Dawlish News
DAWLISH Town Council is celebrating receiving £7,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to mark the First World War Centenary. The council, working in partnership with the Local History Group, Dawlish Library, Dawlish Museum, the combined churches, Dawlish Royal British Legion, and Dawlish Repertory Company, has received the cash to help with the project, 'How the War Impacted on a Small Devon ...
Last night an industrial toilet roll was set alight in the gents toilet at the Sandy Lane public toilets. Unfortunately this is not the first time this partular toilet has been targetted as this has been ongoing on fri/sat evenings since 26th April. If anyone knows any information please get intouch by calling 101 or PM us. Thanks PCSO Annabel Pettinelli
The town council's finance committee has agreed to fund the church-based scheme to the tune of £2,000. The idea is to cut crime and protect vulnerable people in the resort at night. Exeter, Newton Abbot, Totnes and Torquay already have similar ventures up and running. The Dawlish scheme could be in place by early summer. Uniform-wearing volunteers would be trained to offer help to those ...
THE Dawlish cafe wiped out by suspected arsonists may not be able to re-open this summer. Rock Pool Cafe at Coryton Cove, Dawlish, was reduced to rubble after the devastating blaze last month. Debbie and Don Holman and their son George, who run the cafe, have lost the life savings spent on setting up and revamping the business. After seeing the damage they were ready to give up, but have ...
The only two airworthy Lancaster bombers in the world will be flying over Devon this summer. One of the four-engined World War Two bombers is flying in from Canada to join the Royal Air Force’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s own Lancaster and together they will fly at the Dawlish Air Show in August. Kevin Wills, Flying Display Director for Dawlish Air Show said: "As soon as the Air ...
A MEMBER of the public caused a coastguard alert when they mistook a patch of discoloured stonework at Dawlish for a person in trouble. The false alarm with good intent 999 call to Brixham coastguard came in at just after 8am on Bank Holiday Monday morning. A coastguard statment said: “Teignmouth Coastguard investigated a report of a person clinging to a breakwater at Dawlish. “The object ...
A HOLIDAYMAKER had to be pulled from mud after getting stuck at Dawlish Warren. The woman was reported to be in difficulties at about 5.30pm on Saturday. Teignmouth Coastguard team, assisted by firefighters, used ropes to get her out. A spokesman said: "She was stuck about 20-metres from the shore, close to the golf course. "People playing golf had been keeping an eye on her before we ...
Visitors have been flocking to a Wesctountry castle for a new garden festival. Horticultural experts will be giving talks and demonstrations throughout the two-day event at Powderham Castle. It is the brainchild of Radio 4 Gardeners’ World presenter Toby Buckland, who has a garden centre at the Earl of Devon’s riverside estate, on the road from Exeter to Dawlish. The festival offers ...
Network Rail has confirmed a time table of repairs for the Dawlish Warren to Dawlish and Teignmouth walkways that were battered by storms in February. Works are now being undertaken around train services, with Network Rail working in available periods to reopen the sea wall areas for the public as soon as possible. On the Dawlish Warren to Dawlish route, the walk way section from Boat ...
The remains of a lovely cafe'
