Dawlish News

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, A Russian rocket carrying a new Russian-U.S. crew to the international space station has lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. For Russians Salizhan Sharipov and Yuri Shargin and American Leroy Chiao, it was the first mission in a Soyuz spacecraft -- breaking the nearly ...

Council Tax campaigners in Devon are claiming victory after three pensioners appeared in court for non-payment. Newton Abbot magistrates ordered the pensioners to pay Teignbridge District Council what they owe, but did not order them to pay court costs. Campaigners say the ruling, given on Monday, ...

Player-manager Chris Myers admits he's got some trough decisions to make ahead of tonight's game away to Elmore in Division One of the Screwfix Direct Western League. With midfielders Chris Slough and Gary Head available after missing the last two games, the temptation is to include both in the ...

People visiting a south Devon beach have been allowed back into the water after a pollution incident. Teignbridge District Council is liaising with the Environment Agency to find out what caused the pollution at Coryton Cove, Dawlish. A bathing ban was put in place on Wednesday after some tests ...

South Devon's firefighters have returned home safe and well after lending a hand in Boscastle. The squad, including one Dawlish and four Torquay firefighters travelled to Cornwall to help with the search and rescue operation after the devastating flash floods on Monday. John Miller, assistant leader ...

Dawlish junior Anna Kingman and 13-year-old Jake Grinsill from Torquay beat seeded rivals at the South Hams Junior Novices at Totnes to go on and book their place in today's final line-up at Borough Park. Twelve months after suffering a first round defeat in the girls' singles following a two-hour ...

Dawlish Town manager Chris Myers has vowed to continue to run the Western League side despite Nigel Gooding standing down as chairman after a fire destroyed the club's stand. Gooding claimed he had received threats since taking control of the club in October last year and decided to put an end to ...

Fears for the future of the centuries-old Topsham ferry in Devon have been allayed. The future of the service, which carries hundreds of birdwatchers and visitors each year across the tidal river Exe at Topsham, was in the balance when the ferryman recently left his post for personal reasons.

US space agency Nasa is to get a massive supercomputing boost to help get its shuttle missions back in action after the 2003 shuttle disaster. Project Columbia, a collaboration with two technology giants, will mean Nasa's computing power will be ramped up by 10 times to do complex simulations. It ...

Police are hunting arsonists who burned down a South Devon football club's grandstand causing tens of thousands of pounds damage. The structure at the Dawlish Town AFC in Sandy Lane was deliberately set alight in the early hours of yesterday. Dozens of firemen with four appliances fought the flames, ...

The heatwave that was predicted to hit the Westcountry this weekend saw temperatures reach 27C, and as visitors headed to the South West, the region's roads were described as "busy and congested". As holidaymakers headed to the coast to soak up some much needed sunshine, they were caught in massive ...

There are serious concerns about the reliability of this year's English tests taken by 14 year olds in England. This year, reading and writing parts of the national curriculum tests were sent to different examiners, as part of an electronic marking trial. There was a delay in sending out the results ...

The first virus to attack handheld computers running Microsoft's Windows Pocket PC software has been found. It is called "Duts", and its existence has been revealed by the Russian security firm BitDefender. The company said the virus posed no threat and was produced only as a "proof of concept" by ...

Ipplepen made a piece of unwanted history against Dawlish when they were bowled out for 19 and lost by a whopping 177 runs. It was the third lowest score ever recorded in the division. Only the now defunct Teignbridge (18 in 1983) and Victioria Park (15 in 1994 at Chelston) have been bowled out for ...

One of the last remaining mature Exeter Elm trees is facing the chop after flourishing for more than 200 glorious years in the city. The rare species of elm is native to the city and was once plentiful across the region. But one of the last few to survive is now facing the axe after growing in a ...

A struggling non-league football club in Devon has made an audacious request for a world famous Italian referee to preside over one of their matches. Dawlish Town FC have asked Pierluigi Collina to referee one of their games, and are offering to pay his expenses and put him up in a five star hotel. ...

A man was attacked by a dog and stabbed by its owner as he walked along Teignmouth sea front. The 37-year-old from Dawlish was on the sea wall between Teignmouth and Smugglers Cove when the incident happened at around 8.30pm on Tuesday. An argument broke out when he met a man walking an Alsatian ...

Warren are the new leaders after some high quality golf and no shortage of surprises in last weekend's South Devon League programme. The Dawlish club triumphed at home to Dainton Park by four and a half points to two and a half, while defending champions Torquay were being put to the sword at ...

Life is going swimmingly for a Dawlish man whose longstanding career with South West Water is being recognised with the MBE. Brian Hooper from Fay Road is to receive the honour for his services to the water industry, which span more than 30 years. The 59-year-old lives and breathes water, not only ...

Controversial plans for university top-up fees have run into trouble on the first day of detailed Lords scrutiny. The House of Lords inflicted three defeats during the report stage debate of the Higher Education Bill. Ministers want English universities to be able to charge students up to £3,000 a ...

