Dawlish News

A Dawlish historian has claimed the damage to the Dawlish rail line may have been prevented if the designer Brunel's original plans were followed. Bob Vicary prepared seven history boards along the South Devon Coast Path between Dawlish Warren and Lea Mount Park, Dawlish, for the Brunel bicentenary. ...

Network Rail has announced they will reopen the storm-damaged railway line, that connects the South West to the rest of the UK, on the 4 April, two weeks earlier than planned and well in time for Easter.

Network Rail has told the government it hopes to reopen the railway line destroyed by storms at Dawlish before its target of mid-April. Rail minister Steve Hammond said he had been given a "commitment" that "if they can beat that date, they will".

A bankrupt man has been jailed for looting £200,000 from his grandfather-in-law’s bank account and losing it all on gambling. David Comer took control of 97-year-old James Wrighton’s finances after he moved into his home in Devon and stole all but £3,000 of his life savings. Read more:

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The reopening of the South West's main rail link will be delayed by up to two weeks after another storm causes more damage at Dawlish in Devon. BBC News :- Dawlish business affected by storms helped by Devon Community Foundation Herald :-

New pictures of the latest damage to the railway line, taken by the police helicopter crew. Reopening of main Dawlish rail line delayed after storm.

TEMPORARY containers protecting the sea wall at Dawlish have been breached tonight. It is understood around 30 people have been evacuated from their homes and are being looked after by Teignbridge Council. The line was originally washed away in the last fierce storms and will not reopen until at ...

PRIME Minister David Cameron has said the Government is committed to reopening the Dawlish line – rather than opening an alternative route that avoids the coast. The Herald and Western Morning News have been heading a GW2 campaign – calling for an alternative link to London that isn’t subject to sea ...

Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris has said the transport secretary has reassured her that the Dawlish rail line will reopen by mid March. Read more:

RESIDENTS of storm-hit Dawlish have rallied to help people evacuated from their seafront homes. The Dawlish Flood Appeal set up by the town council swelled to more than £6,000 in just 100 hours following an initial £1,000 contribution from the council. Read more:

BBC news article suggesting Network Rail has a preferred alternative route to the Dawlish one. However, abandoning the Dawlish route was "not an option".

Engineers have been working on a six-hours on, six-hours off basis around the tidal patterns to protect the most damaged section of sea wall in the coastal town of Dawlish, Devon. Full assessment of repairs will carried out this week, along with a revised timescale. Until then. the initial ...

Travellers in south west England will get more flights and discounted train fares to help them after the rail in Dawlish in Devon was wrecked by severe storms. McLoughlin said that, following discussions with the DfT, airline Flybe will double, to six, the number of daily flights between Newquay in ...

A robber not caught since he absconded from a prison in the Midlands last year may be in Dawlish, police have said. Daniel Walker, 28, went missing from HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire when he was released on temporary licence in May last year. West Midlands Police believe Walker, jailed for robbery in ...

Residents in a Devon town have spoken of how they were evacuated from their crumbling homes after waves destroyed coastal defences as fearsome storms sweeped in from the Atlantic. Now another band of heavy rain is forecast to sweep across southern Britain today, with a separate area of low pressure ...

Parts of Britain are being hit by a powerful storm which has washed away a stretch of railway line and left thousands of homes without electricity. The Environment Agency says around 328 homes have been flooded since Friday evening - with more heavy rain forecast into the weekend. A section of the ...

Damage caused to the sea wall and rail line. Top right is where the sea wall is breached along Riveria Terrance. Riviera Terrace The next day, after the track section has been removed. Other storm damage pictures:-

People have been evacuated from their homes in Devon and Cornwall as severe weather batters the counties. Twenty people have been evacuated from Dawlish, where police have declared a major incident. In Kingsand the emergency services were urging people to leave their homes overnight because of the ...

Several miles of ballast which supports track on the railway line was washed away and one hundred feet of sea wall collapsed at Dawlish during the evening. More floods are expected and coastguards are warning of gale force 9 for Wednesday morning. Source: Pictures:

Date: 04/02/2014 Time: 21:20 Location: Marine Parade, Dawlish Area: Western County: Devon The Fire Service attended an incident in the above area. Fire Appliances from Dawlish and Teignmouth attended this incident. On arrival, crews confirmed two persons within a vehicle in flood water. Crews got to ...

