Dawlish News

A landowner of a Topsham farm was given police protection when he served notice to quit on a group of gipsies who had set up camp on his farm. Around 30 travellers of Irish origin occupied land at Seabrook Farm off Topsham Road on Monday evening. They claim they are in Devon to see the confirmation ...

The golden sandstone cliffs between Teignmouth and Dawlish are a landmark feature. BUT the mile or so of rail track here has been nothing but trouble. Chris Arnold, Network Rail: "We get a lot of falls, rock falls onto the line, and we've got to sort that out". After a couple of major landslips, an ...

A lorry shed a barrel on the A38 yesterday, spilling 100 litres of a highly flammable resin over the road. Two fire crews from Exeter and one from Topsham attended the scene on the northbound side of Haldon Hill, shortly after 3pm. Firefighters wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus ...

A teenage arsonist who wrecked a house and a shop causing £1 million damage in a Devon seaside town has been jailed. Recorder John Williams told the 17-year-old at Exeter Crown Court on Monday that the offences were so serious they could only be dealt with by a custodial sentence. The teenager was ...

The fire brigade were called around 7:30pm after a fire broke out in the ground floor of 4 High Street, opposite the Somerfields car park entrance. Four fire engines, two ambulances and the police attended the scene, as the high street had to be cordoned off for several hours. The fire, which ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — A European rocket blasted off Tuesday to launch a pioneering 10-year journey to land a probe on a comet and search for clues to the solar system's origins. The Rosetta lander soared into the skies above South America aboard an Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, the ...

The mystery of what happened to the ship that ferried Charles Darwin around the world may have been solved. A team led by Dr Robert Prescott of the University of St Andrews has located what they believe are the remains of HMS Beagle beneath an Essex marsh. To explore the site further, technology ...

Dawlish Town have signed free-scoring Brixham United striker Jay Morgan with the intention of playing him for the first time in next Saturday's game at Odd Down. In spite of recruiting front men Darren Bingham and Mark Pepperell, manager Chris Myers has always made it clear he needed an ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- With a simple adjustment in your e-mail software, you can pretend to be anyone. You can send messages marked as coming from BillGates@microsoft.com. The trick, known as spoofing, is a popular method for spammers to hide their tracks -- you'd blame Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill ...

People who use air services out of the South West will have a much wider choice of scheduled flights from the start of this month. Air Southwest is launching new flights from Plymouth to Bristol and Manchester on Monday and Flybe will shortly launch new services from Exeter.

Hull is the chubbiest town in Britain - while Kingston upon Thames is the leanest, an obesity league table has revealed. Data analysts Experian compiled the tables based on hospital admission records for Type 2 diabetes. The most likely to be overweight were white, working class families who have ...

Spirit used its rock abrasion tool for brushing the dust off three patches of a rock called "Humphrey," during its 55th sol on Mars, ending at 5:53 p.m. Saturday, PST. Before applying the wire-bristled brush, the rover inspected the surface of the rock with its microscope and with its alpha particle ...

The Prince's Trust is to launch a new strategy to help one million young people it has identified as disadvantaged in the country. It hopes to get millions of pounds invested in schemes, including apprenticeships, for young people who are not in education or employment. It also wants reform of the ...

The vulnerable track is battered by the sea on one side, and is now increasingly coming under attack from cliff falls as well. Ever since Brunel built it in the 19th century, it has given problems and the latest attempts to shore up the line are costing £6 million. Network Rail is installing black ...

Luccombe Ponds: Ash Pond Re-Stocking The first re-stocking of Ash pond took place this week with the introduction of 250lb of carp. The fish, ranging in size from 2lb-3lb, were carefully released into the pond which will be both for pleasure and match anglers. The Luccombe and Take the Bait, ...

A couple from Topsham are set to give up a successful taxi business they have run for 15 years for a new life on the sunshine island of Cyprus. Sally Downer and her husband Gary Wills, of Highfields, who own Topsham Cabs, plan to continue in the taxi business after buying a cab firm from a Turkish ...

The Kenton Castle who has played host to top entertainers such as Elton John, Status Quo, Blue and this year Westlife, Jools Holland and Busted, was given the award by the event services association TESA last week. General Manager Tim Faulkner was delighted with the award and with how successful ...

Firewatch Devon League leaders Ottery St Mary have a rare rest this weekend enabling the chasing pack to close the gap and use up one of the many games in hand they possess over Pete Gartrell's side. Second-placed Ivybridge will be looking narrow the deficit to just two points but would normally be ...

No record is safe, warned Dawlish SC coach Chris Chappell in his address after the club's annual championships ""Even the records set by our most-promising graduates, some real Olympic prospects, tumbled this year. ""Last year was a record year for records with 27, this year 30 were set."" ...

