Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) back issues from September 2007:
Postcards created through the ages
Sep 01, 2007 ... Tom browne was a very famous artist of comic postcards in theearly 20th century, many of which depicted the social history of theperiod. He selected all subjects for his studies, and many were publishedby Davidson Bros in sets, from his original artwork, like the "UnclePodger" ...
Successful Devon artist has an ongoing love affair with Italy
Sep 01, 2007 ... Devon's own Lionel Aggett is holding a major exhibition and booklaunch at the W H Patterson Gallery, Albemarle Street, London W1. On Wednesday, "Lionel Aggett's Italy" will be opened by MrGiancarlo Brauzzi from the Italian Embassy, featuring some 50 or sopastels of this ...
Auctioneer's interesting career
Sep 01, 2007 ... It is 40 years to the month I first started as an auctioneerwrites, Eric Distin. In the halcyon days of the Sixties one of the options to qualifywas to take articles and to do exams by correspondence course. In myfirst week the variety of the work in a rural practice ...
Focusing on the Newlyn school
Sep 01, 2007 ... The Lander Gallery, Truro, currently focuses on the Newlyn Schooland turns to Lamorna on September 15, and three striking paintings inthe present show are illustrated here. Stanhope Forbes is essential to any collection of Newlyn work andthe gallery is offering for sale a vigorous ...
Press is ideal for making your own cider
Sep 01, 2007 ... There were over 300 varieties of apples in the 19th century, whichbecame natural targets for any curious Victorian keen on cultivatingthe land. This orchard stock grew to immense proportions during theold queen's reign, and although much was attempted and tested, at theend of the day ...
In-situ sale at the old rectory
Sep 01, 2007 ... Freelance auctioneer, Richard Hamm (late of Lambrays, Wadebridge),is welcomed back today at the in-situ sale in The Old Rectory at StMawgan, overlooking the Vale of Lanherne near Newquay. He has decidedto conduct an in -situ sale at the charming old parsonage, ratherthan removing the ...
Lots range from match striker to diver's helmet
Sep 01, 2007 ... As the Lifeguard's helmet carries Elizabeth II's crest, it isuncommon to be on sale, so considerable interest is expected at thePlymouth Auction Rooms on Wednesday when this is offered. Perhaps it is its poor state, having suffered some obvious knocks,which has made is superfluous ...
Work celebrates the harbours and coves of Cornwall
Sep 01, 2007 ... One of the most inspirational and busy galleries in the region isthe Great Atlantic Falmouth Gallery, which today starts anotherexhibition of contemporary solo work. Entitled "Casting an Eye" willbe over 40 paintings celebrating the harbours and coves of Cornwallby Jenny Grevatte, a ...
Good example of traditional furniture
Sep 01, 2007 ... A good quality George III mahogany kneehole dressing chestfeatures as the Antique of the Week. The item has a one-piece rectangular top with moulded edge above asingle, full-width oak and pine lined drawer, fitted with a lock andkey. Two false drawers, cockbeaded to the ...
Buying novelty silverware can be infectious
Sep 01, 2007 ... Small, novelty silverware is an infectious area to collect, as itseems the more one delves into them, the more appear. None moreappropriate or worthy than a small bonbon dish in Whitton & Laing's,Exeter sale on Thursday modelled as a wheelbarrow with scroll piercedsides and carrying ...
Many local scenes in art offer
Sep 01, 2007 ... An unusual and rare silver casket presented to Alderman JohnForshaw, Mayor of Preston, is being offered for sale in Kivell's,Bude, on Thursday. In 1907, the man was honoured as a Freeman of theCity because of the enormous benefits he had brought to the town,mainly through his sterling ...
Chance to see the art you own
Sep 01, 2007 ... Most of us will never know the art we own which is held by publicgalleries and institutions, or that only 20 per cent is ever ondisplay. This astonishing revelation is unearthed in The PublicCatalogue Foundation's acclaimed series of county catalogues thatwill include a colour photograph ...
