Dawlish News
Police have cancelled an £80 fine issued to a man in April for using a swastika on a leaflet. Keith Sharp, 68, from Dawlish, Devon, had been given the fixed penalty notice after putting 4,000 leaflets through doors complaining about a local increase in CCTV cameras. Police reconsidered after the CPS said it did not warrant a criminal charge.
Police have arrested a 25-year-old man from Dawlish on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following a fatal collision at Ideford on Friday afternoon on the 10th August 2007. The collision, which involved two vehicles, occurred shortly after 2pm, and left a woman dead at the scene. She was a passenger in a Mercedes car which was in collision with a Ford Transit van. The male driver ...
An unauthorised financial consultant who mishandled £40,000 given to him by a farmer who already had debts of more than £200,000 from the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak has been given a suspended jail term. At Exeter Crown Court 63-year-old Harold Bell, from Teignmouth, admitted four charges of transferring cash when unauthorised to do so under the Financial Services and Markets Act.He was given a ...
Devon's unseasonably cool and wet summer weather is starting to hit tourist businesses in the back pocket.Ice cream parlours and other businesses in Dawlish Warren say the persistent rain is keeping tourists away. This time last year, the resort was packed with visitors, but it currently resembles a ghost town. Carnival rides near the Warren's seafront were deserted yesterday as summer visitors ...
A West Country fruit farmer has said he is having his worst season for 16 years as heavy rain ruins crops. Dennis Killan from south Devon said the wet weather was making strawberries swell and burst. Another fruit farmer from Cornwall says he is in a race against time to pick the rain-swollen fruit before it is destroyed. Arable farmers in the region are also struggling with the weather as ...
DEVON Wildlife Trust is holding its 5th annual corporate golf tournament next month at Dawlish Warren Golf Club. The event was due to take place in June but had to be rearranged and now the charity is eagerly searching for more teams to make it a success. Teams of four are invited to enter this challenging links competition to win the charity shield and a host of other top prizes. The event is ...
Vital minutes could be saved in emergencies by allowing rescue services to use a surface rail crossing to get to Dawlish Warren beach, Parliament has been told.Teignbridge's Lib Dem MP Richard Younger-Ross said the current access, via a tunnel, was too small for emergency vehicles to get through. He told a debate at Westminster that a friend and councillor had suffered a heart attack while ...
Dawlish Library's opening hours have been increased following feedback from the public.Opening hours from Monday will be 9.30am to 5pm on Mondays, 9.30am to 7pm on Tuesdays, closed on Wednesdays, 9.30am to 7pm Thursdays, 9.30am to 5pm Fridays and 9.30am to 1pm Saturdays. It will no longer be closed for an hour at lunch.
THINKING they had plenty of time before the arrival of their first baby, Amy Burnett and Eddie Odaro headed for the Devon coast to grab their last holiday before parenthood arrived. But their baby had other ideas and Amy went into labour five weeks early on Friday - the last morning of their trip - making history in the process. For her daughter Leila was the first baby to be born in the new ...
Whatever the reason for introducing what have been described as "happy-clappy services", the Reverend Jerry Bird is learning the hard way that churchgoers can be a traditional lot. A large section of the congregation are upset by the changes and last Sunday the entire 20- strong choir and organist stormed out of the church minutes before the 9.30am Sung Eucharist. Now the Bishop of Exeter, the ...
