Dawlish News

An underage drinker broke an autistic man’s cheekbone when he retaliated against having a soft drink thrown at him outside a convenience store. Thomas, now aged 18, of Kingsdown Crescent, Dawlish, admitted causing actual bodily harm and was ordered to do 120 hours unpaid community work and go on a ...

Joshua Garrett and Ben Bramall had been friends since school and they and classmate Daniel Whitehead became notorious when they were just 16 for being among the first in the country to receive ASBOs. Garrett and his four henchmen were trying to protect a heroin and cocaine dealing business from a ...

The Governing Body of NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group on Thursday afternoon unanimously approved the launch of an eight-week public consultation process over relocation of community, specialist outpatient clinics and day case procedures into a new health and wellbeing centre in Teignmouth or ...

What does power mean, and who holds the most of it in Devon? When it comes to decisions over public services  or how our cities and countryside will look in the future, then power remains in the hands of the traditional political institutions and big businesses, and their leaders. A former ...

Free Sunday parking in Teignbridge will be axed as part of budget proposals that have been approved. Teignbridge District Council’s budget plans for 2020/21, which also funding to employ a climate change officer and enhanced planning enforcement, were given the go-ahead by councillors on Monday ...

The scheme, funded jointly by the Environment Agency and Teignbridge District Council, cost £12 million and as well as building up the beach at Dawlish Warren, should protect 2,900 homes around the River Exe from flooding.

A homeless teenager who was bullied into drug dealing by the notorious Dawlish Geordies gang has been jailed. Police who picked him up on Cathedral Green in Exeter found a message on his phone telling him to do as he was told or 'I'm getting my pals up from Dawlish'.

A wealthy family have swapped their luxury villa in Morocco for a 'poor holiday' in a caravan near Dawlish for a brand new reality TV series. Episode 2 will show wealthy Cheshire entrepreneur and former footballer's wife, Jude Cisse, who will be taking her four children and mum Christine to a ...

It's been a tough year for the famous black swans at Dawlish - but within days of Storm Dennis washing the breeding pair's eggs and nest away the nine spirited survivors are nest-building again. Now the two Cobs (male swans) have moved down to Tuck's Plot and the wardens are clearing the ...

Dawlish is famed for its black swans, but today sad news has been shared that one of them has had its eggs washed away during Storm Dennis. Last May the future of Britain’s most famous black swans were said to be under threat after a string of dog attacks left just one breeding pair.

A ‘tourism tax’ to help protect Teignbridge’s coastal areas and make sure facilities keep pace with high visitor numbers could be introduced in time for this summer. The voluntary donation which would help fund conservation and tourism related projects, would apply to hotels, holiday parks, B&Bs ...

Network Rail are installing a bigger sea wall in Dawlish, Devon, to protect the coastal railway line, as well as the iconic footpath that runs beside it, from the sea and on 9 February the resilience work reached a significant milestone as the first new panels, which form the main structure of the ...

Ambitious plans for a new centre to tackle violent crime have been unveiled in a joint £1m project between Devon and Cornwall’s Chief Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner. The new approach is laid out in papers being presented today Friday February 7 at a meeting of the Police and Crime ...

The Devon Low Carbon Energy and Transport Technology Innovator (DELETTI) project is being led by Devon County Council to install electric vehicle charging points and aims to accelerate the uptake of Ultra Low Emission Vehicles through providing additional and improved charging infrastructure. Car ...

A homeless man who was living in a World War Two pillbox carried out a smash and grab raid on a phone shop to get money to feed his drug addiction. He was due in court for shoplifting at phone shops in Exeter when he broke into the Go Mobile shop on the Strand in Dawlish and stole more than ...

A violent organised crime gang who spread fear and misery in Dawlish and Teignmouth have been jailed for a combined total of 105 years. Police say the group – known by locals as ‘The Geordies’ - exerted significant influence and control within Dawlish and Teignmouth and used violence and coercive ...

Teenage boys were beaten up and hospitalised after a night of violence in Teignmouth at the weekend involving a gang allegedly carrying knives. Police have confirmed that they are investigating two separate incidents in Woodway Road at around 11.15pm on Saturday night in which one boy was knocked ...

Motor-mouth TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has weighed into the debate over the future of the Teignmouth and Dawlish rail line in typically controversial style. He said: "Yes, the track is vulnerable. In 2014 it was destroyed by a storm and, while it was being repaired, Cornwall was effectively cut ...

