Touching tributes on the Sidmouth Herald front page, inner pages and letters page to the homeless man, Tommy Duffy, who died on a bitterly cold night in a bus shelter in Sidmouth. A memorial service was recently held for him at the Unitarian Church in Sidmouth

Comments on the Letters pages:

“What greater irony could there be. Tommy Duffy, a homeless man, dies in freezing temperatures, in an area where the local council is spending thousands of taxpayers’ money on a vanity project to relocate their offices”

and

“… we are in real trouble when our elected representatives are unable to make an empty building available to someone in need because their own take on profit, value and worth extends towhether they might one day sell it to Persimmon or Premier Inn. I don’t know, but just maybe there is a different way of doing this.”

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”
Lois MacMaster Bujold