Different stories from different parts of the NHS…but now they want to talk!

Teignmouth Swimming Club will be running ‘Crash Swimming Lesions for 11-16 year olds who missed out on learning to swim at primary school. It’s completely FREE thanks to the Incredible Fund paying for teacher training and the Communities Together Fund paying for the scheme.

Labour and the Conservatives do not agree on much, but both go along with regressive changes to benefits policy, the very poorest people in our communities are going to see big cuts in their already meagre living standards. The changes to benefits policy are massively bad news for the 50%+ of families in our country […]

Over a decade ago, I was always very proud when shopkeepers et al would compliment me on the politeness and manners of my daughters. But I have to ask are good manners a redundant concept these days, any disagreement, it seems is the instant trigger for obscenities and vile online comments using offensive language. The […]

Thank you! Peter Williams swept to victory yesterday in the Teignmouth Town Council Central Ward by-election with 438 votes, increasing the majority from 44 votes to 73 votes over second place Conservative Ian Palmer with 365. The by-election was cause by the sad passing of veteran Liberal Democrat councillor Roy Phillips, who won the Central […]

An unwelcome surprise for the new year is a detailed planning application for 255 houses west of Higher Exeter Road (Planning Application 17/024880/MAJ) I strongly opposed and moved refusal of the outline application for Higher Exeter Road at the Teignbridge planning committee on 29th July 2014 to grant outline planning permission (14/00447/MAJ), the vote was […]

The Beach clean team are celebrating the ‘excellent’ rating awarded to Teignmouth bathing waters by the Environment Agency. Well done to Alison Eden getting the town council to commit to high standards a year ago, keeping the momentum to make sure our beaches are amongst the cleanest in Europe.

DevonLive has done a great dis-service to Teignmouth, they have cobbled together a story from social media chit chat and it would appear taken quotes from an article in the Teignmouth Post written by a journalist who was actually at the meeting. Instead DevonLive created a tabloid-style story of a dystopian town under siege from […]

After theft of funeral collections, Teignmouth Town Council agrees to write to MP and Speaker of House of Commons for change in Law. Supporting Jane Kelly’s call for Undertakers to be regulated like charities.

Devon County Council Liberal Democrat councillors have submitted a motion calling on the council to use whatever means it can to stop the pay rise being implemented. Cllr Alan Connett, shadow leader of the council, said: “At a time of ever tightening pressure on the public purse and yet more cuts in council services in […]