Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) back issues from January 2007:
Cowley double helps pirates to finish on a high
Jan 01, 2007 ... Delighted Cornish Pirates coach Jim McKay was full of praise forhis side as they brought the curtain down on 2006 with a hard-fought17-8 victory over the Pertemps Bees. In atrocious conditions at Sharmans Cross Road, the Piratesquickly banished the disappointment of their ...
Kelly takes advantage of debut to make impression for Chiefs
Jan 01, 2007 ... Exeter Chiefs Director of Rugby Pete Drewett is looking ahead to amuch better 2007 after ending 2006 on a high after a third win in arow. The bonus point win at Otley saw the Chiefs climb a place in thetable to seventh and sees them on their best run of the season. The Sandy ...
Dawe's delight at victory
Jan 01, 2007 ... Plymouth Albion ensured a happy New Year at the Brickfields asthey moved up to second in the National League One table after a four-try 22-8 victory over the Bedford Blues. Two Martin Rice tries and one apiece from Tom Arscott and NicSestaret were enough to see Graham Dawe's men ...
Impressive biscovey overwhelm morwenstow
Jan 01, 2007 ... Foul weather with driving winds and horizontal rain reducedSaturday's East Cornwall Premier League programme to just fivematches - all of which were contested in the Rowett Insurance LeagueCup. Shock of the day was Biscovey's 7-1 Group C victory over visitingMorwenstow. The ...
Rain may spoil day at Exeter
Jan 01, 2007 ... Exeter Racecourse holds its traditional New Year's Day meeting dayand with a really competitive card there are plenty of runners to getstuck into. However, heavy rain means there's a precautionary courseinspection at 7.30am. Clerk of the course Barry Johnson said yesterday: ...
Laloata heading for the bay
Jan 01, 2007 ... Samoan code swapper Shane Laloata is on his way to Mounts Bay forthe second half of the league season and could play in Saturday'sSouth West One derby clash with St Ives. Laloata, who is 28, played in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup forSamoa as a goal-kicking centre. The New ...
South molton pull off cup shock
Jan 01, 2007 ... South Molton sprung a shock in the Rhino Devon Senior Cup whenthey overturned Sidmouth 17-6 in a Unicorn Park mudbath. Sidmouth, handily placed in the top half of the Western Countiesdivision, might have expected to beat a South Molton side at thewrong end of the next division ...
Weary Pilgrims unable
Jan 01, 2007 ... Plymouth Argyle ran out of steam on Saturday, when their depletedteam could not quite summon up the strength to subdue promotion-chasing Derby County at Pride Park. The demanding holiday fixture schedule evidently took its toll onboth the Pilgrims and the Rams, neither of whom were ...
Finding value for money may be problematic for Argyle
Jan 01, 2007 ... Plymouth Argyle, along with just about every other club in theCoca- Cola Championship, will welcome today's reopening of thetransfer market. It will give them a chance to make some much-neededadditions to their playing resources this month. It remains to be seen how much joy Argyle ...
Mccue has final word for battling oak villa
Jan 01, 2007 ... The bad weather claimed all bar three fixtures in the Axworthys'Devon League - with the games played having a bearing on affairs atthe bottom of the table. While Witheridge and Vospers Oak Villa eased their worries withvictories, defeats for Alphington, Crediton and Stoke Gabriel ...
Best lives up to name
Jan 01, 2007 ... The scouts flocked to Gresty Road to run the rule over Crewe'slatest whiz-kids - and left raving about Yeovil's on-loan strikerLeon Best. The newspaper gossip columns have repeatedly linked Crewe's frontmen Luke Varney and Nicky Maynard with moves to Premiership andChampionship ...
Holloway has stern warning for Capaldi
Jan 01, 2007 ... Plymouth Argyle's Tony Capaldi has been given a further warning byhis boss Ian Holloway about the perils of letting his contract rundown, writes Rupert Metcalf. The Pilgrims' manager wants the Northern Ireland international,whose current deal expires this summer, to extend his stay ...
