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Graffiti blighting the bandstand in the centre of Dawlish has been tackled by Teignbridge Council as part of its spruce up for the summer season. Obscene graffiti had been marker penned on the walls of the bandstand on The Lawn in the centre of Dawlish. Now contractors working for the council have been cleaning it up.

The Dawlish Town re-building programme for next season continued this week ahead of tomorrow's home game with Shepton Mallet in Division One of the Screwfix Direct Western League. With nine games to go, and promotion now wishful thinking, player-manager Chris Myers and recently appointed assistant manager Adam Kerswell have gone back to Kerswell's former side Dartington Sports Club and registered ...

In Dorlish? You kidding?

..oh what 'colourful' language!

I could not agree more. Dawlish' problem is that it is geared almost entirely to the day tripper market, esp from Dawlish Warren. It needs to target a different type of customer - yes, hotel investment would be a great start.

.. is the fare if you are resident in Devon with a travelcard. It costs more than that to run the car and include parking fees. The law now requires that new vehicles are required with disabilty access ..these cost over £100.000 each! Dawlish has a bus every 15 minutes during the day to Exeter and Teignmouth...to maintain that you need 10 buses along the route ..add the costs together with the ...

You're a boring person. (Ever contemplated that?)

A SHY young Iraq veteran has won the first Victoria Cross given to a living soldier since 1969. Private Johnson Beharry, 25, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Grenada, won his VC for saving the lives of his comrades in two incidents last May and June. Severely wounded in the second, he was given only a 50-50 chance of survival and is still on sick leave from the Princess of Wales's Royals. ...

Reading the text of your posting ..perhaps in your spare time you could take a course in English literature and you may gain a career or at least be able to complete an application form!

In another busy weekend for Dawlish swimmers at Tiverton, the latest round of County Championships saw more medal successes, writes Phil Shute. Once more it was the season's brightest newcomer, Rebecca Squire, who was top of the rostrum. Nine year old Squire, having already scooped gold and silver medals this season, set a competition-best time in the 200m butterfly, comfortably winning another ...

A builder has put in new plans for a village suburb-style development on the outskirts of a Devon resort. Black Country Properties shelved a 163-home project for Dawlish 15 months ago after fierce local opposition. Now, it has drawn up a 175-house scheme which includes a foodstore, a medical centre and nursing home, and a range of businesses. It says the development could provide up to 700 full ...

Health Secretary John Reid has been asked to step into a row over minor injury services in south Devon. The Teignbridge Primary Care Trust wants to cut 24-hour services at Dawlish, Bovey Tracey and Ashburton in favour of daytime opening hours. But some locals have mounted a campaign against the move and have written to Dr Reid, asking him to order the suspension of the closure consultation.

Dawlish Town came from a goal down to win 4-1 away to promotion rivals Larkhall Athletic in what was effectively a fresh dawn to their season in Division One of the Screwfix Direct Western League on Saturday, writes Gordon Hines. Not only did former Dartington Sports Club boss Adam Kerswell make his dug-out debut as assistant-manager, but Sandy Lane player-manager Chris Myers introduced new ...

More than 1,400 petition letters have been given to health managers in south Devon in protest at changes to local minor injuries units' opening times. Teignbridge Primary Care Trust wants to cut back 24-hour cover at units in Dawlish, Bovey Tracey and Ashburton to between 8am and 8pm. Teignbridge Council said local people feared the worst about the changes.

The teenage son of a policeman rammed a patrol car in a blind panic after being caught joyriding in his mother's vehicle, a court was told. Learner driver Todd Smith, 18, managed to smash his way out of a cul-de-sac past the police car by narrowly missing an officer who tried to take the ignition keys from his vehicle. But when he abandoned the Vauxhall Astra he was driving and tried to escape on ...

A community project breathing new life into coastal and market towns in South Devon has won a prestigious award. The Market and Coastal Towns initiative, set up in 2000 and led by the South West of England Regional Development Agency and other key partners to encourage the economic, social and environmental regeneration of market towns, was given the award in the "Planning for Sustainable ...

I am tinking aboout opening one new sushi & seafoods shope in the local place. My thinking is that i am calling it Fuk mi susi & seafood buffet . I am needing a someone to answer the phones just simple job. any takers?

All this chat about dogs! What about the local pussy? My pussy is quite ferral, she is always wandering about looking for the local toms or a good place to drop her load, I mean honestly she really puts it about ive even seen her at it on the bench's around the lawn, and any back alley is always investigated for a frisky lone male!!! What am I supposed to do? follow her around like a lost puppy ...

