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POLICE have confirmed that they are not treating as suspicious the death of an elderly woman whose body was found in a stream in Dawlish on Thursday 13th January.

Occupants of Leeclif including Ann James, Edna Davison and Allan Seaton are finding the lakes of rainwater in Beach Road outer and inner car parks are causing them serious problems. Residents have been complaining to the council for a long time, however, Cllr Ted Hokin recently stated that the car parks have been upgraded. Residents do not agree that enough has been done. One resident said: 'There ...

Exeter magistrates imposed a community punishment and rehabilitation order for 18 months and ordered him to carry out 50 hours unpaid work in the community. He was also ordered to pay £400 compensation to the victim. Ed Canning, prosecuting, read a statement from a 17-year-old boy who said he had been skateboarding with friends in the street outside Worley's home when he was approached by the ...

Kingscare League of Friends recently won a minibus and are looking for volunteers to make up a sub-group whose sole responsibilty will be the bus. The bus will provide support to patients of Kingsteignton Medical Practice. They would welcome volunteers with driving skills, organisational skills and someone who would be able to ensure the bus is kept clean. Tel: 01626 203050.

Gooding took over the the Sandy Lane Club last autumn and has ambitions of seeing Dawlish playing Southern League football within a few years, identifying DML Premier Division club Tiverton Town as his role model for success. Gooding has installed a new management set-up at Sandy Lane, with the intention of improving both on and off field activities at the club and he admits some difficult ...

The grisly find was made by man walking his dog in the grounds of Manor Gardens Park, Barton Terrace, Dawlish just before 8.30am. The walker reported the find at the nearby council offices, and the police were called. Police said the the death was initially being treated as suspicious. Detectives from Newton Abbot CID were being sent to the scene, which was cordoned off.

Dicing with death - these youngsters risk their lives in a deadly came of 'chicken' played against massive waves whipped up by storm-force winds. The laughing schoolboys are just one slip away from being dragged out to sea - provoking an urgent warning from coastguards to parents. Devon's 'wave dodgers' were spotted on the seafront at Dawlish trying to avoid the huge breakers, many towering over ...

VSP Software recently launched its new website to promote the company and products. The website was designed by VSP and is hosted on VSP's in-house servers. VSP hope you like the look of its new website and would be grateful for any comments.

At the end of October, Microsoft held the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. With the largest number of attendees of any previous PDC, we presented details regarding many upcoming developer-oriented technologies, including "Whidbey" (the codename for the next version of Visual Studio), "Yukon" (the codename for the next version of SQL Server), as well as the much anticipated ...

LAS VEGAS -- RealNetworks Inc. and IBM Corp. plan to team up to offer other companies a method for protecting and distributing digital audio and video. The partnership will combine IBM's Internet, database and content-management software with RealNetworks' software for disseminating audio and video over the Internet and setting up pay subscription services, RealNetworks said. The companies will ...

Sixty-year-old Peter Harry was accused of exceeding the speed limit in a 30mph restricted zone along the A379 at Starcross on March 27 2003. But when Harry presented his not guilty plea at Totnes magistrates court the crown procecutor David Bowen offered no evidence and invited the bench to dismiss the case. Mr Bowen explained that under the Trafic Regulation Act the prosecution had to prove the ...

Even manager Chris Myers, who has spoken highly of the players' attitude over the past month, had to accept the seasiders were poor, and that there must be more surgery if they're to climb off the bottom of the table "I'm not going to give up, but we looked like a bottom of the table team," he admitted. "It was frustrating, disappointing, annoying: it was everything from my point of view, ...

I think its the 14 - 21 August. Carnival day is 19th.

Repeated attempts to find Susan Hale, 52, from Dawlish a bed in the Teignbridge area have failed and she is currently in Brighton, after being remanded in custdy more than a year ago. Now a judge at Exeter Crown Court has ordered a representative from the Teignbridge Primary Care Trust to come to the court and explain why no bed has been made available. Also despite a report being ordered by the ...

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And that would complete the first part of a three-point plan which chairman Nigel Gooding outlined when he fronted a three-man take over at the cash-strapped club in October. "I think it safe to say we'll still be a Western League club next season, even if we don't stay up," he says. "My view is that we're now a mid-table Premier Division side, given some of the performances against the likes of ...

Heavitree's point put them level on points with Exeter Civil Service who lost 1-0 at Alphington, but not one club moved into a different position in the league. Crediton did close the gap on seventh-placed Vospers, to goal difference, as their victory at Lords Meadow took their unbeaten run to 11 games but they were made to fight hard by a determined Cullompton. "Our boys had too much Turkey the ...

A policewoman is in hospital after a double stabbing incident at her home. Mother-of-two Fay Hurved suffered knife wounds to her neck, back and chest and is in a stable condition at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Her 52-year-old estranged husband Ian is also stable at Torbay Hospital after being found at the house with a knife embedded in his chest. Officers investigating the incident are at ...

The NHS is suing seven pharmaceutical companies for £30m over allegations that they fixed the price of common antibiotics, it has emerged. Documents lodged with the high court on December 17 by health secretary John Reid claim that the companies agreed to artificially raise the price of a range of penicillin-based drugs. The case is part of a wide-ranging investigation into alleged price-fixing ...

