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If it's not a serious incident then see strand on Police Helicopters. There's an explanation there that they have to "use up their hours" before end of financial year. Alternatively, continuing theme of previous strand, they may have just fitted infra-red camera technology and are taking advantage of the warm weather to test it out.

http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2010/07/03/torquays-other-history-home-to-civil-unrest-%E2%80%93-bread-riots-in-the-bay/

30 Mar 2012

Do you know, we're real wimps today. We mutter and complain about the iniquitous tax on takeaway pasties but does anyone do anything? No. Compare this with the "Bread Riots" in Devon in mid 19th century. Have just read about these in the diary of a Teignmouth man but they hit Dawlish, Torquay and elsewhere in S. Devon. See ...

Tarmac Dawlish
30 Mar 2012

Yes there are signs but they definitely said that someone had told them to go back and that there was a new route. I know there's a sign at the Red Rock cafe but are there signs earlier on from the Warren?

Cirl Buntings
30 Mar 2012

Beautiful photos. Part of their territory is under threat on the western edge of Dawlish. The local plan originally had a proposal for 100 houses there, now reduced to 20. But the concern obviously is that 20 does take away some of their territory and sets a precedent for future encroachment, especially if the designation of "protected areas", "coastal preservation area" etc changes. With ...

Tarmac Dawlish
29 Mar 2012

@Nelson . not sure but i believe so

29 Mar 2012

Haldon Heartbeat
29 Mar 2012

Has anyone run the Haldon Heartbeat before? 9 mile charity run through Haldon Forest on 28 April. Just wondering how easy/difficult a course it is.

Tarmac Dawlish
29 Mar 2012

Thanks Lynne. The reason I asked was that I was at the Red Rock cafe where I met a couple of cyclists heading for Dawlish who had been turned back and told that there was a new cycle path from the Warren to Dawlish

29 Mar 2012

Is there now a cyclepath between Dawlish Warren and Dawlish or is it still along the road - does anyone know?