Dawlish News' Posts

Teignmouth, Newton Abbot, Bovey Tracey, Torquay, Clyst St George, and Dawlish firefighters were scrambled to the scene in Dawlish, at about 2.30am on New Year's Day. Read more... http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/fire-crews-battle-major-barn-994929

Jonathan Grant was desperate for money after moving out of the landlady’s home into his own flat in Dawlish that he went back to raid it. Grant, aged 34, of West Cliff, Dawlish, admitted burglary and was jailed for eight months, suspended for two years, ordered to pay £1,500 compensation, do 100 hours’ unpaid community work and 20 days’ rehabilitation activities by Judge Graham Cottle at Exeter ...

Toby, who lives with his wife Lisa and family in Dawlish, South Devon, said: “You can keep your non-drop, I like a needle in my sock at Christmas, that is all part of the charm for me.” Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/celebs-tv/toby-buckland-opts-real-tree-952566

A former chairman of Teignbridge District Council has resigned from the council. Mr Price has lived and worked in Dawlish for more than 30 years and was a shopkeeper and a retained firefighter. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/former-teignbridge-council-chairman-resigns-857841

Shock proposals to end free Sunday parking and to provide a steep hike in winter parking charges at the Dawlish Warren car park might not be legally permissible, a report has revealed. Read more: http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/controversial-dawlish-warren-car-parking-851992

Panto season is upon us. Oh yes it is! Time to take your seats and prepare for sly digs, saucy jokes, slapstick routines and, most important of all, to join in with the show. Exeter’s Northcott Theatre – now thriving and celebrating its 50 anniversary after teetering on the brink of closure seven years ago – is preparing to raise the curtain on its first pantomime since 2009. Director and ...

A woman has been airlifted to Derriford hospital with serious head injuries - and a driver is in police custody - following collision which has closed a major Devon road. The A379, the main road to Dawlish, has been shut between Starcross and the Swans Nest roundabout since 10.40am this morning. http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local-news/woman-airlifted-derriford-driver-arrested-827659

The border collie ran off from Cockwood, near Dawlish, on October 17. http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/owner-fears-missing-collie-taz-808999

Dawlish Warren’s outer car park is now home to the Exe Valley Cycle Hire and Veloshack Café while along the coast in Dawlish Salty Dog Kiosks has been set up on Smugglers Lane. Jon Sell and Nick Beer converted the loos at Dawlish Warren into new cycle hire and café facilities while Stephen Rowe transformed the toilets in Dawlish into his new business. Read more... ...

'If I hadn't gone to the Wave Project I don't think life would be so good at the moment' http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/happy-free-devon-surfer-oscar-791579

They are alleged to have defrauded cash from an elderly Dawlish man. http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/group-men-women-accused-defrauding-793248

A judge has ordered a further psychiatric report on a man who is accused of threatening staff at a community centre in Exeter with an air pistol. Armour, who is currently being treated at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, admitted a second charge of having a bladed article at the hostel in King William Street, Exeter, at an earlier hearing. Read more... ...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 21-year-old woman was victim to a robbery Tuesday 14November 2017. The incident occurred at around 8.20pm in Secmaton Lane in Dawlish. A man approached the victim, who was alone at the time of the incident, and took her bank card before making off towards Sainsbury’s. The suspect is described as male, around 30-years-old and over 6ft tall. He was wearing ...

There must be ‘something in the water’ as the famous black swans in Dawlish cannot stop breeding – with a record-breaking fourth brood of cygnets having hatched this year, The trio made their first appearance into the world on November 8 and the Dawlish Waterfowl warden said that the three new cygnets are doing well and can now be seen on the water with mum and dad. See more... ...

The court heard that 18 window panes at Dawlish Baptist Church were allegedly smashed with a hammer The trial of a 52-year-old woman accused of smashing windows at Dawlish Baptist Church has been adjourned. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/woman-accused-smashing-church-windows-768843

POLICE have praised the courage of two young victims after two men were found guilty of plying them with drink and drugs and having sex with them. Full Article: http://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=110404&headline=Men%20face%20jail%20for%20underage%20sex%20and%20drugs%20orgy&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2017

A 70-year-old woman was left terrified after a fire started at her home this morning. The woman had to be treated by medics after the incident in South Devon just after 6am. Three crews from Dawlish, Middlemoor and Teignmouth were mobilised following the call from the distressed woman. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/70-year-old-woman-terrifed-721876

Aleasha Scibilia was desperate for drugs or money to buy them and ransacked the other woman's room before stealing morphine, methadone, an iPad, money and jewellery. Scibilia also went shoplifting in Dawlish and Teignmouth on four occasions to get items which she could sell to raise cash to feed her heroin habit. Read more... ...

A proposal to merge two special schools in Dawlish into a single residential special school is being consulted on. Plans are being proposed to merge the schools to create one special school which could accommodate 190 children with 35 weekly residential places. The aim is to provide better opportunities for pupils with special educational needs and increase the number of places for vulnerable ...

A father has told of his anger and disgust at learning that his 14-year-old daughter had been allegedly sexually abused by men in a seaside flat when he thought she was sleeping at a friend's house. His daughter lied about having a sleepover with a schoolfriend and instead the two girls went to stay with the older sister of another 14-year-old in Dawlish. Read more... ...