Plymouth Civil Service romped back to the top of the C Division with a crushing seven-wicket win at Stoke Gabriel. Heathcoat were top on Saturday morning, but their defeat by Dawlish & Teignmouth opened the door for Civil to take pole position. And Dawlish are up to second now with Exeter St James ...

Venus made a rare transit across the face of the Sun on Tuesday, giving stargazers from Australia to the Middle East and Africa a celestial view that no living person had seen before. To the delight of hundreds of people around the globe armed for the occasion with telescopes, pinhole cameras and ...

SpaceShipOne and the White Knight, are the unconventional designs of the California-based aerospace visionary Burt Rutan, who in partnership with the billionaire founder of Microsoft and space travel enthusiast Paul Allen, has invested between USD $20 million and $30 million USD in the project. A ...

Exactly seventy years to the day that the county association (DCLBA) was formed and affiliated to the English Women's Bowling Association (EWBA) at an hotel in the town, a Devon President's team took on the England President's team at Courtenay Park. Seven past presidents of the DCLBA and section ...

Controversial plans to split Exeter's Parliamentary seat along the River Exe have been scrapped, the Echo can reveal today. The Boundary Commission for England has abandoned proposals to cut a chunk off the city's seat west of the river. In a dramatic U-turn, the commission has ditched plans to hive ...

Ian Langler of Dawlish Coasters holds a narrow lead in the Fox River/Ironbridge Runner Devon Race Series going into the fourth round at Plymouth on May 30. The Plymouth Half-Marathon, for which entries have now closed, includes the next round of the popular series which has already seen fierce ...

Veterans Dennis Gibbs and Don Beesley both added to their silverware collections at the South Devon and Torbay Table Tennis League awards night at Torbay Hospital Social Club. Others to swell their trophy cabinets included Halwell's Kevin Nicholls and Sonja Wicks and Supa-Roofing's Shaun Gibbs. 2004 ...

Proposals to increase the frequency of connections to London and dual almost the entire length of the region's main track have gone down well with transport campaigners. One of the most exciting plans is to reinstate the line between Exeter and Okehampton and build a new station near the town. By ...

Flying cars, transparent cloaks, technology which can read minds and games played by brain waves - the stuff of fiction, surely? Not so, these seemingly far-fetched inventions - and more - are now reality. What lies beneath the cloak. For a vision of what the future holds, thousands of nay-sayers ...

A schizophrenic woman jumped to her death just 24 hours after "begging" psychiatric staff to allow her back into a health unit in Torquay. The family of Linda Hammond, 52, claim she had pleaded with staff at the Haytor Unit to let her return to the place where she felt safe. The following day she ...

A city mum who fled the violence in Zimbabwe is attempting to rebuild her shattered life in Exeter. Liz Bennie, 59, who now lives in Topsham, lost everything when supporters of President Robert Mugabe's regime seized her home and business. Today she spoke of her last traumatic 18 months in Africa, ...

Dawlish Town manager Chris Myers will be helped in his quest to revive the club's ailing fortunes next season with an "attractive bonus structure" to offer potential players. Myers took over at Sandy Lane last autumn when Town were rooted to the foot of the table and morale was low in a team that ...

The Information Commissioner is today warning UK businesses not to be mislead by bogus agencies who continue to send notices demanding money to register under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). Over 200 businesses a month fall victim to fake data protection agencies posing as official government ...

Introduction The Phoenix Report is an accurate account of questionable actions of public authorities as directed against an entire family with 9 children, particularly the author who will forthwith be referred to as the claimant. In accordance with protecting individual rights of public servants and ...

The procedure entails taking stem cells from a living being, nurturing them in a laboratory until they form a ball of new cells known as a bud, and inserting the bud into the gum where the new tooth is needed. The researchers estimate human teeth in adults could take about two months to develop ...

Dario was awarded the PFA Merit Award on Sunday and has told the press that it's "probably one of the proudest moments of my footballing life.". "We literally picked Seth Johnson up off a beach in Dawlish and he had no chance. He has done really well and it is great, especially after telling his mum ...

Just after 2pm yesterday afternoon on the A379 at Cockwood close to Starcross, a red Citroen Visa travelling towards Exeter and a green Rover 114, travelling in the opposite direction towards Dawlish, collided, seriously injuring both drivers and one passenger. The Devon Air Ambulance touched down ...

Keen walker Mr Moffatt, 54, is raising money for the Devon Air Ambulance and Clic (Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood) by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. The 45-day expedition starts on Saturday, April 24. Mr Moffatt, from Holcombe, near Dawlish, said: "It's going to be tough, but I'm ...

It's especially welcome here. Five years ago eight year old Heather Preen died after contracting e-coli whilst holidaying in the resort. Despite an extensive investigation the source was never found. Today it has a different sort of publicity. Brian Gray, Teignbridge District Council: "I think it ...

If Nigel Bliss's team do well in the national festival, they will get to play before the England-Barbarians game at the end of May. The side have not been beaten since the final of the Devon under-10 festival, when Devonport Services edged past them. Their dominance has seen them score 486 points so ...