Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) back issues from August 2006:
Sooner or later, the bill must be paid
Aug 02, 2006 ... Your editorial (July 22, "No case for hike in interest rates")poses some interesting questions. I know a rate rise would be badnews for some - but it would be very good news for others. Low interest rates are not the panacea they are made out to be.They are responsible in part ...
Give our horses space
Aug 02, 2006 ... Perhaps one of your readers can tell me what needs to be done toeducate drivers to slow down when passing horses on the roads. You'd think a fluorescent yellow, high visibility vest with"CAUTION, YOUNG HORSE, PASS WIDE AND SLOW" on the front and back,matching leg wraps on the ...
A louder life on the land
Aug 02, 2006 ... He tale is very simple. A huntsman goes out across the meadow onebright sunny morning and, spotting his prey, gets so excited he putshis 12-bore to his shoulder the wrong way round. Here let the poetCharles Causley take up the story - "Bang went the jolly gun. Hunterjolly dead. Jolly ...
Grandfather's clock is remembered in rhyme
Aug 02, 2006 ... Longcase clocks are so called because of the case required to holdtheir pendulums, though they are far better known as grandfatherclocks because of an old rhyme. It was penned when Victoria was stillon the throne, and came about when the American lyricist andsongwriter, Henry Clay Work ...
Problems of trading milk quota across Euro borders
Aug 02, 2006 ... I spend much of my time advising farmers on matters of EuropeanLaw, and one of its principles is that there should be the freemovement of trade in goods. I therefore cannot explain on policy grounds why it has not beenpossible to move milk quota between borders. In my view the ...
Contracts help included in new oilseed sellers' checklist
Aug 02, 2006 ... The new Oilseed Sellers' Checklist, published by the Home GrownCereals Authority on behalf of the Cereals Industry Forum, is devisedto help oilseed growers maximise their market opportunities and avoidthe most common contractual problems. "The standard Federation of Oils, Seeds and ...
Correct oilseed rape type vital for success
Aug 02, 2006 ... With last June's rainfall across the Westcountry just 48 per centof the long-term average, drought tolerance should be an increasinglyimportant factor in oilseed rape variety selection this autumn,according top Tim Hirst, of Grainfarmers. "June is a critical time in determining ...
New grass leys for improved performance
Aug 02, 2006 ... Livestock farmers in the Westcountry, faced with criticalshortages of summer grazing as a result of the heatwave, must makereseeding a priority this autumn if they are to avoid similarproblems in future years. According to specialist Paul Billings, the average grazing ley inthe ...
Springbok offers answer to weeds on osr land
Aug 02, 2006 ... Cranesbill and shepherd's-purse are on the increase in many arablerotations in the Westcountry, but the new oilseed rape herbicideSpringbok offers improved control of these difficult weeds. Springbok contains the soil-active adjuvant Grounded which adds toits performance. Dr ...
Last chance bids for pounds1.25m in dairy cash
Aug 02, 2006 ... Dairy Collect, the Cornwall Enterprise service which usesObjective One money to make the Cornish dairy farming moresustainable, has now awarded pounds1 million in grants to localfarms. Set against a background of declining milk prices and pessimismabout the British dairy ...
Silver jubilee year for famous ruby Reds
Aug 02, 2006 ... The celebrated Forde Abbey herd of Ruby Red Devon cattle ismarking its Silver Jubilee. Since Lisa Roper started her herd at her home, near Chard, it haswon numerous prizes - and Mrs Roper herself has become aninternational judge of the breed. This year, she became the first ...
Sheep producers still face double tagging
Aug 02, 2006 ... A great relief it undoubtedly is, but the extension of thetemporary derogation from EU double-tagging rules - won for Englishsheep producers last month - gives the industry barely six monthsgrace in which to demonstrate its identification system is on a parwith other member ...
Magnificent pasture farm with potential
Aug 02, 2006 ... Rydon Farm, Ogwell, near Newton Abbot, a superb grassland holdingof 75.4 acres, has gone on the market jointly through D R Kivell &Partners and Stags with a guide price of pounds1.1 million. There is a substantial farmhouse with annexe, with originalinglenook fireplaces and oak ...
