Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) back issues from October 2006:
Smart dress suits bosses
Oct 02, 2006 ... Too many school leavers turn up at work looking scruffy,'grunting' and unable to write or add up properly, business leadersare complaining. A report from the CBI employers' group found one in threebusinesses were being forced to pay for staff to have remediallessons in basic ...
Understanding the train-gain equation
Oct 02, 2006 ... More than 22,000 individuals and 6,000 employers have already beenhelped by the Government's new pounds1 billion national trainingprogramme being rolled out across England. Train to Gain is designed to help 50,000 employers and 350,000employees every year to get the skills they ...
Qualifying for work
Oct 02, 2006 ... Learning doesn't always take place beside a pile of books and amountain of essays to write. Not everyone enjoys studying in a classroom environment and manyfeel frustrated with losing out on potential earnings whilestudying. There is an alternative. Vocational training ...
Getting the right career guidance
Oct 02, 2006 ... If you are a student aged 16 and fresh out of school the choicesyou make now could change your whole direction for the future. The results of your GCSEs could have an effect on your choice offuture education or career path and you may be wondering where toturn to for ...
Pilgrims plunder win thanks to slick samba Coventry City 0 Plymouth Argyle 1
Oct 02, 2006 ... Coventry City 0 Plymouth Argyle 1 Cherno Samba began last week as Plymouth Argyle's fifth-choicestriker. He finished it by scoring the goal which brought thePilgrims their first win at Coventry City since February 1957. Not abad way to launch your Football League ...
Match reaction with Ian Holloway
Oct 02, 2006 ... Ian Holloway was delighted to play tribute to Cherno Samba,Plymouth Argyle's match-winner at Coventry City on Saturday - and tothe man who brought the 21-year-old striker to Home Park. Samba was a star in schoolboy football when he was on Millwall'sbooks, and attracted the interest ...
Further delay in finishing stadium may not be end of world Argyle Viewpoint with Rupert Metcalf
Oct 02, 2006 ... Argyle Viewpoint with Rupert Metcalf Plymouth Argyle's last two away games have taken them to St Mary'sstadium in Southampton and then, this past Saturday, the Ricoh Arenain Coventry. Two of the best grounds in the Coca-Cola Championship. Modernpurpose-built venues which are ...
Drewett calls for Chiefs to regroup after disappointment
Oct 02, 2006; ... Exeter Chiefs boss Pete Drewett was left to rue several decisionsthat went against his side as they slipped to defeat on the road. Referee David Rose tended to go in favour of Bedford on the closecalls and left the travelling support fuming. Drewett is not one to shout from the ...
Albion unable to capitalise
Oct 02, 2006; ... Graham Dawe's table-topping Plymouth Albion team ensured theirbest-ever start to a National One season by seeing off visitingCoventry at the Brickfields. A superb first half display saw Dawe's side seemingly cruisingalong at 27-6 up, but instead of kicking into overdrive in the ...
Chef inspired by a sight of the ocean
Oct 02, 2006 ... The Bay Bar, in Newquay, has just been relaunched with a dramaticmakeover. It is part of the larger Bay Hotel overlooking SouthFistral beach and has a clear objective to provide good-quality localproduce. As a result, the management team hired executive chef Brian Moore,who took ...
Bright vision for the future has dimmed
Oct 02, 2006 ... In 2003, china clay firm Imerys produced a "Vision for the Future:Blueprint for Cornwall" which was so upbeat that it seemed to heralda brave new dawn for the Restormel economy. It chose the RoyalCornwall Show to announce an pounds80 million investment over thenext three years and to ...
It's right to care about house prices
Oct 02, 2006 ... So feeling concerned and angry at excessively high house prices inthe Westcountry is "negative emotion" and "wasted energy" as well as"embracing today's victim culture", is it, Mrs Sandy? I spent myworking life as a nurse before having my children, and it was timespent being concerned ...
Was image more important than victims?
Oct 02, 2006; ... Autopsies on victims of Britain's worst water poisoning were a "worthwhile public relations exercise" only if they proved people hadnot suffered long-term effects, documents released to the WMN show. A Government-appointed group of experts reached the decision sevenmonths after 20 ...
