Herald Express (Torquay UK) back issues from October 2008:
Workshop opens door for untapped resource
Oct 01, 2008 ... People with disabilities are an asset to South West businessesand an untapped resource, according to experts who are launching anew course. Run jointly by leading disability charity Living Options Devonand Business Link, the three-hour session aims to make dealing withthe issues ...
Award-winning achievement
Oct 01, 2008 ... Heathfield-based tile manufacturer British Ceramic Tile wereproud winners of the 'best purchasing initiative by a smallerorganisation' award at the prestigious Chartered Institute ofPurchasing and Supply (CIPS) Supply Management Awards 2008, held atthe Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on ...
Staff have fun in a good cause
Oct 01, 2008; ... A paignton DIY store has held a fun day to highlight MeningitisAwareness Week. Staff at Focus DIY in Borough Close raised more than pounds600for the charity with the fun day and a sponsored walk. Throughout the day all staff at the store were wearing fancydress themed around ...
'Hat trick' of sales in the catering business
Oct 01, 2008 ... Despite the doom and gloom in the property market, Riccardo dePaulis of Bettesworths has come out strongly saying 'there is stilla demand for catering businesses if they are on the market at theright price'. The basis of this claim is a 'hat trick' of sales recentlynegotiated by ...
Quench your thirst for knowledge
Oct 01, 2008 ... Some people have a thirst for knowledge, others have lots ofknowledge about how to slake your thirst. A bumper harvest of wine books is set to hit the shelves over thenext few weeks, all of them designed to help the confused drinkernavigate their way through the shelves. Pick ...
Flats on the market
Oct 01, 2008 ... A spacious semi-detached house arranged as five self-containedletting units has come on the market. The property in Preston Down Road, Preston, Paignton, is in apopular residential area, approximately 400 metres from TorquayRoad, the main road linking Torquay to Paignton and ...
Outlining the future of health service
Oct 01, 2008 ... The nhs is urging local people to take more responsibility forlooking after themselves and their families. For the first time the NHS is recording in its constitutionexactly what it does, what it stands for and what it should live upto. The document will include a list of ...
Petition aims to cut car parking charges in town
Oct 01, 2008 ... A petition calling on Teignbridge Council to remove car parkcharges in Moretonhampstead has been delivered to the localauthority. The petition was launched by Ashburton resident Mel Stride afterhe heard concerns there may be 'negative consequences' overadditional seasonal ...
Law jobs go as crunch bites property market
Oct 01, 2008; ... Jobs have gone at some of South Devon's leading solicitor firmsas the credit crunch begins to bite. It is believed more than 15 staff have been laid off by top lawfirms as property prices drop across the country. Devon solicitors Kitson Hutchings, which has offices in ...
Complaint over CCTV view of gents' loo
Oct 01, 2008; ... Cctv in a busy Torquay town centre toilet has sparked acomplaint. Security cameras have been installed in toilets at the Fleet Walkcar park to prevent antisocial behaviour, vandalism and shoplifting. But the camera unit is directly above urinals in the men'stoilets and not ...
Batten's back after gulls experience
Oct 01, 2008; ... Former Torquay United general manager, Daryl Batten, has returnedto the hotel trade in his new post at Bishops Court Hotel andResort. Mr Batten, 44, was made redundant from the football club in anend of season reshuffle in May after a year at the club. Now the former general ...
We're living in fear, say 'rat run' residents
Oct 01, 2008; ... Paignton residents still counting the costs of a car crash whichpulled chimneys from roofs when it hit a telegraph pole are callingfor a scheme to make their road safer. Residents in Barton Avenue say they are blighted by speedingmotorists, badly parked cars and drivers trying to ...
Firm sets fixed fees for legal clients
Oct 01, 2008; ... In a tumultuous period, XL has gone bust, top US bank LehmanBrothers has crashed, Bradford and Bingley has been nationalised andaround the world global stock markets are in turmoil. Week on week inflation is apparent to anyone who pushes a trolleyaround a supermarket. For ...