Battling on
Jan 01, 2007 ... Plymouth Argyle defender Marcel Seip is adamant that the Pilgrimsare still pursuing a place in the Coca- Cola Championship promotionplay-offs - and that they are desperate to start the new year instyle with victory over Southampton at Home Park today. The Devon men spent a while in ...
Glovers need to keep that momentum going
Jan 01, 2007 ... So Yeovil Town start the New Year in the top six in League One,occupying one of the all-important play-off places. Now they have tostay there. The Glovers are one of the sides the pundits have been waiting toblow up, along with Scunthorpe, who now top the table. The ...
'We must all pull together'
Jan 01, 2007 ... Torquay United manager Lubos Kubik is on the look-out forexperienced English players to bolster his basement side followingSaturday's 1-0 defeat at home to Macclesfield Town. The defeat casts United three points adrift at the foot of Coca-Cola League Two, behind a Macclesfield side ...
Unsure gulls show lack of shooting confidence
Jan 01, 2007 ... Poor Martin Horsell. If anyone did not deserve to be on a losingside on Saturday, it was Torquay United's 20-year-old rookiegoalkeeper. Local youngster Horsell was making his full Football League debutfor the Gulls in place of the departed Nathan Abbey, who leftPlainmoor last ...
Tiverton targeting promotion
Jan 01, 2007 ... Tiverton Town manager Martyn Rogers is setting his sights on apromotion-winning season as the New Year arrives. Tiverton ended last year on a winning run that has put them rightamong the British Gas Business Southern League Premier Division titlecandidates. Four successive ...
Kubik knows he needs to think big to survive
Jan 01, 2007 ... Lubos Kubik has identified that he will need domestic players toget United off the Football League basement. Assisted by coach Richard Hancox, Kubik spent yesterday busilybidding to add to his availability-hit squad in preparation fortoday's Westcountry derby at Bristol ...
Moxey gives Exeter
Jan 01, 2007 ... It was fitting that, on a day when the Clarence Park pitch attimes resembled a boating lake, Exeter City snatched a crucial last-gasp victory with a goal from a sub. Dean Moxey popped up in the 88th minute with a strike to securethe three points that were vitally important to the ...
Miller's form is the key to Penryn's assault on challenge cup
Jan 01, 2007 ... Penryn will be aiming to to go all the way in the Carlsberg SouthWestern League Challenge Cup, after unluckily losing out in lastseason's final, when they travel to Wadebridge in today's quarter-final at Bodieve Park (2pm). Penryn have managed to score in every game they have ...
Isbell quells Falmouth's hopes of a comeback
Jan 01, 2007 ... The weekend weather played havoc with the Carlsberg South WesternLeague fixtures, but the top two still managed to play their games. Matches involving leading sides Liskeard Athletic and PlymouthParkway were postponed, but the remaining games still had animportant bearing on the ...
Tisdale delighted with battling win
Jan 01, 2007 ... Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale was full of praise forsubstitutes Dean Moxey and Jon Richardson as they combined for theGrecians' late winner in the 2-1 victory at St Albans City. Richardson's flick-on from Wayne Carlisle's right-wing cross inthe 88th minute provided the chance ...
This game should not have been kept afloat
Jan 01, 2007 ... Even 48 hours after Saturday's match between St Albans City andExeter City, I am still struggling to believe the game reached aconclusion. Early in the second half, Clarence Park was hit by some of theworst conditions I have ever witnessed at a football match. A monsoon ...
Making the most of cold nights
Jan 01, 2007 ... The cold nights have no pity on an old badger watcher like me.'Tis raw, the big silver moon beautiful but it ain't warm. My breathhangs cold and frozen, proof I'm alive, but my, 'tis cold. The riveris a silver ribbon down in the valley and I should be home but forsome reason, maybe no ...
Database 'has DNA of many innocent people'
Jan 01, 2007; ... There could be more than 26,000 innocent people on the DNAdatabase in the Westcountry, it has emerged. According to figures released by the Home Office, one in threepeople on the national DNA database do not have a criminal record oreven a caution by police. This means that ...
