Dawlish News

A LONG-LOST big game gun specially made for renowned Victorian explorer Sir Samuel Baker from Newton Abbot has been bagged at a bargain price by a collector originally from Dawlish.

Teignmouth, Newton Abbot, Bovey Tracey, Torquay, Clyst St George, and Dawlish firefighters were scrambled to the scene in Dawlish, at about 2.30am on New Year's Day.

Two 26-year-old men have walked free from court for having underage sexual activity with two 14-year-old girls during a drink and drug fuelled encounter at a flat in Dawlish.

A £12 million flood defence scheme will protect 2,800 homes and businesses around the Exe estuary, Michael Gove, the Environment Secretary, declared.

Jonathan Grant was desperate for money after moving out of the landlady’s home into his own flat in Dawlish that he went back to raid it. Grant, aged 34, of West Cliff, Dawlish, admitted burglary and was jailed for eight months, suspended for two years, ordered to pay £1,500 compensation, do 100 ...

Toby, who lives with his wife Lisa and family in Dawlish, South Devon, said: “You can keep your non-drop, I like a needle in my sock at Christmas, that is all part of the charm for me.”

Plans for a revamped 12-hole safari-themed mini golf course in Dawlish are set to draw the backing of planners after councillors visited the site. Following the site visit, a report to councillors says that the revised plans have reduced the number of outside tables to six with 24 covers, and ...

Devon rail lines closed during the notorious Beeching cuts of the 1960s could be reopened, the Transport Secretary has announced. The route from Okehampton to Exeter has been included in the proposal. The route could provide a vital alternative to the Dawlish line - which closes during storms and ...

A former chairman of Teignbridge District Council has resigned from the council. Mr Price has lived and worked in Dawlish for more than 30 years and was a shopkeeper and a retained firefighter.

Shock proposals to end free Sunday parking and to provide a steep hike in winter parking charges at the Dawlish Warren car park might not be legally permissible, a report has revealed. Read more:

Panto season is upon us. Oh yes it is! Time to take your seats and prepare for sly digs, saucy jokes, slapstick routines and, most important of all, to join in with the show. Exeter’s Northcott Theatre – now thriving and celebrating its 50 anniversary after teetering on the brink of closure seven ...

A woman has been airlifted to Derriford hospital with serious head injuries - and a driver is in police custody - following collision which has closed a major Devon road. The A379, the main road to Dawlish, has been shut between Starcross and the Swans Nest roundabout since 10.40am this morning.

A combination of a high tide and strong winds will make it unsafe for trains to travel along the sea wall at Dawlish today from 9:30 until 11am. Source:

Teignbridge Council is being told it should to end its winter policy of 'free on Sundays' and cheaper winter parking at Dawlish Warren, and instead impose seven day a week charges at the much higher summer rates.

The border collie ran off from Cockwood, near Dawlish, on October 17.

A plea has gone out for the region's crumbling infrastructure ahead of the budget on Wednesday

Dawlish Warren’s outer car park is now home to the Exe Valley Cycle Hire and Veloshack Café while along the coast in Dawlish Salty Dog Kiosks has been set up on Smugglers Lane. Jon Sell and Nick Beer converted the loos at Dawlish Warren into new cycle hire and café facilities while Stephen Rowe ...

'If I hadn't gone to the Wave Project I don't think life would be so good at the moment'

They are alleged to have defrauded cash from an elderly Dawlish man.

A judge has ordered a further psychiatric report on a man who is accused of threatening staff at a community centre in Exeter with an air pistol. Armour, who is currently being treated at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, admitted a second charge of having a bladed article at the hostel in King William ...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 21-year-old woman was victim to a robbery Tuesday 14November 2017. The incident occurred at around 8.20pm in Secmaton Lane in Dawlish. A man approached the victim, who was alone at the time of the incident, and took her bank card before making off towards ...

