Dawlish News

Many Brits are shunning holidays abroad this summer and choosing to stay at ' home ' because of tour operator problems, flight upsets and the Eur ozone's dept crisis. The Dawlish Warren Tourism Group is predicting ' a great month for the area ' Events like the airshow, fireworks and the carnival add ...

A group of local youths around five or six in number have been using the sand dunes at Dawlish Warren as drinking dens and vandalising the area by ripping up wooden fencing installed to protect the local nature reserve and using it to fuel their fires. Visitors including children have had their ...

An application for 61 homes is to be considered by the authority's development control committee at a meeting next Monday. Barratt Homes want to build up to 61 " Beach Hut "-inspired contemporary new homes. The land earmarked for the new development is just off Dawlish Warren Road and Shutterton ...

The grass area at the top half of the playing field is being mown more irregularly than previously leading to speculation that the land is being primed for development. Teignbridge Council say there are no plans to build on that part of the field and the reason they have changed the grass cutting ...

One of the newly resurfaced car parks at Dawlish Warren has had part of the meshed area churned up by a lorry. This happened just days after completion and Teignbridge Council will have to shell out £12,000 to sort out the damage.

Dawlish Carnival will again stage the annual celebrations. Rumors that the carnival might not go ahead have been dispelled. It is said " the resort will again stage the annual celebrations, including the air show. For further information go to

The strand is to receive £1.5 million from Devon County Council towards a much needed facelift as part of the regeneration of Dawlish. Engineers will be preparing options and taking soundings so that there is a concensus and completion is planned for 2012/13. There'll obviously be some match funding ...

The Post Office in Starcross closed on Wednesday. The owners said "It was no longer a viable business". The building is up for sale. Starcross Parish council and residents of Starcross are working closely with county councillor Alan Connett to find an alternative as soon as possible. The options are ...

A bid to scrap traffic calming measures demanded in the planning permission of the youth training centre in Sandy Lane has sparked concerns.The £2.5 million project is nearing completion. A condition imposed by councillors is that the building cannot be occupied until traffic calming has been put ...

Public pressure has forced a delay in the sale of the Manor House, Dawlish. The Town Council has decided to postpone the sale of the historic building after pressure from the public. Over 100 people attended a meeting at St Gregory the Great Church and cheered when councillors expresses support for ...

Dawlish air show may not take off unless more people and companies come forward with sponsorship. Apparently there is a shortfall of around £30,000 for the air show and carnival week. Dawlish carnival week attracts thousands of people into the town.

Ofsted Inspector Hazel Callaghan spent two days at the school with two other Inspectors before Christmas. The English results at Gatehouse were above the National average. Despite children starting at Gatehouse with a limited range of knowledge and skills for their age, they were also achieving ...

Dawlish has been affected by the snow and ice. Refuse collections and Postal services have been disrupted also all school have been closed. People on estates having problems getting onto the main roads because of the lack of gritting. The forecast is more of the same to come.

A major housing scheme on land west of Secmaton Lane, Dawlish, should go ahead according to Teignbridge planning officers. Cavanna Homes and Bovis Homes are offering to make, at best 20 per cent of the 270 properties available for rent or sale at below market cost. If goverment grants cannot be ...

A £55,000 traffic calming scheme has been scraped because it was too confusing. The scheme was introduced in March 2007 on a road at Powderham, Near Kenton, part of the major estuary cycle route and has been branded a complete waste of money. The calming scheme involved installing bollards, ...

Police are searching for a man who approached a young girl close to a play park in Dawlish. The incident occurred between 8.30pm and 9pm on Tuesday June 16th. When the man approached the nine-year-old she ran from the park and the man ran in the opposite direction. The man is described as white ...

Police were called to the Welcome Family Holiday Park at Dawlish Warren in the early hours of Sunday morning. Between 10 and 20 people were involved in an alleged fight in the main club area. Police arrested two people on suspicion of violent disorder.

A drink driver who killed a young Dawlish woman was given a 9-year jail sentence. Paul Cox was twice over the limit,not wearing a seat belt and had just received a text message on his mobile phone. Ms Langton was driving home from work on Thursday November 6th last year when the accident ...

A man from Dawlish was arrested after being stopped by police on the M5, nr Exeter on Thursday. The man was arrested on suspicion of money laundering after police discovered a large amount of cash in his vehicle.

The frail and vulnerable in the Dawlish and Teignmouth area are being targeted by a sweet-talking conman. Detectives say the conman escaped with £90 from an elderly resident in the Exeter Road area yesterday. A 83 year-old woman in Old Town Street, Dawlish had her purse containing £450 stolen. ...

A Teignbridge village is being used as a drinking den by youngsters. Complaints have been made at a recent police surgery run by a community support officer at a Starcross charity shop. Apparently the youngster's have being downing alcohol around the planter outside Starcross Bowling Club and ...

