Dawlish News

Claire Twitchin, a teaching assistant at Gatehouse Primary Academy in Dawlish decided to take on the challenge with fellow teacher Liz Borbon.

More of the team at Dawlish’s Roots Community Enhancement service have passed their “first aid for mental health” training. The services include a toddler group, a baby group, an anxiety cafe, bereavement support, a carers club and a feeding support group.

Students from Dawlish College have filled more than 200 shoeboxes with Christmas goodies and treats for children and families in Moldova and Ukraine. The Christmas shoebox collection is being co-ordinated by Dawlish Water Rotary Club.

The dealers built up networks in Exmouth, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torbay, Ilfracombe, Penzance, Camborne and Hayle.

RNLI lifeboats, coastguard rescue teams and a coastguard helicopter carried out an extensive search overnight.

More than 350 homes have been approved Liberal Democrat council leader Martin Wrigley, whose Dawlish North East ward contains the land, said: “This is not a site that would have been chosen under current policies and weather conditions.

The people of Dawlish have had enough of development on their doorsteps, councillors have been told.

A domestic bully was jailed for a brutal assault on his partner at a holiday park in Dawlish Warren. Edward Hodgkinson, 52, dragged the woman by the hair, threw her across the room, punched, kicked and stamped on her head during a vicious attack, a court heard.

POST office counter services in Dawlish are to be changed, it has been confirmed.

LIFE-SAVING clubs from Bovey Tracey and Dawlish Warren represented the South West at the national life-saving championships held in Leeds.

THE £60million project to protect the Dawlish railway line has won a top civil engineering award.

East Budleigh bounced back from last week’s cup loss to crush bottom side Dawlish 8-1 last Saturday, writes Mark Auton.

A jury inquest into the death of 34-year-old Paul Perrott at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish has heard he was under 15-minute observation checks but one had not been carried out for nearly one hour and 20 minutes.

Officers were alerted to a burglary at the Co-Op in The Strand in the early hours of Sunday morning. A front glass door had been smashed and a quantity to Lottery scratch cards. Read the full store here:

In Dawlish, volunteers have begun decorating the Poppy Wall with handmade poppies on the railings at the Lawn Bowling Club. On Armistice Day, Saturday November 11, Dawlish Town Council and Dawlish Branch of the Royal British Legion will hold the two minute silence at 11am at the Poppy Wall.

A survey to gauge demand for the minor injuries unit at Dawlish Community Hospital has been launched. It comes as part of a Friends of Dawlish Hospital, Dawlish Town Council and Teignmouth Town Council campaign to see the MIU back up and running.

POLICE in Teignmouth and Dawlish are on the hunt for riders of electric bikes following reports they are being ridding in an anti-social way.

Mayor Rosie Dawson officially unveiled the equipment, which was put in following a request from Oaklands Park Residents Association to Dawlish Town Council which has funded the defibrillator and the power installation.

Dawlish Swimming Club, founded in 1865, received £1,000 from Persimmon Homes South West’s Community Champions scheme earlier this month. The club, currently based at Trinity School in Teignmouth as part of a joint venture post-pandemic, has over 100 members from both towns and their surrounding ...

Motorists could experience some delays around Dawlish later this month as roads close for the next phase of work to replace the town's gas pipes. The £200,000 scheme got underway in January this year and isn't due to be completed until April 2024.

CONTRACTORS have started work on the long-awaited new £6.2million link road in Dawlish. The scheme has been in the pipeline for more than four years.

Huge waves have battered Dawlish and torrential rain has caused the stream to reach breaking point during Storm Ciaran. The full force of the storm coincided with high tide at about 8.45am on Thursda

'I am pleased that rail companies and the DfT have listened and my local campaign to keep Newton Abbot, Dawlish and Teignmouth ticket offices open has succeeded' MP Anne Marie Morris said.

Network Rail has issued its own warning to anyone living near a railway line. People who live near the railway are being urged to keep garden objects such as trampolines, tarpaulins, and tents tied down and secured to ensure they don’t end up on the tracks as a result of very strong winds.

Shocking footage shows the moment an adult and child were battered by waves after they risked walking along the Dawlish seafront despite 'extremely hazardous conditions'. The incident, which shows the perilous stormy sea bashing against the railway line, happened just a few days ago.

The Mix Coffee House And Bar, a restaurant, cafe or canteen at 18 The Strand Dawlish Devon was given the score after assessment on October 9, the Food Standards Agency's website shows.

UK: Smart cameras, sensors, Telent’s MICA workforce automation platform and Purple Transform’s SiYtE insights software have been combined to alert staff to safety risks where the railway at Dawlish runs below potentially unstable cliffs.

From November 14 until Christmas, Signature Hair and Beauty will donate 50p to Saving Pound Dogs Cyprus (SPDC) and Cyprus Dog Rescue for every visitor to the salon who gets a treatment.

The wall of a local pub in Devon has collapsed following heavy rain last night - forcing the family-run business to temporarily shut. The Ship Inn at Cockwood, near Dawlish, is said to have part-collapsed at around 11.30am this morning.

DAWLISH Museum is celebrating achieving recognition by reaching the national benchmark of quality. Administered by Arts Council England on behalf of the UK Accreditation Partnership, accreditation is the standard for well-run museums and galleries.

THE new lifts at Dawlish railway station are already out of action, just hours after they opened. Network Rail says work is underway to fix the fault

Allen, from Shropshire, is cycling around the country to raise money and awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in service veterans.

HUNDREDS of people enjoyed food and drink from local producers at the second Dawlish Food Festival.

MORE than £1,000 was raised for much-loved charity Dawlish Community Transport at a fund-raising concert.

For the second time in two weeks, the British Isles have been ravaged by an extreme weather event, that triggered ‘red – danger to life’ warnings. In the wake of storm Babet, which unleashed its fury across the UK, leaving a trail of destruction, the nation’s rail network suffered significant ...

A retired nursery nurse died after she was pulled from waters off the Dawlish coast, an inquest has heard. The brief inquest opening at Plymouth Coroner's Court was held earlier this week, noting the passing of 59-year-old Christine Louise Mead who was born in Wanstead, London and resided at an ...

A MUCH-USED bridge in a Dawlish park will be replaced, it has been confirmed. The footbridge at Manor Gardens has been closed to the public for months due to safety concerns.

Planning permission is being sought for 25 timber 'camping pods' already built at Golden Sands Holiday Park in Dawlish. According to the planning documents, they were "originally considered to fall within the definition of a caravan".

The 209m long rockfall shelter extension north of Parsons Tunnel is between Dawlish and Holcombe in south Devon. The structure made up of 185 pre-cast concrete units has taken two years to build. It will protect the railway from falling rocks and debris from the steep cliffs above.