China brews up to tea from west
Oct 02, 2006 ... The world loves a good "selling coals to Newcastle" story. Notlong ago, the WMN reported on a Westcountry firm that was sellinghandmade paper to Japan, which is the home of artisan-made papers -now another company from the region has announced that it has pulledoff what is perhaps the ...
Long may tin mine thrive
Oct 02, 2006 ... At last there is something for the long-suffering people ofCamborne/Pool/Redruth to smile about. Reopening South Crofty, with its promise of hundreds of jobs, willgive a much-needed boost to an area sadly reminiscent of Beirut orBaghdad, and if Baseresult keeps its promises then ...
Moves to heal clay
Oct 02, 2006; ... More than half the redundancies proposed by china clay giantImerys will be met voluntarily, company bosses say. Their plan to cut more than 600 staff from their Westcountryoperations has caused serious concern for the future of the region'seconomy, but they now say the blow will be ...
Six Devon schools bid to switch to trust status
Oct 02, 2006; ... Trust schools are hot on the agenda for the Government and makingswift progress through Parliament. But what are they and how willthey affect pupils in the region? The Government's aim is to use the experience, energy andexpertise from other schools and professions, including ...
Students welcome agricultural course with team-building day
Oct 02, 2006 ... Agricultural students in the Westcountry have begun a new highereducation course with a special team-building day at a beach. Duchy College, part of Cornwall College and approved by PlymouthUniversity, launched the new foundation degree in agriculture lastweek. Staff say the ...
Fury at camelford papers
Oct 02, 2006 ... When the Government announced that a committee of experts wouldinvestigate whether the Lowermoor water poisoning inflicted long-term health damage, there was measurable relief in the localcommunity. But by the time the Lowermoor Incident Health AdvisoryGroup (LIHAG) - chaired by ...
Rear gunner awarded distinguished flying cross
Oct 02, 2006 ... Friends and family have paid tribute to a respected and decoratedwar veteran, who has died aged 97. Hughie Clarke, who died last Monday, completed 33 successfulmissions in Lancaster bombers - for which he was awarded theDistinguished Flying Cross. Lancaster bomber rear ...
Kind woman who donated a new lifeboat to RNLI
Oct 02, 2006 ... A woman who presented a Westcountry town with the "magnificentgift" of a lifeboat has died, aged 77. Anne Bache, who donated a vessel to the RNLI crew at Teignmouth,South Devon, died last week after a long fight against cancer. Lifeboat crew members were among those at the ...
Health benefits of cider vinegar
Oct 02, 2006 ... October. A wonderful month! Will we have the 21 fine daysOctober is meant to always have? The third and fourth aresignificant days in the nature calendar for 'tis said one shouldgather apples on the third to sweat for cider making. On fourth, StFrancis's Day, swallows prepare to ...
Warning of delay in flu vaccine supplies
Oct 02, 2006 ... Patients have been warned that a shortage of influenza vaccinesthroughout Europe could lead to a delay in supplies arriving in theWestcountry. Deliveries will be phased over three months to try to combat theshortfall, with those people most at risk receiving the jabs ...
Glovers' fluid formation is perfect solution for players Yeovil Viewpoint with Stuart James
Oct 02, 2006 ... Yeovil Viewpoint with Stuart James Remember the days of Sir Alf Ramsey's Wingless Wonders who wonEngland the World Cup in 1966? Or the Terry Venables Christmas Treethat was tried during his time as national coach? What about GlennHoddle's diamond formation or the mind-boggling ...
Jeering fans are no help to Exeter Exeter Viewpoint with Stuart James
Oct 02, 2006 ... Exeter Viewpoint with Stuart James Following the draw with Stevenage Borough last Saturday, I left StJames' Park feeling pretty angry, disappointed and to a degreeashamed. The performance from the players was OK, but the showing fromcertain sections of the fans - and during ...
Gift plan can reduce inheritance tax liability
Oct 02, 2006 ... Inheritance tax is an increasing problem for many people, andthere is so much in the press about this death trap. Rob Ellis, oneof our new advisers specialising in this area, highlighted that theaverage cost of a detached house in Devon now costs more than thelevel at which inheritance ...