Royal date for county company
Oct 01, 2008 ... One of the region's leading companies, Connexions Cornwall andDevon Ltd, has been chosen as one of six finalists for theprestigious UK Excellence Award, to be awarded by HRH the PrincessRoyal at the London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, on October 14. One of the highest business ...
New business tool that can be life-changing
Oct 01, 2008 ... As companies look for more and more ways to improve sales, liftstaff morale and raise the profile of their business a range oftechniques and strategies are being tried and tested. One process which has been identified to provide powerfulbusiness tools, especially for those involved ...
Bringing the horror of war to the stage
Oct 01, 2008; ... First World War trench warfare is being re-enacted on the smallstage in the world premier of a new play by theatre stalwart, PaulHedge. Set designers are using a waterproof trench to recreate theconditions of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battlesof the ...
Police go to the theatre
Oct 01, 2008 ... Police are off to the theatre in Paignton next week to discussanti-social behaviour. Senior officers will be attending the Palace Theatre for adiscussion on the local issue. The ...
Prepare to surf the cider tsunami
Oct 01, 2008 ... Hopefully October will be the traditional 'Sunset Month' withthose warm colours in the deciduous leaves. It may be 'the autumn ofdecay' but I love to see all the colours of the season glowing inwoods and hedges. Then there's the dew and frost lifting off fieldsand lawns in a fine 'smoke' ...
CCTV goal reached by residents' group
Oct 01, 2008; ... A torquay residents' association has achieved its goal of havingCCTV cameras installed on a problem street. Members of the Hill Association have been campaigning since itsinception to have cameras installed on Melville Street to combatcrime and anti-social behaviour. The ...
Store says it with flowers
Oct 01, 2008; ... A stationery store played the part of the Good Samaritan after aman was issued with a parking ticket when he visited his sick wifeat Torbay Hospital. Dave Roach, 53, parked at Bridge Retail Park and rushed across tothe Ricky Grant Cancer Unit to be with his wife Carol who ...
New yurt puts green slant on students' learning
Oct 01, 2008; ... Students at South Devon College will be learning extra lessons ineco-friendliness thanks to the official opening of a fourth centurytent at the Paignton site. The Mongolian tent structure - known as a yurt - is the college'slatest construction in the Environment and Land-Based ...
Home's Spanish day has the castanets clicking
Oct 01, 2008 ... Residents at a Torquay care home had fun at a Spanish themed daycomplete with continental menus and castanet dancing. The manager of Cary Lodge in Babbacombe, Julia Gow-Smith, dressedas a Seville orange and staff wore traditional Spanish costume tohelp bring the theme ...
Last post lament
Oct 01, 2008 ... I always buy a parish magazine or village newsletter when I seeone because there is usually something fresh and interesting inside. My latest purchase was no exception. It contains a very dignifiedbut rather sad farewell from a postman. Time To Go is the title of a short piece ...
Success depends on flip of a coin
Oct 01, 2008 ... Parking is undoubtedly a very sensitive issue. I have had quite abit of reaction to my piece last week praising the help I receivedin Newton Abbot when I found my pounds2 coins kept being rejected bythe machine. In Totnes last week someone I recognised (but as usual ...
Street fighters of the silver screen
Oct 01, 2008 ... If SOME senior citizens in Totnes seemed to have a faraway,slightly misty look in their eyes recently, they had probably beento an exhibition which recalled the days when the cramped but veryefficient town library was a cinema. A visit to the Romany Theatre was the high spot of ...
Harvest of golden memories
Oct 01, 2008 ... Good news! The corn field on the other side of the lanewethought must be doomed because it was turning black has beenharvested. Men and machines suddenly arrived and within a couple of days itwas all done. A modern marvel. What a contrast to what the old timers call 'the ...
