As we brave the chil mid-winter weather what a better time to look back at those halcyon hot days of summers past. It’s a trip back to see who and what was making the news in the pages of the Mid-Devon Advertiser, Dawlish Gazette and Teignmouth Post from the summer of 1989

Mark Booth flies high during a sponsored skate to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis at Ashburton's South Dartmoor School in June 1989. (MDA)

Blackpool School's winning cricket team from June 1989 (MDA)

Scout Headquarters in Newton Abbot on June 22, 1989. Members of the 3rd Newton Abbot Scouts receive the St George's Day Shield from Teignbridge District Council chairman Maggie Stanton (MDA)