Dawlish News
Spending cuts of £54 million by Devon County Council will affect every home in the country. Dawlish recycling centre will close in March as part of the £2.1 million cut on waste disposal. The nearest recycling centre will be Exeter or Newton Abbot which will be introducing new charges to recycle. It is also feared the conservative plan to cut youth work may have an effect on the new Red Rock ...
After years of planning Sainsbury's has confirmed construction work on its multi-million pound store at Shutterton will start soon. It's hoping to be trading by autumn.Nine months later new business units will be available for tenants bringing with them prospect of desirable new jobs. It is thought between the shop and units more than 200 post could be created. Jim Woolcott, Sainsbury's new store ...
A Dawlish man who went missing 25 years ago was never found. Police have re-opened an investigation into his disappearance. 24 year old Martyn Tucker lived in Exeter Road at the time he went missing, he also ran the Marine Stores with his wife. Martyn was last seen at around 11.30pm at the Gresham Arms pub in Commercial Road, now called the Laffin Pig. It is beleived he may have walked along the ...
Three pets that were found dead beside their smashed-up hutch in the garden of a Dawlish home are being investigated by the RSPCA and the police. The rabbit and two guinea pigs were left for three days while the owner visited family. The RSPCA believes the animals may have been strangled, or suffocated or may have died of fright. Three boys aged about 14 or 15 were seen to go into the garden ...
A new dental practice is to open on the Shutterton Industrial Estate, Dawlish. It's great news for people in the area who whant to sign up to a N.H.S dentist. If you want to sign up contact N.H.S Devon's dental helpline on 0845 002 0034 or email devondentalhelpline@nhs.net. Oh and don't forget to hurry, only an extra 2,000 made available!
You can't kid a minister, even in Kidderminster! According to the Herald Express, Paul Drury has been asked to be president of the largest Taekwon-do schools in the country. Drury travelled to Kidderminster to carry out belt testings for two schools: the Taekwon-Do Schools of Excellence and Black Belt Inc. While there to conduct the testings, Drury was invited to become president of the Taekwon-Do ...
Devon County Council has bought 100 pay-and-display parking meters at a cost of £290,000, despite being in the process of a public consultation. A lot of the new meters would replace some old ones. Drivers would be allowed 30 minutes free parking before being charged if the plan is approved.The parking restrictions Devon County Council wants to introduce are in Honiton, Budleigh Salterton, ...
Police are warning dog owners to keep their dogs under control after two dogs have been destroyed after livestock were killed in the Teignbridge area. Other sheep in the Dawlish, Kenton and Easton have also been mained on farm land.
Exeter Crown Court were told a diary claimed to contain details of a major cocain trafficking ring. The accused Mathew Deny aged 46 was said to have used his Dawlish based furniture firm as a front for the £1.8 million drugs operation. Gerard Kirwan, Jason Payne and John Morton with Deny were also accused of a conspiracy to supply drugs. The drugs were found at Ash Hill Road Torquay. Deny denied ...
A 70year-old pensioner from Dawlish has had charges against him dropped. The man pleaded not guilty to possessing a knife in a public place in Exeter at an earlier hearing at the Crown Court in October. The defendant did not attend the latest hearing at the Exeter Crown Court due to poor health and is now in a residential home in Dawlish.
