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COVID-19: Cases surge across Devon and Dawlish area

By Will Goddard

28th Oct 2021 | Local News

Dawlish coronavirus map

Covid figures have shot up across Devon, reflecting a new surge in infections around the country which has brought UK cases to their highest level since mid-January.

In the week up to Sunday, 17 October, 5,726 new infections were recorded in Devon, 20 per cent more than in the previous week. The infection rate is now 460 per 100,000 of the population, slightly lower than the UK average which has spiked in the last seven-day period, reaching 465 infections per 100,000.

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Dawlish sewage pollution: 'It's about getting the legislation right' - Anne Marie Morris MP

By Will Goddard

26th Oct 2021 | Local News

Anne Marie Morris MP by Richard Townshend - https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/4249/Portrait?cropType=ThreeTwoGallery: https://members.parliament.uk/member/4249/portrait, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86673636

Anne Marie Morris MP has issued a statement explaining why she voted to support the Government's motion to remove a section of an amendment to the Environment Bill (see pages 6-9) made by the House of Lords, which included putting a duty on 'sewerage undertakers to take all reasonable steps to ensure untreated sewage is not discharged from storm overflows'.

Untreated sewage was discharged into the sea last week at Coryton Cove, Holcombe, Teignmouth Town, and Shaldon beaches following heavy rain.

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Dawlish & District u3a left 'spell-bound' by local author's talk on Charles Dickens

By Will Goddard

24th Oct 2021 | Local News

By Jeremiah Gurney - Heritage Auction Gallery, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8451549

Members of Dawlish & District u3a (University of the Third Age) were reportedly left 'spell-bound' during a talk on Charles Dickens by a local author at its most recent meeting on Monday 18 October.

Dr Keith Hooper, a specialist on 19th century literature who did his PhD at Exeter University, spoke about the Poor Law system (the housing of the poor in workhouses, etc.), Dickens' moral agenda in exposing the hypocrisy of the supposedly Christian society of the Victorian era, and the author's apparently contradictory success in business.

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