Businessman saves market from closure
Oct 02, 2006; ... It looked as though after half a century of selling home-cookeddelights, a Cornish market was to get the chop. Last week, traders at Truro Country Market on Lemon Quay were toldthat the last day of trading would be tomorrow, as it was no longerfinancially viable. But just as ...
Shooters loading up to fight new battle
Oct 02, 2006 ... Ith the pheasant shooting season starting officially today(Sundays are non-shooting days in England and Wales), keen shotsacross the Westcountry will be looking forward to their first day inthe field since the end of January and will be relishing the chanceto enjoy good company and good ...
Welcome, but with caution
Oct 02, 2006 ... T's an historic day for Romania," cried its overwrought foreignminister Miahai Razvan Ungureanu, "we will open many bottles ofchampagne." He had just heard that Romania and its fellow Black Seastate Bulgaria had been cleared to join the European Union inJanuary. Excitement ...
Lost without my Land Rover
Oct 02, 2006 ... Hen you marry, you have to learn to compromise. My husband is verygood at it; I, unfortunately, am not. Now that there are three of us, long journeys are complicated. Itried to argue that a baby seat could fit on the passenger seat of myLand Rover, but my husband put his foot down ...
Decision expected soon on Iraq 'beatings' video
Oct 02, 2006 ... A decision on whether to prosecute British soldiers shown beatingIraqi civilians in disturbing video footage is expected soon. Corporal Martin Webster, from Falmouth, Cornwall, was one of threesoldiers arrested in connection with the film, which recorded troopsattacking unarmed ...
Decision due on fitness centre
Oct 02, 2006 ... Plans to build a state-of-the-art health and fitness centre on theedge of Exeter are expected to be given the go-ahead tonight. One of the biggest names in fitness clubs in the country, DavidLloyd Leisure, is planning to build the complex next to the recentlyopened ...
Poisoned water scandal goes on
Oct 02, 2006 ... Ever since 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate was dumped into thewrong tank at the Lowermoor water treatment works, near Camelford,the suspicion that people were being denied access to the whole truthon this issue has persisted. Evidence today, uncovered by the Western Morning News, ...
New housing scheme praised
Oct 02, 2006 ... An affordable homes development in Cornwall dubbed a ghetto of thefuture is being hailed as an example of building excellence. Vyvyan's Court, in Camborne, has been named a model of bestpractice in affordable housing by a website. Creating:excellence said: "The scheme has ...
Union call to widen clampdown on gangmasters
Oct 02, 2006 ... A clampdown on gangmasters designed to protect vulnerable casuallabour does not go far enough, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in theSouth West has claimed. Fourteen businesses in Devon and Cornwall have registered with thenew Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) ahead of ...
Buyer snaps up 42 tonnes of cuttlefish at market
Oct 02, 2006 ... Forty-two tonnes of cuttlefish were purchased from Brixham fishmarket by a single fish merchant company on Friday last week. At the height of the cuttlefish season, almost all will beexported to countries like Italy, Spain and even Japan. However, ex-beam trawler skipper Rick ...
Website offers weather charts for fishermen
Oct 02, 2006 ... A detailed weather section on the website of Fishing News, thetrade paper for commercial fishing, offers fishermen the chance tostudy charts and forecasts at the click of a mouse. From the inshore forecast to wind prediction, graphical tideinformation and even a five-day animated ...
Book's lobster claim set to boil up a storm
Oct 02, 2006; ... European regulation to ensure the humane slaughter of allshellfish is expected within a few years. A considerable investment in high-tech machinery to ensure thehumane slaughter of crab by electric stunning before boiling isalready in place at South Devon shellfish processing ...
Mast group seizes on clash of rivals
Oct 02, 2006; ... Campaigners who are fighting a Devon phone mast application haveclaimed that a rival phone company has added fuel to theirobjections. Residents were up in arms when phone company Three submitted aplanning application for a mast at the Kingsbridge BT telephoneexchange, within 100 ...
New plea by police after cyclist hurt in A38 crash
Oct 02, 2006 ... A cyclist remains in a serious condition in hospital after acrash involving a lorry. Police in Plymouth are renewing their appeal for information afterthe accident on the A38 Parkway, westbound between the Forder Valleyand Manadon junctions. The accident happened last ...