UN mediator helps in vixen Tor dispute
Aug 02, 2006 ... Walkers were legally allowed to walk on one of the Westcountry'sbest loved landmarks this week, after a UN mediator was brought in tohelp solve an ongoing dispute which has seen it closed for threeyears. Mary Alford closed Vixen Tor in 2003, citing fears that she couldbe held ...
MP criticises plans to scrap post office card accounts
Aug 02, 2006 ... The Government must ensure a new scheme is developed to replace apopular post office initiative which is being scrapped, an MP haswarned. Last month, the Post Office Minister Jim Fitzpatrick confirmedthat the popular Post Office Card Account (POCA) scheme, used to paypensions and ...
Welcome words for the farmers
Aug 02, 2006 ... Jeff Rooker, Labour's recently appointed Farming Minister is -lamentably - doing the job only part-time. But he has brought arefreshing down-to-earth attitude to the post that has been sorelymissing at Defra for some time. His pledge yesterday in an interview with the Western ...
Brewery breaks into capital's bars
Aug 02, 2006 ... Westcountry drinks firm St Austell Brewery has completed a dealwhich will see its beers on sale in pubs across the heart of London. The Cornish firm has done a deal with the Nicholson's chain ofpubs, part of the Mitchell and Butler group, which will see itsflagship Tribute ale on ...
Medieval treasure battles to secure restoration dream
Aug 02, 2006 ... The Barton, a Grade II-listed medieval farmhouse, is the heartbeatof a local community deep within agricultural Devon. Set in the rural idyll of North Devon, close to the Cornwallborder, the coastal parish of Welcombe has for centuries been tiedtogether by The Barton. Dating ...
Old lifeboat house is restored to its former glory
Aug 02, 2006 ... An old lifeboat house in West Cornwall has been restored to itsformer glory after a mammoth fundraising mission. Porthoustock Village Hall Committee has transformed thedilapidated premises so that local people could begin using it again. The lifeboat house was originally turned ...
Quality comes first at highwayman's haunt
Aug 02, 2006 ... When Neil and Julie Elliot and David and Sylvie Bowden took overThe Highwayman's Haunt, in Chudleigh, they wanted to ensure everyonewas welcome and had a relaxing time. Children and pets can soak up the atmosphere and people are urgedto enjoy as much of what the inn has to offer as ...
Monopoly set with a difference puts resort in the spotlight
Aug 02, 2006 ... A monopoly set with a difference has helped a Londoner celebratehis favourite spot in the Westcountry. Neil Jennings was surprised to find that his birthday present fromhis brother Lyndon was a Monopoly set. On closer inspection, MrJennings discovered this was no ordinary Monopoly ...
Farmer fined pounds200 after river dart slurry spill
Aug 02, 2006 ... A devon farmer has been fined pounds200 after he allowed effluentto escape into a tributary of the River Dart. In October last year a quantity of farm slurry was found to havepolluted part of the Bidwell Brook, near Totnes. It was later revealed that the effluent was ...
Community group shows its spirit
Aug 02, 2006 ... A new community group in the Yeo Valley area of Barnstaple istaking action to develop a community woodland and wildlife area byplanting 11,000 trees. The Friends of Yeo Valley Community Woodland group was formed topush forward the massive tree planting project near to the ...
Accolade for park as the place to be
Aug 02, 2006 ... A park that was once avoided by Torquay residents has been sotransformed it has won a national award for community open spaces. Sherwell Park - known locally as Pretty Park - has been awarded agreen flag, in recognition of the community's efforts to give it afacelift. The ...
Tall order for Argyle
Aug 02, 2006 ... With only four days to go to the start of the Coca-ColaChampionship season, Ian Holloway knows that his Plymouth Argylefirst-team squad is incomplete. The Pilgrims' manager is very pleased with the application andskill shown by the players he has in his senior pool of talent, ...
Luke all set to take advantage
Aug 02, 2006 ... Football can be a contradictory game. One player's misfortune canbe another's lucky break. What is bad news for one man is sometimes acareer- changing moment for a team-mate. That could be the case at Plymouth Argyle in the coming campaign.At the end of last season, the Pilgrims' ...
