Dawlish News
DAWLISH railway station has been given a brand new look. The Grade II listed station has now been returned to its traditional colours of chocolate and cream with new signage and painting. The work has been carried out by rail operator Great Western Railway which is responsible for the station.
A Dawlish running group has donated £500 to Teignmouth Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) after selecting the lifesaving organisation as its 2025 charity of the year. Dawlish Coasters chair Alex Sykes presented a cheque to Teignmouth RNLI fundraising chair Wendy Richards Wood at the running club’s recent awards ceremony.
DAWLISH will mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. Members of the Ukrainian community and friends are invited to an event at the town council offices on Tuesday February 24.
THE MAYOR of Dawlish is to host the town’s first beer and cider festival. It is hoped the festival, to be held on Saturday March 28, will become the first of many. Local brewers have been invited to take part in the event which takes place at the Strand Centre between noon and 10pm.
GOVERNMENT ministers have pledged to keep South Devon’s vital rail link running reliably as winter storms increase. Newton Abbot Liberal Democrat MP Martin Wrigley raised concerns about the safety of the coastal line between Teignmouth and Dawlish after recent storms.
NEW Dawlish councillor Pat Hackett says he ‘can’t wait to get started’. Pat, who moved to Dawlish a few years ago, brings with him a distinguished political background as a former leader of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, where he led a minority Labour administration, and also as a former Mayor of The Wirral.
A NEW Channel 4 drama into polluted water will feature the death of an eight-year-old girl linked to sewage discharged into the sea at Dawlish Warren. The case of Heather Preen, who died in 1999 of E coli poisoning after a family holiday, is among a number of stories told in the drama due to air soon.
TOWN councillors in Dawlish have approved their budget for the next financial year. Among the priorities for 2026 to 2027 will be redeveloping the avian-flu hit waterfowl aviary. Last year, up to 50 of the town’s ornamental birds had to be humanely culled after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic disease.
PARTS of the timber from wrecked Teignmouth Pier are still being washed up along the coast in Dawlish. Piles of the wood from the end of the pier appeared at both Dawlish seafront and Coryton Cove following the devastating storms.
PREPARATIONS are well underway for the renowned Dawlish Water Rotary Club Mega Quiz. Rotarians are hoping to raise another substantial amount from their hugely popular quiz, the first one of the year.