Devon County Council are spending thousands of pounds

to reduce the width of the Raleigh Hill junction on the main road between Bideford and Northam.

This is one of the widest junctions in the Torridgeside area - but its very width has contributed to accidents, say traffic experts.

Future traffic conditions are also being helped by the provision of a bus lay-by on the Glen Gardens side of Kingsley Road. Cost of the improvements now being carried out is about £17,000.

Mr Garman said a roundabout at the junction would not be justified at the moment.

The full Gazette article is dated 13 February 1976