Dawlish News' Posts

Unprecedented is not a useful way to describe the current situation. It is merely unfamiliar to us because we are the first generation in England which has no memory of suffering a pandemic. Previous generations lived with this lottery of death whereas we have come to expect modern medicine to overcome new outbreaks of infectious diseases. Read more... ...

It has long been rumoured that Adolf Hitler had a mansion with 1,600 acres of land earmarked in the county as a potential British HQ, had he won the war. The luxurious mansion boasted a galleried hall, four reception rooms, 10 bed and dressing rooms, four bathrooms and a spacious ballroom with a ceiling decorated with signs of the zodiac. Brigadier Sir Ralph Rayner brought home Hitler's infamous ...

The owners of Geralds supermarkets in Dawlish have recorded their video diaries as they help the community during Covid-19 A Very British Lockdown: Diaries From the Frontline will be shown at ITV at 8pm today (Tuesday). Customers open the front door in tears to the Geralds' delivery vans. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/small-devon-supermarket-tells-very-4065023

People have called from all areas of Teignmouth, Dawlish and beyond, and we even had a call from Scotland from a daughter worried about her mother in Teignmouth. Read more... http://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=119005&headline=More%20than%20400%20calls%20to%20coronavirus%20helpline%20in%20Teignmouth&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2020

Park-and-ride stations, new cycling and walking routes, and road improvements are all included in the plan setting out 110 different planned investments in transport infrastructure across Devon by 2030. TEIGNBRIDGE: Dawlish Link Road - New £4.2m road linking A379 to Secmaton Lane Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devons-plan-110-major-transport-4034692

Assistant Chief Constable Glen Mayhew said: ‘As we look to the bank holiday weekend I wish to be clear with our message which is stay at home and do not undertake travel that isn’t essential. My officers will continue to be visible in our towns and cities, and we will police the roads. Read more... ...

The service says its current operations would leave pilots exposed as they cannot wear personal protective equipment while operating the aircraft. However, its critical care paramedics will still be able to respond to patients by road with their specialist skills and equipment. Read more... ...

Daniel Force, barkeeper at the Brunswick Arms in Dawlish, said they had been closed for six weeks for a refurbishment. We even had a police officer come in to enforce the closure and make sure we close our doors at midnight." Read more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51978261

Restaurants, nightclubs, theatres, and gyms have also been told to close as soon as they reasonably can Prime Minister Boris Johnson says anyone planning a drink on Friday should not to be tempted as the country makes a collective effort to 'push down further' down the curve of the virus. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exactly-pubs-bars-been-ordered-3969286

The new rules cover Torbay Hospital and community hospitals at Brixham, Newton Abbot, Dawlish and Totnes. They include only one visitor at a time per bed and no children. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/full-list-devon-hospitals-restricting-3954018

Those in contention to win £1000 from the RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Fund have been announced. In North Devon, The Ilfracombe Academy and Bideford-based nursing home The Warren have been selected. In Tiverton, Wilcombe Primary School has been nominated. DYS Space in Dawlish, Kingsbridge & District Men’s Shed and North Tawton RFC make up the rest of the Devon finalists. Read more... ...

Joshua Garrett and Ben Bramall had been friends since school and they and classmate Daniel Whitehead became notorious when they were just 16 for being among the first in the country to receive ASBOs. Garrett and his four henchmen were trying to protect a heroin and cocaine dealing business from a London gang which were trying to move into their territory. “Devon and Cornwall Police will continue ...

The scheme, funded jointly by the Environment Agency and Teignbridge District Council, cost £12 million and as well as building up the beach at Dawlish Warren, should protect 2,900 homes around the River Exe from flooding. Read more... https://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/dawlish-beach-protection-exposed/

Dawlish is famed for its black swans, but today sad news has been shared that one of them has had its eggs washed away during Storm Dennis. Last May the future of Britain’s most famous black swans were said to be under threat after a string of dog attacks left just one breeding pair. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/storm-dennis-washes-away-eggs-3853795

Network Rail are installing a bigger sea wall in Dawlish, Devon, to protect the coastal railway line, as well as the iconic footpath that runs beside it, from the sea and on 9 February the resilience work reached a significant milestone as the first new panels, which form the main structure of the wall, were erected despite storm Ciara. Read more... ...

The Devon Low Carbon Energy and Transport Technology Innovator (DELETTI) project is being led by Devon County Council to install electric vehicle charging points and aims to accelerate the uptake of Ultra Low Emission Vehicles through providing additional and improved charging infrastructure. Car parks in Exeter, Barnstaple, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Honiton, Seaton, South Molton, Ilfracombe, Dawlish, ...

A homeless man who was living in a World War Two pillbox carried out a smash and grab raid on a phone shop to get money to feed his drug addiction. He was due in court for shoplifting at phone shops in Exeter when he broke into the Go Mobile shop on the Strand in Dawlish and stole more than £11,000 worth of stock. Read more... ...

James Brooks, 41, of Dawlish, was a member of a gang who got "large sums of money" from cocaine and cannabis. Brooks, of Park Road, received the longest sentence of the 13 men, being handed 12 years for drugs offences, and 13 years for aiding and abetting 13 counts of rape. Read more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51355785

Teenage boys were beaten up and hospitalised after a night of violence in Teignmouth at the weekend involving a gang allegedly carrying knives. Police have confirmed that they are investigating two separate incidents in Woodway Road at around 11.15pm on Saturday night in which one boy was knocked unconscious and another was headbutted. All of the guests were asked to leave and one mother described ...