Headteachers today condemned the latest expansion of Government school league tables to cover results achieved by 14-year-olds as an “unnecessary irrelevance”. School standards minister David Miliband said that, for too long, too many pupils had “drifted” in the first three years of secondary school and publishing the results highlighted the work schools were doing to improve their performance. ...

Dawlish Water Wheel Project has already come across the first unexpected problem. When lifting the wheel off the bearing housing it was found that both were broken in half. These will now need to be repaired, adding to the cost. This first phase should be completed early in the new year. The next phase will be the rubbing down and painting of the main wheel structure. Also, the pointing in of the ...

Opened in the early 80s, the factory made quiches, fruit pies and sponges that were sold to supermarkets, catering companies and hospitals. Last Friday, staff turned up at 9am as usual, only to find that they no longer had somewhere to work. Instead of going into the factory as normal they were told to wait in the canteen. News of the liquidation was broken to them by a representative of Lamey CJ ...

Owner of Black Country Properties, Simon Steel Perkins, said: `Black Country Properties Limited submitted the Planning Application on September 1, 2003, for the Regeneration of Shutterton Bridge after many months of pre-application local consultation, together with a considerable amount of research and studies, including undertaking a comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment in relation to ...

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The big 'Switch On' event was held on Monday evening, with the switch operated by Dawlish Carnival Claire Barnes and Dawlish Mayor Bill Forrow.

Dawlish resident Jack Chadwick, raised more than £350 for the National Wheelchair Association, by leaping out of a perfectly good aeroplane.

The town council planning committee gave several reasons for its refusal of the scheme by Joe and Margaret Adams for two houses and a garage in the garden of their property, at Channel View, off Fordens Lane. They said that the development would be dangerous on highways grounds, because of poor access, and that it represented overdevelopment. It would mean a loss of amenity through the destruction ...

The 31-strong fleet, now ranking amoung the largest in the South West, had been a family run business for half a decade employing 50 staff. But after a casual conversation between Neil Tomlinson, the prior owner, and John Weaver, the new managing director, the business is now in new hands. Mr Weaver, a former employee, bought the business along with partner Gill Byers, the former accounts manager. ...

I recently have become interested in Radio Controlled Model Aeroplanes. Is anyone else, who lives locally also interested?

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The manager at Dawlish Town Football Club is Chris Myers, a 34-year-old Torquay postman. "I'm very happy with this appointment," he said. Being ex-professional footballer whose has played for Exeter City, Torquay United, Dundee United and Dorchester he brings experience with me. Nigel Gooding the new chairman who along with Mr. Myers will be looking to bring in new players to the club.

The amendments to the order include deleting suggested restrictions at the west end of Barton Terrace, Barton Villas, Barton Crescent, and the retention of most of the parking at the east end of Barton Terrace and Stockton Hill. Spaces are being created in Brook Street, close to the Hedley Way Centre and Strand Hill, together with retaining the parking spaces in King Street. The loading- bays in ...

Local man Tom Ahearn rescues a girl from the sea near to Red Rock, while she was attempting to rescue her dog that had been swept in to the sea by a large wave. Tom was walking back from the Warren behind Miss Arwen Bird and saw she was lying face down in the water. took off his trousers, top, shoes and jumped in. "I just knew I had to get her out as quickly as I could, I managed to get to her and ...

Bryan Weston has interviewed people who lived in the village of Holcombe between 1900 and 1960. His new book, called Captured In Time - Memories Of A Devon Village, recounts the rural ways before 1965 when large-scale housing development trebled Holcombe's size and population. Mr Weston, 67, who has lived in Holcombe for the last 23 years, penned a book on the early history of the village called ...

The capule contained a old 1p coin, The Dawlish Times 1881, The Methodist Recorder 1879 and The Western Morning News 1881. Mr Fey, the church steward, was delighted at the find and after spending some time studying the documents will pass them on to Exeter Library for archiving. The Dawlish Times started in October 1868 and publication stopped in June 1903. Devon Library has most publications ...

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Water rates are at their highest in Dawlish, with many opting to switch to meters to try and reduce their bills, and others forking out over £1000 per year in rates. Whilst we are trying to conserve water, South West Water doesn't seem interested in fixing the leak in Westcliff Road. This has angered residents of the street, in particular one lady who notified South West Water on August 21. They ...

After nine years as the manager of East Teignbridge Community Transport Association, I have recently made the decision to change direction in my work. I would like to say a big thank you to all our passengers, volunteers, local businesses and the other local organisations that I have worked with, for their support and help in making community transport in Dawlish the valued service that it is ...

The proposal has caused mixed feelings among locals with many sceptical about aspects of the proposal such as affordable housing. The southern part of the application site has had planning permission for over 10 years for employment use, but this has never been taken up, and overall the results of the environmental impact assessment indicates that the site will not cause any significant negative ...

I was born in Holcombe village when it was a small but very happy and very hard-working. Over the years it has grown a great deal, which is quite correct and fair as so many people need homes. But this was by a field here and a field there, and it was still a happy village until some people came and bought houses with reasonable size gardens then one after the other decided to be very greedy and ...