Dawlish News
It's only 103 miles away is it one from here ???
Photographer Giles Davies saw the swan among a group of white ones on the Milford Haven waterway, on Saturday. He studied the swan for some time and it is "in good condition" and "living quite happily" among the other swans. "As for where it's come from, not a clue. I don't know," he added. In Dawlish, Devon, the bird has become a symbol of the town Read more... ...
A newly-released sex offender broke an order to stay away from children by staying at the home of a young mother who had a nine-year-old daughter. The order was imposed when he was jailed in March 2015 for having under age sex with a 15-year-old girl in a woodland den which he had built in land near Dawlish Fire Station. Stewart, aged 24, of no fixed address and previously of Teignmouth and ...
Ahh, poor didums being stuck on a train. As for being 'blacked out' to save battery power, it must have broken down at approx 1215 hrs, and at that time, there was plenty of daylight although cloudy and raining, so someone is looking for excess compensation and wanting some publicity, which they have got. Oh, I got wet when I got out of my car and walked 10 metres from the car park to ...
It sounds like the new GWR trains are just as shite as Crosscountry in stormy weather, two of them broke down in the Dawlish area today. It was never like this with the HSTs.
One passenger claims he was stuck on the unmoving train for over two hours One man claims he was told the train had broken down "following sea water entering the engine at Dawlish" and was stuck on the train for over two hours. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/passengers-stranded-blacked-out-train-3662391
Wednesday saw heavy rain and strong winds for many, which caused trees to fall on roads, flooding, and trains cancelled in Dawlish. Now, the Environment Agency has placed several flood alerts across the two counties. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/flood-warnings-issued-devon-cornwall-3659447
Is it not possible to reinstate the gabions? Why were they legally required to remove them when they had worked in the past? It doesn’t seem to make sense.
It doesn't bode well for the sea wall defence scheme.
In 2017, the EA replaced the hard rock defences with giant tubes filled with sand, known as a Geotube The EA has now installed temporary measures to protect the 460m (1,509ft) Geotube Warren Golf Club manager John Langmead said he wished the original defences had been left in. Martin Davies, from the agency, said: "There weren't mistakes, the design was based on predictions which ...