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Four pubs in South Devon are appealing against conditions attached by Teignbridge Council when it granted permission for late licences under the new 24-hour drinking laws. Scott Sinclair, licensee of the South Devon Inn on Strand Hill, Dawlish, is appealing against the council's decision to vary his premises licence. Two other publicans, Andrew Cross, licensee of the Exeter Inn and the Brunswick ...

Our beaches are beautiful - that was the fantastic news today for five of Devon's top tourist resorts. For the second year running, Dawlish, Exmouth and Teignmouth have all passed strict European Union directives on bathing water quality, and Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton also swept through with flying colours. Businesses and councillors have welcomed the news as recognition of the hard work ...

An ambitious regeneration scheme for Dawlish is being backed by the district council. A local group has come up with a scheme to upgrade the resort and the surrounding areas, and the Teignbridge executive committee agreed to support the project in principle. Cllr John Clatworthy, a Dawlish county and district member, admitted they were behind Teignmouth over regeneration, but hoped to catch up. ...

Microsoft has launched a 'strategic partnership' with the British Library, paving the way for digital reproduction of 25 million pages of content. The deal will allow the world's biggest software firm to scan some of the library's collection and publish digital copies of journals, maps and manuscripts on the internet. Microsoft will work with the Open Content Alliance, a consortium of non-profit ...

Say goodbye to using the lift, forget munching biscuits at business meetings and don't even think about nipping out of the office for a pub lunch. Instead get ready for a new era of lunchtime walks, offering clients sliced apple and having a spot of massage at your desk to relieve stress. These are some of the changes to the habits of Britain's 30 million employees that the Government hopes will ...

Drivers caught speeding on a Devon road could have their convictions quashed. Mobile speed cameras often operate on the A379 at Starcross between Exeter and Dawlish. But four cases have been dismissed because of road sign problems. Those previously convicted may get fines returned and licence points erased. The Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership, which runs the cameras, says it is ...

One in five pubs currently serving food will shut down their kitchens when the ban on smoking in food pubs is finally introduced. The government intends to give England's pub managers an unappetizing choice: Ban smoking or stop serving food. But Vicki Sinclair of the South Devon Inn at Dawlish, in southwestern England, will stop serving food once the rules take effect. She relies on her regulars ...

An aid flight headed for Pakistan, containing 800 special cold weather tents for Oxfam and 19,000 blankets for Islamic Relief, will take off from Nottingham East Midlands Airport at approximately 16:00 today (Tuesday 11 October). The tents will provide temporary shelter for thousands of people affected by the Asian Earthquake. This aid is essential to the survival of the survivors of this ...

The team Of The Week Award must go to Dawlish Ladies - they beat Honiton Hornets with only EIGHT players! The Channel Division 2B leaders forced captain Claire Chudley to do some hard thinking, as she tried to work out a formation that would give her side a chance even three players short. With the accent on defence and with only two players committed forward, Dawlish soaked up Honiton's pressure ...

Two thugs with Geordie accents are being hunted after they robbed two boys near Dawlish town centre on Monday night. One of the lads, aged 15, was injured as he was ordered to hand over his £250 silver Samsung E800 mobile phone in Barton Lane just before 8pm. He suffered reddening to his cheekbone and jaw as well as a scratch to his back after one of the attackers threatened to use a knife on him ...

Youngsters in Dawlish now have no excuse for lounging in front of the telly on a Saturday morning. They can pop along to the Churchill Community Centre instead and take part in arts and crafts, outdoor and indoor games, including PlayStation. The get-together is being run by two trained youth workers from the Kingsway Meadow Community Association, and the Churchill community development worker, ...

Dawlish & Teignmouth suffered the disappointment of missing out on promotion for the second season running when they lost by four wickets to Clyst St George. James Burton's side had to win - and hope Plymouth Civil Service slipped up at home to Stoke Gabriel - to clinch the second promotion spot behind runaway champions Feniton. Civil won anyway - they trounced Stoke in double-quick time by six ...

An official figure of 252.95 mph was recorded as the two-way average in the car’s most recent high-speed test run. The figures see the Veyron smash the recent 241mph claimed by Koenigsegg with its CCR and the McLaren F1’s long standing 240.1mph record set in 1998. It’s not only the top speed that’s sensational but also the Bugatti’s acceleration. The four turbo, four-wheel-drive supercar sprints ...

