We slightly depart from the images of our first nine months to bring you gorgeous pin-ups and pics of the people  and buildings that mad East Devon what it is today and who smoothed the way for development.

First, of course, our Dear Leader Diviani, pictured here with his colleagues Andrew Moulding,  ex-councillor Ray Bloxham and Deputy Chief Executive and Regeneration Manager Richard Cohen, who did so much to mess up our  Local Plan and make it what it is today …

October

Then, of course, we must thank disgraced ex-councillor Graham Brown (Local Development Framework chairman, East Devon Business Forum Chairman and director of his own local planning company) – outed in a sting on the front page of the Daily Telegraph saying that if he covered green fields in development, he would not do it for peanuts.

November

and, last but not least, all those developers who have given us an East Devon to be … er, not at all proud of.

December