Microsoft Corp. has offered a $250,000 reward for the person responsible for the MyDoom worm, as the reported number of infected computers continues to rise rapidly. The world's largest software maker said Thursday it would pay the money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those ...

The Environment Agency was alerted by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer at Shutterton, Dawlish who spotted sewage discharging from an overflow. The resident checked the discharge and noticed it had a foul smell. Samples were taken by and Environment Officer and South West Water were taken to court ...

The warranty, part of a new project called the Open Source Assurance Program, is for all existing and future customers of the Raleigh, N.C.-based company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system products, the company said in an announcement Monday night, shortly before the LinuxWorld Conference ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new Internet virus was spreading fast throughout Asia, Australia and Europe but computer security experts were divided on the seriousness of the threat from the "Bagle" worm. Experts expected some impact in the United States when people returned to work Tuesday after a holiday ...

The Federation Against Software Theft, known as FAST to its friends and enemies alike, is encouraging company directors to make the use of unlicensed software a thing of the past. And this time any directors unwilling or unable to make such a new year's resolution could face more than a large fine ...

POLICE have confirmed that they are not treating as suspicious the death of an elderly woman whose body was found in a stream in Dawlish on Thursday 13th January.

Gooding took over the the Sandy Lane Club last autumn and has ambitions of seeing Dawlish playing Southern League football within a few years, identifying DML Premier Division club Tiverton Town as his role model for success. Gooding has installed a new management set-up at Sandy Lane, with the ...

Occupants of Leeclif including Ann James, Edna Davison and Allan Seaton are finding the lakes of rainwater in Beach Road outer and inner car parks are causing them serious problems. Residents have been complaining to the council for a long time, however, Cllr Ted Hokin recently stated that the car ...

Exeter magistrates imposed a community punishment and rehabilitation order for 18 months and ordered him to carry out 50 hours unpaid work in the community. He was also ordered to pay £400 compensation to the victim. Ed Canning, prosecuting, read a statement from a 17-year-old boy who said he had ...

The grisly find was made by man walking his dog in the grounds of Manor Gardens Park, Barton Terrace, Dawlish just before 8.30am. The walker reported the find at the nearby council offices, and the police were called. Police said the the death was initially being treated as suspicious. ...

Dicing with death - these youngsters risk their lives in a deadly came of 'chicken' played against massive waves whipped up by storm-force winds. The laughing schoolboys are just one slip away from being dragged out to sea - provoking an urgent warning from coastguards to parents. Devon's 'wave ...

At the end of October, Microsoft held the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. With the largest number of attendees of any previous PDC, we presented details regarding many upcoming developer-oriented technologies, including "Whidbey" (the codename for the next version of Visual ...

VSP Software recently launched its new website to promote the company and products. The website was designed by VSP and is hosted on VSP's in-house servers. VSP hope you like the look of its new website and would be grateful for any comments.

LAS VEGAS -- RealNetworks Inc. and IBM Corp. plan to team up to offer other companies a method for protecting and distributing digital audio and video. The partnership will combine IBM's Internet, database and content-management software with RealNetworks' software for disseminating audio and ...

Sixty-year-old Peter Harry was accused of exceeding the speed limit in a 30mph restricted zone along the A379 at Starcross on March 27 2003. But when Harry presented his not guilty plea at Totnes magistrates court the crown procecutor David Bowen offered no evidence and invited the bench to dismiss ...

Even manager Chris Myers, who has spoken highly of the players' attitude over the past month, had to accept the seasiders were poor, and that there must be more surgery if they're to climb off the bottom of the table "I'm not going to give up, but we looked like a bottom of the table team," he ...

Repeated attempts to find Susan Hale, 52, from Dawlish a bed in the Teignbridge area have failed and she is currently in Brighton, after being remanded in custdy more than a year ago. Now a judge at Exeter Crown Court has ordered a representative from the Teignbridge Primary Care Trust to come to ...

And that would complete the first part of a three-point plan which chairman Nigel Gooding outlined when he fronted a three-man take over at the cash-strapped club in October. "I think it safe to say we'll still be a Western League club next season, even if we don't stay up," he says. "My view is ...

Heavitree's point put them level on points with Exeter Civil Service who lost 1-0 at Alphington, but not one club moved into a different position in the league. Crediton did close the gap on seventh-placed Vospers, to goal difference, as their victory at Lords Meadow took their unbeaten run to 11 ...

A policewoman is in hospital after a double stabbing incident at her home. Mother-of-two Fay Hurved suffered knife wounds to her neck, back and chest and is in a stable condition at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Her 52-year-old estranged husband Ian is also stable at Torbay Hospital after ...

The NHS is suing seven pharmaceutical companies for £30m over allegations that they fixed the price of common antibiotics, it has emerged. Documents lodged with the high court on December 17 by health secretary John Reid claim that the companies agreed to artificially raise the price of a range of ...