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Threre's nearly £350,000 savings to start with...... Four candidates have come forward for the election to become police and crime commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The vote for a four-year term of office for the £86,700-a-year job was postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic and takes place alongside local council elections on Thursday, May 6.
Well, as with so many things in life, what one person thinks is a waste of money another person thinks is essential. Ditto central and local government.
Yes, the same old mantra about why we have no money rather than how much is wasted e.g Newton Abbot centre, costs of uplifting flytipping because of the bin tax.You will have heard the saying you cut the cloth to match income and instead off grandoise schemes get the basics right. You fail to mention that the general public are funding their defined benefit pensions which changing would be a ...
I wondered why, some few months back now, a new gate had been installed to this field. Now I know. Application Details '21/00572/FUL' Documents related to this Application are available here. You can comment on this application using this form. Reference: 21/00572/FUL Address: The Field , Warren Road, Dawlish Warren, Devon, EX7 0NG Parish: Dawlish ...
Why have council provided services been declining? Well ,perhaps the fact that over the past 10 years or so the amount of money given to local councils from central government has been cut back and cut back and cut back. So....if there is a reduction in income from central government then councils have to reduce their expenditure/raise income in other ways. "By 2020, local authorities ...
Noted in the circular from the Lib-Dems that Devon County Councilh as millions in the bank. So why are we paying ever increasing rates for ever decreasing services.- I notice NO local councillor has cutting or holding rate increases as thier priority but are more intrested in "holistic " projects and how long they have lived in the area amd think everything is rosey in the garden. ...
The cygnet that was attacked yesterday by the dog is doing ok. It will be kept under observation for a couple of more days and has had antibiotics for the puncture wounds to its belly. The rest of the family are doing fine. Please keep all dogs on leads!
Two black swans have been released in Dawlish to swell numbers after the famous herd was hit by bird flu The breeding pair has been brought in from Hull, which will widen the group's gene pool. The pen and cob spent a week in the town's aviary before being allowed out onto the brook. Read more... ...
Oh dear. I have never sought to offend or upset anyone on this thread. I merely wished to see if an allegation had some substance to it, that is all. If anyone is upset or offended, then please believe that was never my intention.
@Deedoodle I rarely post on here for exactly that reason. I simply reported what that area has been used for over the last few months and look at the response I get! Very reminiscent of someone else who used to post on here......... or maybe they have, once again, reinvented themselves.