The PlayStation Portable has officially enjoyed the biggest launch weekend of any console in the UK, with around 185,000 units of the system being sold in its first three days at retail. The figure - which comes from UK market analysts Chart-Track - is more than double the sales of the previous record holder, the Nintendo DS, which sold around 87,000 units in its first weekend back in March. The ...

How come every mother and baby picture from the Madonna and Christ-child onwards shows a serenely happy mother cradling a perfectly contented baby in her arms? For most mothers reality is quite different: driven to distraction and despair by a baby that cries long and loud for no discernible reason. So why do babies cry, and what can you do when your baby is howling inconsolably? Firstly, take ...

Oddicombe at high tide was the idyllic setting for the annual Devon County Open Water Championships. Dawlish Swimming Club, winners of the team trophy for four consecutive years, found the going tougher this time. Other clubs, keen to benefit from what will be a new Olympic event at London 2012, challenged in every category. Dawlish swimmers took three of the 12 medals contested, and Lauren ...

A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying regions of the solar system. The planet was discovered using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif. The discovery was announced today by planetary scientist Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., whose research is partly funded by NASA. The planet is a typical ...

High summer has arrived at Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve and, despite the recent dry weather, there is a wealth of stunning countryside flora to be seen. Many residents and visitors alike agree that a walk along the dunes of this spectacular reserve takes some beating when it comes to a real live show of colour. Teignbridge senior warden Andrea Buckley explained: "Spring brings many of ...

A teenage girl has had to abandon her solo sail across the Channel in a 13ft dinghy. Megan Baker, 17, from Dawlish, Devon, set off from the river Exe estuary, but had to turn back after six hours because she was making insufficient headway in calm conditions. The youngster, who has dreams of competing in the 2012 Olympics, now hopes to take on her 103 mile voyage to Cherbourg in her Laser craft ...

The mayor of Dawlish, Cllr Graham Price, has officially opened the town's new community drop-in centre. Cllr Price said he was pleased to see the centre finally opening after a five-year battle to get it for Dawlish. More than 35 people attended the opening of the new centre, which has been named Open Daw. It is in the vestibule of the town's Methodist Church. Margaret Noel, of Dawlish Library, ...

The owner of a crumbling grade two listed building in Teignbridge faces legal action unless something is done to stop the building collapsing. The Old Vicarage in Weech Road, Dawlish, is owned by a London man and has been empty for 20 years. The property was listed in 1951 as a grade two building of special architectural and historic importance. The original house is thought to date from the 17th ...

Exeter and Dawlish are in line to stage birthday celebrations for one of Britain's greatest engineers, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Next year marks 200 years since his birth and the South West, home of his Great Western Railway, is to be at the centre of commemoration events. Bristol is to take the leading role but celebrations are also pencilled in for Exeter and Dawlish. Brunel ran his wide-gauge ...

Families of MG Rover workers made redundant when the car giant collapsed were being welcomed aboard the first of five free train services to the seaside today. Virgin Trains is laying on special trains from Longbridge station to the Devon resorts of Dawlish Warren, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torquay and Paignton this week. The trains will leave Longbridge railway station each morning for the three-hour ...

Teignbridge is promoting the government's walking the way to health scheme with a timetable of short guided rambles up to six days a week free of charge. Walk This Way Teignbridge strolls take less than an hour and all ages are welcome, including people in pushchairs and wheelchairs. There is no need to book, just turn up for walks around Bovey Tracey, Buckfastleigh, Chudleigh, Dawlish, ...

Some of South Devon's very best beaches have been given the thumbs-up by a conservation charity. The Marine Conservation Society Good Beach Guide is one of four beach award initiatives, but it is the only scheme that focuses entirely on water quality standards and the risk of sewage pollution, rather than beach management. The society will only recommend beaches in the guide if they meet the Blue ...

A new CCTV control room in the centre of Newton Abbot will help police detect more crime, the Devon and Cornwall force says. They are also hoping the scheme will be extended to cover smaller towns, including Bovey Tracey and Dawlish. The scheme is being jointly funded by the police, the district council and the town council. Police say other towns in Teignbridge are now expressing an interest in ...

A 17-year-old is recovering in Torbay Hospital after being stabbed in the leg on Satuday evening. The teenager, who was not local, was walking through Brunswick Place at around 11pm when he was assaulted. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. Early Sunday morning a trail of blood could be seen along Brunswick Place and on to the Lawn, and the police soon taped off the area for ...

