Teignmouth Post and Gazette No 4888 Friday 24 October 1975

PILOTS SAVE COASTER

Two Teignmouth Harbour pilots, Captain Kenneth Gribble and Mr. Syd Hook, were praised for their work on Tuesday night, when they prevented the 1,200 ton coaster Lidan running ashore.

The vessel had broken away from her anchor in the strong south easterly and was being swept towards Teignmouth front. The pilots put out in their small craft, and Captain Gribble was able to scramble aboard and brought her safely into port. The sea wall was breached in the promenade on the western side of the Pier, and Council workers were standing by to assess the damage.

IRANIAN LOAN HELPS WATER AUTHORITY

The South West Water Authority is to receive approximately £6.8 m as its share of the $400 m Iranian loan for the water industry. This will save the SWWA approximately £68,000 a year in interest, against their normal source of borrowing from the National Loans Fund. This will meet part of the cost of SWWA’s £17m capital spending programme for 1975-76, mainly on essential works of water supply, sewerage and sewage treatment.

ANOTHER MOTORWAY SECTION OPENS

This time, it was on an eleven mile section between Cullumpton, Exeter and Sandygate, relieving traffic congestion at Pinhoe and Broadclyst, with their new-found peace and quiet being celebrated with an outdoor barbecue and dance at Pinhoe. There are now only three sections of the Birmingham - Exeter motorway to be completed, due to be finished by the end of next year, giving a clear run-through, well before the summer of 1977.

FOOTBALL KIT(From Woman’s World)

I called on my friend for coffee. The washer was full of football kit, the floor muddied by various pieces of field, steam everywhere. The youngest had started primary school - four lots of kit - it’s ridiculous, it mystifies me!

The kids have to have them washed twice a week. We can’t go out on Saturday night as we all watch “Match of the Day” - can’t be missed. My husband’s leg injury stopped him playing for a month, not that he’d go shopping, no.

There’s racing, rugby and wrestling on TV. My kids believe these are the three Rs. Then it’s ITV on Sunday afternoon, and Wednesday is a definite non-day. Sports Night - it doesn’t matter what’s on, it’s a must. I’ve given up trying to get the boys to bed.

Thursday, they're hopeless, Friday just about human, then it’s Saturday again.

I admit I see my husband at breakfast, always at his worst. Then it’s Monday night, with the muscles groaning. Tuesday training. Wednesday, with a quick pint with the lads, then Spotlight.

Thursday, training and tactics. Friday, darts night. Saturday (The ref’s an idiot) then Match of the Day, a quick pint, dinner, then Match of the Week, sleeps all afternoon, tea, then My Goodness! It’s Monday, all over. I sometimes wonder how we found time to have three kids!

RIVIERA CINEMA

Herbert Lom and Christopher Lee in Bram Stoker’s COUNT DRACULA; Richard Todd in THE STORY OF DORIAN GRAY; Lee Marvin and Richard Burton in THE KLANSMAN; Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO; Special matinees; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES; SLEEPING BEAUTY.