Dawlish News
A 53 year-old youth leader from Kingskerswell has been arrested and released on police bail in connection with allegation of sexual abuse. Mike Stevens was arrested following an allegation of indecently assulting a boy under the age of 16. Mr Stevens championed the Red Rock youth and skills centre at Sandy Lane, Dawlish and is involved with community and youth organisations in Newton Abbot, ...
Jason Jerome who lives in Dawlish with his girlfriend and her two children admitted arson at Exeter crown court and was given a two-year community order. Jerome became suicidal after given up his job as a fireman to become a house husband. His girlfriend restrained him after he doused himself in lighter fluid and was about to set it alight.
A 18-year-old student studying Law stole a book valued at £230. Philip Smith lives with his grandmother in Dawlish and works as a barman at the Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren. He had previously been reprimanded for burglary and theft after going to a former school and taking money from a communal lounge, he was then suspended and moved to Dawlish to live with his grandmother. Smith had ...
A man from Exeter has been banned from Dawlish as part of his bail conditions. Thomas Harding from Exeter pleaded guilty to assaulting two men occasioning them both actual bodily harm. The violent attack happened at the South Devon Inn, Strand Hill, Dawlish, last July. Harding is already awaiting sentencing for causing £20.000 of damage at the Flying Horse Pub in Wonford, Exeter.
More than 100 people in Dawlish are waiting for allotments to become available. There are just 27 plots up for grabs. The lease on the Browns Brook site is due to expire in 2012. The town council will be giving an update at next month's meeting and warns new agreements could increase the current of £38 paid in rent. Anyone got a vacant piece of garden?
Residents of Clovelly Rise, Dawlish have sent letters and photos to Dawlish Town Council complaining about trees which were felled to improve coastal views. The matter will be discussed at the council meeting tomorrow to find out who carried out the work and whether permission was sought.
A fire at a home in Dawlish left a total of 13 residents homeless. The fire broke out in a ground floor flat of the four-storey property in West Cliff. Firefighters rescued a married couple from a first floor balcony of the Victorian listed building. Paramedics treated five residents at the scene, one for a foot injury and four for smoke inhalation. Firefighters from Dawlish, Teignmouth and ...
The council-owned Park Road building will end up costing electors £250,000 despite it lying unused for the last 12 months. Furious residents say they want an opology and have designed a placard bearing the image of a white elephant and handed it over to the council's finance and general purposes committe. The council bought the premises at 34 Park Road, Dawlish in February 2010 at the price of ...
A couple who bought the property 18 months ago for £1.7million are facing life on the edge after their garden crashed into the sea. The house in Dawlish, Devon was built by Nick Skilton, managering directon of Wessex Products. He was granted planning permission in 2005 for a four bedroom house with a glass sprial staircase and indoor pool despite its apparently percarious postion. In 2007 it ...
Network Rail has invested more than £8.5m over the last 10 years to protect the railway line along the Dawlish and Teignmouth coast line. Climate change experts have warned that sea levels could rise making the line more difficult to protect. An alternative line would cost about £100m and would pass through Okehampton, Tavistock and Plymouth. Anne Marie Morris conserative MP for Newton Abbot ...