Aljofree embraces Pilgrims' sense of positivity
Aug 02, 2006 ... With kick-off to the new Coca- Cola Championship season just daysaway, the air of anticipation around Home Park is slowly beginning tobuild. As the Plymouth Argyle squad assembled for yesterday's official team photograph, talk among the troops was clearly upbeat and focusedon the ...
Charity body approves project to improve park
Aug 02, 2006 ... A major improvement scheme for Barnstaple's Rock Park has beengiven the legal go-ahead. Planned changes at the park have been in the pipeline for sometime, but needed the approval of the Charity Commission, because somesections of the site were part of a charitable trust. The ...
Band's call for new members
Aug 02, 2006 ... The new season of the Cornwall Youth Brass Band starts inSeptember. The band is inviting applications for membership from young brassplayers between 11 and 20 years old. The band is always pleased to welcome new players and can promisethem a friendly reception as well as a ...
Sanctuary seeks money to buy land for ponies
Aug 02, 2006 ... A horse and pony sanctuary set up by a North Devon woman in memoryof her father has launched a cash appeal to help put its work on amore permanent footing. The Highercourt Horse and Pony Sanctuary is aiming to raise enoughmoney so that it can buy the land it currently ...
Animal-lovers invited to join bay wildlife watch
Aug 02, 2006 ... Wildlife lovers in South Devon are being given a chance to recordsightings of some of the region's marine visitors as part of a scheme which has just been launched. Staff at Torquay's coastal zoo, Living Coasts, have started theTor Bay Bay Watch scheme, which has already recorded ...
Zooteacher says goodbye
Aug 02, 2006 ... A teacher at one of the Westcountry's most popular attractions hasretired after teaching more than 100,000 children over a 20-yearperiod. Janet Ceely has been the public face of Paignton Zoo, givingoutreach talks to a variety of groups and travelling across theregion to speak to ...
Supermarkets accused over job losses
Aug 02, 2006 ... Supermarkets have been blamed for the closure of a Cornish chicken-processing plant because of the hold they have over the domesticpoultry industry. Cornish Poultry ceased trading last Monday, as reported in theWestern Morning News, with the loss of 20 jobs. The company, based ...
Quiet heroes who battled the storm
Aug 02, 2006 ... Penlee. The name has a real resonance in the Westcountry whereanyone old enough to recall the events of 25 years ago remembers theultimate sacrifice made by eight men on board the RNLI's SolomonBrowne. The story of the Penlee lifeboat disaster is told as part of theBBC's ...
Victims of the junk mail con
Aug 02, 2006 ... Westcountry pensioners have been ruthlessly conned out of tens ofthousands of pounds by international fraudsters, Trading Standardswarned yesterday. In recent months, several elderly people have been tricked out oflarge amounts of cash by fraudulent junk mail promising large ...
Nuclear waste is stored in dockyard
Aug 02, 2006 ... Highly radioactive waste is being stored at Devonport Dockyard inPlymouth because defuelling facilities for nuclear-powered submarinesare not yet ready. The material is being stored on two nuclear-powered vessels, HMSSpartan and HMS Splendid. Usually, spent uranium fuel is ...
Mutant crab caught off Cornish coast
Aug 02, 2006 ... A crab with a third pincer has been caught off the North Cornwallcoast. Geoff Brown, 52, from Newquay, pulled up the common edible crab inhis pot on the seabed three miles off Portreath. Mr Brown has donated the crab to the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquaywhere she has been ...
Classic craft promise great race at boating festival
Aug 02, 2006 ... Classic yachts of all eras, shapes and sizes sailed into Foweyharbour in a blaze of sunshine yesterday afternoon. Sailors faced testing conditions in strong west to northwesterlywinds as they made their way from Plymouth in the Classic BoatRally Passage Race. The ancient ...
Husband who beat wife 'black and blue' jailed
Aug 02, 2006 ... A devon man who beat his wife "black and blue" has been jailed fortwo years after a judge ruled that anything other than immediatecustody would send out the wrong message to battered women. At Exeter Crown Court yesterday, Judge Graham Cottle told MichaelDe-Escofet: "Both you and ...
