007's Posts on Dawlish Discussion

I agree Sundays are nice especially if you have Monday off. Looking forward to having a load later on. Bring on Beers!

I see, how exciting, something is actually happening!

The lansdowne quite often has gigs on Fridays or Saturdays. http://www.lemonrock.com/lansdowne?page=gigs

Well the planners were wrong to block the Tesco plan.

Oh I see, good idea then. Cheers Nelson.

It's stressful enough planning a wedding without receiving a email from your future mum-in-law detailing your many failings. But when the message, in which she says she pities your husband-to-be, becomes a global internet hit you know the Big Day is going to be a bit awkward. Heidi Withers, 29, received the rebuke from Carolyn Bourne, stepmum of her fiancé Freddie Bourne. The PA forwarded ...

Claim a free pint of Young's Bitter or a small glass of house red or white wine at the Double Locks pub. http://www.doublelocks.com/freedrink.php

Does anyone know if Bow Windows serves alcohol?

The Exeter Inn in Beach Street, Dawlish has reopened

The Localism Bill was introduced to House of Commons on 13 December 2010. The Bill is seen as integral to the Coalition’s “localism” and “Big Society” agendas. It sets out measures to devolve more powers to councils and neighbourhoods and also to enable local communities to have greater control over local decisions like planning. The Bill consists of 405 pages, 208 clauses and 24 schedules and ...

A TALENTED singing trio are a step further along their route to stardom after making it through to the second stage of television talent show The X-Factor. Nichola Berryman, Laura Murch and Eloise Cole — also known as Killer Heels — are through to the show’s boot camp after auditioning before musicmogul Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, singer Dannii Minogue and Girl’s Aloud’s Cheryl Cole. They got ...

MORE than 50 Minis are expected to take part in a rally and parade at Powderham Castle on Sunday. Owners will be celebrating the 50th birthday of the iconic car and the castle's 50th anniversary of opening to the public. The event is called Silly Mini Sunday with proceeds going to a new Children's Hospice being built in Cornwall.

RESIDENTS are refusing to stay quiet in the supermarket store wars saga dominating Dawlish. Fresh plans by Tesco and Sainsbury's to build stores within a mile of each other have generated a flurry of letters to Teignbridge Council planners. There have been 38 letters of objection against Tesco's bid to build a supermarket on land at Lady's Mile Holiday Park. That compares to three letters ...

FOUR fire engines were called to a cliff near Dawlish after a big area of gorse caught fire in a suspected arson attack. One appliance from Dawlish was first on the scene near Lady's Mile cliff footpath in Warren Road near the railway line at 2.30pm on Saturday. Reinforcements were called for as around 500 square metres of scrub was alight. Two pumps from Teignmouth and one pump and the ...

A MAN suffered a dislocated jaw after he was hit over the head with a baseball bat in an alleged attack at Dawlish. The 30-year-old man was still in hospital last night after the attack in the Oak Park Villa area of the town. Police are investigating an allegation that two men assaulted him at about 11pm on Monday. The victim, who was outside his property when the attack happened, called for ...

IN THE face of a tidal wave of unemployment and choking economic recession in 1981, Conservative Cabinet Minister Norman Tebbit sparked outrage by suggesting that jobless people should "get on their bikes" and look for work. It was a defining political moment, which nearly three decades later is to be put to the test by one of the most well-known faces in TV news. From today, Sky News ...

Dawlish has been named as one of only six towns in the entire country to achieve a prestigious five-star rating in the biannual Clean Britain Awards, officially making it one of the cleanest towns in Britain. Run by the British Cleaning Council, the awards celebrate the cleanest and tidiest towns and cities across the UK. The process involves a written entry followed by a rigorous inspection of ...

RETAIL giants Sainsbury's are ploughing on with their bid to build a store in Dawlish despite an attempt to force a judicial review. The supermarket firm has submitted a second application for the store and petrol station at Shutterton after a legal challenge by rival Tesco. Meanwhile, Dawlish mayor Wally Protheroe says residents are the ones losing out by the delay and are 'frustrated' by the ...

ARSONISTS have been blamed for a fire which swept through two acres of heathland near Teignmouth. Firefighters spent an hour and a half in strong winds battling the fire which is believed to have been ignited by fireworks. One fire appliance from Teignmouth and the 4x4 vehicle from Dawlish were called to Little Haldon after a passing motorist saw plumes of smoke and flames leaping into the ...

A DEVON pig farmer is lobbying his MP for clearer labelling on pork packaging, in line with a TV programme aiming to raise awareness of how pigs are reared. Keith Partridge, who runs Duckaller Farm, an organic free-range pig farm at Dawlish, with his wife, Roz, decided to raise the issue with Teignbridge MP, Richard Younger-Ross, when he heard of the programme, presented by celebrity chef Jamie ...

DEVON and Cornwall are to miss out on Government plans being considered to run electric trains between London and the West of England – a move that could have made journeys quicker, cheaper and more reliable. Marking a shift in Government policy, Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon has expressed his enthusiasm for electrifying the Great Western main line, and intends to make a decision on whether or ...

Tests revealed a high presence of bacteria in water flowing from a waterfowl compound in Dawlish into the sea. A single member of the public complained that the town council did not have a proper disposal system to deal with water flowing from the pond in the waterfowl enclosure. But the resort could also now be deprived of its 14 black swans, which are kept on a brook adjacent to the pond, ...

The stores in Exeter's Guildhall Shopping Centre and Dawlish will close on Friday and the Exmouth store will be among the final batch to close on Monday. The closures mark the end of an era for British retailing, with Woolworths having been trading on the High Street for 99 years. Some 27,000 employees nationwide are facing unemployment as the 807 stores are closed.

A DAWLISH vicar is to have four months away from his church after falling out with his choir and congregation. The Rev Jerry Bird is to leave his flock at the St Gregory the Great Church for four months to have 'time to seek God'. His departure comes after his entire 18-strong choir quit last year, leaving no one to sing any carols. Parishioners claim resentment against the vicar, who has been ...

OK you're probably correct, but that doesn't help me much. Myself and a few mates are hoping to go out for a few drinks one weekend and I'd like to know the most popular evening to do so.

SKATERS in Dawlish are celebrating after their long-awaited skate park was officially opened. Teenagers with a talent for boarding descended on the new facility when the ribbon was cut by town mayor Wally Protheroe. Dawlish Action for Youth, the charity behind the project, has said the opening was a huge milestone in what has been a long journey. The campaign for a skate park in Dawlish has ...

February 7, 1855 was a cold night in Devon, England, cold enough for a heavy snowfall that kept many would-be travelers inside-- all except one, according to some reports. And that one may have been the Devil himself. Our story begins on the morning of February 8th, when the citizens of Devon awoke to find a set of strange tracks lying on the ground. The prints were u-shaped, as if made by a ...

FAMILY and friends filled Cornwood church yesterday to say a tearful goodbye to a "cheeky and loveable" young man who touched many lives. Ian Keenan, from Seaton Orchard in Sparkwell, and known to all as 'Smithy', was just 17 when he died in Derriford Hospital on September 22, four days after his motorbike collided with a tractor. Bob Fernival, one of Ian's teachers from Ratcliffe Special ...

A JUDGE has ordered a top level investigation into why the case of an arsonist who was later caught with a knife and made serious sex threats against women was given a lenient sentence by magistrates. At Exeter Crown Court Judge Stephen Wildblood QC heard that Devon fire raiser Martin Cooper had been roaming the streets despite the fact that he could pose a serious danger to the public and was ...

THE final phase of a scheme to prevent another devastating flood at a Dawlish Warren residential park has been given the go-ahead. Eight years ago, about 100 people had to be rescued by RAF helicopters and coastguards using inflatables, from Hazeldown Park, now Beechwood Residential Park, after the Shutterton Brook burst its banks. The water rose up to six feet and it was a major emergency with ...

THREE people were taken to hospital yesterday after being involved in a head-on collision at Kenton. The driver and passenger in a Toyota MR2 and the driver of a BMW suffered suspected broken bones in the incident on the A379. Ambulance staff treated the people at the scene just after 4.30pm, before they were taken to Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Their injuries were not thought to be ...

ATROCITIES of the Second World War were brought vividly to life for a group of South Devon veterans and their families during an emotional trip to Normandy this week. The Normandy Veterans' Association is on the French coast to mark 64 years since D-Day, and their visit to the Caen Memorial Museum turned out to be too much for some. While many of the veterans, proudly wearing medals on their ...

SEASIDE areas across the Westcountry will have to abandoned within two or three generations because the cost of protecting them from coastal erosion is too high, the new chief of the Environment Agency has warned. The sea will reclaim vast stretches of the UK's coastline, with some vulnerable sections of the coast in this region evacuated and left to the mercy of the sea, according to Lord Smith ...

Visitors to seaside resorts have been put on alert after potentially-deadly Portuguese Man o' War jellyfish were washed up on Devon beaches. The creatures were found on beaches at Smuggler's Cove, Dawlish, and Salcombe Regis, near Sidmouth. Marine experts have warned beach lovers not to pick up the jellyfish, which can inflict severe stings from their lengthy tentacles. A seven-year-old boy ...

ESCAPED psychiatric patient Martin Cooper was found to be carrying a knife and a single stocking in his pocket when he turned up at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital and refused to leave, Exeter Crown Court heard. Cooper's friend, a fellow patient from Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, was carrying rope when they were searched by police who were called to the RD&E Hospital by worried staff. Cooper, ...

A main rail line was under threat after a section of a historic sea wall in Devon was torn out by storm waves, while some parts of the country had four fifths of an average month’s rainfall in one day. Train services on the Paddington to Penzance route were affected after part of the seawall, built between Teignmouth and Dawlish by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 years ago, was torn out. The rain ...

Two policemen were hurt as they arrested a man after a disturbance at a pub in Dawlish over the weekend.One of the officers needed hospital treatment for facial injuries after the incident in Brunswick Place after 2pm on Saturday. His colleague received bruising to his back, arms and legs in the fracas. A 23-year-old man was eventually subdued by officers who were helped by members of the ...

The Red Arrows are to headline the 40th Dawlish Carnival later this summer. The aerobatic pilots will be joined at the event on August 14 by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, with a Lancaster Bomber making an appearance, and the ground-shaking RAF Typhoon fighter.

A frightened pensioner had an anxious start to Father's Day after witnessing thieves stealing money from a car park ticket machine. Anne James was up at 3am yesterday to make a special Father's Day meal when she saw thieves breaking into the machines in Dawlish Warren.But after realising what was going on Mrs James's first anxious thought was to turn off the lights to make sure the criminals ...

An icon of the British coast is making a return to a Devon seaside town after a 20-year absence. Fifteen beach huts have been officially unveiled by Teignbridge Council on the promenade at Dawlish Warren. Eleven are being offered on three-year leases, with three for weekly or daily hire. One hut will be used for storage. It is hoped that the locally-built brightly coloured huts, with views ...