Demolition work is well under way at the former Park Hotel on Paignton seafront to make way for a five-storey replacement. Contractors have removed a section of the terrace of Victorian villas ...

He was the man who insisted that there should be no 'rollicking horseplay and boisterous fun' on Paignton Pier, and dismissed Oldway as an 'exhibitionist mansion'. He liked Teignmouth Pier so much ...