Fancy building or restoring your own boat? Ali Wood takes a tour of the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis
What to expect to learn on a boat building course
Having spent the morning on the five-day boat restoration course, I was keen to know what’s …
Traffic is being brought to a halt across Devon and Cornwall today as volumes build and crashes close lanes and even roads. Four accidents have been causing hold-ups by the middle of the day, with other roads seeing traffic slow to a crawl – including …
Sitting closer to the heart of Colebrook than Plympton itself, Plympton railway station was for a time known as Colebrook station[1]. It opened to passenger traffic on Thursday, June 15, 1848, although the first test train had passed this point some we…
The Rail Accident Investigation Brain (RAIB) today released its safety digest into a near miss at Teignmouth Boat Yard[1], Devon, on Tuesday 14 February 2023.
RAIB has released this short video summarising its findings.
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RAIB believes…
Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris has sounded the alarm after hearing that funding for vital work to protect the exposed coastal railway line through her constituency is at risk. She says it is “wholly unacceptable” that huge sums of money are being sp…