Dawlish News

A 70year-old pensioner from Dawlish has had charges against him dropped. The man pleaded not guilty to possessing a knife in a public place in Exeter at an earlier hearing at the Crown Court in October. The defendant did not attend the latest hearing at the Exeter Crown Court due to poor health and ...

Maintaining the climate-change-threatened rail line thtough Dawlish and Teignmouth was being taken seriously by both the rail industry and the goverment M.Ps have been told. 9million pound has been spent in recent years and Network Rail which is responsible for the track was continuing to invest ...

A TOTAL of 33 jobs in Brixham, Paignton and Dawlish have been saved by the sale of greengrocers Stokes. Argyle Trading Limited has bought the three stores, together with two others, from the troubled independent chain which went into administration last week. Argyle Trading is effectively a vehicle ...

300,000 pounds has been invested from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust to set up a new mobile eye clinic. The vehicle will use the Barton car park for its monthly visits, the first being November 22nd &23rd. Three members of the specialist nursing team volunteered to train for their ...

According to the BBC, a further nine Stokes greengrocers have closed across the South West after failing to attract a buyer. The Bristol, Exeter, Falmouth, Honiton, Sherborne, Tavistock, Torquay, Totnes and Wadebridge stores have closed resulting in 72 redundancies. The company has now closed 20 of ...

A blue Fiat Punto which failed to stop for a routine check in the Mamhead area was chased by police. The authorised chase ended in Barton Terrace, Dawlish, where a 20-year-old man was arrested and released on police bail until December 9th. A quantity of herbal cannabis was allegedly found on a ...

Two girls age 15 and 16 were rescued after being swept into raging seas. They were walking along the sea wall at Dawlish and were caught by waves and swept into the sea. Their screams were heard by Matthew Gribble from his flat in Riviera Terrace, Dawlish. Matthew and his friend Andrew Riches ran ...

Street lights will be turned off between 12.30am and 5.30am after councillors agreed a six-month trial. Area's to be exempt are Old Town Street, Park Road and Queen Street. Dawlish will join 25 towns in Devon.

Armed police, detectives and a police helicopter were involved in a search for two masked men who attempted to break into a shop. The search around Dawlish Warren which included The Oakcliff Holiday Park after two men made their getaway from the crime in a black Volo, shortly after midnight on ...

Sergeant Adam Swift was awarded the Military Cross for two seperate incidents in which he charged at Taliban positions. In October last year, he and his men lay hidden just 20m from five insurgents so they could watch what they were doing and allow a trapped group of comrades to escape. Five months ...

A Dawlish man and two boys from Teignmouth age 16 and 17 have appeared in court accused of 'physically and mentally' torturing a cat. It is alleged the one-year-old cat was put in a microwave oven, tumble dryer and freezer. The case was adjourned until October 8th. The cat is being cared for by the ...

Over 100 revellers attended an all-night party last Saturday at Easton Plantation off Orchard Lane Dawlish. Police were called to break up the party after complaints of noise that could be heard by people living in Dawlish Warren and Starcross. Police returned yesterday and found 13 men linked to ...

Dawlish Coaches go into liquidation with a loss of 37 jobs. Paignton-based Majestic Tours have transferred all bookings with Dawlish Coaches to other firms. The directors "reluctantly decided that they had no alternative but to put the company into voluntory liquidation"

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 feet ...

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, traffic ...

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 but ...

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 happened. ...

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. The ...

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 and ...

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 Magistrates ...

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, had ...

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 ...