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Dario was awarded the PFA Merit Award on Sunday and has told the press that it's "probably one of the proudest moments of my footballing life.". "We literally picked Seth Johnson up off a beach in Dawlish and he had no chance. He has done really well and it is great, especially after telling his mum that he needed to come down as a 14-year-old to Crewe. He made that sacrifice and is now getting ...

hi i am trying to find out some history regarding beach street dawlish otherwise known as beach lane many years ago,more in particular the history relating to the thatch cottage opposite the railway inn,so if anyone has any old photoes or info about the people who used to live there i would be extremly grateful.

Can anyone help us with a history of the beach at Dawlish Warren. Particulary its lithology etc

Just after 2pm yesterday afternoon on the A379 at Cockwood close to Starcross, a red Citroen Visa travelling towards Exeter and a green Rover 114, travelling in the opposite direction towards Dawlish, collided, seriously injuring both drivers and one passenger. The Devon Air Ambulance touched down just feet from the tangled wreckage on the normally busy road - which was closed for more than five ...

Keen walker Mr Moffatt, 54, is raising money for the Devon Air Ambulance and Clic (Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood) by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. The 45-day expedition starts on Saturday, April 24. Mr Moffatt, from Holcombe, near Dawlish, said: "It's going to be tough, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and, hopefully, a sizeable sum can be collected for the charities. ...

Have a great easter everyone!

It's especially welcome here. Five years ago eight year old Heather Preen died after contracting e-coli whilst holidaying in the resort. Despite an extensive investigation the source was never found. Today it has a different sort of publicity. Brian Gray, Teignbridge District Council: "I think it just shows that we have put a lot of effort into making sure this is a top resort and we're delighted ...

If Nigel Bliss's team do well in the national festival, they will get to play before the England-Barbarians game at the end of May. The side have not been beaten since the final of the Devon under-10 festival, when Devonport Services edged past them. Their dominance has seen them score 486 points so far this season and concede only 19, a remarkable achievement at any level. A squad of 20 ...

Sarah Down, from Topsham, begged that her daughter should be taken into care when she ran away last year to live with a 31-year-old man in his car. But the authorities refused - and Katie, now 16, is due to give birth in a fortnight's time. That means her baby was probably conceived around August last year - the same time that Ms Down was pleading that the teenager should go into care - and ...

Peter Jubb, one of 98 residents evacuated from their homes in Dawlish Warren, South Devon, when flood waters surged into Hazlewood Park in December 2000, said: "For the first time in three years we can sleep soundly in our beds when the rain is pouring down during the winter. This scheme will mean we no longer have to venture outside to see if the water levels are rising." He said some ...

Topsham Town undid title chasing Exeter Civil Service 2-1 with another top notch performance. Charlie May scored both goals and former Topsham player Darren Thomas was the Civil scorer.

Dawlish Town maintained their challenge for the Premier Division title with a 4-3 win over North Molton. Rivals Plymouth thrashed Galmpton Utd 14-1.

Lauren Oke, Laura Ferguson, Sam Jones, Emma Davies and Catherine McMorrow will begin a 16-hour, sponsored trampoline marathon at Dawlish Leisure Centre at 6.45am and finish at 10.45pm. The 15 and 16-year-olds, from Dawlish Community College, are raising money to subsidise the cost of a school visit to Uganda being undertaken by a party of 26 this summer.

Coroner's officer Ric Parsons told the hearing in Torquay yesterday that the exact cause of death had yet to be established. He said the results of toxicology tests were awaited. Leicester-born Jamie, who was single and unemployed, was formally identified by his uncle Jeremy Smith, a hotel services assistant from Paignton. A full inquest will be held at a later date.

A man today pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder his estranged police officer wife. Ian Hurved, 53, of Dorset Avenue, Exeter, also denied a charge of wounding with intent at Exeter Crown Court. Hurved is alleged to have tried to to kill Fay Hurved at her home in Dawlish, Devon, on December 21. No application for bail was made, and Mrs Justice Hallett remanded him in custody until his ...

Purchased for just £60 in 1930, the one-bedroom railway carriage, at Cockwood near Dawlish, is now being sold by formal tender and is expected to fetch somewhere between £215,000 and £260,000. The carriage has recently been restored and now boasts its original brown and cream Great Western Railway livery. Julie Drake of Stags, who is the negotiator overseeing the sale, said there had already ...

The property was later recovered from Anderson's Dawlish home when the pair were arrested. Jailing 22-year-old Anderson for two years, Judge Jeremy Griggs told him the family had to live with the consequences of what he had done. "The wife of this family says her eldest daughter no longer likes to be at home alone. The youngest daughter slept with her parents afterwards. "She was very scared ...

The man, 26, was attacked in Elm Grove Road, Dawlish, just after 5.30pm on Saturday. He was taken to Torbay Hospital, where he had an emergency operation, but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. Police say a man was arrested in a Dawlish pub in connection with the attack four hours later. A 38-year-old man from Exeter has been charged with wounding, criminal damage, ...

I'm from Exeter, but I was wondering if there was anything happening over easter in Dawlish

Westlife's summer concert at Powderham Castle will go ahead in August, despite the decision of band member Bryan McFadden to quit the group. Bryan has decided he needs to spend more time with his wife, former Atomic Kitten and I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! winner Kerry, and their two young daughters. There were fears among the thousands of Devon fans that the split could mean an end to ...

A Woman suffered slight ill effects from breathing in smoke during a chip shop fire at Dawlish. But she did not need hospital attention, or an ambulance and soon recovered. Two appliances, one from Dawlish and the other from Teignmouth, were called to the premises in Queen Street yesterday morning, but the fire was out on arrival. The outbreak was in ventilation ducting.

