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neilh

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I received the letter a couple of days ago.

Have just read a salutary account of a Luftwaffe pilot whose body was washed up on the beach at Dawlish on 13th January 1943. He had been shot down three days earlier during the bombing raid on Teignmouth. He was buried with full military honours in a war grave in Exeter cemetery. R.I.P. Feldwebel Joachim von Bitter, age 20 Six weeks later the British pilot who had shot him down was killed ...

Police Helicopters
26 Mar 2012

Good lateral thinking. If you are thinking of a variable tax rate according to location then you can do no worse than starting with Jake Thackray's famous song "Isabel makes love upon national monuments". Sites as far apart as Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall are featured in this iconic expose of life in the raw, thus catering for the north/south divide as well.

Done.

poignant

good idea

And literally as I write this there is a police helicopter flying overhead. Not satisfied with their coup in Sidmouth they are now scouring the hills of Dawlish in search of nefarious activities to film for future programmes.

26 Mar 2012

@Don - It's your turn to grow up now. I can't believe such a scurrilous attack on the fine work that our boys in blue do day in day out. It's hard enough battling against the invasion of the centaurs and other shape-shifting entities without being mindlessly pilloried at the same time. And where's the truth in all you say. I know that Totnes can appear a little odd but comparisons with Narnia and ...

Police Helicopters
25 Mar 2012

I'm reliably informed that the engagement between the dastardly doggers of Sidmouth and the porno police has hit the news in Finland. It's going global .......

70th Anniversary of Battle of St. Nazaire