Police search for driver seen near fatal accident
Oct 02, 2006 ... Police are trying to track down the driver of car who could holdvital clues to the road death of a teenage girl in Devon. Officers believe the driver of the car could come from Cornwall. Megan Humphrey, 17, from Plymouth, died after the car she wastravelling in hit a ...
Man with knife robs leisure centre late at night
Oct 02, 2006 ... A knife-wielding hooded robber threatened a worker at a leisurecentre in Devon. The male member of staff was just about to lock up for the nightwhen the attacker struck. The robber targeted the Mayflower Leisure Centre Park Plymouth onFriday night at about 10pm. The ...
Man injured in 2am street attack
Oct 02, 2006 ... A man was taken to hospital after an unprovoked attack in thestreet. He was assaulted in the early hours of Friday in Plymouth. The victim was walking along Royal Parade about 2am when anotherman approached him and threw a number of punches, cutting his eye. Police ...
Wedding day road-rage lands groom in court
Oct 02, 2006 ... Police had to deprive a bride of a wedding night with her newhusband after he went berserk in a road-rage row as the newly-wedstravelled home from the ceremony, last November. They arrested Paul Smout, 31, of Mildmay Close, Exwick - leavingthe bride on her own. Now ...
Lovelorn poet given chance after stalking campaign
Oct 02, 2006 ... Lovelorn stalker Craig Wilson has walked free from court afterfinally ending his campaign of harassment against an Exeter woman forwhom he had developed an unrequited passion. Judge Jeremy Griggs, at Exeter Crown Court, told the 28-year-oldamateur poet that he was giving him a ...
Best-selling book provides inspiration to dads
Oct 02, 2006 ... A book written by a Devon father showing how you can turnhousehold items into exciting activities for children has soldthousands of copies in just one week. Father-of-four Chris Wakefield hopes the book will encourage moreparents to play with their children instead of letting them ...
MP calls for 'period of stability' at City's hospital
Oct 02, 2006 ... Mp Alison Seabeck has called for "a period of stability" atDerriford Hospital and has personally asked Health Secretary PatriciaHewitt not to order further changes in the NHS. Ms Seabeck, MP for Devonport, said this was already going to be adifficult year for the hospital, with job ...
Farmer fined pounds1,200 after slurry spillage kills 50 fish
Oct 02, 2006 ... A devon farmer has been ordered to pay fines and costs totallingpounds1,450 after he allowed slurry to escape into a stream, whichresulted in the death of more than 50 fish. The Environment Agency was alerted by a member of the public thatabout two miles of the Welcombe Stream near ...
College building will cost pounds2.8m
Oct 02, 2006 ... Staff and students at Kingsbridge Community College, South Devon,will be getting a pounds2.8 million new building for 2007. Thedevelopment has been designed to cater for the rapidly-expandingsixth form of more than 300 students. It will house a common room,cafe, study space, teaching ...
Hambly makes no excuses as young Redruth are outclassed
Oct 02, 2006; ... Redruth head coach Nigel Hambly pulled no punches after his side'seight tries to one thrashing in South east London "We were hammered,I'm not going to try and dress it up as anything else," he said. "Isaid to the guys after the match "We've got to take our medicine, wewere thumped ...
Dogged Yeovil join promotion chase Brentford 1 Yeovil Town 2
Oct 02, 2006 ... Brentford 1 Yeovil Town 2 Whisper it quietly, but Yeovil Town are starting to mount apromotion push at the top of Coca-Cola League One. Among the favourites for relegation back in August, RussellSlade's men proudly sit in second place in the table after 12 games. That's ...
'There are always things to work on' Match Reactionw ith Russell Slade
Oct 02, 2006 ... Match Reactionw ith Russell Slade Yeovil Town boss Russell Slade has warned his players not to getcarried away after victory at Brentford took them up to the dizzyheights of second place in Coca-Cola League One. The Glovers have now won four successive League games for ...
