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Was there any need for his car to speed off from the station car park as it did? I saw a lady with her dog nearby chatting to someone and the car nearly hit her dog.
David Cameron is due to arrive in Dawlish within the next hour.
Dawlish is being featured on Inside Out, BBC1 7.30 tonight.
Would it not be possible to build a wall like the one at Dawlish Warren to protect the railway line?
A robber not caught since he absconded from a prison in the Midlands last year may be in Dawlish, police have said. Daniel Walker, 28, went missing from HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire when he was released on temporary licence in May last year. West Midlands Police believe Walker, jailed for robbery in 2006, may be in the Dawlish area of Devon. Walker, originally from Willenhall, in the West ...
Residents in a Devon town have spoken of how they were evacuated from their crumbling homes after waves destroyed coastal defences as fearsome storms sweeped in from the Atlantic. Now another band of heavy rain is forecast to sweep across southern Britain today, with a separate area of low pressure bringing more rain and very strong winds on Saturday. Neil Jones and his son Issac were among ...
Parts of Britain are being hit by a powerful storm which has washed away a stretch of railway line and left thousands of homes without electricity. The Environment Agency says around 328 homes have been flooded since Friday evening - with more heavy rain forecast into the weekend. A section of the sea wall in Dawlish, Devon, collapsed and left the main railway line suspended in mid-air. ...
Damage caused to the sea wall and rail line. Top right is where the sea wall is breached along Riveria Terrance. Riviera Terrace The next day, after the track section has been removed. Other storm damage pictures:- http://www.dawlish.com/photo?albumid=964 http://www.dawlish.com/photo?albumid=965 http://www.dawlish.com/photo?albumid=966
People have been evacuated from their homes in Devon and Cornwall as severe weather batters the counties. Twenty people have been evacuated from Dawlish, where police have declared a major incident. In Kingsand the emergency services were urging people to leave their homes overnight because of the risk of flooding. Six people chose to leave and emergency services checked about 50 properties. ...
The Police have just closed the road between the Sandy Lane junction and Elm Grove Road.
