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Is the Co-Op closing down ?????

COSTS for the reinstatement of a railway from Tavistock to Bere Alston have ballooned to £93-million, councillors have been told. As part of the Devon Metro proposals, the re-opening of this section of line was due to provide a new, sustainable link between Tavistock and Plymouth for commuter journeys. Instead, their top priorities were to get funding for the remainder of the Dawlish to ...

Thanks DEEDOODLE, seems quite likely.

BOO HOO
BOO HOO
19 Sep 2019

I would assume they are going to have accomodation, canteen etc for the people working on the Dawlish sea wall.

Eyewitnesses say the helicopter landed at the bottom of Pidgley Road at around 11.30am on Wednesday. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/air-ambulance-lands-next-houses-3332453

The full list is as follows: Barnstaple Bristol Brixham Bude Cinderford Dawlish Exeter Exmouth Falmouth Hayle Helston Ivybridge Lydney Newton Abbot Paignton Penzance Plymouth Plympton... Read more... https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/here-south-west-locations-could-3329803

Worldwide, more than 200 million people and counting live along coastlines that are less than five metres above sea level. In 2014, the global sea level was 66 millimetres above the 1993 average, and continues to rise at a rate of about 3mm a year, driven not only by the melting ice caps, but because water expands as it warms. But the old notion of building ever stronger defences is not the ...

Tomorrow, 18 September, the community information hub near Colonnade underpass will be open from 11am-2pm to help keep residents, visitors and members of the general public informed about works at Dawlish. Do drop in if you have a question.

Smugglers' Field
Daverc
Daverc
17 Sep 2019

Well, that isn't its name but I mean the field just this side (north) of the Smugglers Inn.  Big earthworks going on, and there have been for 2-3 weeks.  No signs up.  Anyoone know what's going on ?

Derrick May, 60, was on Monday (September 16) brought to Truro Crown Court from Langdon Mental Hospital in Dawlish where he was flanked in the dock by a number of medical staff who had travelled with him. Read more... https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-surrounded-court-dock-admits-3325521