Dawlish News
Chris Myers reckons Dawlish Town may have turned a corner by staying focused for the full 90 minutes to defeat Street 3-1 in the Western league Premier Division on Tuesday night.The Seasiders broke the deadlock early on as they extended their unbeaten run to four games. In two of the three previous matches of that run - a 3-3 draw away to Barnstaple and last weekend's 1-1 home draw with Chard - ...
A huge slice of the red cliffs at Dawlish fell into the sea yesterday - taking with it a large piece of the garden from a luxury house being built near the clifftop. No one was hurt in the spectacular landslide, which carried the chunk of land the size of two double decker buses from the garden.Carpenter and joiner Daniel Julyan, pictured left, was working inside the four-bedroom house with his ...
HITCHING up her skirt and wearing sunglasses, a beach girl went paddling in what could have been a scene from the height of summer yesterday. But her barefoot dip at Dawlish, Devon, comes in the depths of winter - as weather experts reveal last month was the warmest January for 91 years. Despite recent snow flurries and howling gales, they say we got off lightly with a "ridiculously" high ...
A judge last night said he did take racist remarks seriously, after it emerged that earlier in the day he had found it "rather odd" a racism charge was brought against a man who called a police surgeon a "f**king Paki". Judge Paul Darlow, sitting at Exeter crown court, had said Imraan Jhetam should have "let the matter roll off his back". He also had advised the defendant, Matthew Stiddard, to ...
A woman was trapped in her car after an accident in Devon yesterday.The crash, which happened at Little Week Road, Dawlish, at 3.15pm, involved two cars. One left the road and collided with the garage of a nearby house. Firefighters from Dawlish were called to the accident.
Planners are to consider the final details of a scheme to build five office blocks.Outline permission for the development near Shutterton Industrial Estate, in Dawlish, has already been granted. But now Teignbridge District Council will consider the final plans, which include five office blocks, one industrial unit and trade units.
Commuters are still angry over the latest changes to First Great Western's Devon timetables.Although some journey times are faster, a number of intermediate stops have been removed. Trains to Barnstaple are down by one each day and commuters from Teignmouth and Dawlish are still without the 7.46am service from Dawlish to Exeter. Glenda Lamont, the train company's customer services director, said: ...
A BUILDER told yesterday how he "died" three times after being stung in the mouth by a wasp. Jason Broom, 37, suffered anaphylactic shock when he was stung while sipping from a can of cider. Luckily, his frantic girlfriend Wendy Marriner, 41, found first-aiders Alan Belcher and Kelvin Hopton holidaying at the same caravan park. They gave Jason the kiss of life while waiting for an air ambulance in ...
The posts are in, and when the weather permits cabling and cameras will follow, despite the fact the the council undertook a consultation exercise involving about 1,000 people - 800 residents and 200 tourists of which less than 5 per cent actually mentioned the fear of crime. One man, a retired writer named Keith Sharp, has done everything in his power to stop the system because he believes it ...
Tory Anthony Steen (Totnes) called for armoured trains for a rail line hindered by "high water and falling cliffs". He raised conditions on the scenic route between Dawlish Warren and Teignmouth, south Devon where the track runs along the edge of the sea and through a series of short tunnels in the cliffs. Mr Steen called for government cash to bypass the area or provide the special trains. But ...