Bicycling burglar evaded alarms and CCTV on raids
Aug 02, 2006 ... A bicycling burglar bypassed security alarms and evaded CCTVcameras during raids in Barnstaple. Exeter Crown Court heard Lee Webster, 25, stole property worthmore than pounds5,500 during nine raids. Chris Bennett, prosecuting, said Webster was initially arrestedfor criminal ...
Rethink on hospital rebuilding project
Aug 02, 2006 ... Ambitious plans to demolish and rebuild the biggest hospital inthe Westcountry are being rethought by health chiefs. Officials say cutbacks in a pounds600 million hospital project forPlymouth are mainly a result of changes in funding. Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has been ...
Mason aiming for hat-trick success at St Mellion event
Aug 02, 2006 ... St Mellion course record holder Carl Mason is hoping to giveWestcountry golf a boost when he and senior golf's other top namesdescend on the Cornish course for the English Seniors Open inSeptember. Mason, who shot his record round of 63 eleven years ago in theBenson & Hedges ...
Boys leap from rocks to be rescued by lifeboat crews
Aug 02, 2006 ... Two teenage boys leapt from rocks into heavy seas to be rescued bythe RNLI. The catamaran in which the boys were sailing had washed on torocks near Polzeath in North Cornwall. The rescue of the two 14-year-olds was a joint operation carriedout on Monday by Rock RNLI inshore ...
Supermarkets launch organic box schemes
Aug 02, 2006 ... Organic farmers will lose the niche market in delivering boxes offresh fruit and vegetables to people's doors as supermarkets plan tomuscle in on their success. The organic sector is the fastest growing in the food industry -sales have increased by 30 per cent each ...
World record attempt at firework championship
Aug 02, 2006 ... The 10th anniversary of the British fireworks championships thismonth will include an attempt at the Guinness World Record for thenumber of rockets fired simultaneously. More than 100,000 spectators are expected to attend thespectacular event, which takes place on Plymouth Hoe ...
Convoy of Citroen 2cvs descends on Goonhilly
Aug 02, 2006 ... More than 100 Citroen 2CVs arrived at the world's largestsatellite earth station at Goonhilly in a huge convoy yesterday. The visit was the highlight of a week-long rally by the South WestCornwall 2CVers. Included in the line-up were some rare examples of the car, suchas the ...
'Misconduct' inquiry into Wallis is dropped
Aug 02, 2006 ... An official investigation into allegations of serious professionalmisconduct against former Devon and Cornwall Police Chief ConstableMaria Wallis has been dropped, it was confirmed yesterday. Mrs Wallis retired with immediate effect last Wednesday, just aday after details of the ...
Rooker's pledge on farm subsidy fiasco
Aug 02, 2006 ... A government minister yesterday pledged to "work his socks off" toprevent a repeat of this year's single farm payments fiasco. Lord Jeff Rooker told the Western Morning News that ensuring thatnext year's single farm payments were made "smoothly and quickly" washis "number one ...
Jobs to go as trust cuts pounds6m
Aug 02, 2006 ... Staff at a Somerset hospital have been told their jobs could be atrisk as part of a pounds6.5 million cost-cutting drive. The NHS trust running Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton has saidjob losses could be the only way to clear the hospital's debts. The Taunton and Somerset ...
I did not do anything unlawful - huntsman
Aug 02, 2006 ... A huntsman accused of breaching the Hunting Act told a courtyesterday that he firmly believed he had done nothing unlawful. Exmoor Foxhounds huntsman Tony Wright, 52, has pleaded not guiltyto breaching the Act in a private prosecution brought by the LeagueAgainst Cruel Sports ...
Defiant Devon flies its flag
Aug 02, 2006 ... It's an image coming increasingly to symbolise the pride Devonpeople have in their county - and now the Devon flag is to be flown,defiantly, on public buildings, in the face of red tape which ...
Cidermen searching for victory
Aug 02, 2006 ... Having had a week off from Liverpool Victoria County Championshipaction, Somerset go into today's Division Two match against Essexwithout Australian test star Justin Langer, who has returned homeafter his brief stint with the Cidermen. The prolific batsman enjoyed a notable spell ...