Golden rules of the funniest thing on telly
Sep 01, 2007 ... To paraphrase Bryan Ferry, I'm in with the IT crowd ... one of thefunniest programmes on TV at the moment. Actually, come to think ofit, it is currently the funniest thing on telly. The skill is in thewriting of creator and director Graham Linehan, who also worked onFather Ted and the ...
Put away textbooks and rely on instincts
Sep 01, 2007 ... We're having such strange and unpredictable weather these days, Ithink it's time to put away the old gardening textbooks and make itup as we go along. We've had a mild winter, warm spring, cold wetsummer and who knows, we might be in for a splendid autumn. My adviceis to bend the rules, ...
A wake-up call for healthier life
Sep 01, 2007 ... This year's Soil Association Organic Fortnight theme - Wake up toan organic breakfast! - is a reminder to the public of the benefitsof organic food and a wake-up call to the Government to acknowledgeorganic farming's special role in producing "planet-friendly food". Why breakfast? ...
Bakery shelves just groan with goodness
Sep 01, 2007 ... It is early in the morning and those in the know are beating apath to the Town Mill Bakery for one of the best breakfasts inDorset. Inside the large airy bakery the shelves are groaning underthe weight of a range of fabulous artisan breads. There are mounds ofloaves on one and on another ...
Sourcing top ingredients is a labour of love at b&b
Sep 01, 2007 ... According to Gill Faiers it is the male guests who areparticularly keen on her organic cooked breakfasts. This is notsurprising when you discover the lengths to which she and her husbandNeil go to put this feast on the table each day. It is hard to decide what to choose as the menu ...
A plum job that heralds the end of summer days
Sep 01, 2007 ... Ido not know why but when I spot the first Victoria plums in theshops, I feel that summer is on the wane and autumn is only justaround the corner. I think it must stem from my schooldays, when thelast week or so of the summer holiday was spent helping on the familyallotment which also ...
Flying the flag
Sep 01, 2007 ... Several Westcountry food and drink companies will be flying theflag for the region at the Organic Food Festival in Bristol thisweekend. The Watson family will be out in force representing the fourRiverford organic businesses - the vegetable boxes, dairy and farmshop, while Jane Baxter ...
More to offer than an onion
Sep 01, 2007 ... Ever wondered where our stereotypical image of the beret-wearingFrenchman with a string of onions round his neck comes from? Not amillion miles away. In fact, hop on a ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff in Brittany andyou've found the home of the onion "Johnnies". They even have ...
Minding ps and qs in a foreign tongue
Sep 01, 2007 ... Just back from a French holiday? I am. So timely, I felt, to getin early for next year with a few tips. These are based, as ever, ontotally unscientific research with my close and frankly highlyconvenient French family. I have also endeavoured to break the tipsdown into non-French family ...
Exotic founder of celebrity life
Sep 01, 2007 ... Here's an exotic riddle: what could possibly link a wind-lashedand lonesome Dartmoor graveyard with a sweaty, glitzy nightclubsurrounding a huge swimming pool perched more than 50 floors abovethe streets of Kuala Lumpur, and the miseries of lying in a hospitalbed in Somerset? It ...
Breathing new life into 'lost' genius
Sep 01, 2007 ... He was one of Britain's most important architects, but AugustusPugin's star did not always shine brightly in Devon. At Dartington Hall near Totnes, the genius designer could haveleft an important mark on one of the county's best-known buildings,but its owner, local lord of the ...
Getting a head start
Sep 01, 2007 ... Give your bedroom the lift it deserves with an eye-catchingheadboard, designed with comfort and aesthetic beauty in mind. Whenleft alone, a divan bed can seem cumbersome. Pair with a handsomebedhead and this modern day necessity will be transformed. The upholstered headboard ...
Try fabulous fennel
Sep 01, 2007 ... Fennel has just come into season with its crisp texture andaniseedy taste, making it a perfect accompaniment for pork, says JaneBaxter of the Riverford Field Kitchen, near Buckfastleigh. "If you goto Italy generally they always serve fennel with pork, so this is ourversion of the Italian ...