Someone has been busy sending dawlish.com users a bogus email claiming to be from the 'dawlish.com team'. These clever people also decided to send one to the webmaster! SO PLEASE BE AWARE. The email reads along the lines of:- "Dear user of dawlish.com, Your account has been used to send a huge amount of spam messages during the last week. We suspect that your computer was compromised and now runs ...

A Devon council has held back a number of postal votes after learning that the building they were destined for had been demolished. The 16 votes were addressed to the Great Cliffs residential home in Marine Parade, Dawlish. An officer from Teignbridge District Council visited the site on Wednesday to confirm it was demolished. The votes are being withheld until the people they were intended for ...

It's the time of reckoning for Dawlish Town tomorrow as they head for Radstock Town in Division One of the Screwfix Direct Western League. Win against their second-placed rivals, and the fifth-placed Sandy Lane club can still dream of returning to the Premier Division at the first attempt. However, anything less and player-manager Chris Myers' side will have too much leeway to make up in their ...

The Dawlish Town re-building programme for next season continued this week ahead of tomorrow's home game with Shepton Mallet in Division One of the Screwfix Direct Western League. With nine games to go, and promotion now wishful thinking, player-manager Chris Myers and recently appointed assistant manager Adam Kerswell have gone back to Kerswell's former side Dartington Sports Club and registered ...

Graffiti blighting the bandstand in the centre of Dawlish has been tackled by Teignbridge Council as part of its spruce up for the summer season. Obscene graffiti had been marker penned on the walls of the bandstand on The Lawn in the centre of Dawlish. Now contractors working for the council have been cleaning it up.

To face reality, visiting is the ideal answer. For that very reason, a year ago, students from Dawlish community college planned to visit the land of many puzzles and back image theories. The purpose of the visit was to meet the people, feel the experience and learn more about Africa, but above all these students wanted to see how they could give help to the needy. Almost a year to the day after ...

A SHY young Iraq veteran has won the first Victoria Cross given to a living soldier since 1969. Private Johnson Beharry, 25, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Grenada, won his VC for saving the lives of his comrades in two incidents last May and June. Severely wounded in the second, he was given only a 50-50 chance of survival and is still on sick leave from the Princess of Wales's Royals. ...

A builder has put in new plans for a village suburb-style development on the outskirts of a Devon resort. Black Country Properties shelved a 163-home project for Dawlish 15 months ago after fierce local opposition. Now, it has drawn up a 175-house scheme which includes a foodstore, a medical centre and nursing home, and a range of businesses. It says the development could provide up to 700 full ...

In another busy weekend for Dawlish swimmers at Tiverton, the latest round of County Championships saw more medal successes, writes Phil Shute. Once more it was the season's brightest newcomer, Rebecca Squire, who was top of the rostrum. Nine year old Squire, having already scooped gold and silver medals this season, set a competition-best time in the 200m butterfly, comfortably winning another ...

Health Secretary John Reid has been asked to step into a row over minor injury services in south Devon. The Teignbridge Primary Care Trust wants to cut 24-hour services at Dawlish, Bovey Tracey and Ashburton in favour of daytime opening hours. But some locals have mounted a campaign against the move and have written to Dr Reid, asking him to order the suspension of the closure consultation.

Dawlish Town came from a goal down to win 4-1 away to promotion rivals Larkhall Athletic in what was effectively a fresh dawn to their season in Division One of the Screwfix Direct Western League on Saturday, writes Gordon Hines. Not only did former Dartington Sports Club boss Adam Kerswell make his dug-out debut as assistant-manager, but Sandy Lane player-manager Chris Myers introduced new ...

More than 1,400 petition letters have been given to health managers in south Devon in protest at changes to local minor injuries units' opening times. Teignbridge Primary Care Trust wants to cut back 24-hour cover at units in Dawlish, Bovey Tracey and Ashburton to between 8am and 8pm. Teignbridge Council said local people feared the worst about the changes.

The teenage son of a policeman rammed a patrol car in a blind panic after being caught joyriding in his mother's vehicle, a court was told. Learner driver Todd Smith, 18, managed to smash his way out of a cul-de-sac past the police car by narrowly missing an officer who tried to take the ignition keys from his vehicle. But when he abandoned the Vauxhall Astra he was driving and tried to escape on ...