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Jim Parker

What role for protest groups in shaping future of the Bay?

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

OH DEAR, there appears to have been something of a fall-out following news of plans for an umbrella organisation to bring together various protest groups in the Bay.

I revealed last week how Torbay Civic Society chairman Ian Handford and Paignton Preservation Society...

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Political heavyweights join restaurant debate

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

LET the councillors decide, says Marcus Wood. You're having a laugh (in so many words), says Adrian Sanders. And so the fierce debate over the...

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Memo to activists: Cream teas and cows alone won't save our bacon

Memo to activists: Cream teas and cows alone won't save our bacon

Monday, March 08, 2010

DEMOCRACY is a wonderful thing. It allows freedom of speech and the right to protest. In Torbay, we have an array of protest and action groups who do...

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Howzat! Our fourth beautiful grandchild

Howzat! Our fourth beautiful grandchild

Monday, March 08, 2010

THEY say children keep you young, but not if they keep having children themselves. Welcome Riley James, our fourth grandchild — yes, I know you...

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Councillor wants to hear from tenants of unruly landlords... I think his phone's going to be busy

Councillor wants to hear from tenants of unruly landlords...   I think his phone's going to be busy

Monday, March 01, 2010

WE HAVE all seen it over the past few years — streets once boasting houses with families living in harmony with another being snapped up by...

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As Nigel Bloxham plans meeting, may Downs war of words continue

As Nigel Bloxham plans meeting, may Downs war of words continue

Monday, March 01, 2010

THE war of words raging over that fish restaurant plan for Babbacombe Downs shows no sign of letting up. But one of the biggest complaints from the...

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Can the tourism industry pull itself together in time?

Can the tourism industry pull itself together in time?

Monday, February 22, 2010

CAROLYN CUSTERSON was warned not to touch Torbay with a barge pole. At the time she was pondering over moves to take up the challenge of making...

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Still waiting for the bypass after false start

Still waiting for the bypass after false start

Monday, February 22, 2010

I SEE plans for the Kingskerswell bypass are back in the headlines again. This time it has been decided that no decision on the £120million link...

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Where have all the policemen gone? Ask the Home Office

Monday, February 15, 2010

I WENT to a retirement do the other day and it brought memories flooding back. It was to say farewell to Sgt Steve Blair, the man who has worked...

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Looking after our visitors, and fined for the trouble

Looking after our visitors, and fined for the trouble

Monday, February 15, 2010

TORBAY'S tourism trade would be massively worse off without the thousands of people who visit the English Riviera courtesy of coaching holidays. Like...

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