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Strange the leader of teignmouth council not there as he never misses a photo opportunity perhaps keeping his head down after his leader Ed Davey says women have pe*nis*s,.........
It was a bit of an anti climax the opening. It would have been nice if someone (our mayor for instance) had been there and had made a short speech and to thank the 'orange army' for all what they have done so that the gathered public could have shown their appreciation. Talking of which, apart from Anne Marie Morris, where were the local dignitaries? Probably thinking up some hair brained ...
A VITAL road bridge needed to complete a multi-million-pound development at Dawlish has been given the green light after councillors heard they must act quickly or risk losing the funds to build it. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/dawlish-link-road-funding-agreed-616101
Completion of the £80m government-funded project means locals and visitors to Dawlish can enjoy the accessible high-level promenade all the way from Boat Cove to Coastguards footbridge, where it then joins the original sea wall. Stretching between coastguards and Colonnade breakwaters, it is linked to the first section at Marine Parade by a new footbridge which runs parallel to the railway ...
I was told by one of the workmen that it is opening tomorrow, 25/05/23. Be nice if it is.
I wonder how much Council Tax DTC has wasted on this?
Organised by Turn The Tide Teignbridge CIC and Dawlish Town Council, the festival is aimed at celebrating the sea and highlighting the current ‘climate emergency’. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/festival-celebrates-sea-and-all-its-life-615653
The exact date the two rebuilt sections of the wall will finally be linked is yet to be announced but engineers are working on the finishing touches Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/network-rail-poised-to-announce-reopening-of-dawlish-sea-wall-to-public-615698
@HuwMatthews2 Thanks for the heads up (or down) on that. We eventually went to Forest Fungi on the way to the Warren. Superb food that you could actually taste. I had the full english, and my friends had the eggs benedict and the eggs royal. Well worth a try if you haven't yet tried it. https://forestfungi.co.uk/
Went to Amelia's at Cofton this morning. £13 for a 'large' breakfast. The 'Portobello Mushroom' was a single mushroom (less than the size of a bean tin lid) cut in half....and you got 1 half! Anything that could be small was (toast, sausages, bacon, hash brown (McCain type). The 'herb roasted tomato' was....well, just a roasted tomato! Took the best part of an hour to arrive. Egg ...