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Bus stop cash could have paid for potholes

Saturday, March 13, 2010

FOR some reason a partly finished pavement (that leads nowhere) has materialised outside the old Gramercy School entrance.

Puzzled, I'd telephoned the highways department and Mike, a polite young man, explained it was a new bus-stop for Churston's residents.

He...


Help is out there to stop smoking, even if it's your 30th attempt

Help is out there to stop smoking, even if it's your 30th attempt

Saturday, March 13, 2010

WEDNESDAY was no smoking day. Have you survived the first three days? If so, well done. If not, don't worry, you'll crack it one day. So why is no...



Momentous day for future of rail

Saturday, March 13, 2010

FOLLOWING our rather damp visit to Eastleigh on March 9, 1963, the following Saturday was spent showing a friend the delights of the Exe Valley,...



The beauty of nature

Saturday, March 13, 2010

ANOTHER winter is slowly coming to an end and spring is just a week away. To celebrate the transition I've brought some poetry together, with verses...



Oasis of calm in desert of Parisian chaos

Oasis of calm in desert of Parisian chaos

Friday, March 12, 2010

WE were in danger of losing our lives as we crossed the perilous Place de la Concorde in Paris — just as Marie Antoinette and Louis XVl had done...



To secure the future, we must certainly learn lessons from past

To secure the future, we must certainly learn lessons from past

Friday, March 12, 2010

IF we allow the past to dictate the present, we shall lose the future. Not my words (I wish I was so clever) and variously attributed to Winston...



The public bar joke machine

Friday, March 12, 2010

I'VE visited many friendly village pubs from shore to moor. Classic examples come to mind, thanks mainly to the 40 years I enjoyed on the South Devon...



Got a complaint? Sing it off your chest

Thursday, March 11, 2010

COMPLAINING is a good thing. That's what I've decided this week. It's time that we, as a nation, stopped trying to be so darned nice and polite. ...



Above the lost world

Thursday, March 11, 2010

I SAT on Hay Tor looking at the thick mist that had covered the South Devon lowland and distant Channel. The quaking whiteness was eerie. Haytor Vale...



Dolphin date for Humanitarians

Dolphin date for Humanitarians

Thursday, March 11, 2010

CHRIS CLARK, the spokesman for the management company Movement in Sound, has been in touch with news of an imminent Torbay engagement for the South...



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