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For those of you who care about freedom, liberty and human rights please support Wikileaks in any way you can. If anyone knows how you donate to them now that Paypal, Mastercard and Visa have closed down Wikileaks' accounts please let me know. Did you see the news the other night? On the one hand we have real Journalism with Wikileaks publishing the horrors and hypocrisy Governments of the world ...

Thank you ,, I think this is the best place!

Watched all the effort of putting the Christmas lights up and wondered what it costs and who pays for it. Anybody know?

That's what we thought but a bit small!

Thanks for that Lynne.

thanks for letting me know that

Police are warning dog owners to keep their dogs under control after two dogs have been destroyed after livestock were killed in the Teignbridge area. Other sheep in the Dawlish, Kenton and Easton have also been mained on farm land.

Exeter Crown Court were told a diary claimed to contain details of a major cocain trafficking ring. The accused Mathew Deny aged 46 was said to have used his Dawlish based furniture firm as a front for the £1.8 million drugs operation. Gerard Kirwan, Jason Payne and John Morton with Deny were also accused of a conspiracy to supply drugs. The drugs were found at Ash Hill Road Torquay. Deny denied ...

The main question ANYONE should ask THEMSELVES, is WHY should microsoft be calling me instead of doing a schedualed update, AND, how come microsoft know my number? Come on people, its not rocket science. Where is your common sense? Next you will be telling me that my aunt in Nigeria who emailed me the other week and I never even heard of her, asked me for money and Im sending her half my wages ...

A 70year-old pensioner from Dawlish has had charges against him dropped. The man pleaded not guilty to possessing a knife in a public place in Exeter at an earlier hearing at the Crown Court in October. The defendant did not attend the latest hearing at the Exeter Crown Court due to poor health and is now in a residential home in Dawlish.

If it is the same person BEWARE he charged a pensioner friend of mine £300 to fit a ballcock in the toilet cistern.

Maintaining the climate-change-threatened rail line thtough Dawlish and Teignmouth was being taken seriously by both the rail industry and the goverment M.Ps have been told. 9million pound has been spent in recent years and Network Rail which is responsible for the track was continuing to invest around 500,000pound a year. Major research was being undertaken to examine the impact of climate ...

Landsdowne has been up for sale for ages!!!!!!!

Blaming the previous Government/management/committee etc. for the mess in which you find yourself is just a standard technique on taking office. It is the time when you have the best opportunity to do what you want and everyone knows that it is the game.

Hi Runella There was a woman with the same name who appeared in X Factor a couple of years ago. She also comes from Exminster and she sang in pubs and clubs across the country. http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/City-mum-ready-prove-s-got-X-factor/article-272649-detail/article.html

A TOTAL of 33 jobs in Brixham, Paignton and Dawlish have been saved by the sale of greengrocers Stokes. Argyle Trading Limited has bought the three stores, together with two others, from the troubled independent chain which went into administration last week. Argyle Trading is effectively a vehicle set up by another company, Premier Fruits, to buy the business. In January Premier Fruits added ...

Why is the new youth centre in Sandy Lane closed in the school half term week? I walked by there this evening and saw a woman get out of her car to check opening times and couldn't believe it was closed. I thought it was going to be a youth centre for the youth of Dawlish, it seems to be more of a college training centre opening only in school term time!!!!

300,000 pounds has been invested from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust to set up a new mobile eye clinic. The vehicle will use the Barton car park for its monthly visits, the first being November 22nd &23rd. Three members of the specialist nursing team volunteered to train for their HGV licence so they can drive the 12-tonne mobile eye clinic. Dawlish is one of the towns to be ...

According to the BBC, a further nine Stokes greengrocers have closed across the South West after failing to attract a buyer. The Bristol, Exeter, Falmouth, Honiton, Sherborne, Tavistock, Torquay, Totnes and Wadebridge stores have closed resulting in 72 redundancies. The company has now closed 20 of its 27 stores.The remaining stores which continue to trade are located in Bath, Brixham, Cowley, ...

