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Dawlish News

'Network Rail has confirmed it's hoping to extend the line'. Hoping being the operative word.

'i find it best to keep my nose out of other peoples business' !

3 May 2018

@leatash - I just feel sorry for you if you think an outright ban on dogs on our beaches would produce a positive effect to the success of Dawlish as a seaside town. With that attitude you would, more than likely, be welcomed as a dawlish town councillor. In my opinion.

3 May 2018

@leatash - if the reason is because they pee and poo on the beach, i think you will find the dawlish population contribute so much more pee and poo. the only difference is we chop it up a bit and pipe it a hundred yards out just to come back on the tide. I frequent the beaches, Teignmouth and Dawlish, and most of the year round the majority of those using the beaches are dog walkers. Ban ...

People with dogs coming to our coastline is a big revenue earner and to ban dogs from all beaches, in my opinion, would be a very blinkered and ignorant act IF the council did implement such an economically disasterous action. As with most restrictions in the U.K. on freedom whether that be speech, movement or just living your life the way you want without negatively effecting those around ...

@Mond - Denying your freedom of speech...IN MY OPINION I think you excercise your freedom of speech on many occassions at the expense of the many unfortunate souls who have posted on here that you did not agree with. As to your remark on whether I was or wasn't a police officer should really be of no concern to you one way or another. The fact that you bring it up on so many threads would seem ...

5 Apr 2018

@Diana Mond - give it a rest mond, you're like an old scratched record.

4 Apr 2018

I am amazed in this day and age no one whipped out their phone and youtubed it!

The old saying  'if my aunt had testicles she would be my uncle'. I have edited the wording not to offend the pc brigade. If people did a lot of things differently it might be a better place to live, but sadly that does not seem to be the case.

16 Mar 2018

I appreciate the idea and reason behind switching off your engine when stationery, but if I did that with my old car it would break within a short space of time. So you are in a Q which keeps on stopping and starting e.g. towards Morrisons from Newton Abbot. Sometimes the Q is a mile long and you would have to switch your engine on/off approx 20-30 times depending how the traffic was behaving. ...