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Don Pearson

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Shop I saw fragments of unrealised dreams in the starred window where an old poster for the National Lottery proclaimed, “It could be you.” Free newspapers were heaped inside the door, still being delivered despite the dereliction. Bootfranked post lay scattered and trampled on the floor amidst dead flies and a broken ladder had been thrown in a corner beside ...

It is a golden rule not to hold a referendum unless you are sure that the outcome will be what you want it to be. @neilh It would be more cunning were it not so transparent. However, as people will continue to believe what they want to be true,............. The new trick to resolve the lips moving problem is to have a ventriloqist's dummy (or a party of them, "sharing power" with ...

25 Jan 2013

I don't believe for one instant that Mr. Cameron intends to hold a referendum. This is simply a ploy to emasculate the right of his own party and UKIP and, by doing that, could work to increase the chances of re-election. If he wins the election, he can cheerfully weasel out of the promise and the worst that can happen is that the anti-Europe factions can kick off again five years on. In that ...

Lance Armstrong
19 Jan 2013

One could argue that the (very belated) intention in the US to take a firmer line on doping in sport simply makes Lance Armstrong unlucky to have been caught. Perhaps he annoyed the USADA enough for them to take action. If his relationship with his team mates had been better, he probably would have continued to get away with it. It seems to me, as one who knows nothing about cycling, that ...

Dawlish Gazette
18 Jan 2013

I haven't seen the car park but I would have thought that £2000 could pay for a lot of cleaning up.

Tesco
18 Jan 2013

I don't know which hospital but she had the trots.

Dawlish Gazette
18 Jan 2013

I am thinking of two recent examples that have irritated me. I was in a manically cynical mood yesterday and, as I don't generally believe anything simply because it is in the media, perhaps it was unnecessary and pointless to single out the Gazette. The immediate trigger was the post "One of the First Carbon Neutral Campsites in South West." The previous was the unquestioning ...

16 Jan 2013

Does the Dawlish Gazette investigate any of the reports that are fed to it by local councils, the police, etc.? Indeed, is it any more than a local notice board in which nothing can be trusted but the date? It would not be a problem, were it not for people believing what they read in the paper. It appears that some people still do.

Simple as I am, I cannot see how setting aside such an area makes " a carbon neutral holiday destination. " The destination itself, i.e. Cofton Country Holidays, who presumably dreamed up this marketing bullshit, is neither more nor less carbon neutral than it was before. I am weary of spurious claims to environmental cuddliness. (Which bank was it that paraded its desire to reduce ...

@Philip Try a search on "Big Yellow Taxi."