Dawlish News
Exeter Road's Marina Post Office was ram-raided this morning. Earlier, a local passer by snapped these photos. Apparantly a Vauxhall Astra was used in the raid although this has not been confirmed.
Devon Partnership NHS Trust has received planning consent to proceed with the £30m redevelopment of Langdon Hospital in Dawlish. The plans for the site include extension of the existing buildings and the replacement of the Butler Clinic with a new 60-bed unit, which will be divided into four ward areas. It is hoped construction will start in the autumn with completion of the development ...
Tesco has lost its bid to build a store in Dawlish. Government inspector Stuart Nixon today ruled out proposals for a Tesco out-of-town store, bringing to an end three years of store wars wrangling against its rival Sainsbury's. He said: "Two stores would almost certainly damage the health of the town centre." For the full article see ...
Dawlish beach has re-opened to swimmers after passing an Environment Agency water quality test, having failed the previous two. Teignbridge District Council said it was continuing to investigate the cause and thought it might have been down to the recent bad weather. It said it had removed warning signs and red flags from the beach. On the most recent test on 21 June the beach attained the ...
Eighteen people in Devon have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for work in education, sport, the arts and their communities. Exeter University's vice-chancellor, Professor Steven Smith, has been knighted for services to education. Michaela Breeze, from Ivybridge, has become an MBE for services to weightlifting. Roderick Crook, from Dawlish, also becomes an MBE, for services ...
POLICE were called to a railway station after a drunken city man yelled abuse at a female train guard, Exeter magistrates have heard. Oliver Bowen, 19, of Higher Summerlands, Heavitree, pleaded guilty to a public order offence of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to the woman at Dawlish Warren train station. Bowen was given a six-month conditional discharge for his ...
A HIGH dependency Dawlish care home has been put on the market for £850,000 four weeks after it went into administration. Holcombe Hall Nursing Home Ltd, which cares for 24 residents with dementia and mental health problems, announced it was closing a week ago after attempts to place it under new management failed to materialise. Families now have until Monday June 20 to find alternative ...
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy was being treated in hospital after stabbing himself in the stomach in front of 20 other pupils. Students and staff at Dawlish Community College were left in shock and 'traumatised' following the incident, which left the youngster needing emergency surgery to remove the four inch kitchen knife. The schoolboy, who has not been named, was rushed to the Royal Devon and Exeter ...
The owner of a dangerous dog which bit a fellow dog walker at Dawlish Warren has been told the animal will be destroyed unless she keeps it muzzled and under proper control in the future. Fenella Braund, 48, admitted being in charge of a dangerous dog at Dawlish Warren on May 8. Torquay Magistrates heard that Braund, from Bristol, was staying in a flat at Dawlish Warren when her Staffordshire ...
A pensioner from Dawlish Warren used games to take advantage of two young children he allegedly sexually abused, a court has heard. It was claimed at Exeter Crown Court that Robin Pitts indecently touched a young boy and girl using a 'game' analogy. Prosecutor Andrew Oldland said Pitts, now 68, had told both of his victims to keep the abuse secret. Pitts of Warren Road, has pleaded not guilty ...