A little hope for the children of conflict
Jan 01, 2007 ... He end of one year and the beginning of the next offers us a timeboth for reflection and anticipation. We are looking forwards, someof us with expectation and excitement and some of us with fear andapprehension. We are also looking backwards. Again, for some thisbrings feelings of ...
A glimpse of the year ahead for personal finances
Jan 01, 2007 ... Happy New Year! In case you are nursing the effects of a goodwelcome to 2007 I will keep this as light as possible. I thought Iwould gaze into the New Year crystal ball. A relatively safe prediction is that Gordon Brown will becomeleader of the Labour Party before the summer. Tony ...
Pit your wits against the year that was
Jan 01, 2007 ... 1On a sunny afternoon in September, Tony Blair emerged fromQuintin Kynaston Technology College and reluctantly set a deadlinefor his resignation. His hand had been forced by the resignations ofa clutch of parliamentary private secretaries and which juniorminister? a) Hazel Blears ...
Worry of spineless people in control
Jan 01, 2007 ... At the now-ended public inquiry into the proposed windfarm atFullabrook Down above Braunton, it was said the Environment Agencyapproved the scheme as regards water courses, drainage and floodrisk. I find this very surprising. The windfarm proposals add up to some 50,000 tonnes of ...
Won over by myrtle's magic
Jan 01, 2007 ... T last I had my first proper training session with the flatcoatedretriever in the form of a lesson from a pro. As usual, I was runninglate, so we both arrived shaking: Myrtle from nausea (she hates thecar) and me from nerves. I don't know why I get nervous about thatsort of thing: ...
Confusion over charlock
Jan 01, 2007 ... The Somerset charlock (WMN, December 21) may have flowered early -but a hybrid of oilseed rape it is not. Charlock or wild mustard(Sinapis arvensius) occurs as an abundant annual arable weed. Rape (Brassica napas) is now common as an escape from cultivationwhich probably arose as ...
'Stop talking hot air - just reduce it'
Jan 01, 2007; ... Environment Secretary David Miliband has blasted his politicalrivals as he tries to reclaim the green agenda. He said last night that politicians should stop "wagging theirfingers" at voters and instead back up "hot air" with action. And in a plea to the Westcountry, he called ...
pounds400,000 skate plaza plan for city
Jan 01, 2007; ... A revolutionary "skate city" could be built in Truro if plans andfunding are approved. The pounds400,000 skate plaza proposed for the city would be theonly one of its kind in the South West. The design of the skate plaza mimics urban obstacles such asbollards, ramps, rails ...
We've got no time to waste
Jan 01, 2007 ... Ncineration plants are not everyone's favourite choice ofneighbour. But if the UK is to avoid ending up facing EU fines, andmore pertinently, succeed in halting the environmental damage dailybeing done by our landfill sites, the plants are an option that mustbe treated seriously. Because ...
New rules for the energy switchers
Jan 01, 2007 ... Consumers can be more confident of finding the best gas andelectricity deals as a result of pressure on energy switchingcompanies to change the way they operate. Energywatch, the watchdog arm of energy regulator Ofgem, insistedon changes being made to the websites of leading ...
MP wants meeting to discuss future of art college
Jan 01, 2007 ... A public meeting will take place this month to try to save anhistoric arts college and highlight ways of raising the pounds20million needed for it to stay at its present home. Dartington College of Arts is being considered for relocation fromits site near Totnes, South Devon, to ...
Market town devastated by firm's closure
Jan 01, 2007; ... A north Devon market town has been "devastated" by the loss of thelast remnants of its traditional glove-making industry. Although Torrington has been hit hard by the liquidation of glovemaker Sudburys, the proud spirit which has seen the town throughtough times is being called ...
Welcome for increase in legal age to buy cigarettes
Jan 01, 2007 ... Public health professionals in the Westcountry have welcomed theGovernment's decision to raise the minimum age to buy cigarettes from16 to 18. Raising the age of buying tobacco, which will come into effectfrom October 1, follows the introduction of smoke-free public placesand ...
It's time to put the family first
Jan 01, 2007 ... The report from former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith oncompelling evidence of a link between family breakdown and problemsin society looks set to bring forth a Tory policy initiative alreadyjokingly dubbed "Back-to-Basics Mark II". And after John Major's ill-fated ...
