Dawlish News' Posts

The specially constructed sea wall was opened six weeks ago, four years after work started, allowing the public to walk the entire 415m length of new promenade. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/transport-secretary-officially-opens-ps82m-dawlish-sea-wall-624196

Dawlish man Baz Stancombe found safe and well

Ian James Mitchell, aged 40, of Linden Road, pleaded guilty to resisting PC Pocknell in the execution of his duty in Dawlish on October 8 last year. He was committed to Truro Crown Court for sentence on this. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/resisted-police-and-used-racially-aggravated-words-or-behaviour-623995

Maria Mallaband Care Group plans to open Claremont Manor in Dawlish, Devon, at the beginning of 2024. The setting, designed for residential, nursing, palliative, respite and dementia care, is being built by Lawrence Baker Ltd with the interiors designed by Rebecca Hunter of Rebecca Hartley Interiors. Read more... ...

A big result for our patrol team in the small hours of this morning in Teignmouth. After our officers stopped a vehicle with no insurance, instead of stopping to chat the occupants all decided to go for a very early morning run, in the process throwing a large brown bag of powder into a nearby garden. The result? Three people in custody and what is believed to be heroin with a street value ...

Benjamin Myers and his friend Stephen McDaid raided the flat in Dawlish and then flashed the cash by brandishing bundles of it in the air while claiming they had won it at a casino. Myers, aged 31, of Old Town Walk, Dawlish, and McDaid, of no fixed address, Teignmouth, admitted burglary. McDaid also admitted dangerous driving and having no insurance. Read more... ...

Three members of the gang who were based in Exmouth, Dawlish and Liverpool were convicted by a jury at Exeter Crown Court after a month-long trial. A fourth man was acquitted. Read more... https://www.dartmouth-today.co.uk/news/men-found-guilty-of-being-part-of-ps125-million-drugs-plot-623472

THE deadly dangers of rip currents and advice on how to avoid them has been given by police on Teignbridge beaches. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/deadly-rip-current-warning-by-teignmouth-and-dawlish-police-623119

A brand new water attraction has opened at a popular UK holiday park ahead of the summer holidays. One place where families can offer their children a new water attraction is Cofton Holidays in Dawlish in South Devon. Read more... https://ustimespost.com/the-brand-new-water-attraction-thats-opened-at-popular-uk-holiday-park/

The tablets were originally used as part of a Helping Dawlish project called ‘Tablet 2 Go’ which was all about increasing digital inclusion and funded by a grant from Teignbridge’s District Council’s COVID Hardship Recovery Fund in 2021. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/keep-taking-the-tablets-dawlish-mayor-says-622129

A DAWLISH man has been accused of dishonestly using electricity worth more than £1,000, producing cannabis and possessing cannabis. He is further charged with possessing an offensive weapon, a Samurai sword, in a private place, which he has denied. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/man-charged-with-dishonestly-using-electricity-and-cultivating-cannabis-622815

Indi and Felix are now being looked after at Sefton Hall in Dawlish having been adopted from the Torbay-based charity Hector’s House Cat Rescue. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/feline-therapists-make-themselves-at-home-621926

Although residents didn't have much to say regarding issues in Teignmouth, one person did say they would like a cinema in the town. Other residents also noticed there is too much residential parking in the streets of Teignmouth. Another local, who likes to cycle, also highlighted delays with the cycle route between Teignmouth and Newton Abbot. "As we have the river, there is a lot happening in ...

COASTGUARDS in Dawlish have become the latest to check out the new seafront. They were particularly keen to check access points for their vehicles. Read more,,, https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/coastguards-check-out-access-on-dawlishs-new-sea-defences-621904

Deliveries were made to towns and seaside resorts including Exmouth, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Ilfracombe, Hayle, Penzance, Camborne and Truro Dominic McLoughlin, aged 43, of Chorley Road, Liverpool; James Casey, 43, of River Bank Walk, Colchester; John O’Neill, aged 54, of High Street, Exmouth, and John Ward, aged, 54, of East Cliff, Dawlish, all deny conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine. Read ...

Paul Watkins from Dawlish Warren intercepted the victim’s mail while house-sitting for him and obtained all the details he needed of his driving licence and bank account to pose as him. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/conman-jailed-for-car-frauds-621918

Healthscape is a community interest company which uses cold water and natural surroundings, alongside peer support, as a tool to enhance the mental wellbeing of communities. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/making-a-splash-at-dawlish-warren-621775

A379 resurfacing works mean huge disruption and loss of bus service It will result in Stagecoach bus services not being able to serve Starcross and Kenton when the main road closes this week, according to local councillor Alan Connett. The first phase will take place today between June 19 and July 7. Read more... ...

