Complaints from local residents have led to the closure of a popular bar on Torquay seafront.
Rude bar on Victoria Parade has been closed after a number of noise complaints from occupants of flats above the premises.
This led to Torbay Council issuing a ‘noise abatement notice’ in an effort to control the volume of noise.
However, businessman Matthew Ambrose who owns the premises has said the bar is now ‘closed’, and he ‘doesn’t intend to re-open it.’
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Campaigners from the ‘Residents Against Golf Club Group’ – otherwise known as RAGS – claim that new proposals to redevelop Churston Golf Club remain to be ‘totally inappropriate for the area’.
Forty homes have been axed from the £20million pounds development at Churston Golf Club by Developer Bloor Homes in a bid to appease protesters – but to no avail.
A planning application will be submitted to Torbay Council later in the autumn.
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A man has been banned from an estate in Teignmouth after he left residents ‘frightened and intimidated’.
Colin Sherlock has been banned from going into Kingsway after social housing landlord Teign housing successfully obtained an injunction against him.
Teignmouth PC Phil Colley welcomed the injunction, and said it was ‘not the behaviour they were willing to put up with.’
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Torbay’s Labour Party have announced their candidate to stand in next May’s local election.
Patrick Canavan, aged 57, will stand for Labour – he was their candidate in the Newton Abbot constituency at the General Election.
Current Mayor Nick Bye is yet to decide whether he will choose to stand in the election next year. He expects to make his mind up by October.
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And the funeral of war heroine Eileen Nearne is set to draw mourners nationwide.
Eileen, who worked during the war as a radio operator under the codename ‘Rose’ – escaped from the Germans three times in a year before being caught and tortured.
She was 89 when she died of a heart-attack at her Lisburne Cresent home in Torquay.
The funeral is set to take place today at St Denis Roman Catholic Church in Priory Road Torquay at 3pm.
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Onto sport, and Devon based spin bowler Chris Metters is set to sign a six month deal with County Championship side Warwickshire.
Metters, who was the leading bowler in all Minor Counties Cricket for Devon in 2009 – is set to travel to Australia to play grade cricket in Melbourne before travelling back in late February to begin pre-season training with Warwickshire.
And in football Torquay United defender Mark Ellis and Elliot Benyon could take part in today’s reserve friendly against Swindon Town. Both players have been given the all-clear after their recent injury troubles.
Kick off for that game is at 2pm at Plainmoor.
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Finally here’s your weather, and any fog should clear away, with cloud gradually breaking during the morning to leave long spells of warm sunshine for the afternoon. Temperatures are set to reach 18 degrees celcius.
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