This week’s Dartmouth Chronicle leads on the problem of rats in Dartmouth’s Royal Avenue Gardens and the story goes on to explain the impasse between the Old Dartmothians, who had wanted to renovate the pond area, and the town council.

Dartmouth’s mayor, Cllr Richard Cooke, who signed himself off as The Pied Piper of Hamelin in an email to the Chronicle, defends the town council’s position.

Our picture story features a couple to rowers from Dartmouth who have helped the police to victory in competition in Dublin.

Inside, we flag up a story about the sentencing of the man who recently robbed Kingswear Post Office and the postmaster’s shock at the apparent leniency of the sentence imposed by a judge at Exeter Crown Court.

As ever, there’s much, much more news inside.