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Kevin Gale appeared at Exeter Crown Court by video link from Langdon Hospital in Dawlish accused of the manslaughter of 39-year-old Lee Turner, who died from stab wounds outside the Tesco store in Barnstaple on August 3, 2018. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/judge-orders-psychiatric-reports-on-alleged-car-park-knife-killer-570000

Thousands of households across the South West that rely on domestic heating oil are still waiting for emergency payments to help with their bills this winter. Heating oil customer Amanda Barrow, who runs a small campsite at Dawlish in Devon says the money needs to be paid soon, before the oil price rises any further. Read more... ...

Former Dawlish patient Faisal Hassan left the warder with scarring on the surface of his eye which will require him to use eye drops for the rest of his life. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/former-patient-jailed-for-boiling-water-attack-on-warder-569817

A mother who shared a bed with her baby while on a caravan holiday in Devon found the child cold and unresponsive in the morning, an inquest heard. The six-month-old boy had been put to sleep in a pull-out bed with his mum and grandmother in a caravan at the Lady's Mile Holiday Park in Dawlish Warren. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/baby-died-family-holiday-dawlish-7744990

For the 53-year-old who is from Dawlish Warren had taken part in the national sport since picking up her first bow back in 2007. But her breast cancer diagnosis left her feeling anxious that she would never shoot another arrow again. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/karen-takes-aims-at-cancer-569476

WORK has begun to install a new accessible footbridge and lifts at Dawlish railway station as part of the ongoing work to protect and upgrade the coastal route. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/bridging-the-gap-across-rail-line-568732

AMBULANCE staff across Devon are from today voting on whether to take strike action. A union spokesperson said: ‘ Ambulance workers have been telling the Government for years things are unsafe. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/ambulance-workers-across-devon-vote-on-strike-action-569421

They have a couple of years to turn it around so all this nonsense about having an election will not happen. If a week is a long time in politics what is two years when everything could be so different.

Today's Sunday Telegraph's cartoon has a tourist guide telling sightseers in London: "You can see Changing of the Guard in the morning, and Changing of the PM most afternoons."

Julie Gay, from Gloucester, who was on holiday in Dawlish in August, has asked for help to get in touch with a mother, understood to be local to the town, after a rescue effort at the beach. Her appeal on social media is asking for information to find out how the mum and her children are now. Read more... ...

The building of the bridge was given planning permission a couple of months back in August. Work has to start within 3 years. Wonder if it will be in place by 2025?

A PENSIONER from Dawlish has been told he will be sent to jail after he admitted trying to contact five under age girls on the internet for sexual gratification. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/pensioner-facing-jail-for-online-grooming-569094

Hilary Olek, the Teignmouth Film Society Film Booker, says: ‘The Teignmouth Film Society will be hosted at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Dawlish. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/entertainment/film-societys-on-the-move-568511

A STREAM of sewage was discharged across Teignbridge’s coast today, after the recent stormy weather. Alerts were issued at Dawlish Town Beach, Teignmouth Town Beach and Holcombe. Both Shaldon and Coryton Cove remain clear. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/sewage-discharged-along-teignbridge-coast-after-heavy-rain-568940

WHAT mini budget? Looks like the tories will be looking for new jobs soon. What a complete and utter shambles they are!!!

The A379 Teignmouth Road is blocked in both directions after a crash this afternoon (October 17). According to traffic monitoring site Inrix, there is slow traffic between Holcombe and Dawlish. Read more... ...