A NEW Flood Warning was issued by the Environment Agency on Friday afternoon. The warning said flooding was expected for low-lying and exposed communities between Start Point and Dawlish Warren, including Beesands, Torcross, Slapton, Torbay and Dawlish. It covers the period around high water at ...

The search began at approximately 6.30pm yesterday evening, when police were informed of a man who had gone missing in the Dawlish area. Police conducted a search of the coastline, with coastguard rescue teams from Exmouth, Teignmouth and Torbay, two lifeboats from Exmouth and Teignmouth, and an RAF ...

BUILDING work on six eco-houses on a two acre site at Broadhempston is to start in March. The site is just one the Land Society – set up set up three years ago at The Torbay Development Agency's Vantage Point Innovation Centre in Paignton to offer help to people to own their own affordable home – is ...

ANGUS MENTER continued his good form in 2014 as he led Haldon Trail Runners home at Dawlish Coasters' Oh My Obelisk race on Sunday. Menter, who finished ninth in the previous weekend's First Chance 10k, came home sixth overall and third male over-40 in 1hr 19mins 46secs. He was the first of five ...

A coastal erosion expert has warned that the new year storms could see more cliffs collapsing later this year. Storms have already caused a number of collapses around the coast, including at Porthcothan Bay in Cornwall where a landmark rock arch fell into the sea. Read News Article ... Powerful ...

A visitor has admitted taking part in a robbery at a Dawlish holiday camp site where a member of staff was allegedly threatened with an axe. Craig Lockyer pleaded guilty to the £12,000 robbery at the Golden Sands park but a second man denied the charge and police inquiries are continuing into at ...

Luke Friend's former guitar teacher has had two of his guitars stolen from his shop in Teignmouth.A blue Fender guitar and a rare Dean Dave Mustaine Mako Glory were snatched.Peter Williams, who taught X Factor star Luke for over a year, had stored the two instruments worth £750 and other music kit ...

Several severe flood warnings, which indicate a possible a danger to life, have been issued for Devon by the Environment Agency for Friday. Strong winds, large waves and high tides have prompted the warnings for the Taw Torridge estuary, Ilfracombe and the Torridge and Taw rivers. Coastal areas on ...

The Institute of Civil Engineer's South West Minor Project of the Year Award 2013 has commended the use of fibre-reinforced-polymer composite (FRP) in the footbridge structure, which was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1830 and is grade II listed. Unfortunately, the station's steel ...

Police are appealing for witnesses after sporting equipment for the disabled was stolen from Dawlish Community College. The thieves took £100 of white guttering from the Sandy Lane Skate Park, used by disabled children playing ball games. They struck on December 17 between 9.45am and 11.30am.Anyone ...

On the Wednesday 26th Novemebr at around 20.00 a member of public found a load of fishing wire wrapped around the life guard hut in Dawlish Warren Beach . The owner of a dog and another member of the public got caught up in it. I would like to warn walkers, especially during the dark hours, to take ...

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DEVON are sending a team of table cricketers to Nottingham this weekend for the first national finals of a disability competition – and most of them are from Dawlish. Table cricket – played on a table-tennis table with a mini bat and ball – has been around for about 20 years. It originated at Trent ...

A mother and her young child have been rescued from a house fire in Dawlish. Devon and Somerset fire and rescue service were called to the blaze at 10am following a call from the distressed mother. She reported a fire in her kitchen and said her and her young child were unable to evacuate. Fire ...

A Devon brook is to be dredged to remove silt and help reduce the chances of future flooding, a council says. The two-week project to dredge Dawlish Brook, also known as Dawlish Water, would help protect the town centre, Teignbridge Council said. In August 2012, the brook - which runs through ...

THE British Transport Police is appealing for information to help locate people in relation to six incidents on Devon trains. Officers would like to speak to the man in photo one about an incident on board a train between Newton Abbot and Dawlish stations on Wednesday, October 30. A revenue ...

Cofton Country Holidays has been awarded gold in the Devon Tourism Awards, held in association with Visit Devon. The four-star holiday park in Dawlish picked up the top award in the Holiday Park of the Year category in a ceremony at the Grand Hotel in Torquay. Helen Scott, director of Cofton, said: ...

CCTV cameras, which have aided more than 1,500 arrests, could be cut in three south Devon towns. Newton Abbot, Bovey Tracey and Dawlish could all be hit by the Teignbridge District Council cost-cutting move. The council said it had to make cuts because it is receiving less money from the government ...