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Thanks Kaz for the link, interesting read. Dawlish seemed a much prouder town in days gone by, shame.

@JC - No need to thank me, although accepted.

@DJ - you put forward a good arguement, but the only things going down are the council costs and the services we have paid for in dawlish, through high rates.

Anyone know if the seating is to be reinstated?

As before those in power will take no heed of the impending disasters as they lavish in their spoils and castles. In the false assumption that they are  protected from the masses by their own arrogance! Thanks for posting the link Lynne.

Happened to come across this vid on youtube of the barge and crane being moved from the docks at Teignmouth to its current resting position at Dawlish. Filmed using a quad/hex copter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZpaCjpaEU&feature=player_detailpage&list=UUk3I2Dq2shm5ndRZfJQfUvA

Thanks for letting me know. Great news you found it.

Every party has promised drastic reductions in the benefits handout, but as soon as they get voted in they forget all about it until the next general election. I believe that the benefit system is a great idea, if it were run ethically and with competence, but there is little chance of that. For every genuine claim there are many more from those who should never be given the time of day. ...

@warrior - don't bother holding your breath.

Young of today, old of tomorrow. The youth of today needs to seriously think about the decisions they allow their government to adopt today. Because tomorrow it is likely to bite them in the rear. It is to often that the young don't have any comprehension that all the old people walking around today were the children of decades gone by, scarey thought.

@warrior - i can only give my own opinion. in an ideal world were everyone helps each other rather than themselves and there is no criminality. the e.u mandates would be good. although the world is made up of a mix of humans, some who are kind and giving, those who wish to be left alone and then there are the predators. predators being criminals, multi nationals and certain governmentswho feed of ...

Mines working okay now, thanks to the powers that be.

Great work, thanks.

Vids youtube of incident:- Air ambulance taking off https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bCRyKtYCQXo#t=4 Air ambulance landing at crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IYibIeCMrNQ#t=3

Where on earth did they find 12 police officers? I wasn't aware there were that many in the whole of Devon. Although on the BBC news last night I saw at least that number guarding the gates at No 10!

It would be great if there was one of these for building your own car!

@Lynne -  i worked at one of the caravan sites down there for several years and it always flooded every year. the water would be up to a foot deep or so  along the dyke wall. even with pumps on site the water still came up through the man holes. at the time the water company was aware of the extensive new builds in plan and advised they would not be increasing their facilities anytime soon. says ...

@Carer and the same to you.

Nicely said Sbooty, happy New Year.

If someone had told me that an unwanted housing expansion in Dawlish would mean a Mc Donalds in Dawlish. I would have been all for it from the start. Developer's get building.

@ZIGGY , thankyou.

@willosindawlish - couldn't have said it better myself.

From what was taken I would say it certainly wasn't kids.

@Mrs C - thankyou for such a speedy reply to my question. I wouldn't say that your posts caused me any upset. as is the nature of these type of forums, it adds spice to have a wide range of people inputting into the discussions. As to your confusion over freedom of speech within the participants on this site. I fear that one persons definition of freeom of speech may not be anothers!

@Libby . I must say i'm a little chuffed that you would put me in third place to Ayatollah Khomenei and Ghengis Khan I can't think of any better company in this day and age to get rid of all the lame and limp that bog down this once great country. Oh, shame you missed out good old Adolf.

Blah, Blah, Blah....... I thought the Xbox one was an expensive Christmas present !

Good old limp politicains hiding their backbones again.

Yeh, what Carer said, Oh yes - DON'T FILL THE FORM IN !!!! just kidding, seriously don't fill the form in- ha ha . I like that I set up a discussion on Knitting in Devon, not just Dawlish and Smella ignores it - some people.

Looks like the weather forecast may actual be right for tonight.

It would be helpful to know where these occurences took place?

One problem with a lot of mp's is that they don't understand that it is not their views they should be putting across, but the views of the electorate who voted them in. I may be dreaming here, but aren't mp's supposed to champion our causes and not their own. You don't see many mp's who were either unemployed or on min age becoming mp's do you !