. A team led by Dr Robert Prescott of the University of St Andrews has located what they believe are the remains of HMS Beagle beneath an Essex marsh. To explore the site further, technology designed for the UK's recent ill-fated mission to Mars is being considered. The two quests are ...

Dawlish Town have signed free-scoring Brixham United striker Jay Morgan with the intention of playing him for the first time in next Saturday's game at Odd Down. In spite of recruiting front men Darren Bingham and Mark Pepperell, manager Chris Myers has always made it clear he needed an out-and-out marksman from the time he took over the Sandy Lane hot-seat in mid-October.

Spirit used its rock abrasion tool for brushing the dust off three patches of a rock called "Humphrey," during its 55th sol on Mars, ending at 5:53 p.m. Saturday, PST. Before applying the wire-bristled brush, the rover inspected the surface of the rock with its microscope and with its alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, which identifies elements that are present. Brushing three different places on ...

People who use air services out of the South West will have a much wider choice of scheduled flights from the start of this month. Air Southwest is launching new flights from Plymouth to Bristol and Manchester on Monday and Flybe will shortly launch new services from Exeter.

NEW YORK (AP) -- With a simple adjustment in your e-mail software, you can pretend to be anyone. You can send messages marked as coming from BillGates@microsoft.com. The trick, known as spoofing, is a popular method for spammers to hide their tracks -- you'd blame Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates and not the actual perpetrator of junk mail. To close that loophole, Microsoft and Yahoo! Inc. ...

The vulnerable track is battered by the sea on one side, and is now increasingly coming under attack from cliff falls as well. Ever since Brunel built it in the 19th century, it has given problems and the latest attempts to shore up the line are costing £6 million. Network Rail is installing black netting on the cliff face and has erected a large fence at the bottom to stop rocks falling on to ...

Luccombe Ponds: Ash Pond Re-Stocking The first re-stocking of Ash pond took place this week with the introduction of 250lb of carp. The fish, ranging in size from 2lb-3lb, were carefully released into the pond which will be both for pleasure and match anglers. The Luccombe and Take the Bait, Dawlish midweek series was won by Dawlish's Ron Entwhistle. He was pegged on Birch where he used ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.