Magistrate caught with penknife by security
Jan 01, 2007 ... Security staff manning metal detectors at the entrance to aWestcountry court have caught a magistrate with penknife. The walk-through detectors at Plymouth Magistrates' Court wereinstalled two years ago and let off a loud "bleep" if anyone iscarrying something made of ...
Still worth a laugh - but for how long?
Jan 01, 2007 ... The first thing to marvel at with Little Britain Abroad, is whenon earth did its two stars, David Walliams and Matt Lucas, find thetime to do it? From the winter of 2005 until the end of May 2006 they went ontour around the country with their live Little Britain show, duringwhich ...
Answers to our Christmas quiz
Jan 01, 2007 ... On December 23, we asked readers 25 questions about Christmas. Below are the answers. The winner, who will be sent a bottle ofchampagne and a box of chocolates, will be notified soon. 1. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's central bird in a ten-bird roastis a woodcock. 2. In the ...
Speeding led to downfall of 'essential'drugs courier
Jan 01, 2007 ... Clocking more than 100mph on the M5 motorway led to the downfallof a drugs courier on a mission to deliver heroin to Torbay. Ugandan university student Julian Ateng, 24, was stopped by policefor driving at high speed on the motorway at Cullompton. When theysearched his hire car ...
Fishermen urged to join crab stocks talks
Jan 01, 2007 ... The future of the Westcountry's stocks of brown crab is underdebate. Potting for edible crab is the most passive type of fishing,according to shellfishermen's leaders. One leader has said: "Everyundersized, damaged, or berried (egg-carrying) crab can be returnedalive and live to ...
Newsletter's focus is protecting industry
Jan 01, 2007 ... A joint newsletter from the Department for Environment, Food andRural Affairs (Defra) and the Marine Fisheries Agency (MFA) tells howthe Government and stakeholders within the UK fishing industry playan important role in developing sustainable fisheries management. Called Fishing ...
Ten extra steam train trips to run
Jan 01, 2007 ... Visitors will be able to enjoy more trips on steam trains in SouthDevon next year. The summer Torbay Express specials, which run between Bristol andKingswear, near Dartmouth, have been lined up for ten Sundays in2007. The trains are pulled by former Great Western locomotives ...
Farm shop at historic house
Jan 01, 2007 ... One of Cornwall's most beautiful and historic locations is aboutto open up a farm shop. The new shop at Godolphin House, near Helston, will sell locally-sourced and organic produce and hopes to replace the village shopwhich closed recently. People will have the chance to try ...
Yachting buffs collect awards
Jan 01, 2007 ... Two yachting enthusiasts from Falmouth have been in London toreceive awards from the Royal Yachting Association (RYA). The chairman of the Port of Falmouth Sailing Association, RogerHollingsworth, said it was a tremendous boost to get the OutstandingContribution Community Award for ...
Ex-serviceman prepares for transatlantic rowing attempt
Jan 01, 2007 ... A former Royal Marine is looking forward to leading a gruellingtransatlantic rowing record bid - for some peace of mind. Dom Mee, 35, has spent months organising the attempt on thefastest row from the Canary Islands to Barbados. The adventurer cannot wait for the start on ...
Marine cheats death twice in three days
Jan 01, 2007; ... A westcountry Marine has told how he came within millimetres ofbeing shot twice by the Taliban within three days. Marine Eddie Cain, who serves with the Plymouth-based CommandSupport Group, was in the centre of the Afghan village of Garmsirwhen insurgents launched the surprise ...
Man charged with murder attempt
Jan 01, 2007 ... A 17-year-old has been charged with attempted after a teenage boywas stabbed near Plymouth city centre. The 15-year-old was last nightrecovering in hospital after he was found on a walkway. Police werecalled to the area at about 3.30pm on Saturday. He had sustained stabwounds to his ...