William Kelly was put on the sex offenders’ register in 2018 when he admitted spying on women from a loft space at a holiday park in Dawlish. It meant he was required to tell police about his movements. He was put on the register for five years by Newton Abbot Magistrates after he was caught naked ...

A raft of changes to Stagecoach’s bus network across Devon are planned in a bid to make the service more reliable. Among the proposed changes as part of the route consultation plan, it could see bus services from Bude to Exeter terminate in Okehampton, the Route X38 from Exeter to Plymouth ...

Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw has expressed his concern to the Government after a report that a new express train was disabled by sea water at Dawlish. In a letter to the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, he wrote: “[O]ne of GWR’s new Hitachi high speed trains was, as I understand it, completely ...

The EA reports: “Dawlish Warren is a small holiday resort where many holiday and mobile homes are located on low lying ground beside the Exe Estuary and bisected by the Shutterton Brook. A mainline railway embankment protects the site from routine tidal flooding but many properties are at risk ...

Just before the Christmas break, engineers discovered the sandstone base underlying the concrete foundations was failing. The headache could potentially add millions of pounds to the project’s costs.

Proposals for the section between Holcombe and Teignmouth in Devon are aimed at preventing the line being blocked by falling rocks from cliffs. People had been concerned the move might mean the loss of Holcombe beach. Part of the line at Dawlish, which runs along a stretch of beach, was washed ...

One person has been injured and travel disrupted after waves smashed the glass of a train window while on the main rail line through Devon. A spokesperson said: "The windows were smashed before the train reached Dawlish - passengers were immediately moved to other carriages - and the service ...

The A379 Exeter Road in Dawlish is currently closed due to an accident involving two cars. Two vehicles are involved in the incident, and the road is closed in both directions.

Bowlers in Teignbridge have been left fearing that potential changes to leases could drive their clubs out of business. Peter Sweet, treasurer and greens manager for the Marina Bowling Club in Dawlish, said: “If it is forced upon us to take over the maintenance of the green once our lease ...

Flooding is possible - be prepared

Forecasters have said some bus and train services could be affected and coastal areas, such as Plymouth and surrounding areas such as the Dawlish stretch of the Plymouth to Exeter line, are likely to affected by spray and large waves.

A pensioner was stamped to death in the street outside her house by her mentally ill partner in the midst of a psychotic episode. Downie appeared at Truro Crown Court via video-link from Langdon Psychiatric Unit in Dawlish for sentence on April 5 after previously admitting a manslaughter charge . ...

If you drive along the A380 on the approach to Haldon Hill, particularly around dawn or dusk, you will often see plenty of deer grazing. But thirteen deer have been killed and at least eight people injured, two seriously, as a result of collisions between the animals and vehicles on or around ...

Urgent Appeal For Woman, 29, Missing From Torquay Devon and Cornwall Police are concerned for the safety of Yewande Kotun, who has been a missing person since 30th December 2019 and was last seen in Torquay. She also has links to the Dawlish area. Yewande is described as a black female, 29 years ...

A second round of consultation over Network Rail’s plan to realign the railway track between Holcombe and Teignmouth and move it further out to see will begin later this month.

The weekends of January 4-5 and 11-12 will see all trains replaced by buses due to works which will be carried out by Great Western Railway. See more...

Anne Marie Morris MP thanks voters for putting their trust in her to represent the fantastic part of the world for another five years Newton Abbot town centre has had a significant face lift and Teignmouth Fish Quay and the Pavilions are now operational. The Dawlish railway line is well on the way ...

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Somerset said fire crews from Dawlish, Teignmouth and Exeter Middlemoor attended the property on Osprey Grove in Dawlish this morning (Saturday). After crews used various equipment to contain the fire and locate its source, fire crews have confirmed the cause of ...

Over the last 12 months, hundreds of planning applications have been approved by councils across Devon. Major £30m plans for a new sea wall at Dawlish to protect the railway for the next 100 years have been approved. Dawlish sea wall plans to protect railway for the next 100 years approved ...

Photographer Giles Davies saw the swan among a group of white ones on the Milford Haven waterway, on Saturday. He studied the swan for some time and it is "in good condition" and "living quite happily" among the other swans. "As for where it's come from, not a clue. I don't know," he added. In ...

A newly-released sex offender broke an order to stay away from children by staying at the home of a young mother who had a nine-year-old daughter. The order was imposed when he was jailed in March 2015 for having under age sex with a 15-year-old girl in a woodland den which he had built in land ...

One passenger claims he was stuck on the unmoving train for over two hours One man claims he was told the train had broken down "following sea water entering the engine at Dawlish" and was stuck on the train for over two hours.