Dawlish News
An elderly woman has been taken to hospital with “serious injuries” after a being hit by an out-of-control car outside her home. Emergency services were called to the cul-de-sac at Gatehouse Close in Dawlish just before 12noon today. The air ambulance was called for and the victim, who is in her mid-70s, was conscious and breathing on a stretcher but initial indications were that her injuries ...
Date: 09/07/2013 Time: 11:53 Location: Gatehouse Close, Dawlish Area: Western County: Devon One appliance from Dawlish was mobilised to reports fo an RTC at the above location. On arrival an RTC was discovered involving one car that had gone into the side of a house. All persons were free and clear of the vehicle. Crews made the ...
Dawlish carnival organisers are appealing for more sponsors to come forward to support the annual event. Last year the carnival still lost £8,000 despite cutting cost to try to reduce the losses. The committee's efforts to keep the carnival in the black are not helped by red tape. The disco where the carnival royalty are chosen and cost £300 to put on was cancelled also the loss-making ...
The Fire Service were called to reports of a road traffic collision. Two appliances from Dawlish and Teighmouth were mobilised to this incident. Upon arrival crews confirmed no persons trapped and made the vehicle safe. See more... http://www.dsfire.gov.uk/news/newsdesk/IncidentDetail.cfm?IncidentID=25151&siteCategoryId=3&T1ID=26&T2ID=35
Two fire appliances from Dawlish and Teignmouth attended a building fire in Dawlish, a further appliance from Danes Castle was mobilised for the use of Compressed Air Foam (CAFS). Crews on scene also requested an aerial platform attend to assist with fire fighting capabilities, this was mobilised from Taunton. Crews set to work using 4 breathing apparatus, 2 hose reel jets, a thermal imaging ...
A fire at baily's Chip Shop, several Fire Appliances in attendance.
Wasn't there talk sometime ago to relocate the museum? The old Woolworth's store was mentioned before the Co-op moved in. Would have been great. Teignmouth museum is brilliant, not sure how they managed to raise the money.
According to an Ofsted report Gatehouse Primary School needs to make futher improvements to become a good school. Inspectors said there had been too little good teaching in the school and students had not made the progress they should and there had been a high staff turnover. A more recent visit by Ofsted said the senior leadership team has now been strengthened, teaching improved and pupils ...
Unless cash can be found quickly Dawlish Museum could be forced to close. The museum which is home to the late Bill Millin's famous D-Day bagpipes made a loss of £5,000 last year, bad weather was to blame also the increase of utility and insurance bills. The heating bill for the start of this year is in excess of £2,000. The building is more than 200 years old and in poor condition, if the ...
A £30MILLION-plus commitment to protecting the main seafront rail line into South Devon has been made by Network Rail. Patrick Hallgate, western route managing director for Network Rail, revealed the commitment at a meeting of Torbay Business Forum when he gave details of the company's current plans for protecting and enhancing the region's rail network. He pledged to protect the main ...
