HMNB Devonport a Cornish Pasty and which was once the nickname for a sailor born and bred in Devonport. The traditional shout of "Oggy Oggy Oggy" was used to cheer on the Devonport team in the Navy's field gun competition. Devonport has been the site of a number of leaks of nuclear waste associated with the nuclear submarines based there. "Up until 1832 the Plymouth Royal Dockyard, was administered by a Commissioner of the Dockyard on behalf of the Navy Board in London included:" By An Order in Council dated 27 June 1832 the role of the Commissioner was replaced by an
An Item from the Late News But Wafer's quiet quest on the town's outskirts will be doomed--by the town's greed and hypocrisy and violence, by Gabby's own self-involved apathy: Wafer is terrorized by a local macho-thug; his fatherly affection for a teenage girl (the thug's rape victim) is used against him. And when Wafer happens to find a precious stone on one of his wanderings, the town will stop at nothing to learn the location of this possible new gem-lode. . . with a predictably fatal outcome. An Item from the Late News An Item from the Late News (1982) is a novel by Australian author