Dawlish News

Access to the busy Dawlish beach and promenade will be disrupted this summer as Network Rail starts the final phase of building a new sea wall for the resort. The company has apologised but says it must be “safety first” as the major works begin.

The supermarket is offering £22,500 for anyone who can find suitable sites

Patrick Gorman turned to alcohol after the breakdown of his marriage but it led to him being sacked from the private girls’ school in Exeter where he had been a respected employee.

The force has warned that online crime reports and emails to 101, the non-emergency contact, could take up to seven days to process. It also said that it would focus on responding to emergencies.

Devon's iconic Dawlish and Holcombe railway route has received a £32m funding boost to help protect it from storm damage. It brings the total amount invested to secure the future of the railway up to more than £150m.

A prolific burglar ransacked homes in Dawlish and Teignmouth before driving 300 miles back home to North Wales. Ian Nash forced his way into four houses and stole thousands of pounds worth of jewellery and family heirlooms.

Figures for the week to last Thursday [March 10] show the rate in the Devon County Council area rose by 74 per cent, compared to 81 per cent in Teignbridge 66 per cent in Plymouth and 43 per cent in Torbay

A sleeper train which provides a key link between Cornwall, Devon and London is returning to full service, bosses say. It was part of Network Rail's multi-million pound scheme to protect the line between Dawlish and Teignmouth.

Services at Teignmouth Hospital will move to Dawlish Hospital and to a new £8m health centre in the town centre. However, campaigners say community beds are "desperately needed" and a petition was signed by 1,000 people

The three men in an old Ford Mondeo drove onto a pavement and tried to intercept guard Matthew Fleet as he carried £1,644 from the Build Centre DIY store to the main shop at the Stover site. Jagla, aged 29, of The Strand, Dawlish, and Boon, aged 28, of Coombe Lane, Torquay, both deny attempted ...

Dawlish Water Rotary Club has chosen for its 2021 Community Champion Dawlish Town Council events, projects and tourism officer Angie Weatherhead – an incredible volunteer champion in her own right.

For the first time eat:festivals is coming to the town with more than 50 local producers including farmers market favourites such as local ales, ciders and wine, bread cakes and pies plus street food, spirits and charcuterie, plus music and street entertainers.

Planning approval has been issued for the conversion of three barns on a farm in Ashcombe, Dawlish, Devon. Our client came to us following the refusal of an earlier application where the Local Planning Authority (LPA) had questioned the extent of the works required to facilitate the conversion and ...

A SERIAL burglar is facing jail after he admitted breaking into three homes in Dawlish or Teignmouth during a holiday in Devon . He burgled homes at Underwood Close, and Summerland Avenue, Dawlish, and Boyds Drive, Teignmouth, between September 19 and 23, 2020.

Toilet Twinning may sound like a bit of a joke - but far from it. It is a charity that is fulfilling a desperate need for improved health and sanitation in impoverished countries around the world, writes Bruce Pell of Dawlish Water Rotary.

A DAWLISH man has been cleared of a bottle attack after the victim told a court that he did not know who had hit him. The violence flared near Dawlish Railway Station at the end of the first Friday night in which pubs were open after the first lockdown in 2020 and many of those involved had been ...

He spent 12 minutes video calling friends and taking selfies on the tracks - even after a near miss He appears to be chatting to friends via video call, when, at around the two minutes and thirty seconds mark, he spots the sleeper train from Paddington and dashes from the tracks.

Yesterday, Saturday, the fire service was called to a carbon monoxide incident caused by a resident desperate for warmth and hot food using a gas barbecue indoors.

Tim Hawkins spent seven years being treated at the Langdon Hospital in Devon after being sentenced under the Mental Health Act in 2014 for trying to burn down a church in Somerset.

Geoffrey Cox, the boss of Southern Healthcare which owns four care homes in Devon (in Exeter, Plymouth, Dawlish and Seaton), says: “We absolutely welcome this news. Visiting is fundamentally important for wellbeing – the residents especially, their families and the staff – after a very harrowing ...

Mr Dancey-Stevenson, from Helston, appeared at Truro Crown Court on Thursday via a video link from Langdon Hospital in Dawlish.

The change, which comes into force from April as part of the new public space protection order (PSPO) for dogs, has been agreed by councillors and will see the maximum length halved from the current two metres.

Councillor Andrea Davis, Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment and Transport, said: “The rail station will also be an important asset to support economic growth to the south west of Exeter, as well as Dawlish and Newton Abbot.”

Angelique Aldworth, a 44-year-old mum-of-two from Devon, began to suffer excruciating headaches in 2020 but brushed them off as a cold until a terrifying incident landed her in hospital Angelique Aldworth, 44, was rugby-mad and working as a coach in the sport in Dawlish, Devon, when she started ...

Today [Friday] marks eight years to the day since the infamous 2014 storm which severely damaged the railway on the South Devon coastline

Passengers are being told the incident is currently under investigation The staff member said: "There has been a fight on the train at Dawlish. The train is still at Dawlish. They are waiting for the police."

Samuel Tooley led the violence which left his victim unconscious with severe brain injuries in Somerset Place. He was in a coma for a month and had part of his skull removed by surgeons. Tooley, of Sandygate Mill, Kingsteignton admitted grievous bodily harm and was jailed for two years and eight ...

A Dawlish man living with cystic fibrosis has set himself an ambitious challenge in a bid to help others. The genetic condition causes a range of challenging symptoms, including thick sticky mucus in the lungs, problems with the digestive system and liver blockages.

James O’Reilly named his line Benny after his nickname and sent 98 texts in the space of three days offering users ‘best of both’ meaning heroin and crack cocaine.

The owners of Devon's famous fungi farm - which featured on ITV show James Martin's Islands to Highlands - have announced expansion plans which could see a new state-of-the-art mushroom farm being built on the outskirts of Dawlish.

It’s named after something by the A38 that’s no longer there Just beyond the slip where you can turn off towards Dawlish and Exminster on the A379 if you’re heading east, the Wobbly Wheel Garage stood on the site that is now occupied by Partridge Cycles

At a meeting of Devon County Council’s health and adult care scrutiny committee on Thursday, the first since then, the agenda contained ’modernising health and care services in the Teignmouth and Dawlish area - update on referral to secretary of state for health and social care’ as one of the items ...

Sleeper trains through South Devon will be disrupted by the latest stage of work to protect the exposed coastal railway line at Dawlish, after engineers discovered problems with the ground alongside the line. Over the eight weeks, Network Rail will be working overnight to improve the railway line ...

Edward Serra got in with a notorious Dawlish drugs gang, court told A cannabis user has been spared jail after conquering his paranoia and making progress getting his life back together.

It is safe to say that it has been an eventful week! I’d like to take the opportunity to address the events of this week but also, as usual, talk about some of the various things I have been up to.

We are petitioning to keep our children safe by asking Devon county council to install a variable speed limit along a short section of the main Exeter road in Dawlish, before and after the Elm Grove Road junction

Overnight engineering work begins on 24 January to improve the railway line that connects 50 towns and cities across the UK’s south west with the rest of the country.

A teenage boy has been rushed to hospital after being hit by a car in Dawlish. Emergency services were called to Exeter road at around 3:35pm today following reports a car collided with a teenage boy and another car.

The number of people receiving their booster in the county this week is set to be double last week’s figure, according to Dr Paul Johnson, clinical chair of the NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service received several calls about the incident in Elm Grove Road at about 4.30am.