Oh my goodness ..they will be writing a top selling book next!

Well said!

A blue Fiat Punto which failed to stop for a routine check in the Mamhead area was chased by police. The authorised chase ended in Barton Terrace, Dawlish, where a 20-year-old man was arrested and released on police bail until December 9th. A quantity of herbal cannabis was allegedly found on a 15-year-old girl passenger.

Hi PJD Andrew got a mention in the Sun newspaper. I'll post the article below TWO terrified teenage girls swept out to sea were saved from drowning - by a SPACE HOPPER. The inflatable toy was thrown to the panic-stricken pair after they were taken too far out to reach a life buoy. The girls, aged 15 and 16, were moments away from drowning in rough conditions. But they managed to grab on to the ...

Charlotte in Cutting Edge

Two girls age 15 and 16 were rescued after being swept into raging seas. They were walking along the sea wall at Dawlish and were caught by waves and swept into the sea. Their screams were heard by Matthew Gribble from his flat in Riviera Terrace, Dawlish. Matthew and his friend Andrew Riches ran across the seafront railway line joined by another friend Leigh Larratt, they threw life buoys to the ...

Brilliant!! Anything that shows up what they are doing is great. PCNs issued illegally is what we have already known, and to have the Chief of the Adjudicators making it public is great. If you think you have been penalised unfairly please appeal (Carnival Day)

Street lights will be turned off between 12.30am and 5.30am after councillors agreed a six-month trial. Area's to be exempt are Old Town Street, Park Road and Queen Street. Dawlish will join 25 towns in Devon.

Armed police, detectives and a police helicopter were involved in a search for two masked men who attempted to break into a shop. The search around Dawlish Warren which included The Oakcliff Holiday Park after two men made their getaway from the crime in a black Volo, shortly after midnight on Sunday. Police have appealed for anyone who may have seen the car driving at high-speed around Dawlish ...

ON their application for parking restrictions they put that they were a registered charity, but I cant find them in the registered charity list, can anybody else find them?

Does anyone know who it was that died?

Residents are being given the opportunity to grill current councillors tomorrow at the piazza on the lawn. The public can meet councillors and staff and quiz them about how to become a town councillor, also how the regeneration of the town is taking shape plus many other topics.

Without question you should get a ticket if you block the road..to go shopping! Cars park outside Boots in Teignmouth in the loading bay and at the Bus Stop to go to Barclays bank. Why do car drivers think they rule ..BOOK THEM!!! why not?

In August 2008 I was informed that the ban of alcohol in a public place had been raised at three council meetings but the council had turned down a request of a ban.

Meeting being held Tuesday 28th September (that's tomorrow as I type this). 7.00pm. The Manor House, Old Town, Dawlish. Presentation and discussion about how we may have to adjust to a world (but Dawlish in particular) with ever decreasing supplies of oil. All welcome (including cynics.)

Sergeant Adam Swift was awarded the Military Cross for two seperate incidents in which he charged at Taliban positions. In October last year, he and his men lay hidden just 20m from five insurgents so they could watch what they were doing and allow a trapped group of comrades to escape. Five months later, he charged across open ground under fire so stretcher bearers could recover a casualty. ...

thats quite alight,like i said,on this particular occasion,DCC helped with the solution,and all praise to them for doing so.

Don, Agreed. Today the Senior Reporter (Sunday Telegraph) came down today, with a photographer, photographed some of the relevant unlawful signs and had a long interview with one of the persons involved. Sunday should hopefully make interesting reading.

Ever wished that your computer would run like it did when it was brand new? Well It Can! Most systems that are having performance issues just need a good thorough inspection, cleaning, and software tune-up. No need to spend £200 - £500 on a new computer when you can get your system up and running like new again at a fraction of the cost of a new system. We do a complete physical inspection of ...

Pompus and useless old ex mayor, bet she's hacked off because she bought a new bowl of fruit for her headware and now she cant show it off ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Is that the same bag lady who's husband used to park his van on the pavement.