Monthly Archives: August 2008

32 Year Old ‘Black Bobbin’ at home in his owners garden yesterday. John Deere, a life long Hartland resident & owner of a 32-year-old horse named Black Bobbin, hasn’t been able to buck a local parish ban on livestock within … Continue reading →

The Red Arrows practising at RMB Chivenor Yesterday New Ministry Of Defence cutbacks have finally hit the Internationally acclaimed air show display team, The Red Arrows, with the announcement that are to be relocated from their traditional home at RAF Scampton to RMB … Continue reading →

The revised corporate logo for new farming software giant Microvalley Financial News: Fortune 500 company Mole Valley Farmers announce $44 billion merger with Microsoft to form the largest farming software giant on the face of the planet. Art Kerfuffle reports: From … Continue reading →

Snowmen & women will be safe this winter on Porridgeside. Morris Major, Leader of Porridgeside District Council, & self confessed ’Eater Of All The Pies’, has publicly announced that his council will not surf the current politically correct wave, that breaks on the reef of … Continue reading →

The ‘North Devon UFO’ photographed yesterday. The last few days of August have seen a massive increase in reports of a large golden disc shaped object floating high in the sky. The brightly glowing object has momentarily appeared from behind cloud … Continue reading →

Some Lundy Puffins at ASDA yesterday. Breaking news has reached the DL Offices that a family of Lundy Puffins have migrated the 12 miles from their Atlantic Island sanctuary and have been seen making nests in the new Bideford Asda superstore – … Continue reading →

The brand new Restaurant in Fore Street Hartland with it’s owner yesterday. Hartonians are all set to to thrill their taste-buds with the spicy taste of mystical Eastern cuisine later this week when the ‘Raj’ Tandoori Restaurant opens it’s doors, the latest addition … Continue reading →

100ft high flames leap from the burning biscuit yesterday. Police are searching for an arsonist who set fire to  Bideford’s world famous biscuit landmark late yesterday afternoon in an act of wanton vandalism that has stunned the town. Art Kerfuffle reports: At … Continue reading →

Unexpected high tide flotsam at Northam Burrows yesterday. Early morning dog walkers on the Northam Burrows pooch promenade were somewhat surprised to find a World War II German U-boat stranded on the high tide line after Thursday nights storm. Ash Jemill … Continue reading →

Yesterdays leaked plans of the new roundabout for Bucks Cross Seemingly pedestrian plans for a new traffic development for the A39 at Bucks Cross, have got local residents up in arms & hot under the collar because of proposed changes being plotted by the PDCVRC … Continue reading →