Dawlish News' Posts

£1.75 million mansion loses 80ft garden in landslip Prior to this, previous owner Nick Skilton who built the property also lost 80ft of land at the bottom of the garden when it fell into the sea in 2007. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/five-buildings-most-risk-cliff-4049763

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... ...

Cllr Alan Connett is concerned about the ‘plan to spoil this beautiful country road with its amazing views across Kenton and Starcross and the Exe Estuary’. The road from the estuary village of Starcross rises up through the woodland of Mamhead and leads to the Haldon Hills, but has seen increased use, especially by heavy goods vehicles in recent years. 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

The Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust have closed the Dawlish and Totnes MIUs and are now referring anyone with a minor injury to the MIU at Newton Abbot Community Hospital. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/minor-injuries-units-two-devon-3969609

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

Barry Parkin moved into its new homes development in Dawlish in September 2017, and claims that when he bought his property, he was assured by Redrow that as soon as all the houses were built the roads and pavements on the estate would be addressed. After being approached by Devon Live, Redrow have confirmed the resurfacing works will be finished by mid-April. Read more... ...

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... ...

Darren Chamberlain, managing director of Dawlish-based Garage Doors South West Ltd and an Exeter Chiefs season ticket holder, has made the gracious offer following the controversy during the Chiefs' win over Bath at the weekend. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/kind-businessman-offers-free-tickets-3934753

An underage drinker broke an autistic man’s cheekbone when he retaliated against having a soft drink thrown at him outside a convenience store. Thomas, now aged 18, of Kingsdown Crescent, Dawlish, admitted causing actual bodily harm and was ordered to do 120 hours unpaid community work and go on a thinking skills course by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court. 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 Governing Body of NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group on Thursday afternoon unanimously approved the launch of an eight-week public consultation process over relocation of community, specialist outpatient clinics and day case procedures into a new health and wellbeing centre in Teignmouth or at Dawlish Hospital. Read more... ...

What does power mean, and who holds the most of it in Devon? When it comes to decisions over public services  or how our cities and countryside will look in the future, then power remains in the hands of the traditional political institutions and big businesses, and their leaders. A former corporate lawyer, Morris was first elected in 2010 and in that time has set up two all party parliamentary ...

Free Sunday parking in Teignbridge will be axed as part of budget proposals that have been approved. Teignbridge District Council’s budget plans for 2020/21, which also funding to employ a climate change officer and enhanced planning enforcement, were given the go-ahead by councillors on Monday morning. Read more... ...

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/

A homeless teenager who was bullied into drug dealing by the notorious Dawlish Geordies gang has been jailed. Police who picked him up on Cathedral Green in Exeter found a message on his phone telling him to do as he was told or 'I'm getting my pals up from Dawlish'. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/teen-dealer-bullied-notorious-geordies-3890309

A wealthy family have swapped their luxury villa in Morocco for a 'poor holiday' in a caravan near Dawlish for a brand new reality TV series. Episode 2 will show wealthy Cheshire entrepreneur and former footballer's wife, Jude Cisse, who will be taking her four children and mum Christine to a caravan park in Dawlish, a little bit different to their privately staffed villa in Morocco. Read more... ...

It's been a tough year for the famous black swans at Dawlish - but within days of Storm Dennis washing the breeding pair's eggs and nest away the nine spirited survivors are nest-building again. Now the two Cobs (male swans) have moved down to Tuck's Plot and the wardens are clearing the surrounding paths of debris after the deluge. Read more... ...

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

A ‘tourism tax’ to help protect Teignbridge’s coastal areas and make sure facilities keep pace with high visitor numbers could be introduced in time for this summer. The voluntary donation which would help fund conservation and tourism related projects, would apply to hotels, holiday parks, B&Bs and Airbnbs within one mile of the coastline. Teignbridge, which has beaches at Shaldon, Teignmouth, ...

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... ...

Ambitious plans for a new centre to tackle violent crime have been unveiled in a joint £1m project between Devon and Cornwall’s Chief Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner. The new approach is laid out in papers being presented today Friday February 7 at a meeting of the Police and Crime Panel in Plymouth. Shaun Sawyer and Alison Hernandez say they want to invest £1m in an innovative new ...

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 ...

Motor-mouth TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has weighed into the debate over the future of the Teignmouth and Dawlish rail line in typically controversial style. He said: "Yes, the track is vulnerable. In 2014 it was destroyed by a storm and, while it was being repaired, Cornwall was effectively cut off from the rest of the country. "But this bit of track, designed and built by Brunel, is extremely ...

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 EA reports: “Dawlish Warren is a small holiday resort where many holiday and mobile homes are located on low lying ground beside the Exe Estuary and bisected by the Shutterton Brook. A mainline railway embankment protects the site from routine tidal flooding but many properties are at risk should the embankment fail or be overtopped in extreme conditions. Read more... ...

Just before the Christmas break, engineers discovered the sandstone base underlying the concrete foundations was failing. The headache could potentially add millions of pounds to the project’s costs. Read more... http://www.dawlishnewspapers.co.uk/article.cfm?id=110262&headline=FOUNDATION%20FEARS%20PUT%20SEA%20WALL%20WORKS%20ON%20HOLD&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2020

Proposals for the section between Holcombe and Teignmouth in Devon are aimed at preventing the line being blocked by falling rocks from cliffs. People had been concerned the move might mean the loss of Holcombe beach. Part of the line at Dawlish, which runs along a stretch of beach, was washed away in fierce storms in 2014, leaving much of Devon and Cornwall without a railway connection to the ...

Everything you need to know about the Dawlish train line's past - and its future The sight of trains chugging along the sea wall has been a common one in Dawlish since the line opened in 1846. It is also a crucial link for train services from Devon into and out of Cornwall. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/everything-you-need-know-dawlish-3746186

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

Bowlers in Teignbridge have been left fearing that potential changes to leases could drive their clubs out of business. Peter Sweet, treasurer and greens manager for the Marina Bowling Club in Dawlish, said: “If it is forced upon us to take over the maintenance of the green once our lease expiries, we do not have the finance or the age of membership to carry out that responsibility. Our membership ...