• We could not stop man's child-sex attacks - council

  By Tony248

  I agree. Hindsight is a marvellous thing, but it is difficult to understand why parents gave him...

            

   

  By Mid Devon Gazette at 08:00 on 18/06/13

  

  SOCIAL services chiefs have defended a decision not to remove children from families who allowed youngsters to have regular contact with a known sex offender who then subjected them to a catalogue of abuse. There was nothing that could be done to stop Karl Hole from seeing children because he was no longer on the sex offenders' register, Devon County Council says. As reported in last week's Gazette, Hole, 43, is now serving a...

• Don't choke hospital site, head warns

  By Sowester

  One's children always come first.

            

   

  By Mid Devon Gazette at 08:00 on 18/06/13

  

  PARENTS of pupils at Tiverton High School have been told to stop using the town's hospital as a drop-off point for youngsters and potentially causing hold-ups for emergency vehicles. Head Andrew Lovett said that some parents were stopping at the busy main entrance to the hospital site in Kennedy Way rather than drive the short extra distance to the school entrance in Bolham Road. Mr Lovett said: "We have been informed by the...

• Store's strippers make customers hot under collar

  By Sowester

  "Shirts, tops and shoes must be worn at all times." That's sufficient is it?

            

   

  By Mid Devon Gazette at 08:00 on 18/06/13

  

  SCANTILY-CLAD women and men bearing their bellies have been banned from a Mid Devon supermarket – to spare the blushes of other customers and staff. The recent hot spell encouraged many shoppers to stock up on barbecue and beach supplies from Tesco, Tiverton, while half-naked and a dress code policy has now been laid down to save "embarrassment to others". A sign has also been placed in the window of the filling...

• Town councillor's car searched near cull area

  By siberianstomp

  *** is an inexperienced boy like that doing sat on the council anyway? Demanding more sweeties and...

            

   

  By Mid Devon Gazette at 08:00 on 11/06/13

  

  A COUNCILLOR has complained that he felt victimised by police who searched his car after finding it near a badger cull area with a report on TB control measures in it. Cllr Lewis Clarke left the keys in his Renault Megane at Wimbleball Lake and returned after a five-hour walk to find it surrounded by Avon & Somerset police officers. West Somerset is one of the areas where the cull of badgers to prevent the spread of...

• Tivvy tennis court could be axed to make way for more leisure centre parking

  By Nellbat

  I think it makes sense to reduce the size of the tennis courts to provide extra parking for the...

            

   

  By Mid Devon Gazette at 08:00 on 11/06/13

  

  A TENNIS court at a Mid Devon leisure centre could be sacrificed to allow more people to drive there to take part in fitness activities, it has emerged. Mid Devon District Council, which runs Exe Valley Leisure Centre, Tiverton, said the car park is often full at peak times and it is considering providing extra bays for vehicles. The authority says the centre is a victim of its own success, with increased use meaning its car park...

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