17 May: A well-known Exeter lawyer has become the first ethnic minority mayor of Teignmouth . Employment lawyer Terry Falcao, 56, a former Metropolitan Police officer, was unanimously appointed mayor of the seaside town. The former chairman of the Devon Racial Equality Council said his appointment was "all the more remarkable as Teignmouth has a 99 per cent white population". His parents were of Goan origin and he first came to Britain as a nine-year-old... Text + photo. http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Exeter-lawyer-Terry-Falcao-Teignmouth- s-ethnic/story-29283967-detail/story.html
Terry Falcao, a GoaNet subscriber, was born in Karachi and traces his Goan origins to Tivim. http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2004/Nov/issue3/
