Dawlish News

JUST days after the opening of the new £80million sea wall, vandals have defaced part of the wall at Coryton Cove, Dawlish.

Four rescues took place at Dawlish Warren, two in Exmouth and one in Teignmouth.

A popular Devon holiday park has opened its large outdoor swimming pool to the public just in time for a rare half-term filled with a forecast of nothing but sunshine and temperatures of more than 20Cs. Award-winning, family-run holiday park Cofton Holidays in Dawlish is now allowing day visitors to ...

LYNNE NICHOLLS, of Lower Drive, Dawlish, writes: Read on...

IT’S time to get to work - that’s the message from the newly-elected Mayor of Dawlish

Visitors of a Devon seaside tea room have complemented its cream teas and described them as being out of this world. Daisy's Tea Room, on The Strand in Dawlish, sells light lunches, cream teas and lots of cakes, which are baked fresh daily for its customers.

A picturesque seaside town in Devon is loved by local residents, as well as visitors. Dawlish is located about 13 miles from Exeter and whether people have lived there for months or years, they have nothing but praise for the area and have welcomed all of the latest additions like the new play park ...

Crews from Dawlish, Teignmouth, Danes Castle and Middlemoor were called in at around 5pm to deal with the fire in the chip shop's cooking range.

A local business in the heart of Dawlish has been branded amazing by locals for its welcoming atmosphere and for supporting mothers in the Devon town. We went along to Annie's Tea Room, on Brunswick Place, and met the incredible owner Carley Holmes, who named her business in her late mother's ...

Connor Sidell was caught red handed because he tripped up on the stairs of the house in Dawlish after returning for a second time to look for more items to steal.

Completion of the £80m government-funded project means locals and visitors to Dawlish can enjoy the accessible high-level promenade all the way from Boat Cove to Coastguards footbridge, where it then joins the original sea wall. Stretching between coastguards and Colonnade breakwaters, it is linked ...

A VITAL road bridge needed to complete a multi-million-pound development at Dawlish has been given the green light after councillors heard they must act quickly or risk losing the funds to build it.

The exact date the two rebuilt sections of the wall will finally be linked is yet to be announced but engineers are working on the finishing touches

Organised by Turn The Tide Teignbridge CIC and Dawlish Town Council, the festival is aimed at celebrating the sea and highlighting the current ‘climate emergency’.

VOLUNTEERS at Dawlish Museum have been hard at work behind the scene getting new displays ready for this year’s opening.

WORK is forging ahead on the installation of a lift at Dawlish railway station Once completed, the work will mean Dawlish station has a lift for the first time in its history.

THE bathing water season started on Monday, with regular testing of water quality from the Environment Agency now underway at 150 designated bathing sites across Devon and Cornwall. Beaches monitored in Teignbridge include Teignmouth, Shaldon, Ness Cove, Holcombe, Coryton Cove, Dawlish, Dawlish ...

One person said: “This picture is a big miss between Dawlish and Teignmouth in Devon which LNER does not visit.

Dawlish Community Transport, Dawlish Gardens Trust and the Friends of Dawlish Hospital are holding the event on May 26.

The A379 Exeter Road near Dawlish is currently blocked due to a multi-vehicle crash. According to roads traffic and monitoring service, Inrix, the road is partially blocked both ways due to the incident near the car wash.

A POPULAR Dawlish seafront cafe has been targeted by vandals for the second time in two weeks.

DAWLISH and Cockwood as among the six Devon communities that would most benefit from lower traffic speeds and have been chosen for new 20mph schemes.

THE iconic Smugglers Inn at Holcombe Rogus, Dawlish, has been sold off a guide price of £200,000 for the leasehold interest. Having achieved a loyal following with many years of successful trading, the Smugglers Inn is well known for its carvery offering, with booking well advised via a fully ...

"Police are concerned for the whereabouts and welfare of 30-year-old Ed Appiah. Ed was last seen in the Dawlish area of Devon at around 5.15pm on Tuesday, May 9, 2023.

A Devon mobile pizza company that launched during the Covid pandemic is now hoping for national recognition by competing this weekend in the British Street Food Awards. Soul Pizza Truck, based in Dawlish, began back in February 2021, when Sam Connett found himself searching for a new job in the ...

Daniel Doran, aged 18, of Grove Lane, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon; and Felix Rooney, aged 31, of Leicester Road, Market Harborough, both pleaded not guilty to stealing the expensive car exhaust components at Dawlish Warren on March 13 this year.

Benjamin Adam Myers, aged 31, of Old Town Street, had been served with a domestic violence protection notice by a police officer on April 30.

Oakleigh, Shutterton Lane, Dawlish • Seaway Bungalow, Little Week Lane, Dawlish • 27 Little Week, Little Week Lane, Dawlish • Veryan Close, 3 Veryan Close, Dawlish • The Rise Care Home, Luscombe Hill, Dawlish All Good See more...

The route includes travelling along the internationally famous sea wall at Dawlish, crossing Brunel’s famous Saltash Bridge into Cornwall, and some of the most varied and exciting scenery in the country. Passengers can choose to spend time in Plymouth or travel on to Par, where buses are provided ...

A missing woman was located in Dawlish Warren after multiple emergency services were called out. Police were called just after 10pm on Thursday, April 27, after concerns for the welfare of a woman who was missing in the Dawlish area.

A police spokesman confirmed officers were in the area of Warren Road answering reports of a possible ‘breach of the peace on private land’.

Anne Marie Morris talks Network Rail funding and hosepipe bans in her latest column

An inquest was recently opened at Plymouth Coroner's court into the death of 53-year-old Dr Dinan by assistant coroner Philip Spinney. At the brief hearing, held on April 14, he noted how Claire was born in Plymouth and resided in Dawlish.

Lidl has unveiled plans to open hundreds of new stores across the UK - including multiple branches in Devon. The inexpensive supermarket, which already has more than 900 locations in the country, has published a list of all the locations it would like to open new stores. See more...

Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris has sounded the alarm after hearing that funding for vital work to protect the exposed coastal railway line through her constituency is at risk. She says it is “wholly unacceptable” that huge sums of money are being spent on the controversial HS2 line to the north ...

• Aleasha Sullivan, 32 and Joshua Sandercock, 30, were found dead at her home • Mr Sandercock had been arrested for assaulting her and banned from contact • An inquest found Ms Sullivan died from natural causes, blood clots on the lungs •

This could cover situations like recent flooding in Mid Devon in January 2023, coastal storm damage from Storm Eunice in February 2022, or the extremely high waves that struck Dawlish and the South Devon coastline in February 2014.

FOUR Dawlish runners are preparing to tackle the gruelling London Marathon this weekend. Laura Fuller is finally able to run in the marathon after disappointment in 2020 when the event was cancelled due to Covid.

Dawlish coastguards are now able to carry out rescues from mud and water using specialist equipment.

A former mental patient is to undergo an assessment into his mental health after he admitted carrying out a sexual assault. Miss Evie Dean, defending, said there is background of psychiatric illness which has led to in patient treatment at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish in the past.