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Dawlish News

POLICE have issued an appeal after a burglar crept in through a window and stole a small safe from a house in Dawlish. Police say the raider entered the property through a front ground floor window, stealing the safe from inside. Read more... http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/safe-stolen-from-house-in-dawlish/story-29430423-detail/story.html#ixzz4CIJgPMKA

Campaigners are struggling to make the case for an improved rail network because businesses are not telling the Government how important faster services would be. The working group set up in the wake of the Dawlish storm of 2014, which cut off most of Devon and Cornwall, says publication of its report has been delayed until the end of the summer. Read more... ...

Groups of children aged under five have been joining in free new bounce and rhyme events on beaches including in Exmouth, Teignmouth and Dawlish. Read more... http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/successful-new-bounce-and-rhyme-events-held-on-devon-s-beaches/story-29422501-detail/story.html

Police, local councillors and the public have thrown their support behind a proposed order which would ban anti-social behaviour such as drinking and rough sleeping, drug taking and littering. Read more... http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/ban-drinking-anti-social-behaviour/story-29372280-detail/story.html

Peter Shorland, from Dawlish will be running a Coastal Trail Ultra trail marathon along the South West Coastal path on June 11. Read more... http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Dawlish-man-place-marathon-dog-charity/story-29382063-detail/story.html#ixzz4BCiS4JAx

CHANGES have been made to the designs for a major beach management scheme designed to protect Dawlish Warren from flooding have been proposed. Following discussion with Natural England regarding the proposals to recharge sand on the landward side of the new defence at the neck of the sand spit at Dawlish Warren, a new landward neck dune enhancement scheme has been proposed. Read mre... ...

Pupils from Gatehouse Primary School in Dawlish have been working with local artists to shape the playground at Barratt’s The Buntings development in the town. Read more... http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Children-design-playground-Dawlish/story-29384715-detail/story.html

A judge has ordered a further psychiatric report on a man from North Devon who has admitted a serious assault in Dawlish. Darren O'Regan, 23, who is currently being treated at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, has admitted causing grievous bodily harm in an attack in June last year. Read more.. ...

A COMPROMISE by planners over a link road to help deliver 1,000 houses on the edge of Dawlish has been reached. Despite councillors expressing their concern at the fact construction traffic would still be diverted through Sandy Lane and Elm Grove Drive, they reluctantly accepted at Wednesday's planning meeting that the only viable way to deal with the issue is through a construction ...

FROM the Big Weekend to the streets of the south Devon coastline – campaigners have been gearing up to convince voters that Britain is Stronger in Europe. In addition to McGovern's tour, the official 'Stronger In' campaign was also out in force in Dawlish, Bovey Tracey and Budleigh Salterton as it entered its final month. Read more... ...