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Police are appealing for witnesses after sporting equipment for the disabled was stolen from Dawlish Community College. The thieves took £100 of white guttering from the Sandy Lane Skate Park, used by disabled children playing ball games. They struck on December 17 between 9.45am and 11.30am.Anyone with information should call the police on 101 and quote JG/13/2392. Read more: ...
@Lynne , Please feel free to debate any subject. I didn't remove Paul's thread because of the subject matter, but because of Paul's comments. It would be the same, for example, if you had posted the links you have with racist comments, but you haven't.
@FredBassett , I agree with free speech and rarely remove comments. I didn't remove the thread because of the news article. I believe that paul's comments were offensive and hateful towards a particular group of people and hence in breach of the terms of the forum. The thread could be reinstated but I think I am right. I am happy to consider people's objections. I don't want to be unfair or ...
I've decided to kill the 'India bans gay sex' thread started by Paul since it was clearly intended to express a homophobic prejudice rather than to start a legitimate debate on the news story. Since the comments by Paul were offensive - to gay men in particular - it breached the t&c's of the site. Apologies to those who took the time to comment, especially Neilh who contributed a poem.
@User 4549 , your last post with the same title 'Islam at its best' turned out to be a hoax for which you apologised. In your new post, some Muslims broke the law and were jailed for doing so. So why is this Islam at its best? I have already had complaints about racism on this forum and I am concerned about the tone of your posts and where you intend these posts to go.
@HuwMatthews2 , there is some formatting in your post reducing the font size to 0.8 em . Were you doing anything in particular when you posted your comment, e.g. did you paste something in or could you have accidently hit a function or control button? I've seen it a few times on here but have not been able to find out why it sometimes goes small.
An accident involving a 9 year-old girl and a car has occurred adjacent to the Tourist Information Office. The Air Ambulance is in attendance. Drivers are advised to avoid the town centre.
Sorry @FredBassett , I really don't see anything wrong with what @Sbooty has started here and what @Brazilnut has contributed to in this thread. The regeneration and the new strand are the things people are discussing at the moment and I don't want to censor or delete posts just because people disagree on things. It wouldn't be much of a forum if people were not allowed to disagree...
An incident along the Exeter Road has caused serious disruptions to the traffic flow through the town this afternoon. Problems have been compounded by the collapsed wall at the bottom of Teignmouth Hill, and by the Strand Hill being closed off. Making matters worse, a white works van broke down at the top of Stockton hill whilst trying to navigate out of the chaos, effectively cutting off ...
Data from every school in Devon shows that 94.9% of students at Dawlish Community College continued on into some form of learning after leaving our school compared to just 91.9% of students from other schools. In addition just 1.1% of our students did not go into further education, employment or training compared to 2.9% of students at other schools across Devon. Full article: ...