A volunteer treasurer who fleeced a south Devon youth soccer club of £12,000 started an 18-month jail sentence on Saturday. The funds, raised by parents and children, were taken by accountant Anthony Kerr after he joined the club as volunteer treasurer in 2000. The 54-year-old told police that he had been taking money since June 2002. Kerr, of East Cliff Road, Dawlish, admitted obtaining money by ...

What sort of idiot are you?

The February campaign was a great success. Children who brought in a dog dropping in a paper or plastic bag were rewarded with a 2 pound coin and a Certificate. "I am keeping the streets of Dawlish Clean" This was signed by Mayor Wally Protheroe. The campaign will continue through March. Bring it on !

Wise words and common sense advice that should be heeded by all Dawlish OAPs. Dog mess is inedible.

There once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all fluffy and brown. The other birds in so many words said, 'quack, get outta town' 'quack quack, get out, quack quack get out, quack quack, get out of town' So he went with a quack, and a waddle and a quack, and a very unhappy frown. Surprised people need to ask the source of this. Its not Nietzche.

Smell dogs candidate's day The March 6 city council by-elections became somewhat odorous yesterday when dog excrement was flung at a Thai Rak Thai candidate while she was campaigning in Bangkok Yai district. The contender, Thipprapa Sukboon, Thai Rak Thai MP Mana Khongwut, and five aides, were on the back of a pick-up truck in Soi Phetkasem 15 when the assailant struck. The aim was good and ...

Next time you see a massive juicy turd in Queens Street that seems to have been deposited by a wooly mammoth, jump in it. It'll bring you good fortune.

It would be good to catch the irresponsible people who dont poop and scoop after their dogs . Maybe take photos or if you know them report them to the council and they will send someone around to caution them. A member of my family did this and it was sucessful

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A Bideford man with Hollywood-sized ambition is hoping his first foray into films will make movie moguls sit up and take notice. Ray Smith has spent the past year writing the script for a short film and arranging the myriad details which even a modest production requires - in between odd jobs to pay the bills. Now all is ready, and shooting for Blunt - a black comedy in the British gangster genre ...

A leading Tory has defected to the UK Independence Party, and will become the first councillor in Teignbridge to sit as an official member. A former mayor of Dawlish, Cllr Bill Forrow, 43, shocked fellow Conservatives by switching to UKIP because the Tories are not robust over Europe. Cllr Forrow, who was mayor last year, said: "It was a huge wrench and something I had to wrestle with for some ...

ha ha nice one Im inclined to agree with you BRING BACK THE WHITE CRUSTY POO the bored teenagers can then use it as a drawing tool to amuse themselves. And who knows they may even learn to spell. The little old ladies can revive hop scotch and even use a nice hard lump instead of a stone!! The uses are endless ( if youve got the time to write them all down) We could even start up a new sport,with ...

Large dog dropping seen proceeding groundwards in an southerly direction in the Strand. Sending Patrol Cars to intercept.

Why don't we put all the dog muck in a big pile. Tourist attraction.

Doctors in India have found beneficial microbes in dog sh*t that may help augment brain power.

Why don't we have a sandpit for all the teenagers to play in, and combine it as a sh*t pit for the Dogs? It'll give the teenagers something to do instead of insult old folk, and has the added bonus of clods of sand that may or may not be doggy-do.

I can't beleive you are serious but nothing would surprise me down here. if you are then read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/515671.stm

Does anyone agree with me that the khasis on the lawn look a lot like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. They are Dawlish's landmark and should have a preservation order. They were built in the early 70s. Anyone know who the Architect was?

I am ANTI paedophile. That means that people disagreeing with me and complaining must be PRO peedo. Oh, no no no, I can't have these Second Avenue people congregating around my Churchill Avenue home, with their 'Minipops' videos and carousing Garry Glitter songs, to wit... "Do you wanna touch me ? " No thank you !

My daughter looks like a bulldog that has swallowed a wasp - what about her self-esteem at Westcliff School when she sees these precocious little minxes walk away with with the tiaras?

Try the wheely bins outside old folk's homes (we like to save money on the funeral bills) I always knew those wheelie bins would come in handy at my OAP's home. Thanks Council !

As defending East Devon Mini-League champions, Dawlish Swimming Club opened this season's account with a resounding victory on Saturday evening in Paignton. This season's newcomers, Paignton (replacing Totnes), finished the evening in second place, with Newton Abbot, Torquay and Exeter behind them. The evening opened with three first places for Dawlish, setting the scene for the evening, which saw ...