Gangland
Sep 01, 2007 ... When gangland was a distant world It had no great effect On the sort of life a child might lead Or the life he might expect. Our parents didn't lock the doors Or curb our rambling ways For fear of being victimised By the Richardsons or ...
Guide cites the quirky and quiet
Sep 01, 2007 ... If you want to explore more of the region, or are looking forinteresting places to take friends and family when they visit, thenew edition of The Hidden Places of Devon could be just what you'relooking for. The guide is great for visitors and local people alike. It coversthe ...
Benefactor leaves pounds1m to museum
Sep 01, 2007 ... Trustees of a tiny Westcountry museum were shocked to discoverthat a villager had left more than a million pounds of her fortune tothem when she died. Molly Helena Coombe, of Newton Road, Bishopsteignton in Devon,bequeathed most of her pounds1,572,376 estate to the village ...
Objection to holiday apartments
Sep 01, 2007 ... Fears have been raised over proposals for a development of holidayapartments in the seaside resort of Westward Ho!. The proposals include 30 properties on the site at Roslyn Park onMerley Road. Now. Councillor Roger Tisdale is asking why so many apartments ...
These decisions fly in the face of logic
Sep 01, 2007 ... Are logic and common sense becoming things of the past? Recentsituations suggest they are fast disappearing from decision-making byour lords and masters. Consider just a few: 1.The Iraqi interpreters who are well paid and took on the jobknowing full well the possibility of ...
Hand-held computers in fight against vandalism
Sep 01, 2007 ... Vandalism and criminal damage are to be targeted in South EastCornwall by the use of a new community safety booklet and hand-heldcomputers given to community support workers. The booklet has been distributed to homes in South East Cornwall'smain towns and villages and provides ...
Eviction threat curtails trouble
Sep 01, 2007 ... Anti-social behaviour on an East Cornwall estate has beendramatically reduced after a joint effort involving the police, ahousing association and residents. Neighbours in Pollard Close in Callington, a mixture of private,housing association and rented homes, had reported increased ...
Lucky to have St Mellion
Sep 01, 2007 ... The wind howled and the rain came down in buckets, but the crowdswere there in their hundreds to support the players on the final dayof the English Seniors Open at St Mellion. I was there, rain suit bulging over layers of T-shirts, my Cobracap firmly fixed, brolly in one hand and ...
Healing the pain after the loss of a loved one
Sep 01, 2007 ... Some events are so profoundly shocking that for ever after we canremember exactly where we ourselves were at the time. For thisreason I know exactly what I was doing ten years ago yesterday. When I heard about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, I was ona remote Scottish island ...
A treaty of Europe that may light a fuse
Sep 01, 2007 ... He cobbled streets and sun-drenched plazas of Portugal's Viana doCastelo may seem like a long way from the Westcountry, but next weekthe coastal resort will play host to a showdown which could wreakhavoc on the region's political map. Foreign ministers from across Europe are to ...
Fantasy world of Diana cult
Sep 01, 2007 ... Ill we ever be rid of the ghost of Diana, or will she ever beresurrected by a media obsessed with squeezing out every scrap ofprattle about her life and death to increase the TV ratings or flog afew more newspapers to people whose brains have turned to spongepudding? Unless you've been ...
Healthy lessons in the facts about food
Sep 01, 2007 ... Who, what and when is the Year of Food and Farming? To answer thelast question first, the Year of Food and Farming (YOFF) runs for theacademic year from September 2007 to July 2008. What is it? It is an ambitious project that aims to give everyschool-age child first-hand experience ...
Family to sell gulls' goalie's gongs
Sep 01, 2007 ... A football medal dating back almost a century to the first trophywin for Torquay's team is expected to fetch hundreds of pounds aspart of a collection of memorabilia due to go under the hammer laterthis month The collection, which includes medals and photographs, belong tothe ...
Six more trawlers go from South West fleet
Sep 01, 2007 ... The once proud South West fishing industry has accepted furthercuts in the latest round of trawler decommissions. The owners of eight large beam trawlers will receive a total ofpounds4.7 million to scrap their vessels. The money has been made available by the Government's ...
