TASK FORCE

Task forces to deal quickly and effectively with hooligan elements will be set up by Devon and Cornwall Police ready for the summer. Equipped with radio cars and vans, the special patrols will tour areas which feature in repeated outbreaks of gang violence. They were first introduced to the Westcountry last year and are now intended to prevent incidents like the Hell’s Angels rampage of Northam Burrows, near Westward Ho! over Easter.

MINE-LAYER

A mine-layer frigate, HMS Jaguar, with a complement of sixteen officers and approximately 240 ratings, is visiting Teignmouth from July 11 for six days. It is mainly a recruiting visit, the idea being that children from the schools should go on board. “It is nice to have a vessel of some size from our own Navy,” said the organiser, Councillor, Mr. W. Tibbs.

LUMBERJACK CHAMPION

Bob Hendy, 24, of Five Lanes, Dawlish, became Devon’s champion lumberjack of 1972. He beat the reigning champion and 48 other men to win the Oregon Challenge Cup in the Devon County Agricultural Association’s tree felling competition, held in the Forestry Commission’s Eggesford Forest.

Gusting high winds, which for a time threatened to cause it to be postponed, made it hard for the fellers to lay their trees as accurately as they would like. Then there was a tie between Mr. Hendy and Mr. Bob Hearn of Lustleigh. The judges asked them to fell a second one each, and Mr. Hendy came out the winner.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

The well-known jazz band, the Teign Valley Stompers, are to appear on the top-rating television show ‘Opportunity Knocks’ next Monday.The six-piece band will travel to the Teddington studio at the weekend to rehearse and record one number ‘Has anybody seen my girl?’

IN DAYS OF YORE

Teignmouth Post, Friday April 14 1922. A reader wrote ‘Granted a tramway, a light railway, or a frequent service of buses to Haldon, and Teignmouth would be made one of the finest health resorts in the kingdom’.

HALDON IS CHANGING

Dear Sir: While the harbour scheme is being debated hotly, Haldon is changing. Without apparent notice, the Moor has suddenly sprouted additional posts and wires, padlocks and chains, with mounds of earth, all of which greatly enhance the argument for a conservation policy for the whole area. If the fear of further encroachment by the car is behind these actions, then surely Dartmoor’s answer of ditches is not only more effective and less costly long term, but obviously not a visual disaster. John Rowe, Bishopsteignton.

MOOR LTTER

A 24-strong team from the Outward Bound School near Ashburton  spent two half-days cleaning up Dartmoor. They covered many acres and picked up half a ton of litter.

FOR SALE

Farmyard manure, £3 tractor load, delivered Teignmouth area. Venn Farm.

WISE WORDS

The earth produces all things, and receives all again. The unpleasantness is not living on an overdraft, but in repaying it.

RIVIERA CINEMA

“Entertainingly witty, devastatingly funny”  Evening Standard. “CARNAL KNOWLEDGE” , starring Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Arthur Garfunkel and Ann-Margaret.