A local news round-up

..... News stories culled from this week's North Devon Journal. It's been snowing and lots of the Journal's readership have given up the idea of going into work and have joined the children of North Devon in playing in it. All very jolly. Many have decided to send in their photos of snow.
There has been a two day strike amoung non-medical staff up at the hospital. They are striking over the pay and conditions that they receive from Sodexho the private contract company that employs them. Amazingly,  at least for the Journal, a conciliatory voice can be heard amid it's pages. It eminates from the John Barum column, about the only consistently good piece of writing to be found week in week out, who seems to lay the blame firmly at the feet of an inept and over payed cadre of hospital managers.
Barnstaple Town maintain their winning ways and beat Dawlish 1-0 in a Devon derby that saw 165 die-hard fans brave the elements to witness it. Subsequently, Town now find themselves positively lower mid table!
I was going to go along myself but I was sure that the game would have fallen foul to the weather, frozen pitch, but obviously it went ahead. Someone ought to maintain their website on match days especially during Winter to keep people up to date with the prospects for playing.
And finally, that bloke piggy wiggies, his dog and his wife are all bumbling along fine in their bucolic Barbrook bubble. So that's heartening news for us all.