A mental health patient has denied threatening staff at a hostel in Exeter with an air pistol but admitted having a knife with him during the same incident. Armour appeared by video link from Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, where he is being treated after being transferred from Exeter Prison because of his mental condition. Read more... ...

The body of a man whose last words were about the size of the waves hitting the Devon beach he was walking on has been found. The 67-year-old Paignton man spoke on the phone about the size of the waves hitting the sea wall at Dawlish and drowned moments later, an inquest has heard. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/body-found-beach-mans-last-684809

A railway-themed holiday park could soon be open all year round as a holiday destination. The Brunel Camping Carriages site in Dawlish Warren, which features eight chalets in converted rail carriages, was sold at auction for £261,000 last year. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/property/iconic-dawlish-warren-railway-carriages-669415

As a result of a weather warning that has been issued for the sea wall at Dawlish tonight, CrossCountry's 'Voyager' trains are unable to run between Newton Abbot and Exeter St Davids between 7.15pm and 11pm. Trains through Dawlish cancelled due to Storm Brian See more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/trains-through-dawlish-cancelled-due-656145

A patient who used butane gas to try to blow up a former NHS clinic is to be detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. He was ordered to remain under the care of doctors at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish after a judge at Exeter Crown Court ruled he posed a potential danger to the public. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/patient-detained-indefinitely-after-tried-651977

The warning says: “High water at Exmouth is at 7:45pm, times of high water will vary along the coast. Strong force 6 to 7 south westerly winds and offshore wave heights of up to 2m are forecast to cause wave overtopping of sea defences and sea spray in exposed coastal locations at Torbay, Dawlish, and Teignmouth. Read more... ...

A masked robber has been found guilty of taking part in an ammonia attack on a shopkeeper who was almost blinded as his takings were snatched. Ward sprayed undiluted ammonia into his face while Rowntree grabbed a bag which contained the takings from the Costcutter shop during the attack on The Strand in Dawlish on January 20 this year. Full article here

A driver who took two men from Dawlish to Torquay after the robbery has told the jury that he had no idea they had just committed a crime. Ross Morton said he had been rung up in mid afternoon and taken the men shopping as an unpaid favour, picking up his girlfriend and her child at Teignmouth on the way. Read more... ...

A HOLIDAYMAKER has been jailed for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a Jacuzzi at a Dawlish Warren holiday park. Former local government officer Paul Ridgway was detained by police at the Welcome Holiday Park after the young victim told her mother ’the man made me put my hand on his winkie’. Read full story here

Victim Neil Warner was temporarily blinded and suffered serious eye injuries after being attacked as he walked a few hundred yards to a post office from the Costcutter shop he managed in Dawlish He was attacked by two men, one wearing a balaclava and the other with a scarf over his face, after they had lain in wait for him on his route, a trial at Exeter Crown Court was told. Read more... ...

The 43-year-old died less than a year after his brother died of a drug overdose Cosmo Pearce, of Prospect Terrace in Newton Abbot died of a morphine overdose combined with pneumonia, on March 16. An inquest into his death was held in Torquay on Tuesday – less than three months after an inquest into the death of his brother, 38-year-old Damian Pearce, of Dawlish, who died of a drug overdose on May ...

Developers have appealed against the refusal of plans for three new luxury homes that were turned down after councillors raised serious concerns about the possibility of the Dawlish railway line being cut off again for months. The site, halfway between Dawlish and Teignmouth, is close to the South West Cliff Path, and also overhangs the railway line. Read more... ...

Developers have appealed against the refusal of plans for three new luxury homes that were turned down after councillors raised serious concerns about the possibility of the Dawlish railway line being cut off again for months. Full article http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/appeal-submitted-after-dawlish-homes-518489

Fire crews from Dawlish and the animal rescue team from Exmouth were called out to Dawlish Warren at 8.33pm on Friday. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/dog-rescued-after-getting-stuck-485966

Since January work has included removing stone-filled gabion baskets from the Warren. The timber groynes have been refurbished, extended and replaced along the Warren to help hold sand. See more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/how-much-more-sand-dawlish-479819

A DevonLive campaign to save direct train services linking the north and the Midlands to Devon's holiday resorts has succeeded in saving the trains - for now. More than 1,000 people signed our petition after Cross Country announced their plans to axe services. The plans would have seen all but one Cross Country Trains service from Paignton axed. The only remaining service to stop at Dawlish, ...

The life of former Newton Abbot Racecourse employee, Lauren Scott, was celebrated at the course on Tuesday with a memorial race day in her honour. Read more ...

Police were called to Dawlish Warren after a parent was seen to dangle their child over the perimeter wall of the railway line. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/police-sent-to-dawlish-after-report-of-child-dangled-over-railway-wall/story-30489471-detail/story.html

An animal lover has spoken about her joy after being reunited with her pet skunk which went missing during a camping trip in North Devon. After having no luck finding Dottie, Sarah returned to Dawlish on Monday, July 3. She described going home without her skunk as "very difficult". Sarah had previously told Devon Live that she had hopes that her clairvoyant friend, Becky Willoughby, could help ...

Dangerous rapist jailed for life after shocking attack Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/dangerous-rapist-jailed-for-life-after-shocking-attack/story-30487682-detail/story.html