Dawlish News
Over the last 12 months, hundreds of planning applications have been approved by councils across Devon. Major £30m plans for a new sea wall at Dawlish to protect the railway for the next 100 years have been approved. Dawlish sea wall plans to protect railway for the next 100 years approved despite fears it could 'destroy town’s charm' Read more... ...
A newly-released sex offender broke an order to stay away from children by staying at the home of a young mother who had a nine-year-old daughter. The order was imposed when he was jailed in March 2015 for having under age sex with a 15-year-old girl in a woodland den which he had built in land near Dawlish Fire Station. Stewart, aged 24, of no fixed address and previously of Teignmouth and ...
Wednesday saw heavy rain and strong winds for many, which caused trees to fall on roads, flooding, and trains cancelled in Dawlish. Now, the Environment Agency has placed several flood alerts across the two counties. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/flood-warnings-issued-devon-cornwall-3659447
A burglar who failed to do community service work has told a judge that he could not do it because he was too busy working on flood defences in Dawlish. He received a nine month suspended sentence at Exeter Crown Court last year and was ordered to 125 hours of unpaid work. Another 24 hours was added for previous failures to attend. Read more... ...
The A379 Exeter Road in Dawlish is closed this afternoon because of a crash involving a pedestrian and a car. A police spokesperson said: "Police were called at 1pm today to Exeter Road, Dawlish following reports of a collision involving a car and a pedestrian. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-hit-car-closes-dawlish-3616303
A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a mental health patient who assaulted two police officers who tried to help him as he was being ejected from a pub in Totnes. The 45-year-old is is already subject of an eight-month suspended sentence for setting light to a litter bin. He breached the order once by being drunk and disorderly at Dawlish station, where two off duty mental nurses had ...
The sand was pumped on to the beach two years ago as part of a £14 million flood defence scheme, which raised parts of the beach by up to three metres. Enough sand to fill 100 Olympic swimming pools was pumped on to the beach in what Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, yesterday insisted was purely a cosmetic exercise. Read more... ...
A pensioner has been sent to a secure ward after he attacked a terrified carer with an axe as she was visiting his home in Tiverton. She only escaped after taking the axe off him, getting away from the house and calling the police and her bosses for help. He will now be treated at a secure ward at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, after a judge at Exeter Crown Court made a hospital order. Read ...
Detectives have now released photographs of three men who they want to speak to in connection with their investigation into the burglary. It happened in Kingsdown Crescent in Dawlish between 12.30pm and 1pm on July 17. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/pensioner-disturbs-three-burglars-home-3566375
A 28-year-old man bludgeoned to death three pensioners during a bloody killing spree in Exeter – but says he was insane at the time he did it. Their bodies were discovered by police in the days following the attacks. The full horror of the deaths shocked the city and sparked a major police investigation. The jury was told the trial will hear witness evidence from a number of a people and ...