Dawlish News
Control valve and marine steering system components are being machined at least twice as quickly in fewer operations at Hydraulic Projects Ltd (Hy-Pro), Dawlish, on a Brother 4-axis, twin-pallet, vertical machining centre (VMC) supplied by Whitehouse Machine Tools. Installed in July 2007, the machine matches the output of two older 3-axis VMCs which have been sold. The extra CNC axis on the ...
Police launched a search for a woman yesterday after reports that she had not been seen for 24 hours.Officers are concerned for 45-year-old Rhian Higgs' welfare and describe her as vulnerable. Miss Higgs, who had come to Dawlish on holiday from North Wales, went missing from a campsite in the town at 8.30am on Thursday. She told family members staying at Lady's Mile Holiday Park, in Exeter Road, ...
A dimwit dad put his two girls' lives in peril - by making them walk just feet from a busy rail line. The moron twice ambled across the tracks while the girls, aged around five and eight, waited patiently for him. He then led them along the edge of the outer track as a train sped past from behind. Trainspotter Allan Wright, 25, who filmed the shocking scenes in Dawlish, Devon, said: "He jumped ...
Emergency crews were called to a road crash, thinking the driver was trapped - only to find the car empty after it had overturned.Fire appliances from Dawlish and Topsham were called to the scene of the one-vehicle crash on the A379, about half a mile from Kenton, near Exeter, at 9pm on Friday.
The posters along the six-mile course carried a poignant message: Together, We Can Beat Cancer.And more than 900 fundraisers gathered and joined forces to attempt to do just that yesterday. Runners of all ages, from teenagers to pensioners, lined up for the Cancer Research 10K Challenge at Powderham Castle, near Exeter. Their solidarity in raising what was a resounding and incredible £60,000 ...
Police are also investigating the accident at Holcombe Cross near Dawlish in which a man died. The fatal accident happened at 5.20pm on Saturday as a silver Fiat Cinquecento was in a collision with a bus. Another car was also involved in the crash. The 37-year-old man from Newton Abbot was confirmed as deceased at midday on Sunday. His 44-year-old, male passenger was taken to Exeter Hospital for ...
The Medieval Knights of Dawlish are to hang up their lances and ride into the sunset following a run-in with council officials. The horsemen and their trusty steeds are off to pastures new and will not return to Dawlish Warren next summer because of a dispute over planning permission with Teignbridge District Council. The touring troupe of knights have been doing battle, medieval-style, since ...
Fit as a fiddle Ann Marie Rice has won a place in the Natural Body Building Finals next month - now she has to raise the money to get there.Rice, who is 42, and lives in Dawlish, took part in a qualifying round in Weymouth, where she finished third in the Miss Figure class. A fitness instructor by profession who trains at Steve's Gym in Newton Abbot, Rice hopes to go to the finals in Scotland ...
Four air rifles worth £1,600 were among the haul of a Paignton man who went on a crime spree across Devon. More than £2,000 worth of cosmetics were also stolen by Robert Francis, 49, of Hoxton Road, Paignton.Exeter Crown Court heard the air rifles were stolen from Ladd's of Crediton and by the time the owner realised what had happened, Francis had taken the guns and was speeding off in a getaway ...
Dawlish and Teignmouth fire crews helped get a man out of a vehicle which was balancing in a precarious position. The firefighters went to Cockwood, near Exeter, to help a man stuck in a Jeep balancing over a one-metre drop. It happened at about 10.24am yesterday in Church Lane. Teignmouth fire station's crew commander Matt Radford said: "He was coming down a lane from a field and the vehicle ...
