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Rowcroft are going into the disused part of Bow Windows !!!!!!!

Hi - can you get me a new lamp for my LG rear projection TV. They cost a bomb you know, but the Libyian rebels have none either

Two days ago, Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, announced details about the new scheme which is to replace the EMA. Have a read of this link. http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-bad-marks-for-gove-on-ema/6089

@FRONTERAMAN , Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, I can't see it happening. Don

A lot of parents are concerned about their young children drinking alcohol and seem to think that some children going to the Red Rock Youth Centre are in some way to blame. I don't think anyone would get pass the entrance if they had alcohol on them but once they leave who knows! I can't understand why on a Friday 11-14 year-olds have to signed out but on a Saturday 11-18 year-olds can leave when ...

I probably misheard then. There has been talk about it on here and I was wondering if anything had been earmarked as part of the planning. Not interested in buying myself. I am interested in schemes that are in place to waste or abuse tax payers money. For example, the First Time Buyers scheme is a complete abuse of tax payers money in that the sole purpose is to try to prop up a deflating and ...

Ask Prowse or Wills if they sold them like they did a couple of years ago

Unless these sites submit planning consent to operate as a for profit business and not just a civic amenity they will probably be acting illegally if they do try to charge you. Will have to check this one out

What a shame Co-op has taken so long to submit their planning application. I think if they had got a move on it might have helped save some other shops. I visited Co-op on many occasion only to find they didn't have what i needed so i popped over to Teignmouth Co-op and was able to get what i was looking for so i ended up shopping for my other bits in Teignmouth.

A 18-year-old student studying Law stole a book valued at £230. Philip Smith lives with his grandmother in Dawlish and works as a barman at the Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren. He had previously been reprimanded for burglary and theft after going to a former school and taking money from a communal lounge, he was then suspended and moved to Dawlish to live with his grandmother. Smith had ...

After reading a letter in this weeks Dawlish Gazette i agree with Fronteraman. I can't believe he didn't get the support he deserved from the carnival comittee.

Although I get it, I do still work, I think it would be better off means testing it as there are a lot of people well off that dont need it. Sir Alan Sugar gives his to charity. How many more are like him?

For more info re the new system have a read of this interesting article http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n01/christopher-prendergast/short-cuts

The next Transition meeting will be held on 22nd March, at 7pm Room 4a, The Manor House, Dawlish. A ll warmly invited to attend. If you can, please come along. The meeting is to decide what sort of activities and facilities we would like to see developed here in Dawlish as part our Transition Town movement, and to give information about progress with any ideas that have already been started. We ...

Good news for all you supporters of Sainsbury's just heard that due to the good weather they are hoping to open a month early. Shame DCC highways wont have the road finished by then thus preventing them opening as their planning consent requires the roads to be finished prior to opening. Come on Tesco get a move on, we need the competition and an alternative shopping option. Anyone fancy a ...

SteveJ I have more reason than most to hate this guy and his bank. However the reason he gets away with it is the same as why not many people from Dawlish comment Nobody can be bothered Watch the queue in the Natwest branch and ask yourself if these people cared would they still bank there. There needs to be a national boycott of RBS and Natwest, close accounts cut up credit cards and ...

First Great Western are on the edge of packing in ...South West Trains bring it on!!!!!!!!!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/13/firstgroup-may-abandon-first-great-western-franchise

In case you havnt read todays Gazette Coop have confirmed they are extending into Woolworths !

Don, beautiful sentiments there ! We will always remember them

Great meeting, lots said, but nothing done. Shame the two main points were overlooked 1. Unlike party candidates we have no funding therefore fund raising needs to be No 1 priority 2. As Dawlish Town Council do not have the final say on the main issues effecting the town we need to join forces with other independent groups doing similar things in the other Teignbridge district towns. That ...

