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The project follows Devon County Council securing a grant of £817,712 from the European Regional Development Fund. The charge points will be installed in key carparks in Devon’s largest communities. These include Exeter, Barnstaple, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Honiton, Seaton, South Molton, Ilfracombe, Totnes, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Tavistock, Okehampton, Dartmouth, Salcombe, Dawlish, Teignmouth, ...

Heavy rain means sewage and other run-off may have contaminated bathing waters Dawlish Town is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 650 metres wide, close to the town and cliffs. There are five storm overflows covered by the Safer Seas Service within 650m off the beach which can operate in heavy rainfall. See more... ...

dogs are permitted along the seashore from the slipway adjacent to the Railway Station until 230 metres before Red Rock at Dawlish Warren dogs are not permitted along the seashore from the slipway to Coryton Cove from 1 May to 30 September See more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/ban-over-77-devon-beaches-3362599

A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing near Dawlish seafront today. Police say the incident happened in the vicinity of the Teignmouth Inn pub, Teignmouth Hill, just after midnight (Saturday September 28). Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/man-24-seriously-injured-dawlish-3371582

A mentally ill robber who held up a string of men in the street at knifepoint has been recommended for detention in a psychiatric unit. Michael Green, for Cabanga, said he had been assessed as suitable for treatment by one psychiatrist for a Hospital Order under the Mental Health Act. He is already being held at the Langdon Unit near Dawlish. Read more... ...

COSTS for the reinstatement of a railway from Tavistock to Bere Alston have ballooned to £93-million, councillors have been told. As part of the Devon Metro proposals, the re-opening of this section of line was due to provide a new, sustainable link between Tavistock and Plymouth for commuter journeys. Instead, their top priorities were to get funding for the remainder of the Dawlish to ...

Eyewitnesses say the helicopter landed at the bottom of Pidgley Road at around 11.30am on Wednesday. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/air-ambulance-lands-next-houses-3332453

The full list is as follows: Barnstaple Bristol Brixham Bude Cinderford Dawlish Exeter Exmouth Falmouth Hayle Helston Ivybridge Lydney Newton Abbot Paignton Penzance Plymouth Plympton... Read more... https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/here-south-west-locations-could-3329803

Life in the hot zone
18 Sep 2019

Worldwide, more than 200 million people and counting live along coastlines that are less than five metres above sea level. In 2014, the global sea level was 66 millimetres above the 1993 average, and continues to rise at a rate of about 3mm a year, driven not only by the melting ice caps, but because water expands as it warms. But the old notion of building ever stronger defences is not the ...

Derrick May, 60, was on Monday (September 16) brought to Truro Crown Court from Langdon Mental Hospital in Dawlish where he was flanked in the dock by a number of medical staff who had travelled with him. Read more... https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-surrounded-court-dock-admits-3325521