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Not a news scoop, but personal reportage from the front lines. On the train from Fratton to Salisbury. Small thing totally full but with this weird empty half carriage at the front with a bit of coloured tape with "not in use" on the door. So I naturally pushed open the door and went in. Some old fella stood in the doorway got really cross with me for defying this edict.

He was chuntering away for a few stops and then at a bigger station a load of young people who didn't care poured in and an elderly couple, one with a stick, followed in their wake, sat down and avoided crowding like sensible people.

Chunterer is now looking like he is finely balanced between further indignation and feeling foolish he didn't just sit down and have a more pleasant journey. He has ACAB across his knuckles. I'll never understand Hampshire.
 
Thoughts and prayers for the people of Exeter at this difficult time.

I noticed a subdued mood across Marsh Barton when I was there recently. Of course that could be because Marsh Barton is a Ballardian post industrial dystopia.

The poignant last sentence illustrates the pall of uncertainty hanging over the whole city, and also the fact that Devon Live can't even be bothered to phone the other branches.

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It's not currently known if the other Greggs in the city will be operating with different opening times.

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Best transport caff I've come across is Smokey Joe's in Scorrier :cool: really good food, loads of it, good prices, friendly people, main road with loads of lorries parked up. Proper transport caff - not seen one since the 70s really.
 
I got hailed on while walking the dog in Exeter this morning.

Although I suspect it may have been graupel rather than hail.
 
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