Royal Navy braced for 'savage' cut in funding
Jan 01, 2007; ... A westcountry military expert is predicting more savage cuts tothe Royal Navy, despite the service struggling to cope with itsslimmed-down fleet. Plymouth-based Steve Bush, editor of Warship World magazine,claimed Britain's maritime security is in a "parlous state". He fears ...
Tsunami mother finds peace amid her heartache
Jan 01, 2007; ... A grieving Westcountry mother whose family perished in the tsunamitragedy has made an agonising pilgrimage to the place they died. Sharon Howard, 38, lost her sons Mason, eight, and Taylor, six,when the giant waves brought terror and devastation to southern Asiaon Boxing Day two ...
January 1 - and it's already spring
Jan 01, 2007 ... The topsy-turvy nature of the weather has been demonstrated alltoo clearly by flowers blooming out of season. Since we published details of flowers putting on a show even as wehead in to the depths of winter, WMN readers have sent in numerousexamples of blooms of what is normally ...
Fisherman stable after accident
Jan 01, 2007 ... A fisherman was rushed to a Cornish hospital by helicopter afteralmost severing his arm in two places. The 37-year-old was part ofthe crew of a Spanish fishing vessel when the accident happened 150miles off the Westcountry coast. Emergency calls were made shortlyafter the accident at ...
Gales and torrential rain lash Westcountry
Jan 01, 2007; ... A man who fell down a 30ft cliff into stormy seas off the Cornishcoast was missing feared dead last night. The incident happened as bad weather lashed the Westcountry on thefinal day of 2006. Rescue efforts to find the missing man, in his twenties, werehampered by darkness as ...
Defra's pledge to rural voters
Jan 01, 2007; ... Environment Secretary David Miliband has vowed to turn around thereputation of his department in rural communities. In his first full interview with the Western Morning News sincetaking up the post in May last year, Mr Miliband said his mission wasto make the Department for ...
Revellers get dressed up to ring in 2007 in style
Jan 01, 2007; ... Revellers seeing in the New Year last night wrapped up 2006 inlavish style with glitzy celebrations up and down the Westcountry. As party-goers faced blustery conditions in the run-up tomidnight, it was not miserable enough to erase their beaming smiles. From villages to market ...
Christmas calls for a doctor go unanswered
Jan 01, 2007; ... Patients across Cornwall were left high and dry over Christmasafter calls to the out-of-hours doctor service went unanswered,according to an MP. Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives, said he hadreceived complaints from constituents claiming staff at Kernow UrgentCare ...
Warmest December since 1988
Jan 01, 2007 ... An annual weather review revealed December 2006 was the warmestsince 1988. The review showed the highest temperature of 15C was recorded atTeignmouth and Torquay, in South Devon, on Monday, December 4. The month's lowest reading was minus 9.4C at Aboyne(Aberdeenshire), on the ...
Swashbuckling new year
Jan 01, 2007 ... Three Musketeers - Larisa Conman, Louisa Mills and Cheryl Andrews -joined the party in Looe last night as thousands of revellers acrossthe ...
Miliband: I will raise defra's game
Jan 01, 2007; ... Environment Secretary David Miliband has vowed to turn around thereputation of his department in rural communities. In his first full interview with the Western Morning News sincetaking up the post in May last year, Mr Miliband said his mission wasto make the Department for ...
Two killed in weekend crashes on A30 and A38
Jan 01, 2007 ... Two Westcountry men were killed in separate road accidents at theweekend. A Plymouth motorist died when his car was in collision with alorry on the A38 between Bodmin and Liskeard. And in North Cornwall, a man was killed when he lost control ofhis motorcycle. Sam ...
Community centre plan for doomed post offices
Jan 01, 2007 ... Councillors in North Devon are to demand that the Government setsup a special fund to help rural communities transform their postoffices into centres for local organisations. The idea is just one of several recommendations that North Devoncouncillors have come up in a review of the ...
The liberation of butchery
Jan 02, 2007 ... George w Bush's "noble mission" in Iraq, as he calls it, wassuccessful in toppling the so-called butcher of Baghdad, SaddamHussein. But in doing so it has liberated butchery on a scale appalling toall except those who advocate it. Osama bin Laden talked of Zionist aggression ...