Dawlish News
I just avoided it up the Ashcombe road over the top to Exeter or i could have gone Mamhead straight turn right and through the lanes to Exminster but i prefer the thrill of the M5.
and the traffic chaos then continued after Little Mix performance. http://www.devonlive.com/little-mix-traffic/story-30441781-detail/story.html
http://www.devonlive.com/live-accidents-cause-heavy-traffic-around-exeter-ahead-of-little-mix-concert/story-30440539-detail/story.html
Sarah Harris from south Devon had taken her pet skunk to a dog show in north Devon and was staying in a tent, when Dottie made a break for it. Now Sarah hopes her psychic friend, who has a track record of finding lost pets, will be able to home in on 16-month-old Dottie, missing in Bratton Fleming. Initial searches haven't been fruitful, so Sarah has turned to her clairvoyant friend ...
The duckling was saved by quick thinking wardens who fitted him with tape and cardboard shoes to help him waddle. The animal - known as Wonky - was born six weeks ago with clubbed feet and would trip over every time he tried to walk. Warden Don Phillips said: "We had two newborns in an incubator and one had clubbed feet. The poor thing kept falling over and couldn't walk. Read more... ...
On a train with 40 passengers eating scottish food and stuck in a station or siding of a night to sleep for 6 days in the U.K. for £10k that's a bargain! oh and only one pillow per bed.
Everybody moans about the price of rail travel these days, but this train might just be the most expensive ever seen on the railway lines of Devon. Early on Tuesday morning the rarely-seen Belmond Royal Scotsman Railtour passed along the spectacular seawall section between Dawlish Warren and Newton Abbot. Read more... ...
'symbolic of the current state of the health care service', NO......SYMBOLIC of the last several decades of the health care service. The NHS services will be trimmed down to the point of a few super hospitals hundreds of miles apart dotted around the country and will be privatised off to the highest bidder some time in the future. It does not matter which party is in power as they all have ...
The news that a rehabilitation ward at Teignmouth Hospital will probably never reopen has been called 'symbolic of the current state of the health service'. The minor injuries unit and X-ray department at the hospital moved to Dawlish in January 2016 as part of proposals aimed at securing the long-term future of the two community hospitals. Read more... ...
Plans for 409 houses at Gatehouse Farm on Secmaton Lane were approved in July 2016 which followed on from the approval granted in April for Waddeton Park Ltd's plans for up to 200 homes, a 64-bed care home and three hectares of employment land on a 16-acre plot of land in the grounds of Langdon Hospital Now, plans for 201 new homes at land at Secmaton Farm in Dawlish have been submitted to ...