The new Great Western Railway IEP class 802 has been seen in Dawlish It will compete similar return journeys throughout the rest of Wednesday and Thursday as it undertakes a series of test runs. See more...

Visitors to Teignbridge will be able to enjoy swimming in cleaner water than ever before thanks to huge strides made to improve water quality – with all seven beaches having been rated as having ‘excellent’ bathing water quality standards. The results are based on weekly water sampling by the ...

A toddler in Dawlish suffered a shocking wound to his head - which his dad has blamed on an inconsiderate pavement parker. He had been walking with his mum and five-year-old brother Jack before being left bloody with wide cut to his head. He was rushed to the accident centre at Dawlish Hospital ...

There must be ‘something in the water’ as the famous black swans in Dawlish cannot stop breeding – with a record-breaking fourth brood of cygnets having hatched this year, The trio made their first appearance into the world on November 8 and the Dawlish Waterfowl warden said that the three new ...

The court heard that 18 window panes at Dawlish Baptist Church were allegedly smashed with a hammer The trial of a 52-year-old woman accused of smashing windows at Dawlish Baptist Church has been adjourned.

Police are appealing for witnesses after the paintwork on the car was damaged when offenders threw the ‘corrosive substance’ over the roof and bonnet DevonLive:

POLICE have praised the courage of two young victims after two men were found guilty of plying them with drink and drugs and having sex with them. Full Article:

A 70-year-old woman was left terrified after a fire started at her home this morning. The woman had to be treated by medics after the incident in South Devon just after 6am. Three crews from Dawlish, Middlemoor and Teignmouth were mobilised following the call from the distressed woman.

Aleasha Scibilia was desperate for drugs or money to buy them and ransacked the other woman's room before stealing morphine, methadone, an iPad, money and jewellery. Scibilia also went shoplifting in Dawlish and Teignmouth on four occasions to get items which she could sell to raise cash to feed her ...

A proposal to merge two special schools in Dawlish into a single residential special school is being consulted on. Plans are being proposed to merge the schools to create one special school which could accommodate 190 children with 35 weekly residential places. The aim is to provide better ...

Jeremy Corbyn is currently travelling to North Devon, possibly on a low-speed rail line, to act as guest speaker at a special fundraising event tonight – but what questions should we put to the Labour leader? Last month he told the BBC he had bold plans to electrify rail lines from London, through ...

A father has told of his anger and disgust at learning that his 14-year-old daughter had been allegedly sexually abused by men in a seaside flat when he thought she was sleeping at a friend's house. His daughter lied about having a sleepover with a schoolfriend and instead the two girls went to stay ...

A mental health patient has denied threatening staff at a hostel in Exeter with an air pistol but admitted having a knife with him during the same incident. Armour appeared by video link from Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, where he is being treated after being transferred from Exeter Prison because of ...

The body of a man whose last words were about the size of the waves hitting the Devon beach he was walking on has been found. The 67-year-old Paignton man spoke on the phone about the size of the waves hitting the sea wall at Dawlish and drowned moments later, an inquest has heard.

Planners have given the go ahead to convert a barn at a farm in Dawlish with a long and complicated planning history into a home. Although part of the barn is used as a home, there is a current Enforcement Notice requiring the cessation of its residential use. The application is complicated further ...

A railway-themed holiday park could soon be open all year round as a holiday destination. The Brunel Camping Carriages site in Dawlish Warren, which features eight chalets in converted rail carriages, was sold at auction for £261,000 last year.

As a result of a weather warning that has been issued for the sea wall at Dawlish tonight, CrossCountry's 'Voyager' trains are unable to run between Newton Abbot and Exeter St Davids between 7.15pm and 11pm. Trains through Dawlish cancelled due to Storm Brian See more...

A patient who used butane gas to try to blow up a former NHS clinic is to be detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. He was ordered to remain under the care of doctors at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish after a judge at Exeter Crown Court ruled he posed a potential danger to the public.