Traffic chaos as caravan overturns on M5
Aug 02, 2006 ... Thousands of motorists were stuck in a three-mile tailback intothe Westcountry yesterday after a Land Rover towing a caravanoverturned as it jack-knifed on the M5. The incident caused chaos to holiday traffic as all threesouthbound lanes were blocked. No one was harmed and ...
Parents' quest to find truth of baby's death
Aug 02, 2006 ... A coroner told a grieving couple that had they not persevered intheir quest to find out the truth about their baby daughter's death,an inquest would not have taken place. Assistant deputy coroner for Cornwall Mr Andrew Walker is holdingan inquest into the death of baby Caitlin ...
West raises his game to see off Hayward's stiff challenge
Aug 02, 2006 ... Devon's Matthew West (Teignmouth) nearly came unstuck at the RoyalMail Plymouth Junior Open, but the number six seed rallied to see offTaunton's Nick Hayward 7-5, 6-4. West was 2-5 down in the opening set, but he found his form toclaim a place in the third round of the boys' 16 and ...
Exeter pair are named in England elite squads
Aug 02, 2006 ... Exeter Chiefs were celebrating last night the inclusion of two oftheir players in Andy Robinson's elite squad for the 2006-07 season. Richard Bolt's success with the Under-19s last season has earnedhim a place in the Intermediate National Academy, where he is theonly player from ...
Man, 71, saves puppies from blazing chalet
Aug 02, 2006 ... A 71-year-old man rescued two puppies from his friend's burningchalet yesterday . Sidney Holden ran into the building without thinking of his ownsafety when he knew the animals were inside. The dogs and chalet belong to his friend Robert Moyse of PennanceRoad, Lanner, near ...
Treasured van bears Hermon on final journey
Aug 02, 2006 ... For more than 50 years Hermon Lewis drove his Morris Commercialvan as he carried out jobs for his building firm in thecountryside around Totnes in South Devon. Yesterday the coffin of the much-loved local character was drivento his funeral from his home in Washbourne in the ...
Women's rights crusader whose book was banned
Aug 02, 2006 ... Duygu Asena, a best-selling writer and crusader for women's rightsin Turkey, has died after a two-year battle with a brain tumour. Shewas 60. Ms Asena, author of the book Woman Has No Name, died in Istanbul'sAmerican Hospital after being admitted with a high temperature ...
Witness of partition and a friend to gandhi
Aug 02, 2006 ... Richard Symonds, a UN development worker and friend of MahatmaGandhi, who once insisted on providing Symonds with medical treatmentat Birla House in New Delhi, has died at the age of 87. Described as one of the finest representatives of colonialBritain, Symonds was seen as a ...
Producer of Hollywood hit m*a*s*h
Aug 02, 2006 ... Ingo preminger, who has died aged 95, produced the award-winningfilm M*A*S*H and was the literary agent for several leading writersblacklisted during the post-war McCarthy era. He was also the brother of noted filmmaker Otto Preminger. As an agent, Ingo Preminger represented ...
County flies its flag in defiance of new rules
Aug 02, 2006 ... The flag of Devon is to be hoisted over a Government building indefiance of red tape. The distinctive green, white and black symbol of the county willfly proudly, against Whitehall rules. According to bureaucratic diktat, planning permission is needed toput up anything other ...
Go-ahead for county's biggest charity ball
Aug 02, 2006 ... Months of hard work to ensure Cornwall's biggest charity ball ofthe year goes ahead have come to fruition. Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has finally been granted planning andlicensing permission to run the annual fundraising event next month. A change in legislation at the end ...
Diver dies on wreck descent
Aug 02, 2006 ... A diver who surfaced unconscious after exploring a wreck off thecoast of Plymouth was airlifted to hospital last night, butpronounced dead on arrival. The man, in his forties, resurfaced unconscious after making arapid ascent from the wreck, 18 metres below the surface of ...
Phoenix rises from the ashes
Aug 03, 2006 ... A Devon pub which was virtually burnt to the ground just over ayear ago has risen from the ashes and is now on the market. Stonesmith is offering the Chichester Arms at Bishops Tawton forsale at an asking price of pounds395,000 for a new free-of-tie lease. It has taken an ...