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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
• Canoeist dies and woman is swept away by river • Checks on 1,800 Cumbria bridges after six collapse Torrential downpours claimed a second victim today in Devon as emergency medical supplies and food parcels were sent to communities marooned by floods in Cumbria, and rescue teams searched the swollen river Usk in Wales for a missing woman. Hundreds of police, soldiers and volunteers were...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Canoeist who died in Devon after floods was experienced kayak instructor • Search continues for woman who fell into river Usk The canoeist who died in Devon after becoming trapped in a swollen river was an extremely experienced kayak instructor, it has emerged. Two friends desperately tried to keep Chris Wheeler's head above the water when he became pinned against a tree in the river Dart,...
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The Big Dollop (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
. A story in tonight’s Glasgow Evening Times caught the eye (the good one) of the Big Dollop – it featured the company who are responsible for the sales and distribution of the tonic wine – Buckfast who dropped its discrimination case against Scotland's largest licensing authority after they received written assurances from Glasgow licensing chiefs. In a written statement, it said:...
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Bonbi Fruits of the Forest (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Wasn't the weather wild at the weekend? Pretty crazy and stormy. Mark and I were in Devon to see some family and took a walk up on Dartmoor...The wind was so strong and the clouds were flying by so fast in the sky the atmosphere changed by the minute. One minute dark and threatening the next sunny and clear. So this is just a quick post to highlight a couple of new things really. The first being a...
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Matt and Nik Young (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
An horrific night, Tom woke at 9.30 (when I went to bed), managed to feed him back to sleep. Then again at 11.30. This time he wasn't going back to sleep, oh no, it took until 2.30 to get him back to sleep. The thing was, I did get him back to sleep on numerous occasions, but when I put him back in his cot he would wake up again. At one stage he was really screaming (he was very tired), Matt almost...
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Called to the bar (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Was talking to a chap at Devon Earth brewery the other day, a newish small operation based in Paignton, and was rather tickled to hear that he brews beer for monks (not punks). Neither does he brew like a monk, sadly. Instead a barrel of his Devon Earth bitter gets sent to the Benedictine brothers at Buckfastleigh Abbey, which can be found on the southern edge of Dartmoor (I sometimes drop in when...
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Jill's Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Finally - pictures of me riding pillion behind Martin, member of the DAM ! which is Devon Advanced Motorcyclists, who kindly offered to take me out on one of their jaunts over Dartmoor recently. I loved every minute of the ride from Moretonhampstead, to Bovey, on up to Haytor and then Hound Tor to the Hounds of the Basketmeals van car park..... BRILLIANT !!! and then back down to Moreton. I hadn't...
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Devon occasional (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Halloween saw me up at silly o'clock, setting mistnets to ring birds up on the moors. An early start to try and ring some Redwing failed miserably, but we had some compensation in the form of two Treecreeper, nine Meadow Pipit and a Reed Bunting, as well as some reasonable retraps - a male Chaffinch and a Blue Tit ringed earlier this year, and a Great Tit ringed last year. Nothing thrilling, but pleasant....
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UK400ClubRareBirdAlert (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
A probable BRIGHT GREEN WARBLER (Phylloscopus nitidus) is present in Church Cove on The Lizard (West Cornwall) today, showing intermittently in Elms at the seaward end of the cove opposite the Mariner's Cottage. It was found by Cambridgeshire artist Ben Green and Duncan Poyser late morning and showed again for 20 minutes early afternoon and again briefly to seven observers at 1645. It is calling quite...
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Jill's Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Pending....... Brilliant ride as a pillion passenger, out over the Moor with members of Devon Advanced Motorcyclists on Saturday.... Rob took pictures.... Will get them off him soon
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Devon Headships (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Walkhampton Road, Horrabridge, Yelverton, PL20 7SZ http://www.horrabridge-primary.devon.sch.uk/ Group: 1, ISR: L8 – L14, NOR:85 HEADTEACHER required for September 2010 Would you like to be the headteacher of a small rural school in Dartmoor National Park? If so, are you a successful leader, communicator and teacher? Then we are looking for you. This is a village school at the heart of its community...
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Devon Headships (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Coffinswell Lane, Kingskerswell, Newton Abbot, TQ12 5HN Tel: 01803 873398 Website: http://www.kingskerswell.devon.sch.uk/ Group 2, NOR 233, Salary L12 - L18 HEADTEACHER requried Spetember 2010 Respecting Each Other, Working Together, Learning for Life Kingskerswell is a happy and successful village school situated on an attractive modern campus in a desirable and easily accessible part of South Devon....
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John Alexander Photography (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Dartmoor Pony - Postbridge - Dartmoor - Devon Looks cute doesn't it? I lay down in the frosty bog (not frozen) and was taking some photos of her as she came towards me. She came so close she licked my lens, ate my camera bag and I think still has some of my leg in its teeth. Vicious animal. The photo doesn't show it though! I used a wide angle lens, with a polariser to saturate the blue of the sky...
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Walkabout In The UK (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Ever fancied a small piece of remote land, all your very own? That special piece of green space, somewhere off the beaten track. So how about a disused reservoir (wonder if its subject to flooding?) Bradleys and Webbers will shortly be auctioning off a number of "highly interesting and attractive lots" in Devon & Cornwall, currently owned by South West Water. The auction is on the 18th...
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Homeschooling Hannah (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
We are home from South Devon and have had a lovely, relaxing week in the village where i grew up. Hannah has loved every minute of our time there and it was really amazing to be able to show her all the places i love and give her a little insight into my childhood. Rock-pooling on our first day Challaborough Beach with Burgh Island in the background. On Burgh Island at Low Tide, the sea tractor in...
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