William Kelly was put on the sex offenders’ register in 2018 when he admitted spying on women from a loft space at a holiday park in Dawlish. It meant he was required to tell police about his movements. He was put on the register for five years by Newton Abbot Magistrates after he was caught naked in a loft space above the female showers at a holiday camp at Dawlish while filming naked women with ...

A raft of changes to Stagecoach’s bus network across Devon are planned in a bid to make the service more reliable. Among the proposed changes as part of the route consultation plan, it could see bus services from Bude to Exeter terminate in Okehampton, the Route X38 from Exeter to Plymouth terminate at Ivybridge, buses serving Exeter Racecourse on race days, and the reintroduction of a summer ...

Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw has expressed his concern to the Government after a report that a new express train was disabled by sea water at Dawlish. In a letter to the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, he wrote: “[O]ne of GWR’s new Hitachi high speed trains was, as I understand it, completely disabled when its engines were splashed by sea water. This led to more serious disruption to the South West’s ...

The A379 Exeter Road in Dawlish is currently closed due to an accident involving two cars. Two vehicles are involved in the incident, and the road is closed in both directions. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-updates-main-dawlish-road-3739446

Flooding is possible - be prepared Read more... https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/target-area/113WACT1B?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialSignIn

If you drive along the A380 on the approach to Haldon Hill, particularly around dawn or dusk, you will often see plenty of deer grazing. But thirteen deer have been killed and at least eight people injured, two seriously, as a result of collisions between the animals and vehicles on or around Haldon Hill. Read more... ...

Urgent Appeal For Woman, 29, Missing From Torquay Devon and Cornwall Police are concerned for the safety of Yewande Kotun, who has been a missing person since 30th December 2019 and was last seen in Torquay. She also has links to the Dawlish area. Yewande is described as a black female, 29 years old, 5'5, of slim build, with shoulder length black hair. She was last seen wearing a cream coat, black ...

A second round of consultation over Network Rail’s plan to realign the railway track between Holcombe and Teignmouth and move it further out to see will begin later this month. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/more-details-revealed-plans-move-3703166

The weekends of January 4-5 and 11-12 will see all trains replaced by buses due to works which will be carried out by Great Western Railway. See more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/no-trains-between-exeter-plymouth-3701543#source=push

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Somerset said fire crews from Dawlish, Teignmouth and Exeter Middlemoor attended the property on Osprey Grove in Dawlish this morning (Saturday). After crews used various equipment to contain the fire and locate its source, fire crews have confirmed the cause of a fire was a discarded cigarette. Read more... ...

Over the last 12 months, hundreds of planning applications have been approved by councils across Devon. Major £30m plans for a new sea wall at Dawlish to protect the railway for the next 100 years have been approved. Dawlish sea wall plans to protect railway for the next 100 years approved despite fears it could 'destroy town’s charm' Read more... ...

A newly-released sex offender broke an order to stay away from children by staying at the home of a young mother who had a nine-year-old daughter. The order was imposed when he was jailed in March 2015 for having under age sex with a 15-year-old girl in a woodland den which he had built in land near Dawlish Fire Station. Stewart, aged 24, of no fixed address and previously of Teignmouth and ...

Wednesday saw heavy rain and strong winds for many, which caused trees to fall on roads, flooding, and trains cancelled in Dawlish. Now, the Environment Agency has placed several flood alerts across the two counties. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/flood-warnings-issued-devon-cornwall-3659447

A burglar who failed to do community service work has told a judge that he could not do it because he was too busy working on flood defences in Dawlish. He received a nine month suspended sentence at Exeter Crown Court last year and was ordered to 125 hours of unpaid work. Another 24 hours was added for previous failures to attend. Read more... ...

The A379 Exeter Road in Dawlish is closed this afternoon because of a crash involving a pedestrian and a car. A police spokesperson said: "Police were called at 1pm today to Exeter Road, Dawlish following reports of a collision involving a car and a pedestrian. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-hit-car-closes-dawlish-3616303

A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a mental health patient who assaulted two police officers who tried to help him as he was being ejected from a pub in Totnes. The 45-year-old is is already subject of an eight-month suspended sentence for setting light to a litter bin. He breached the order once by being drunk and disorderly at Dawlish station, where two off duty mental nurses had to ...

The sand was pumped on to the beach two years ago as part of a £14 million flood defence scheme, which raised parts of the beach by up to three metres. Enough sand to fill 100 Olympic swimming pools was pumped on to the beach in what Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, yesterday insisted was purely a cosmetic exercise. Read more... ...

A pensioner has been sent to a secure ward after he attacked a terrified carer with an axe as she was visiting his home in Tiverton. She only escaped after taking the axe off him, getting away from the house and calling the police and her bosses for help. He will now be treated at a secure ward at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, after a judge at Exeter Crown Court made a hospital order. Read more... ...

Detectives have now released photographs of three men who they want to speak to in connection with their investigation into the burglary. It happened in Kingsdown Crescent in Dawlish between 12.30pm and 1pm on July 17. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/pensioner-disturbs-three-burglars-home-3566375

A 28-year-old man bludgeoned to death three pensioners during a bloody killing spree in Exeter – but says he was insane at the time he did it. Their bodies were discovered by police in the days following the attacks. The full horror of the deaths shocked the city and sparked a major police investigation. The jury was told the trial will hear witness evidence from a number of a people and reference ...

The wildfowl wardens who care for the famous Dawlish black swans fear that one of the two breeding males may be infertile. There had been growing excitement in the town at the sight of the six eggs. In recent years there have been two vicious dog attacks which depleted the number of mating pairs. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/bad-news-dawlish-black-swans-3554403