Dawlish News
Toilet Twinning may sound like a bit of a joke - but far from it. It is a charity that is fulfilling a desperate need for improved health and sanitation in impoverished countries around the world, writes Bruce Pell of Dawlish Water Rotary. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/no-laughing-matter-511711
@Carer How would you know?
Sounds like a normal night in our wonderful town!!!
A DAWLISH man has been cleared of a bottle attack after the victim told a court that he did not know who had hit him. The violence flared near Dawlish Railway Station at the end of the first Friday night in which pubs were open after the first lockdown in 2020 and many of those involved had been drinking heavily. Read more... ...
What a complete idiot.
He spent 12 minutes video calling friends and taking selfies on the tracks - even after a near miss He appears to be chatting to friends via video call, when, at around the two minutes and thirty seconds mark, he spots the sleeper train from Paddington and dashes from the tracks. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/man-almost-hit-train-dawlish-6698560
Yesterday, Saturday, the fire service was called to a carbon monoxide incident caused by a resident desperate for warmth and hot food using a gas barbecue indoors. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=122233&headline=Worrying%20rise%20in%20carbon%20monoxide%20incidents%20and%20fire%20risks%20due%20to%20power%20cuts§ionIs=news&searchyear=2022
£3000 savings ??/ must have money to burn
Tim Hawkins spent seven years being treated at the Langdon Hospital in Devon after being sentenced under the Mental Health Act in 2014 for trying to burn down a church in Somerset. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=122191&headline=Pyromaniac%20struck%20again%20two%20weeks%20after%20release%20from%20Dawlish%20mental%20unit§ionIs=news&searchyear=2022
Geoffrey Cox, the boss of Southern Healthcare which owns four care homes in Devon (in Exeter, Plymouth, Dawlish and Seaton), says: “We absolutely welcome this news. Visiting is fundamentally important for wellbeing – the residents especially, their families and the staff – after a very harrowing couple of years. Read more... ...
