Doesn’t the new Strand look different now? You can really see where �3m has been spent.

In the summer, I reckon people will flock in their ones and twos to see all that wonderful new pavement and mini-roundabout system!

The best is yet to come - a �400,000 shrine is to be built because we have not got another performance stage in Exmouth.

The Manor Gardens stage does not count, you see. Far better to spend all that money on a fantastic new stage that also doubles as an alien landing craft to wow the tourists.

Just as well everything else in Exmouth is kept so well, such as the seafront lights, grass and flower beds, otherwise some idiot might have suggested that some money should have been spent on that.

Richard Benford,

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