A two-story development gets the green light after a lengthy campaign. The centre is to be built at Sandy Lane, Dawlish and will include a music recording studio and editing suite, an area for games and socialising and disco area with a DJ booth. There will also be an IT suite, an office area ...

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy was being treated in hospital after stabbing himself in the stomach in front of 20 other pupils. Students and staff at Dawlish Community College were left in shock and 'traumatised' following the incident, which left the youngster needing emergency surgery to remove the four inch ...

The owner of a dangerous dog which bit a fellow dog walker at Dawlish Warren has been told the animal will be destroyed unless she keeps it muzzled and under proper control in the future. Fenella Braund, 48, admitted being in charge of a dangerous dog at Dawlish Warren on May 8. Torquay ...

A pensioner from Dawlish Warren used games to take advantage of two young children he allegedly sexually abused, a court has heard. It was claimed at Exeter Crown Court that Robin Pitts indecently touched a young boy and girl using a 'game' analogy. Prosecutor Andrew Oldland said Pitts, now 68, ...

The man arrested in connection with Alison Langton's death after colliding with her car has been charged with her murder. Paul Cox, 33, of Bovey Tracey, is alleged to have murdered the 33-year-old mother of two from Dawlish. He appeared before magistrates in Exeter on the 17 November and was ...

A 33-year-old mother of two from Dawlish was killed when her Honda car was in collision with a Ford Mondeo in Sannerville Way Exminster on Thursday. Police have arrested the driver of the Mondeo who is also 33-years-old and local. The man is in a undisclosed hospital being treated for non-life ...

A Dawlish woman believed to be in her 70's was left badly shaken when she had her car stopped by two youths. One of the young men lay down in front of her car forcing the driver to stop. The second youth claimed the driver had knocked the first male down injuring him. The incident was witnessed ...

Hospitals at Dawlish,Teignmouth,Newton Abbott,Ashburton,Bovey Tracey and Moretonhampstead have had tighter security after thefts, vandalism and aggressive behaviour towards staff. Additional cctv cameras and perimeter security lighting have been installed as well as anti-vandal paint been used on ...

Residents from Cockwood,Eastdon and parts of Dawlish Warren are set to lose the Go2 bus service. As from January 2009 Stagecoach buses will bypass Cockwood and head towards Dawlish on the A379. The buses will then travel into Dawlish Warren as far as the roundabout and then head back towards ...

Two men from Dawlish age 27 and 25 have been arrested on suspicion of stealing a car. A dog handler followed a blue Vauxhall Corsa being driven erratically towards a car park in Newton Abbott at 3.40am yesterday. The passenger tried to walk away but the handler with help from his dog detained the ...

A Dawlish resident thinks Tourists who feed seagulls should be fined. The resident said they had been swooped on when walking along The Brook and had also been 'verbally abused' when remonstrating with someone who was feeding the gulls. The problem seems to be mainly with visitors who do not ...

Foodies were pitted against celebrity chefs in a kitchen cook-off for a cash prize. Bethan Donnovan, 26, from Dawlish, and team-mates Cherif and Lucy Elzik from Exeter, cooked up an Egyptian-style storm in a BBC2 programme Step Up to The Plate. The programme, on BBC2 at 4.30pm today, sees the ...

The RAF's aerobatic team, The Red Arrows, have thrilled crowds almost weekly this month with their impressive manoeuvres. The group used Exeter International Airport as a daily base before flying to Salcombe, Dawlish, Fowey, Torbay, Dartmouth and Weston-super-Mare. The distinctive sound of the ...

Police arrested a naked man under the Mental Health Act after he climbed a tree in Dawlish and refused to come down for more than seven hours. The nighttime stand off began after a member of the public phoned police and reported seeing the man walking through the streets of the town at about ...

The Olympic flag will be raised at Dawlish Warren this weekend, marking its official hand-over to Britain as part of the Beijing 2008 closing ceremony. The event is part of a series around the country and Teignbridge District Council chairman David Weekes will be raising the flag for the district ...

A wet and wild start to Dawlish Carnival has not deterred thousands of visitors who are continuing to enjoy a host of festivities on offer this week. Some events at the weekend were postponed due to poor weather. But the carnival, celebrating its 40th anniversary, is now on schedule. The air ...

BRITAIN’S water companies are this weekend revealed as the worst polluters of the country’s rivers and beaches - responsible for more than 300 offences in the past five years. Of the water companies, the most prolific polluter has been South West Water, which has been guilty of 47 incidents of ...

Stuart Glanville from Dawlish went missing in mid June. He was found safe and well in the Newton Abbot area on Saturday.

The would-be robber targeted the 88year-old outside the doctor's surgery in Barton Terrace,Dawlish on Monday at around 11.45am. The victim was pushed to the ground as the attacker tried to steal her handbag but she managed to land punches on him and he ran off. The woman was left with a "great ...