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The backlash against common sense continues with mind-boggling support for the union-busting, farmer crushing, local-trade destroying Asda to be built on Exmouth’s estuary.
So far, according to the Exmouth Journal, 215 people have signed up to the Facebook group Asda on the Exe - hell, yeah!
The unfortunate choice of name notwithstanding, the claims of the group seem rather misguided and historically unfounded to us sitting here in the PRSD bunker. They say things like ‘greater choice’ and ‘healthy competition’ and ‘breathe much-needed life into Exmouth and give the town’s other supermarkets a run for their money’.
“If we are trying to hold onto the dying tourist trade, this is a must,’ creator of the group Rachel Reece said. Because, as we all know, a supermarket by a river is what people will travel to see.
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Passenger figures for Exeter airport (sorry, Exeter International Airport) took off in August, despite the fears of the so-called ‘credit crunch’. Apparently, 114,600 passengers either departed or arrived during the month - the highest in the airport’s history. Tis a pity then, that environmental plans (carbon neutral for groundstaff by 2015), are so weak and possibly unachievable and that the money’s dripping out of the area, with people choosing to take their holidays to Tenerife, Majorca, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.
The airport’s deputy managing director, Jamie Christon, told the Midweek Herlad: “The most popular destinations from Exeter were to Tenerife, Majorca, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, but there was a notable take up for the flights to Turkey and the 20th year for our flights to Toronto have proved a great success. The Air Transat aircraft and the operator Canadian Affair have already guaranteed to provide the service in 2009.
Airport passenger traffic, they say, was up by one per cent from the previous year, and charter holiday routes had a growth of three per cent.
It would be good to see the levels of tourism within Devon the airport promotes - afterall we live in a culturally rich holiday destination ourselves…
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