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Stand Up For Seaton (SU4S)

Community Action for Seaton's Regeneration Area, 80% owned by Tesco - a floodplain on a World Heritage site bordered by nature reserves, tidal river, the sea and the unspoilt town. SU4S is a state of mind - no members, no structure, no politics. SU4S has objected to 2 planning applications by Tesco, including one for a massive superstore/dot com distribution centre which led to the recent closure on the site of 400 tourist beds with the loss of 150 jobs,a gym and pool - all used by locals.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

The "intention" factor

I finally ran into a copy of the Midweek Herald today (there is no delivery here) and noted the letter from Terry Dinham in response to a previous correspondent to the paper. Knowing you read this Terry, whilst I might accept the point that you had "no intention to mislead" per se, the 4 page blurb (sorry, advert) was near the mark when it comes to honesty. According to Mr Dinham, the mere act of stating that it is an advertisers announcement and mentioning the word "developer" and " Liatris" means that it is obvious who sponsored it. Actually the problem is with the thrust of it,that and the only contact details provided were those of the EDDC and the accuracy of the content of the 4 page spread itself being somewhat debatable. Also the many members of the public who asked me at the time why EDDC were doing ads.
If you say the words "sales pitch" then you get the gist...we've already covered the topic so I won't go on about the discrepancies it contains, but what is curious is that Terry seems to have ended up defending the advert placed in a completely different newspaper
No confusion here Terry, just ironic smiles;-)

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