@Vanguard Please tell more cant wait till tomorrow, go on give us a clue whats it about

In this mornings Herald it also appears DCC have been applying for government grant money for projects not even started. When are the people responsible going to be brought to justice. In reality they are committing fraud and theft plus the eventual discrediting of DCC

user4549, i know diagonal parking is a good way of getting more vehicles in but the road has to be wide like the den in T'mouth, if you look at the parking on Marine Parade Dawlish you will see that it doesnt work as the road in too narrow, near fatal accidents happen on a regular basis, i know because i live there and it only takes one inconsiderate long weel based vehicle driver to park and you ...

A man from Exeter has been banned from Dawlish as part of his bail conditions. Thomas Harding from Exeter pleaded guilty to assaulting two men occasioning them both actual bodily harm. The violent attack happened at the South Devon Inn, Strand Hill, Dawlish, last July. Harding is already awaiting sentencing for causing £20.000 of damage at the Flying Horse Pub in Wonford, Exeter.

Under what name are you standing in the forthcoming election, Fronteraman? I look forward to reading your manifesto. Good luck.

Thanks for the honest reply User 4549. I can think of more constructive uses that I would make of my twilight years - but it takes all sorts I suppose. Good luck to him I say.

From today's Gazette http://www.dawlishnewspapers.co.uk/News.cfm?id=7681&headline=Beach cleanup

More than 100 people in Dawlish are waiting for allotments to become available. There are just 27 plots up for grabs. The lease on the Browns Brook site is due to expire in 2012. The town council will be giving an update at next month's meeting and warns new agreements could increase the current of £38 paid in rent. Anyone got a vacant piece of garden?

Residents of Clovelly Rise, Dawlish have sent letters and photos to Dawlish Town Council complaining about trees which were felled to improve coastal views. The matter will be discussed at the council meeting tomorrow to find out who carried out the work and whether permission was sought.

It makes me laugh seeing these British workers arriving back from Libya whinging 'It was terrible - people were killing each other' and 'our company just abandoned us'. Where exactly do they think they have been working all these years? Did they really not understand the risks of working in the Middle East? Did they even know where they were working?

Is there any way we as a community could tell South West Water we are not prepared to accept their price rises and demand that Dawlish is dealt with by another company. Maybe we could also oust British Gas from the town for the same reasons. Idea make the banks fund the re-nationalisation of our public utilities and sack Steven Hester

I also received a reply from Anne Marie Morris' secretary containing that sentence. Like Carer, I thought it was very 2 faced of her. I didn't vote for her in the last election, and won't in the next. I'd rather have an MP capable of making up their own mind than one who just toes the party line.

"Not good for the sweet shop owner that has been serving the public of Dawlish for the past years" Perhaps if they serve the public with similar produce that Thorntons sell, then there wont be a Throntons comming. To be honest nowadays who wants the contents of those plastic jars,( ok I do get my self a 1/4 of those peanut thingies that I used to get as a kid every now and again).

Extra trains could mean more visitors By tina crowson tcrowson@heraldexpress.co.uk RAIL campaigners have welcomed the extra services linking Torbay and the North this summer. Train operator CrossCountry will be redirecting to Paignton two Saturday trains that would normally travel to Plymouth between May 28 and September 10. The extra services will carry visitors to Torbay from Yorkshire, the ...

Just been for a walk around the back of Gatehouse School and felt sadened to see the loss of school play area also the nature reserve which the children had a great fondness for: https://www.dawlish.com/photo/?id=41

I should probably add some contact details... secretariat@independentnetwork.org.uk 0207 609 0777 @indepnet

Yes, when I got off the train at 4.45pm yesterday returning from a trip to Exmouth (£3.50 return with a Devon & Cornwall Railcard compare that to the £4.85 return bus fare Dawlish/Teignmouth!) there were three or four police cars outside the railway station and police around the block of flats by the entrance to the station car-park. Then up on the Exeter Road I saw police search some young men ...

What is so special about a football club business that makes it any different to other businesses when it cant pays its bills. Shut it down, sell its assets, and pay its creditors just like any normal company in receivership. Its hardly front page news in these troubled times is it

Dawlish Chamber of Trade Questionnaire in Stokes a few questions for you to answer regarding the Strand, please fill it in and make your feelings known before its to late

Forgot to say that I've also been told that my liking for wearing purple along with a red hat also becomes me..........