Once a week, one of our reporters will be based at the Manor House with our own office space. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/have-you-got-a-story-pop-in-and-share-it-with-us-567635

Harper, aged 49, who worked at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, was not arraigned when he appeared before Judge Timothy Rose by video link from Exeter Prison. He set a provisional trial date of February 10 next year and remanded him in custody. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/courts/hospital-worker-accused-of-hammer-and-axe-attack-om-police-567995

CANNABIS was found at a home and a man was arrested by police from Teignmouth and Dawlish. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/cannabis-seized-and-man-arrested-568134

@carer,. If you are talking about boots pharmacy they are short staffed and under constant pressure to try and deliver.They do the best the can under the circumstances notwithstanding the abuse some individuals take from  the public.Instead of complaining move pharmacy if your not happy

A few words of inspiration from psychotherapist and life coach Jody Merelle, based in Dawlish Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/opinion/positive-mental-health-column-by-psychotherapist-jody-merelle-566560

Ross, of Oak Hill, Dawlish, was jailed for two-and-a-half years. He pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm, making threats to kill and having a bladed article. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/13-controlling-stalking-bullying-men-7677921

No idea. BUT...... the more GPs that go private then logically the fewer there will be working in the NHS = longer waiting times to see a NHS GP.  If longer times to see a NHS GP (and/or get that NHS hospital appointment/operation) the greater the argument becomes that the NHS is, by default, denying health care to its patients. Not the NHS fault btw.

We reported a large wasp nest in a bank. Turned out to be harmless Ivy Bees - they look very similar if a little darker than wasps.

Dawlish railway station's car park is set to close this weekend as work gets underway on a new accessible footbridge . Read more... https://dawlish.nub.news/news/local-news/dawlish-station-car-park-to-close-as-work-on-new-accessible-footbridge-begins-153135?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email

Yesterday, Thursday, local councillor Martin Wrigley (Lib Dem) handed it to a full meeting of Devon County Council on behalf of local residents of Stockton Hill in the town. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/petition-calls-for-parking-ban-on-danger-hill-567193

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Happened to be in Exminster this lunchtime. Thought at first that I was hallucinating. Then realised I wasn't. Two, yes two, number 2 buses travelling towards Newton Abbot were travelling through immediately one behind the other! Did both leave Exeter bus station at around the same time?! I left Exminster in a car a little while later. One of the buses was whiling away time in a bus stop in ...

Looking for a reliable painter to do some external house painting. Any recommendations greatly appreciated.

THE latest round of rail strikes may leave many people without trains for up to four days. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/strikes-will-leave-many-without-trains-for-four-days-566508

People are being warned that a new subvariant of Covid-19 could hit Britain this winter. Health experts have revealed that a new wave of infections could be on the way, bringing with it new symptoms. Read more... ...

Units attended and put a localised closure in place as initial enquiries were undertaken. A man in his 30's from the Dawlish area was taken to Torbay District Hospital with suspected facial fractures. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/man-suffers-suspected-facial-fractures-7656218

The protest was organised by Dawlish Councillor Martin Wrigley and Teignmouth Councillor David Cox, who, in recent years, have made persistent efforts to hold South West Water accountable for their conduct. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/sewage-dumps-in-sea-spark-protest-565835

Hi BB. I thought that in the case of windowless bathrooms that extractor fans are obligatory. Might be worth checking out? With regard to the pong emanating from the water treatment works along Warren Road - when the options for land put forward for house building were made public last summer one of the sites was Warren Farm (where the car boot and other activities are held). The blurb ...

@Carer - if it was your daughter (& grandchildren) who was 'a teenage single mum with a couple of kids' in desparate need of housing I'm sure you'd be thrilled if the council put her near the top of the list! I'm surprised no-one here hasn't joined in with you adding immigrants to the list.

Planning application approved. (Btw - this bit of land was also submitted to TDC as a possible site for new housing. Outcome of the Local Plan consultation showing what land has been selected for development and what not is scheduled to be made public Jan 2023).

According to a sign on the site the care home is to be called Claremont Manor and will offer luxury care accommodation. I wonder how much that will cost per week?

Congratulations to Italy on electing their first female prime minister. It's a shame the BBC have decided to slag her off.

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A drunken dad smashed down the door of his ex-girlfriend's house and threatened to kill her with a bread knife, a court has heard. Jayson Ross was 'out of control' when he stormed into her home and launched the violent assault. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/knife-carrying-dawlish-man-told-7614979