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Olympic Flame Is Coming to Torbay

Lee Thomas (Reporter) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:19:04 +0000

The Olympic Flame relay will be coming through Paignton and Torquay on the Second Day of the Relay, on Sunday 20th May 2012. Related posts:

Giff Gaff, Gone!

Lee Thomas (Reporter) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:42:34 +0000

The GiffGaff Network is down right across the UK Due to a power failure due to a burst water pipe at one of their suppliers centres. Related posts:

Torquay’s forgotten ‘Stephen King’, Hitler, Flying Saucers & Bovril

Kevin Dixon — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:40:41 +0000

On January 18 1873 Edward Bulwer-Lytton died in his Torquay home Argyll Hall on Warren Road, having lived there since 1867. Built in 1849, Argyll Hall became the Roseland Hotel and is now an apartment block called Marine Palms occupying a prominent position on Rock Walk. Edward (1803-1873), was a hugely successful poet, playwright, and novelist. In [...] Related posts:

The night sky: Venus, Jupiter and Mars

David Love — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:57:58 +0000

The planets Venus and Jupiter are gradually drawing closer to each other in the western evening sky. They are unmistakeable, because they are the brightest objects in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. On the evenings of 12 and 13 March they will be at their closest, separated by only a couple of [...] Related posts:

Milber: Driving through a prehistoric landscape

Kevin Dixon — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:10:39 +0000

Those of us that try and avoid the traffic on the Newton Road sometimes take the St Marychurch Road between Torquay and Newton Abbot. In doing so, we drive right through the centre of a series of earthworks. These are what remains of Milber Iron Age Hill Fort, a site that was occupied between around 50BC [...] Related posts: