Dawlish News
Dawlish Countryside Park will briefly close for tractor operations to sow crops aiding Cirl buntings and rare wildflowers. Safety measures in place. TRACTORS will be moving into Dawlish Countryside Park to sow crops to support rare birds.
A GROUP of young people are thought to be responsible for setting fire to equipment at Dawlish Manor Gardens play park. The £350,000 town council owned play park was targeted yesterday evening by a group of teenagers, according to witnesses.
Sweet Violets Bridge is part of a new road to help access about 800 homes planned for the area. A new bridge over a brook in Devon has been named. Sweet Violets Bridge, the name chosen by Dawlish Town Council, was to serve as a lasting tribute to area's "once-vibrant" violet flowers industry, it added.
Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is updating its stores at Penn Inn in Newton Abbot and in Dawlish as part of a national drive to create more space for its fresh food ranges. Signs at both stores state: ‘Big things are coming.
EASTER fun is coming to Dawlish with a Great Easter Egg Hunt. Dawlish Town Council is organising the hunt and promises a visit from a ‘special guest’. The event takes place on Saturday April 19 from 10am to 2pm at Manor Gardens in Old Town Street.
DAWLISH College is about the launch its own community garden project. The college in Elm Grove Road will be opening the doors to its new garden space and welcoming the public for two days in April.
£4.9m government grant in other words taxpayers money to fix a problem that should have been resolved at the planning stage rather than after hundreds of homes had already been built!
SOUTH WEST Water has started work on its multi-million pound scheme to improve water quality in Dawlish. Engineers have moved onto the main green space, the Lawn, to begin work on the project which was due to have started in January.
THE ‘MISSING’ link road in Dawlish has finally been completed after more than a decade in the making. The multi-million pound road is designed to help access new land for housing on the outskirts of Dawlish and ease traffic congestion.
DAWLISH Indoor Bowling Club hosted an exciting finals weekend across March 22 and 23, played in high spirits across the board. In an extremely exciting and tense match, the Ladies Singles pitted Tina Rowe against Debbie Coyles.