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Veterans Dennis Gibbs and Don Beesley both added to their silverware collections at the South Devon and Torbay Table Tennis League awards night at Torbay Hospital Social Club. Others to swell their trophy cabinets included Halwell's Kevin Nicholls and Sonja Wicks and Supa-Roofing's Shaun Gibbs. 2004 South Devon & Torbay Table Tennis League Roll of Honour Collins Cup (h'cap singles): 1 Kevin ...

Proposals to increase the frequency of connections to London and dual almost the entire length of the region's main track have gone down well with transport campaigners. One of the most exciting plans is to reinstate the line between Exeter and Okehampton and build a new station near the town. By re-opening the tracks south to Tavistock and onto Plymouth operators could provide a commuter service ...

A city mum who fled the violence in Zimbabwe is attempting to rebuild her shattered life in Exeter. Liz Bennie, 59, who now lives in Topsham, lost everything when supporters of President Robert Mugabe's regime seized her home and business. Today she spoke of her last traumatic 18 months in Africa, as members of Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party occupied the ranches of white farmers across the troubled ...

Flying cars, transparent cloaks, technology which can read minds and games played by brain waves - the stuff of fiction, surely? Not so, these seemingly far-fetched inventions - and more - are now reality. What lies beneath the cloak. For a vision of what the future holds, thousands of nay-sayers and believers alike have got an up close and personal glimpse at NextFest, an expo in San Francisco ...

A schizophrenic woman jumped to her death just 24 hours after "begging" psychiatric staff to allow her back into a health unit in Torquay. The family of Linda Hammond, 52, claim she had pleaded with staff at the Haytor Unit to let her return to the place where she felt safe. The following day she was dead after leaping from a parapet at the Sefton Hall nursing home in Plantation Terrace, Dawlish. ...

Dawlish Town manager Chris Myers will be helped in his quest to revive the club's ailing fortunes next season with an "attractive bonus structure" to offer potential players. Myers took over at Sandy Lane last autumn when Town were rooted to the foot of the table and morale was low in a team that couldn't compete in the Western League Premier Division. His influence steadily turned round Town's ...

The Information Commissioner is today warning UK businesses not to be mislead by bogus agencies who continue to send notices demanding money to register under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). Over 200 businesses a month fall victim to fake data protection agencies posing as official government bodies. The letters, which request sums of between £95 and £135 to register under the DPA, often use ...

Introduction The Phoenix Report is an accurate account of questionable actions of public authorities as directed against an entire family with 9 children, particularly the author who will forthwith be referred to as the claimant. In accordance with protecting individual rights of public servants and to protect the children involved, the identities of the parties will be withheld unless the ...

The procedure entails taking stem cells from a living being, nurturing them in a laboratory until they form a ball of new cells known as a bud, and inserting the bud into the gum where the new tooth is needed. The researchers estimate human teeth in adults could take about two months to develop fully. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that have the potential to grow into other kinds of cells ...

Dario was awarded the PFA Merit Award on Sunday and has told the press that it's "probably one of the proudest moments of my footballing life.". "We literally picked Seth Johnson up off a beach in Dawlish and he had no chance. He has done really well and it is great, especially after telling his mum that he needed to come down as a 14-year-old to Crewe. He made that sacrifice and is now getting ...

Just after 2pm yesterday afternoon on the A379 at Cockwood close to Starcross, a red Citroen Visa travelling towards Exeter and a green Rover 114, travelling in the opposite direction towards Dawlish, collided, seriously injuring both drivers and one passenger. The Devon Air Ambulance touched down just feet from the tangled wreckage on the normally busy road - which was closed for more than five ...

Keen walker Mr Moffatt, 54, is raising money for the Devon Air Ambulance and Clic (Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood) by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. The 45-day expedition starts on Saturday, April 24. Mr Moffatt, from Holcombe, near Dawlish, said: "It's going to be tough, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and, hopefully, a sizeable sum can be collected for the charities. "I ...

It's especially welcome here. Five years ago eight year old Heather Preen died after contracting e-coli whilst holidaying in the resort. Despite an extensive investigation the source was never found. Today it has a different sort of publicity. Brian Gray, Teignbridge District Council: "I think it just shows that we have put a lot of effort into making sure this is a top resort and we're delighted ...

If Nigel Bliss's team do well in the national festival, they will get to play before the England-Barbarians game at the end of May. The side have not been beaten since the final of the Devon under-10 festival, when Devonport Services edged past them. Their dominance has seen them score 486 points so far this season and concede only 19, a remarkable achievement at any level. A squad of 20 were ...

Sarah Down, from Topsham, begged that her daughter should be taken into care when she ran away last year to live with a 31-year-old man in his car. But the authorities refused - and Katie, now 16, is due to give birth in a fortnight's time. That means her baby was probably conceived around August last year - the same time that Ms Down was pleading that the teenager should go into care - and weeks ...

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.

Peter Jubb, one of 98 residents evacuated from their homes in Dawlish Warren, South Devon, when flood waters surged into Hazlewood Park in December 2000, said: "For the first time in three years we can sleep soundly in our beds when the rain is pouring down during the winter. This scheme will mean we no longer have to venture outside to see if the water levels are rising." He said some residents, ...

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 next ...

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 been ...

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 that ...

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, aggravated ...

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 ...

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 linked ...

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.

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 ...

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 to ...

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. are ...

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 ...

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.