Arrest warrant issued
Oct 01, 2008 ... A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Dartmouth alcoholic who overturned tables in a town centre pub and put a barstool through the window after being refused a drink. Paul Whiffin, 42, of Mayflower Close did not turn up for hissentencing at Torquay Magistrates Court on ...
Supervisors fill skills gap
Oct 01, 2008 ... Plymouth-based business Esplex Limited is reaping the benefits ofstaff training undertaken with South Devon College. Eighteen supervisors completed the Chartered Management InstituteLevel 2 qualification in Team Leading. Marie Lawson, human resources manager said: "The course ...
Kimberly and Katie join salon team
Oct 01, 2008 ... Paignton-based hair salon RT Hair and Beauty @47 has taken onfour apprentices from South Devon College. Owner Roger Tackley originally worked as an anaesthetist atTorbay Hospital before deciding to retrain as a hairdresser andattended evening classes at the college. Roger ...
Minerals firm takes on engineering apprentices
Oct 01, 2008 ... Local business WBB Minerals has recently taken on two engineeringapprentices from South Devon College. The apprentices were selected from a recruitment day which washeld at the East Gold Works site in Kingsteignton in July. Full-time students from the college were invited to ...
Business advantage team grows
Oct 01, 2008 ... Two managers have recently been appointed within the BusinessAdvantage team at South Devon College. Mike Parr has been appointed to the post of section head ofbusiness and higher level skills. Mike is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the newhigher level ...
Employer event to highlight training benefits
Oct 01, 2008 ... South Devon College will be hosting an employer event at theVantage Point campus in Paignton on Friday. The event, Productive Skills for Devon, will take place from 10amto 11am in the college's theatre space. Employers from the South Devon area are invited to attend theevent, ...
Groups helped by pounds6,000 from race
Oct 01, 2008; ... Brixham's traditional Trawler Race Day and Quay Festival, theonly one still running annually in Britain, has donated more thanpounds6,000 to good causes. Recipients include sporting and youth groups, disabledorganisations and a fishing welfare charity. At a recent ...
Adult learners' good example
Oct 01, 2008; ... Parents who set a good example to their children by continuingtheir education into adulthood were praised at an awards night bythe chairman of Brixham Town Council. Cllr Chris Bedford congratulated the adult students who hadachieved qualifications in both working with children ...
Friends welcome donation
Oct 01, 2008 ... The Rotary Club of Torbay has raised pounds2,000 for the Friendsof Torre Abbey. The money was presented to friends chairman Paul Hewson whoexpressed his thanks for the generous gift. The money will be puttowards getting a special exhibition showcase at Torre Abbey. Paul said: ...
Solicitors put on kettle
Oct 01, 2008 ... Kettles will be boiling and a coffee aroma will be wafting fromnot one but both offices of Roger Richards Solicitors in Churstonand Brixham as they join in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning forMacmillan Cancer Support. Senior partner Caroline Thompson, said: "Everyone is ...
Car firm clubs together to hit back at thieves
Oct 01, 2008 ... A south Devon custom car company has raced to the rescue of alocal charity after thieves made off with children's ride-on toycars. Paignton mum Hayley Stanley and her two-year-old son Oakley areregular visitors to Hullabaloo, Paignton Zoo's under-fives' area. When Hayley ...
Future's bright for historic orangery
Oct 01, 2008; ... One of Teignmouth's oldest and rarest buildings looks set to havea pounds165,000 makeover. The money will help restore the prized Orangery, in the groundsof Bitton House, to its former glory. The 1842 structure is a Grade II listed building. It is one of the few ...
Mum and dad die on same day
Oct 01, 2008; ... A couple who had known each other for almost 80 years - and beenmarried for 62 of them - have died on the same day in Torquay. George and Kate Rothwell's only son, Robin, was travelling fromhis home in Southampton to see them when he took two separate callstelling him that his mum ...
Recalling golden age of rowing
Oct 01, 2008 ... Richard Webb, the town's publisher, let me have this photographfrom a pack of old pictures he has received from Harry Norton, aged78, a former resident of Dittisham. Harry, who now lives in Spalding, is a step-brother of PatO'Flaherty and the late Mick O'Flaherty, and, of course, ...