Festival will celebrate heathland
Sep 01, 2007; ... Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Cornwall is just one of the businessessupporting a two-month festival and conservation project highlightingthe importance of Cornish heathland to the environment, tourism andagriculture. Heath Fest aims to help bring neglected heathland sites back ...
Tisdale banishes bad aggborough memory
Sep 01, 2007; ... Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale is confident that there will beno bad blood between his side and Kidderminster Harriers as the twosides clash for the first time since last season's ugly scenes atAggborough. After Lee Elam had inspired the Grecians to a superb 2-1 victory,the ...
Rob and rock take
Sep 01, 2007 ... He's been called the David Beckham of the sheepdog trial world -with a cacophony of shouts and whistles Jed Watson can bend thosewoolly, indecisive, notoriously difficult to control, creatures intothat tiny elusive pen like no other - with the help of man's bestfriend of ...
Thanks to our valiant walkers
Sep 01, 2007 ... Congratulations to all those readers and advertisers who supportedthe Western Morning News' Great South West Walk. After more than 630miles the trek is over and, even before last night's fund-raisinggala evening, around pounds150,000 has been raised for the three ...
Hayle teeter on the brink while Newquay also fight for survival
Sep 01, 2007; ... Two teams will be playing for fun and two will be fighting fortheir survival today as the Jolly's Drinks Cornwall Premier Leagueseason comes to a close. St Just will be crowned champions before their final match getsunderway at Newquay, and their primary aim will be to erase ...
Maximiseallowances in retirement
Sep 01, 2007 ... This week I turn to an enquiry received from a retired readerwhich centres on maximising income when faced with the possibility oflosing the age allowance on reaching 65 years and above. Whether youregard this fair or not, if you have a reasonable pension income,investment income can ...
Foxes come to Argyle at end of torrid week
Sep 01, 2007; ... Leicester City normally wait until just after their visit toPlymouth Argyle before they part company with their manager. Thisseason they've done the deed in double-quick time. Last term, Rob Kelly lost his job as the Foxes' boss two daysafter his side's 3-0 Coca-Cola Championship ...
It's all coming together nicely
Sep 01, 2007 ... Things seem to have come together pretty well for us at Somersetin our recent one-day games and Tuesday night's match againstLeicestershire Foxes, which saw us go top of the table in the Pro40,was almost the perfect victory. Earlier in the season our form was inconsistent and ...
Somerset dictate
Sep 01, 2007; ... Somerset declined to enforce the follow-on against Glamorgan atTaunton but still ended the second day in a commanding position intheir LV County Championship Division Two fixture. The visitors werebowled out for 233, having begun the day on 55 for one, with AndyCaddick, Charl Willoughby ...
Exeter ready for twin celebration
Sep 01, 2007; ... Exeter can complete the Devon double today if they beat BudleighSalterton at Ottermouth to clinch the Premier Division title ahead ofchasers North Devon. The Devon Cup is already in the County Ground trophy cabinet,following last Sunday's win over Plympton in the final at ...
Parkway seek good response
Sep 01, 2007; ... The Carlsberg South West Peninsula League's Premier Division stillstages six games today, despite four of its clubs being involved inthe FA Cup. Plymouth Parkway will have the chance to put the record straight,after the disappointment of their 1-1 midweek draw at home to ...
Truro can find room for tolley
Sep 01, 2007; ... Toolstation Western League leaders Truro City welcome back striker Shane Tolley for their FA Cup preliminary round tie atPremier Division rivals Barnstaple Town today. Tolley has overcome a knee injury and returns to a team which haswon its opening five matches, including last ...
Burglar fled with pet barn owl in stolen car
Sep 01, 2007 ... A man who stole a pet barn owl during a burglary has been given anine-month suspended prison sentence. Jason Denton, 23, had the female owl called Addy on his lap as heand an accomplice fled the scene in Pennycross, Plymouth, in astolen car. But they met police almost ...