Contractors BAM Nuttall, working for Network Rail on the new sea wall, with the help of Dawlish History Group, have salvaged a part of Dawlish’s heritage. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/museum-receives-piece-of-dawlish-history-621106

A DAWLISH father-of-three is prepared to stage a protest against Teignbridge Council after an ongoing battle to find a home for his family. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/homeless-family-forced-to-stage-protest-621112

Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/you-cant-beat-the-classics-firefighters-stint-with-2003-vehicle-620793

The final open top bus tour you can explore is through Dawlish Hitting the essential Dawlish Warren, Dawlish and Teignmouth your day out will be packed with breathtaking views, stunning scenery and National Nature Reserves. Unlimited travel tickets cost £4.40 for a child or £6.50 for an adult. Read more.. ...

Indi and Felix are now being looked after at Sefton Hall in Dawlish having been adopted from the Torbay-based charity Hector’s House Cat Rescue. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/rescue-cats-adopted-by-residential-home-620896

A FARMERS Market selling local produce is to be launched at 11am on Friday, June 16, at the Strand Centre in Dawlish. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/farmers-market-comes-to-seaside-town-620007

Ross Norman, from Dawlish, was sentenced to 42 weeks in prison for seven counts of shoplifting with a further 15 offences of theft taken into consideration. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/courts/prolific-shoplifter-jailed-620061

WORK continues on the rail line in Dawlish with engineers craning new concrete units in to build new lifts at the station Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/stations-first-lift-towers-taking-shape-618840

Mid Wales is on another rare visitor alert after a black swan was spotted in Montgomeryshire. A small population of black swans exists on the River Thames at Marlow, on the brook running through the small town of Dawlish in Devon, near the River Itchen, Hampshire, and the River Tees near Stockton on Tees. Read more... https://www.mywelshpool.co.uk/viewernews/ArticleId/24212

Former Royal Navy sailor Thomas Lee-Everton defied a ban on going to his old family home in Dawlish and pestered his ex with scores of calls, e-mails and voicemails. Read more... https://www.dartmouth-today.co.uk/news/fixated-totnes-stalker-jailed-for-breaking-ban-on-going-to-exs-home-in-dawlish-619762

A DAWLISH man will stand trial on charges of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour that was racially aggravated. Ian James Mitchell, aged 40, of Linden Road, denies the charge. He also denies a charge of possessing cocaine and another charge of assaulting a police constable in the execution of his duty in Dawlish.

Dawlish Community Transport, in conjunction with Dawlish Town Council and South Western Ambulance Service, has arranged free sessions to use a defibrillator. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/defibrillator-training-invitation-618729

A LOCAL resident has expressed their concern after the sea washed away the sand to reveal several metal spikes protruding from Coryton Cove's beach. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/concern-as-tides-reveal-dangerous-sharp-spikes-on-coryton-cove-619239

Dawlish beach has attained the required status to keep the flag which it has held almost every year since it was introduced in 2008. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/seaside-flag-flying-proud-over-dawlish-618439

A DAWLISH mum and dad have been fined £180 each because her teenage child failed to attend school. South and West Devon Magistrates' Court also ordered them to pay costs of £150 each and they must each pay £72 to fund victim services. The cases were proved in their absence.

A woman in her 40s was found dead at a property in Dawlish yesterday afternoon (June 4). Police were called to an address on Linden Road by paramedics following concerns for the occupant's welfare. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-40s-found-dead-dawlish-8495357

A number of emergency services are currently on the scene in Dawlish responding to an incident. According to a witness, police, fire and the ambulance service are in the Linden Way area. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-dawlish-police-incident-8495014

The red phone box in Queen Street was officially opened by Mayor of Dawlish Cllr Rosie Dawson and her consort, her daughter Kitty. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/phone-box-reused-as-information-centre-618202

Philip Neil Seaton, aged 41, of Milbury Farm Meadow, pleaded not guilty entering The Boathouse at Dawlish Warren as a trespasser with intent to steal on December 11, 2022. Read more... https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/news/trespassing-with-intent-to-steal-charges-denied-618328

THIEVES have stolen one of Dawlish’s lovingly created yarn bombs It had been made by the Knitty Noras of Dawlish who regularly decorate parts of the town with their crochet work. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/crochet-work-pinched-from-post-box-618154

Griffiths, aged 36, formerly of Davis Road but now a patient at the Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, was remanded in custody by Judge Stephen Climie but told he is likely to receive a hospital order when he is sentenced. Read more... https://www.ivybridge-today.co.uk/news/dartmouth-arsonist-who-set-fire-to-family-home-to-be-detained-in-mental-hospital-at-dawlish-618028

Four rescues took place at Dawlish Warren, two in Exmouth and one in Teignmouth. Read more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-65768694