The battle to save an historic signal box from demolition has been won. A planning inspector has ruled that Network Rail cannot knock down the redundant box on Dawlish Station. The company claimed the listed structure needed major renovations at great cost, but railway enthusiasts argued it should be preserved and another use found for it. In her summary the inspector, Jennifer Armstrong, states ...

A landowner of a Topsham farm was given police protection when he served notice to quit on a group of gipsies who had set up camp on his farm. Around 30 travellers of Irish origin occupied land at Seabrook Farm off Topsham Road on Monday evening. They claim they are in Devon to see the confirmation of a family member. One of the owners of Seabrook Farm, who asked not to be named, claimed that the ...

The golden sandstone cliffs between Teignmouth and Dawlish are a landmark feature. BUT the mile or so of rail track here has been nothing but trouble. Chris Arnold, Network Rail: "We get a lot of falls, rock falls onto the line, and we've got to sort that out". After a couple of major landslips, an 18 million pound programme of repairs began - starting with a huge fence. Local people are ...

A lorry shed a barrel on the A38 yesterday, spilling 100 litres of a highly flammable resin over the road. Two fire crews from Exeter and one from Topsham attended the scene on the northbound side of Haldon Hill, shortly after 3pm. Firefighters wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus cleaned up the spillage, while police closed one lane and directed traffic around the liquid. Minor ...

A teenage arsonist who wrecked a house and a shop causing £1 million damage in a Devon seaside town has been jailed. Recorder John Williams told the 17-year-old at Exeter Crown Court on Monday that the offences were so serious they could only be dealt with by a custodial sentence. The teenager was 16 when he set fire to a wheelie bin outside Pinder Fashions, in Dawlish, which was subsequently ...

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The fire brigade were called around 7:30pm after a fire broke out in the ground floor of 4 High Street, opposite the Somerfields car park entrance. Four fire engines, two ambulances and the police attended the scene, as the high street had to be cordoned off for several hours. The fire, which seemed to have started on the ground floor of the building, had blown away most of the glass from the ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — A European rocket blasted off Tuesday to launch a pioneering 10-year journey to land a probe on a comet and search for clues to the solar system's origins. The Rosetta lander soared into the skies above South America aboard an Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, the third attempt after two launches last week were scrubbed. After a final countdown in French, mission ...

The mystery of what happened to the ship that ferried Charles Darwin around the world may have been solved. A team led by Dr Robert Prescott of the University of St Andrews has located what they believe are the remains of HMS Beagle beneath an Essex marsh. To explore the site further, technology designed for the UK's recent ill-fated mission to Mars is being considered. The two quests are ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- With a simple adjustment in your e-mail software, you can pretend to be anyone. You can send messages marked as coming from BillGates@microsoft.com. The trick, known as spoofing, is a popular method for spammers to hide their tracks -- you'd blame Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates and not the actual perpetrator of junk mail. To close that loophole, Microsoft and Yahoo! Inc. ...

Hull is the chubbiest town in Britain - while Kingston upon Thames is the leanest, an obesity league table has revealed. Data analysts Experian compiled the tables based on hospital admission records for Type 2 diabetes. The most likely to be overweight were white, working class families who have poor education and do little exercise. In contrast, people in the leanest towns are more likely ...

People who use air services out of the South West will have a much wider choice of scheduled flights from the start of this month. Air Southwest is launching new flights from Plymouth to Bristol and Manchester on Monday and Flybe will shortly launch new services from Exeter.

Spirit used its rock abrasion tool for brushing the dust off three patches of a rock called "Humphrey," during its 55th sol on Mars, ending at 5:53 p.m. Saturday, PST. Before applying the wire-bristled brush, the rover inspected the surface of the rock with its microscope and with its alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, which identifies elements that are present. Brushing three different places on ...

Dawlish Town have signed free-scoring Brixham United striker Jay Morgan with the intention of playing him for the first time in next Saturday's game at Odd Down. In spite of recruiting front men Darren Bingham and Mark Pepperell, manager Chris Myers has always made it clear he needed an out-and-out marksman from the time he took over the Sandy Lane hot-seat in mid-October.

The Prince's Trust is to launch a new strategy to help one million young people it has identified as disadvantaged in the country. It hopes to get millions of pounds invested in schemes, including apprenticeships, for young people who are not in education or employment. It also wants reform of the benefits system to encourage more young people into work. The strategy was developed after a ...

I think most people think like this. The Town Council have no real power at all over important decisions. They are meant to reflect the views of Dawlish people, but that has most definately not been the case so far.

The vulnerable track is battered by the sea on one side, and is now increasingly coming under attack from cliff falls as well. Ever since Brunel built it in the 19th century, it has given problems and the latest attempts to shore up the line are costing £6 million. Network Rail is installing black netting on the cliff face and has erected a large fence at the bottom to stop rocks falling on to ...

Sonic, a three-year-old grey and white fluffy tom went missing from his Newlands home almost three weeks ago, and we are desperate to find him. It is the first time he has disappeared and we are urging prople to check their sheds and out-houses for the lost pet. Anyone with information should contact 01626 867482.

Luccombe Ponds: Ash Pond Re-Stocking The first re-stocking of Ash pond took place this week with the introduction of 250lb of carp. The fish, ranging in size from 2lb-3lb, were carefully released into the pond which will be both for pleasure and match anglers. The Luccombe and Take the Bait, Dawlish midweek series was won by Dawlish's Ron Entwhistle. He was pegged on Birch where he used ...