After several stories over recent weeks urging patients to back NHS proposals which will include the closure of Dartmouth and Kingswear Hospital, Cllr Jonathan Hawkins says the plans include too few beds.

Our main picture is of people gathered at Southford Road Schoolrooms, home of Dartmouth Preschool, for a blessing by the Bishop of Exeter.

Inside, we flag up two stories: one about Dartmouth Green Partnerships success in the South West in Bloom awards; the other about how the clerk to Kingswear Parish Council got embroiled in a row with his home town’s council.

As ever, there much, much more inside.