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...“I’m a detective, really,” says Malcolm Darch of Salcombe, south Devon. “I never let anything pass me by.”...
...“I never competed with conkers, I was too busy making a necklace out of them,” he says of his childhood, in Devon, which he found stultifyingly dull....
...It was beseiged by Oliver Cromwell’s forces in 1644, damaged by fire and cannon, and later fell into ruin, but it reopens this weekend following a £6.4m renovation project....
...Stephen Otter, chief constable of Devon and Cornwall police and a member of the Prison Reform Trust which led the taskforce, said there was clear evidence that community orders worked better for women and...
...“I think it’s amazing they weren’t using water cannons,” he says of the initially restrained approach shown by London’s police during August’s riots....
...More than 10 per cent of Swiss resorts use cannons and that rises to 40 per cent in Austria and Italy. Developers too are thinking green....
...The list embraces an extraordinary range of sites from a graffiti-covered modernist grandstand at the defunct Uxbridge Lido (pictured above) in west London to the Salcombe Cannon site off the Devon coast...
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