Dawlish News
@Gadget . many thanks for putting the record straight as there were many rumours circulating. hope your wife is recovering well.
Two schools are celebrating after being crowned as the best of their kind in the Westcountry. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg named Dawlish Community College as the best secondary school in the region and Widey Court Primary School in Plymouth as the best primary school. Both schools received a letter of congratulations from Mr Clegg following their accolades in the 2013 Pupil Premium ...
A "manipulative" paedophile, caged for the sickening sexual abuse of a boy while sleeping over at his home, has had his potentially lifelong sentence quashed. Jade Cook, 23, "duped" a 13-year-old boy into performing oral sex on him, having accepted his parents' hospitality and lied about his age while grooming the boy online. Cook, of Oak Park Villas, Dawlish, Devon, was caged indefinitely ...
A man with a cow slurry fetish has admitted threatening to kill a family who live at a farm where he has repeatedly rolled naked in animal muck. David Truscott, 43, formerly of Pengegon Parc, Camborne, Cornwall, is currently a patient at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, Devon. He also admitted threatening to destroy Woodbury House Farm near Redruth Francis Gilbert, QC warned Truscott he was ...
DCC's scheme - piloted in Ilfracombe, Ivybridge and Tiverton - has proved so successful it is now being expanded to a further eight towns, including Dawlish and Teignmouth. The sessions offer those seeking work or claiming benefits up to two hours' free computer and internet access each Friday. The scheme was developed in response to the Government's "Digital by Default" strategy, to help those ...
All Year 11 students are expected to attend all lessons as normal up to and including THURSDAY 23rd MAY , when students will leave the College at the end of the English Literature exam, at approximately 3:30pm. Students are still required to attend normal classes/revision sessions after this date for any subject where they still have an exam. There will be a final leavers' assembly for all of ...
The Transport Secretary is due to visit South Devon today. Patrick McLoughlin will have a chance to see the coastal railway line at Dawlish and discuss possible investment. The line was damaged in the recent floods and there are fears for its future in the face of erosion. He'll then visit Kingskerswell where a new bypass is being built to improve transport links in the region. See ...
SOUTH Devon police raided a property in Elm Grove Road, Dawlish, and seized what's believed to be £1,400 of heroin. "It was another great result for us," said a police spokesman for the South Devon Proactive Unit, who led the raid. "It's another £1,400 of drugs off of our streets. We will keep going into properties until people get the message drugs will not be tolerated." A 32-year-old ...
The Fire Service received a call from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to a seagull trapped on a flat roof at the above location. One fire appliance from Teignmouth attended. Fire crews released one seagull from third floor flat roof using a ladder and small tools. The care of the seagull was handed over to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ...
Motorists are being advised that the road through Dawlish Strand will be closed for around two weeks from Monday (29 April) as work on the £1.5million regeneration of the Strand continues. The road will be closed for reconstruction and resurfacing, which is expected to be completed by Friday 10 May. As per the previous road closure in February for water mains diversion, deliveries ...