Hanging up her gavel
Oct 01, 2008 ... It's the final curtain for Daphne Scorer's auction room at theold post office sorting room in Hauley Road. In fact, the last hammer has already fallen and it's just a caseof selling off the remnants today from 10am to 4pm, and Sunday from10am to 3pm. And everything must ...
Night on the water
Oct 01, 2008 ... Dart Gig Club staged a sponsored 24-hour row last weekend and wasblessed with perfect weather and fantastic efforts from so manypeople. The club set a massive task - rowing non -stop for 24 hours onthe River Dart, two boats out during daylight hours and one duringthe night, ...
Society making history come to life
Oct 01, 2008 ... The Dartmouth and Kingswear Society's programme of free talks,open to all, starts next Tuesday. Michael Connors, author of the excellent John Hawley: Merchant,Mayor and Privateer, will be answering the question Hawley -privateer or pirate? Michael will explore how Hawley, ...
News in brief
Oct 01, 2008 ... The Dartmouth and Kingswear Horticultural Society is holding aplant sale and coffee morning at The Flavel next Tuesday from 10amto noon. Gifts of plants, well-rooted cuttings, gardening books and bric-a-brac would be gratefully received by the organisers. Societysecretary ...
Dramas duet
Oct 01, 2008 ... The Flavel has announced that the Miracle Theatre will bepresenting The Taming of the Shrew on Saturday, October 11 at7.30pm. Freely adapted from Shakespeare's play in which falling in lovehas never been harder, Cornwall's Miracle Theatre givesShakespeare's controversial ...
Children's slice of fun thanks to baker
Oct 01, 2008; ... Entertainer Jungle Jim put a smile of children's faces at TorbayHospital thanks to a donation from family bakers Warburtons. The baker provided funding for a puppet show organised by POD, acharity which raises money for entertainers to visit hospitalsacross the UK to make children ...
Town opens up with arts and entertainment
Oct 01, 2008 ... Art, jazz, theatre and sculpture - it was all there inTeignmouth. A weekend of free entertainment was laid on to promote the wealthof talent on offer in the area and celebrate the London Olympicgames. Called Open Up Teignmouth, the Carlton Theatre formed the focalpoint of ...
Motorists shown consequences of speeding
Oct 01, 2008; ... Motorists were shown the devastating consequences of a crash in aroadside crackdown on speeding. Police and fire officers teamed up to stage the speeding stingaround the roads in the Ashburton and Bickington areas. A total of eight motorists were stopped and some were shown ...
Knife charge man remand
Oct 01, 2008 ... A man charged with possessing a hunting knife at Dawlish trainstation has been further remanded in custody. Reece Sicklemore, 22, of Old Gatehouse Road, Dawlish, has not yetentered a plea to a charge of possessing a sheathed ...
Scooter rider impaled leg on kickstand
Oct 01, 2008 ... A scooter rider's leg was impaled on his machine's kickstand whenit crashed in Torquay on Monday night. The young rider was in agony as firefighters gently cut theoffending metal spike in half to release him from his scooter. The accident happened in Carlton Road, Ellacombe, ...
Heroes' welcome for pride of Britain crew
Oct 01, 2008; ... Community leaders in Brixham are planning a heroes' welcome forits award-winning lifeboat crew. Tonight on ITV1 at 8pm, the Brixham rescuers will be at theglittering presentation night of the Pride Of Britain awards among ahost of national winners meeting Prince Charles, David ...
Staff's 'give as you earn' donation
Oct 01, 2008 ... Natwest staff from South Devon and the surrounding area gave morethan pounds9,000 to charity in the first half of 2008 thanks to thebank's Give As You Earn scheme. Staff have been supporting local and national charities andcommunity organisations by donating directly from their pay ...
