Dawlish News

Network Rail has apologised to the public as the Colonnade underpass at Dawlish is about to close for up to 12 weeks at the height of the summer holiday season from next Monday June 13. Engineers are building 20-metre long foundations for a new bridge in the second section of the sea wall, which is ...

Sightings have been made in around 200 different locations across the country. The biggest cluster can be found in Dawlish Warren in Devon and they are the emblem of this town.

RESIDENTS have slammed builders Redrow saying their newbuild homes are ruined after “dodgy” sewer pipes have been unleashing a foul stench for years.

Cllr Foden (Lib Dem, Kenn Valley), who gave up her car last year, said there had been ‘lots of cuts to services’ since the start of April, including the number two Stagecoach bus which serves Newton Abbot to Exeter via coastal towns. Her motion asks that, at the first opportunity, ‘every effort be ...

A massive jubilee weekend of hundreds of events across Torbay and South Devon is set to bring millions of pounds of badly-needed business into the area. Analysts believe a bumper £15.5 million will be spent on the English Riviera over the four days of the jubilee bank holiday long weekend. The air ...

Residents living at a development site in Dawlish have blasted a string of 'false promises' from housebuilder Redrow after years of issues. According to long-term residents at The Copse, Redrow promised the completion of the site years ago, despite being 'nowhere near ready'.

Teignbridge Council has announced phase one of the new park at the top of Deepway Lane will be open to cyclists and walkers first in June, then for people travelling by car when parking has been provided. Long-term the future of the park has been secured through an agreement with the Land Trust, a ...

South West Water has completed work on a scheme to upgrade sections of the sewerage network in Dawlish as part of an ongoing commitment to protect bathing water and the environment while reducing pollution. The work, which began in June 2021, involved installing a new surface water system within the ...

The group meets every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 6.30pm outside the Sports Bar in Sandy Lane, Dawlish. For more information go to dawlishcoasters.com.

Traffic flows in the area will be monitored during the trial, which continues until Monday, June 13 Work will begin next week to temporarily widen the footpath in the Strand at three sections near the Galleon Inn, Starcross Garage and the former Westbank Charity Shop. Temporary kerbs are being ...

CONCERNED residents from Teignmouth and Dawlish took part in an on-street sit-in for a second week running.

Geoffrey Cox, who runs four highly rated and award-winning care homes in Devon, including Sefton Hall at Dawlish TRUST urgently needs to be repaired between the government and the care industry after the ‘scandalously wrong’ decision to discharge patients untested for Covid into care homes at the ...

A Dawlish woman who has just returned from six years living abroad has opened a tea room in memory of her mother. Owner Carley Holmes named the new venture after her mother who used to have a hairdressing salon in the town

Two close friends of Dawlish martial arts teacher and convicted rapist Paul Drury have also been jailed for child sex offences.

Brunel Holiday Park at Dawlish Warren, which offers stays in converted train carriages, is now for sale for close to £1m The park was initially set up by Great Western Railway in 1935, but only for railway employees and their families to use for their holidays.

A £15.4m new cycle route linking Torquay and Newton Abbot is expected to get the green light next week. Members of Teignbridge Council will be asked to support the ambitious bid to the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to deliver the “strategic” cycle route as well as links to the new neighbourhood of ...

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Ian Carroll, who has managed The Cove Cafe at Coryton Cove since it opened around five years ago, said the cafe would be “severely affected” by the closure, as the only remaining access will be via the cliff path, which is steep and has lots of steps, or via the stepped footbridge.

A Dawlish holiday park has hit the market for just under £1million. Brunel Holiday Park, which is situated in Dawlish Warren has been put up for sale for £950,000 giving one new owner to take on what is being described as the largest and most impressive 'trainaction' site in the UK.

It was spotted in Dawlish yesterday as it made its way along the Devon coast Two trains have been spotted flying through Dawlish during an English Riviera Statesman Rail Tour. Yesterday, May 14, the D1944/47501 Craftsman Double Headed was seen making its along the Devon coast in a return trip from ...

• Lauren Corbishley, 43, an NHS nurse from Dawlish in Devon, applied to the Homes For Ukraine scheme to bring three members of a Ukrainian family to UK • She made a plea to Home Office which she says 'appears to have shut up shop' • Head of British Red Cross criticised 'long, complex' application ...

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.