Complaints of residential noise double in Exeter
Sep 01, 2007 ... The sound of silence is proving elusive in Exeter, wherecomplaints about noisy neighbours have more than doubled in the pastthree years. Figures from Exeter City Council reveal that revellers aredisturbing the peace, with loud music and parties triggering almosthalf of the 853 ...
pounds5m vista from the comfort of your bath
Sep 01, 2007 ... A beautiful river winds its way alongside lush green countryside,while houses in a pretty village stand proud overlooking thewaterway. Yachts rock gently on the river and birds fly overhead. The onlynoises come from the wildlife and a light breeze against treebranches. The ...
Princes' tribute to their 'loving mother'
Sep 01, 2007; ... Prince Harry paid an emotional tribute to "the best mother in theworld" yesterday and called for Diana, Princess of Wales to beremembered as someone who made people happy. At the memorial service held in Diana's honour on the 10thanniversary of her death, the Prince delivered the ...
Inventor of flying machine
Sep 01, 2007 ... Paul MacCready, an inventor who studied circling hawks andvultures to work out how to make a human-powered flying machine -has died in Pasadena, California, aged 81. His death was announced by Aero Vironment Inc, which he foundedand led. No cause was given. Dr MacCready ...
Pressure mounts for EU treaty vote
Sep 01, 2007 ... Pressure is mounting on Gordon Brown to hold a referendum on thenew EU treaty after a Labour former Europe minister backed calls fora public mandate. Keith Vaz urged the Prime Minister to allow a vote on the treaty,which critics claim is a replica of the discarded EU ...
Mccanns sue over 'lies'
Sep 01, 2007 ... The lawyer for Madeleine McCann's parents accused sections of themedia of "inhumane" scandal-mongering yesterday as the couplelaunched a defamation action against a Portuguese newspaper. Gerry McCann said he and his wife, Kate, were "deeply hurt" by afront-page story in Tal & Qual ...
Boys weep at 'stoning death' convictions
Sep 01, 2007; ... Five boys aged from 12 to 14 burst into tears yesterday after theywere convicted of "a completely unnecessary, pointless and randomattack" which resulted in the death of a man who had been playingcricket with his son. Ernest Norton, 67, collapsed with a heart attack after being ...
Firefighters bring blazes in Greece under control
Sep 01, 2007 ... Promises of aid poured in from home and abroad as firefighters inGreece managed to douse most of the massive fires that ravaged the countryside for a week and killed 64 people. Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday said the frontshad been contained, and authorities would ...
Fewer schoolchildren abusing drugs and alcohol
Sep 01, 2007 ... Fewer schoolchildren are drinking alcohol or using drugs but thenumber of young smokers remains unchanged, according to a surveyreleased yesterday. The national poll for the Information Centre forhealth and social care (IC) found the number of pupils who said theyhad never drunk alcohol ...
Polish worker jailed for vicious sex attack
Sep 01, 2007 ... A polish labourer was yesterday jailed for nine years for a brutalsex attack against a woman in Cornwall. Michal Piotr Kwidzinski, 22, had been in the UK for just a weekbefore he dragged his victim off the street in Newquay, down analleyway and into the back of a van. He ...
Cider press centre to celebrate 30th birthday
Sep 01, 2007 ... A centre in South Devon launches its 30th birthday celebrationswith a new exhibition today. The Cider Press Centre at Dartington, near Totnes, opened inSeptember 1977. It was created on the site of an old cider press and is now knownfor a range of gifts, art and locally ...
Student eager for challenge of charity bike journey
Sep 01, 2007 ... A westcountry student will begin the challenge of a lifetime today- cycling solo from Land's End to John O'Groats. Ruth Bateman, 24, plans to undertake the feat in 16 days, leavingLand's End at about 11am this morning. She has decided to undergo the challenge because she loves ...
Victim warns women to be wary
Sep 01, 2007 ... As Michal Kwidzinski begins his term behind bars, his brave victimtold how his vile actions had left a terrible mark on her life. The woman also gave a warning to other women to be on their guardagainst attack. She said: "This incident has changed my life forever and I find ...