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SIDMOUTH NEWS:

• Students beaten up by town gang
FOREIGN students who are studying in Sidmouth have been injured in unprovoked attacks by local thugs. Now some are frightened to go out at night in case they become the gang’s next victim.

• THE future of Sidmouth Carnival may have been secured thanks to a new volunteer John Reese stepping forward.

• Another huge fall from the crumbling Salcombe Cliffs has renewed calls for the beach to be closed. .

OTTERY ST MARY NEWS:

• Answer to our prayers
URGENT repairs to St John the Evangelist in Tipton will be finished by Christmas 2009 – thanks to £66,000 from the National Lottery. The grant, for the parish church, is part of a £280,000 package from The Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage.

• Plants mean prizes for kids
GREEN-fingered Ottery school children are going head-to-head against eight other schools in a growing competition this Sunday.

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