Police appeal for A38 witnesses
Oct 02, 2006 ... Police have renewed an appeal for witnesses to an accident whichleft a cyclist in hospital with serious injuries. A tipper lorry wasinvolved in the collision on the A38 Parkway, at Plymouth,westbound between the Forder Valley and Manadon junctions, at6.40am last Tuesday. A ...
Firm'S Tv Alcopop Ads Banned
Oct 02, 2006 ... Two TV commercials promoting alcopop drinks made by a Westcountryfirm have been banned under new laws. Torquay-based Beverage Brands' adverts were judged inappropriateby the Advertising Standards Authority. They are the first TV commercials to be banned as a result ...
Couple who helped boy bitten by dog are traced
Oct 02, 2006 ... A couple who cared for an eight-year-old boy after he was bittenin the face by a dog, said the youngster "thought he was going todie". The mother of the injured boy issued an appeal to trace the GoodSamaritan who comforted her child moments after he sufferedhorrendous facial ...
Nothing like a goal to win over the fans Match Reaction with Paul Buckle
Oct 02, 2006 ... Match Reaction with Paul Buckle Paul Buckle silenced his critics in the best possible way byscoring the only goal and turning in a man of the match display inExeter City's 1-0 win at Southport. The Grecians' assistant manager was forced to come on after only33 minutes of ...
Older cracker has lost his crispness
Oct 02, 2006 ... Robbie Coltrane returned to the role of criminal psychologistEdward Fitz Fitzgerald in Cracker, Jimmy McGovern's hard-hittingdrama, after an absence of eight years. In the 1990s, the series managed the twin achievements ofpopularity with the audience and critical acclaim, winning ...
Post office takes as much as it hands out
Oct 02, 2006 ... The Post Office has relaunched its credit card with a longer zeroper cent balance transfer offer and no commission when the card isused overseas. The card offers eight months free interest on balancetransfers and three for purchases, and has a standard APR of 14.9 percent. It has a ...
Firms gear up for ageism shake-up
Oct 02, 2006; ... The uk workplace is set for the greatest shake-up ofdiscrimination laws for 25 years after new anti-ageism rules cameinto force yesterday. The change is designed to eradicate discrimination in theworkplace on the basis of age, and it is hoped it will have the sameimpact as race ...
Champagne flows as hotels scoop 'Oscars'
Oct 02, 2006; ... The character and quality of two Westcountry hotels has helpedthem to carry off the "Oscars" of the accommodation industry. Combe House, a stunning Elizabethan manor in the pretty EastDevon village of Gittisham, has been named Country Hotel of the Yearin the Good Hotel ...
Ivybridge suffer rare home loss
Oct 02, 2006 ... Two goals from Miles Pegley not only gave Ottery St Mary a 2-0victory at Ivybridge Town but also ended two long-standing records aswell as knocking the reigning champions off the top of the Axworthys'Devon League table. Saturday's defeat was Town's first at Erme Valley in 21 ...
Champions power to table top
Oct 02, 2006 ... Reigning Carlsberg South Western League champions Bodmin Townappeared to make light of playing two hard games in three days asthey won 5-1 at Plymouth Parkway at the start of the weekend toreturn to the top of the table. A hard game at Saltash United on Wednesday meant that ...
Barnstaple maintain pressure on leaders
Oct 02, 2006; ... Barnstaple Town made it four wins from four under caretakermanager Peter Buckingham with a 3-1 Toolstation Western Leaguevictory at Calne Town, who were one up after two minutes on Saturday. Barnstaple hit back from the shock of Jake Jefferies' goal toprevail through second-half ...
Television fame for pony rescue centre
Oct 02, 2006 ... The work of a group dedicated to the welfare of Dartmoor ponies isto be shown this month on ITV's This Morning programme in a look atthe work of animal sanctuaries. Dartmoor Pony Rescue Centre (DPRC) will be featured alongsidesanctuaries that work with more exotic animals, ...
Toothy challenge may tell our ancestor's age
Oct 02, 2006; ... Scientists are attempting to extract DNA for the first time fromthe fossilised bones thought to be of a Neanderthal man who roamedthe Westcountry 35,000 years ago. Experts plan to use a tooth from an upper jaw to establish whetherthe closest relative of modern humans lived on the ...