Dawlish News

Emergency services were called to Dawlish last night after reports of an arson attack on a van. One fire engine from Dawlish attended a van on fire in the gateway of a field in Ashcombe at 23:06.

THE leader of a drugs gang who used his Dawlish furniture business as a front for his criminal operations has been told to hand back £200,000 in criminal cash. The four-week trial heard how Deny used his Dawlish-based furniture company Indo-Life UK as a front for the cocaine ring.

The Sawmills Solar Park is located within the Ashcombe Estate, 3.2km west of Dawlish.  The site is ideal for this purpose, thanks to the high average sun hours, good grid connections and transport links, and the bowl-shaped landscape which will naturally screen the park from view. What's more, the ...

PLANS have been submitted to demolish a coastal Georgian house in Dawlish and replace it with a luxury mini complex for older people. The former family holiday complex was put on the market last year with a price guide of nearly £2million. Plans to redevelop the site include demolishing the existing ...

The race is run over 10 country miles from Dawlish Leisure Centre and back, heading out to the Obelisk monument at Mamhead, along the green lanes and forest tracks which are always very wet, very hilly and seriously muddy. Four runners from the home club took part, with new member Greg Minns first ...

Cavanna Homes now employs 102 staff from its headquarters in Nicholson Road, Torquay and has taken-on four apprentices in the past year who will learn their trades from skilled contractors while studying at South Devon College. A further 200 local tradesmen and contractors are currently working on ...

THE famous black swans at Dawlish have been in danger of dying out after the loss of female swans this year. Rose, who has fed the swans for 25 years, has bought two ebony-coloured female swans to partner up with the existing two male swans living at the Brook which runs through the middle of the ...

Jamie Jones, Neil Groft and Thomas Papworth used an imitation pistol in the hold up in Newton Abbot in which they escaped with goods and cash worth just £170. Papworth’s girlfriend Kayleigh Ineson and friends James Carpenter and Craig Lee then tried to thwart the police investigation by hiding a ...

The honour follows a year in which Trevor managed the fire service response to the flooding on the Somerset Levels and the impact of the severe weather at Dawlish last winter. As Director of Operations at Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, Trevor has responsibility for all operational and ...

Members of The Rotary Club of Dawlish Water coordinate the majority of the collections with local businesses hosting collection points. “And many thanks go to The Rotary Club of Dawlish Water for coordinating and arranging the majority of the collections as well as Cartridges Solicitors, Robert ...

Fire Control recieved several calls from Ambulance control and members of the public stating that a mobile platform vehicle, also commonly known as a "cherry picker" had overturned on Church street, Dawlish trapping its occupant inside of the platform cage. One male was eventually released from the ...

FOUR days of severe weather are set to test South Devon's newly-repaired flood defences. While the weather bomb itself is heading to the north of the country, spin-off weather in the South West is expected to batter the region with big, powerful waves on the coast and an onslaught of heavy rain and ...

The Government has also allocated funding for the Dawlish Warren and Exmouth beach management scheme, which will see sand taken from Exmouth’s Pole Sands to shore up the Warren. This scheme previously included plans to replenish Exmouth beach, but environmental chiefs decided this was not yet ...

The mainline railway station is closed at Dawlish for safety reasons because waves are coming over the sea wall. Buses are being arranged to serve the station, but there's no estimate for when these will be in place. Trains can run through, with a speed restriction. Last updated Thu 13 Nov 2014

The £1.6m section of the coastal cycle path between Turf Lock and Powderham was opened by Devon County Council Chairman George Gribble. The full Exe Estuary Trail lets people walk or cycle along both sides of the River Exe between Exmouth, Exeter and Dawlish.

The B&B and guest accommodation of the year category was particularly good for South Devon, with Torquay’s The Elmdene taking gold, Teignmouth’s The Minadab Cottage taking silver, and Babbacombe’s Cary Arms taking bronze. In the holiday village and resort of the year category, Dawlish’s Cofton ...

The 28-year-old chairman of the Devon Young Farmers Club is a shining example of how the industry is changing and adopting new techniques, as it evolves to meet 21st century needs. Chris, who is due to step down from his post in two weeks after a year in office, is already forging a successful ...

The South West peninsula’s economy would enjoy a £6 billion windfall if the Government invested in electric trains to serve the entire region, a report reveals today. Against calls for heavy investment in railways in the far South West, an independent report has revealed for the first time the ...

Although palm oil is not toxic to humans, it can cause serious illness or even death to dogs which are tempted to eat it. Sightings of the sticky white substance have also been reported on the North Devon coast recently, and on beaches in Dawlish and the South Hams at South Sands, North Sands and ...

