Dawlish News
If Nigel Bliss's team do well in the national festival, they will get to play before the England-Barbarians game at the end of May. The side have not been beaten since the final of the Devon under-10 festival, when Devonport Services edged past them. Their dominance has seen them score 486 points so far this season and concede only 19, a remarkable achievement at any level. A squad of 20 were ...
Sarah Down, from Topsham, begged that her daughter should be taken into care when she ran away last year to live with a 31-year-old man in his car. But the authorities refused - and Katie, now 16, is due to give birth in a fortnight's time. That means her baby was probably conceived around August last year - the same time that Ms Down was pleading that the teenager should go into care - and ...
Dawlish Town maintained their challenge for the Premier Division title with a 4-3 win over North Molton. Rivals Plymouth thrashed Galmpton Utd 14-1.
Peter Jubb, one of 98 residents evacuated from their homes in Dawlish Warren, South Devon, when flood waters surged into Hazlewood Park in December 2000, said: "For the first time in three years we can sleep soundly in our beds when the rain is pouring down during the winter. This scheme will mean we no longer have to venture outside to see if the water levels are rising." He said some residents, ...
Topsham Town undid title chasing Exeter Civil Service 2-1 with another top notch performance. Charlie May scored both goals and former Topsham player Darren Thomas was the Civil scorer.
Lauren Oke, Laura Ferguson, Sam Jones, Emma Davies and Catherine McMorrow will begin a 16-hour, sponsored trampoline marathon at Dawlish Leisure Centre at 6.45am and finish at 10.45pm. The 15 and 16-year-olds, from Dawlish Community College, are raising money to subsidise the cost of a school visit to Uganda being undertaken by a party of 26 this summer.
Coroner's officer Ric Parsons told the hearing in Torquay yesterday that the exact cause of death had yet to be established. He said the results of toxicology tests were awaited. Leicester-born Jamie, who was single and unemployed, was formally identified by his uncle Jeremy Smith, a hotel services assistant from Paignton. A full inquest will be held at a later date.
A man today pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder his estranged police officer wife. Ian Hurved, 53, of Dorset Avenue, Exeter, also denied a charge of wounding with intent at Exeter Crown Court. Hurved is alleged to have tried to to kill Fay Hurved at her home in Dawlish, Devon, on December 21. No application for bail was made, and Mrs Justice Hallett remanded him in custody until his next ...
Purchased for just £60 in 1930, the one-bedroom railway carriage, at Cockwood near Dawlish, is now being sold by formal tender and is expected to fetch somewhere between £215,000 and £260,000. The carriage has recently been restored and now boasts its original brown and cream Great Western Railway livery. Julie Drake of Stags, who is the negotiator overseeing the sale, said there had already been ...
The property was later recovered from Anderson's Dawlish home when the pair were arrested. Jailing 22-year-old Anderson for two years, Judge Jeremy Griggs told him the family had to live with the consequences of what he had done. "The wife of this family says her eldest daughter no longer likes to be at home alone. The youngest daughter slept with her parents afterwards. "She was very scared ...