Don't miss your last chance to vote
Oct 01, 2008 ... It's the final countdown ... Voting closes today in the two great competitions that have hadour readers and users of our website www.thisissouthdevon.co.ukvoting in their hundreds. At midnight tonight the text lines will close and the finalpostal coupons will be taken away for ...
Cover-up for controversial laundry
Oct 01, 2008; ... A paint job to 'camouflage' a controversial Newton Abbot factoryhas started. CLS Laundry at Decoy will lose its bright blue and white liveryin favour of a more sedate brown colour to blend in with thesurrounding green land. Work on the pounds55,000 makeover has started, much ...
Cove rescue swimmer still 'poorly'
Oct 01, 2008 ... A swimmer rescued from the sea off Torquay's Beacon Cove over theweekend remains poorly in Torbay Hospital. The 46-year-old casualty is being treated in the intensive careunit. He is said to be of no fixed address, although originally fromthe Hampshire area. A ...
Teen praised for stable fire action
Oct 01, 2008; ... A stableboy has been praised by firefighters for his quickactions after a fire broke out at a Torquay stable. Strong winds fanned flames from a slowly burning dung heaptowards the stable which quickly caught alight. Plumes of acrid smoke filled the air as the blaze ripped ...
Be safe message for young drivers
Oct 01, 2008; ... More than 2,000 college students and sixth formers from acrossSouth Devon were learning about the merits of safe and responsibledriving at a special roadshow in Torquay today. They are being targeted by local authorities and the emergencyservices amid concerns about the rising toll ...
Shame of debt-ridden postman who stole
Oct 01, 2008; ... A thieving postman who was pounds20,000 in debt and stolepackages containing DVDs for Christmas presents has been sentencedto 117 days in prison - suspended for a year. Ian Tucker, 41, of Westhill Road, Torquay, was finally caughtafter Royal Mail became suspicious of his conduct in ...
Princess Royal in town
Oct 01, 2008 ... Royalty will be visiting the Bay tomorrow to officially name anew yacht specially designed for disabled people. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal will be at Torquay TownDock to officially name Torbay's Disabled Sailing Association's newpounds86,000 yacht. The charity ...
Drive dream comes true for Michael
Oct 01, 2008; ... A blind man from Torquay fulfilled his lifelong wish and drove acar for the first time. Michael Hearne, from Shiphay, celebrated his 70th birthday bydriving a car in a specially arranged off-road lesson. Mr Hearne started going blind at the age of 14 and ended upleaving ...
Runaway paedophile arrested
Oct 01, 2008; ... A convicted paedophile from Teignmouth, who is facing 20 years injail, has been arrested after going on the run. John Tregalles, 61, who carried out a string of serious sexattacks against children, was arrested in Rochdale after policereceived a tip-off from a member of the ...
Thanks for all your aid
Oct 01, 2008 ... A friend and I were just at the start of our holiday in Torquayon September 16. Walking back from a very enjoyable day in Babbacombe I trippedand fell rather badly. Although by a busy road, no one seemed to beabout. Then almost instantly three of the most kindly people came ...
Bypass will create far bigger problem
Oct 01, 2008 ... The main problem with the traffic on Newton Road is the trafficlights, especially at Jury's Corner. Fix that problem then there is no need to waste pounds130millionfor a few miles of road so that traffic can get from A to B slightlyquicker. Will the land off this proposed ...
Bay simply could not cope with housing plan
Oct 01, 2008 ... Having attended the initial consultation meeting at Plymouth onbehalf of Torbay Civic Society we were disappointed to learn muchlater that the Regional Spatial Strategy Policy document was stillrecommending Torbay as a suitable area for large housing expansion(15,000 dwellings) in the ...
Residents have right to housing
Oct 01, 2008 ... The meeting at Paignton Community College last Thursday was auseful forum to discuss the location of much-needed affordable homesfor the people of the Bay. This event was mainly attended by residents who opposed housebuilding in their areas. They have a perfect right to make ...