The council may compulsory purchase some of Richard Weeks' Warren Farm to create a public park on the cliffs between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren. More than 1,240 people have signed an online petition calling on the Government to 'stop Teignbridge Council forcing a farmer off his land'. Warren Farm ...

Clifftop land with panoramic views in Dawlish goes under the auctineer's gavel. With a freehold guide price of £5,000 to £10,000. "This is the chance to snap up your own piece of the Devon coast said Graham Barton", auctioneer and a regular on BBC's Homes Under The Hammer. The plot is listed for ...

The Exe Estuary Trail, Devon’s flagship cycle route, will be fully open to the public from this weekend. Although minor work on the new 1.9km section will be completed in the Spring, from tomorrow (Saturday 8 November) walkers and cyclists can access the three-metre wide off-road cycle path and ...

Amy Goldup (19) and her partner Billy-Ray Marks (22) both of Richards Close, Dawlish pleaded guilty at Torquay Magistrates Court on 29th October to charges relating to the selling counterfeit goods via Facebook, following an investigation by Devon & Somerset Trading Standards Service. The couple ...

James Pollard, 29, had been sleeping in a tent in a concrete shelter overlooking the sea for about five weeks when he overdosed on Saturday May 3. His partner Natalie Metcalf woke in the morning to find him deceased in his sleeping bag beside her.

TRAINS are being cancelled and delayed on the Plymouth to Exeter railway line as "huge waves" crash over the repaired track at Dawlish.

The Environment Agency says: “Flooding is possible for East facing coastal locations, including Beesands, Torcross, Slapton, Torbay and Dawlish for the evening tide on November 10.

The mum posted on the ‎Dawlish Neighbourhood Police Facebook page after the incident at the Barton Hill toilets in the town. Read more,,,

After being pressed by South West Devon MP Gary Streeter, the Prime Minister backed the upgrade of transportation in the area which could see road and rail links in the region improved. Plans are likely to be revealed in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on December 3, with an upgrade of the A303 ...

TEN people were arrested in London during dawn raids linked to a £2m phone scam which included elderly target victims in Dawlish. Widespread police publicity about the hoodwinking culprits is thought to have saved Dawlish and other Teignbridge targets from the worst excesses of the gang’s swindling ...

The campaign, which boasts cross-party and multi-industry support, calls on the Government to fund the long-awaited A303 gateway to the South West and underwrite a series of improvements to the railways that make trains serving the region quicker, more reliable and more comfortable. The parlous ...

Two-year-old white German Shepherd Bailey was found dead by his owner who saw a blue van speed off towards Secmaton Lane in Dawlish. The owner said: “Bailey was only two-years and three-months old, still a baby. “He was a big soft teddy bear and we miss him loads. The place is empty without him. “If ...

Brian Powell persuaded his 19-year old son Callum to tell him the security codes and draw a plan of the arcade in Dawlish Warren so he could reach the money. He was caught by detectives who realised his son must be the inside man because only three people knew the codes and the other two still ...

AS you will see in the HE2 supplement, the Victoria St. Paignton Fruit and Vegetable store, which has long existed under the Stokes brand, is being re-launched under the name Devonfresh. This represents the first phase of the relaunch of five Stokes shops in Devon (Exeter, Teignmouth, Dawlish, ...

In-a-hurry Devon homebuyers spend 25.5 minutes viewing a property before making a decision - only seven minutes more than they spend buying a new pair of jeans. And the average decision cost per minute for house hunting in Dawlish equates to £9,098. The findings come in a report from Barratt Homes, ...

FIRST Great Western have been told by district council planners to remove a temporary car and coach park installed at Tiverton Parkway to cope with increased passenger numbers following the damage to the London to Paddington mainline at Dawlish. Following repairs to the track at Dawlish the mainline ...

FIRST Great Western is set to be awarded an uncontested contract extension to run the railway between Plymouth and London, with union bosses branding the decision a "stitch-up". Plymouth and the rest of the South West is waiting for a Government decision on the future of the rail line between Exeter ...

The Government has faced criticism for cutting flood defence spending after the South West was battered the winter storms, leaving the Somerset Levels underwater for months and cutting off the Great Western railway at Dawlish in Devon. Defra says spending has gone up compared to the last Parliament.

After bad weather caused the swim phase to be cancelled last year, this year saw much better conditions for the 750-metre swim, 13-mile bike phase and the 5k run. With more 500 competitors registered the field was split into two waves to enable the swim start to be staggered. The long cycle resulted ...