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Sefton Hall has been given approved nasal swab tests which give accurate results in 30 minutes Earlier this year, the home was in the news when it arranged a ‘drive-through’, enabling families to see their loved ones from their cars for the first time in months after the first national lockdown. Read more... ...

Donations to Helping Dawlish Helping Dawlish is a collaboration of 12 organisations including the Town Council working together during the Cov-id 19 pandemic. Their website is at www.helpingdawlish.co.uk . Donations for Helping Dawlish are managed by the Town Council. If you are making a donation towards Helping Dawlish please put Helping Dawlish in the reference. This means the funds only go ...

Rescue crews have saved a dog after it fell and became "trapped on a ledge" near Red Rock in Dawlish, Exmouth RNLI has confirmed. The dog was soon reunited with its owners and did not sustain any injuries. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/rescue-crews-save-dog-trapped-4711597

I'd rather deal with the Germans than the Yanks!

From the Town Council **Update** - 16/11/2020 - we have unfortunately lost 10 black swans in total so far; the father of the cygnets is currently in isolation in the waterfowl compound having tested positive for avian flu but is making very good progress. We have a number of options to replenish our stocks going forward, however this will not be actioned until we are certain there is minimal risk ...

AN online public consultation is being launched by Devon County Council on Tuesday, November 17, on proposals to complete a missing link of the Teign Estuary Trail between Newton Abbot and Teignmouth. We have always maintained our commitment to delivering the Teign Estuary Trail and we’re keen for people to comment on the proposals for this latest section. Connecting Dawlish, Teignmouth and Newton ...

Many congrats to Richard, and well done to Cavanna Homes.

Just to add that as well as the town council recommending refusal, it (the town council's planning committee) also wished for the application to be decided by  TDC's planning committee rather than a TDC planning officer if the planning officer was inclined to agree to the planning application. However, it seems that as the request for the planning app to go to TDC's plannng committee was not ...

You may find some of the images in this story unsettling Devon takes pride in its many miles of magnificent golden beaches. We also enjoy the special gifts of the marine environment that surrounds us. In 2016, an 18 metre-long dead whale washed up at a beach in Dawlish. It had had been spotted flouting around the sea for some time before landing at the tourist destination. Read more... ...

It will take place at the district council’s large car park at Dawlish Warren, and people will be encouraged to bring festive food and drink, and decorate their cars with Christmas lights. Read more... https://dawlish.nub.news/n/drive-in-community-carol-service-planned-for-dawlish?fbclid=IwAR3aA-YCuJDtGJF1GnvS7zhnvnylB3Ti2bfdx_UgZ7H0yIHz6BECiqE3SiI

Eight of Dawlish's black swans have died of bird flu. Dawlish Town Council, which looks after the world-renowned swans, has asked people to stay away from the birds while they are being monitored and looked after by its wardens. Andrew McKenzie, Dawlish town clerk, said: “We are really sad about the deaths of our very special black swans, and at the news that tests have now confirmed the cause is ...

@DEEDOODLE Fantastic pics

Don't know if anyone will be at the Sally Army premises in Brunswick St, T'mouth wef from tomorrow. Went along there today and the building is in the process of being refurbished, No-one from the SA there and notice on door directs callers to their Newton Abbot premises. Is any organisation in Dawlish collecting Christmas gifts for local needy children? If so, please post on here.

Dawlish Community Larder Helping Dawlish is aware that some people are self-isolating or are still being impacted by the effects of the lockdown on their finances, families, businesses, mental and physical health and may require support. The food bank (which operated until July) has become a community larder which can support people in immediate need of food whether due to a medical need or social ...

The government’s health care watchdog has told Devon Partnership NHS Trust it must make urgent improvements following the death of a patient in Dawlish. The CQC’s Head of Hospital Inspection Karen Bennett-Wilson said: “We found a number of concerns relating to patient safety and staffing levels and we told the trust to make immediate improvements. Read more... ...

The baby birds born only last month have passed away Five black swan cygnets and an older bird have died in unknown circumstances in Dawlish. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/black-swans-cygnets-dead-dawlish-4683640

The word 'Hero' is used all to freely these days. I'm NOT saying he hasn't done a bad job but REAL heroes have given their all for this country and made the ultimate sacrifice in ensuring that we live in a free(?) safe(?) world, and not someone who gets paid more in a week that a lot of people take a lifetime to earn and who could pay for every child who is reported to be living in poverty (while ...

It comes on a day when a further 283 people with Covid-19 were confirmed to have died in hospitals across England. Dawlish North 9 Dawlish South 5 See more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/coronavirus-clusters-show-devon-new-4680219

why not get a real job?

More than 1,000 vendors will have to stop selling The Big Issue due to the four-week lockdown in England For people like me who have been selling The Big Issue for years, this is what we do it for: that little burst in the summer and then that burst at Christmas,” said Dave Campion [pictured above], who sells the magazine in Dawlish, south Devon. Read more... ...

That is indeed great news Ziggy. We enjoyed lovely hot chocolate and coffee from you down at The Cove yesterday. Would have had food too, but Sunday lunch was beckoning! Looking forward to live music events. Where would you be giving out information when they happen please?

Specialist Rescue Crews from Exmouth were quickly mobilised, along with two fire engines which came from Dawlish and Exeter. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=119789&headline=Man%20rescued%20from%20estuary%20mud%20at%20Starcross&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2020

This echoes the complaints on Facebook over the past week from local people about mask-less shoppers being let into Sainsbury's in groups and not being challenged about their behaviour by staff or security. I stopped going to Sainsbury's earlier in the year because of concerns like this.

A patient at a mental health hospital took their own life after a Covid-19 isolation area created "blind spots" on a ward, a report has found. A Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection of Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, Devon, found safety and staffing concerns. Read more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-54733664

Officers initially said it appeared someone had been bottled during the brawl near the Wetherspoons bar and Tesco Express "A 29-year-old man from Dawlish was arrested on suspicion of affray. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/police-tesco-wetherspoons-exeter-brawl-4647150

Planning permission granted.

A thug tried to bite a female police officer on the neck after threatening to stab her and calling her ‘a daft bitch’. He had also been caught with half a pair of scissors hidden in his sock during an earlier violent confrontation with a group of men in Dawlish. Mr Nigel Wraith, prosecuting, said police attended a disturbance near the Lansdowne Hotel in Park Road, Dawlish, shortly after midnight ...

I see drivers on a regular basis drive on the wrong side go through the no entry over the bridge the wrong way and then right into Brunswick Place. I often wonder why is that piece of road confusing drivers, or could it be sat navs are telling folk to keep right and take the next right.

Click on link and scroll down to see latest planning permissions granted, submitted etc https://democracy.dawlish.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=1359 ;

The Finance and General Purposes committee of Dawlish Town Council is meeting on 29th October. This is on the agenda: Rural Skip Hire To note the recommendation of the Civic Amenities Committee ‘to consider funding a minimum of four skips for next year’. Town clerk to investigate alternate options following Teignbridge District Council's withdrawal of providing the service with confirmed costs to ...

The development management committee supported the proposal for a multi-purpose hall and vocational workshop at the residential school for pupils with special educational needs, at its meeting on Wednesday, October 21. “This will provide a significant benefit to pupils with special educational needs in and around Dawlish.” Read more... ...

Kieran Sandwell from Dawlish, Devon was presented with a heart hero award by the British Heart Foundation for helping to raise more than £13,500 for the charity. Kieran decided to take on the walk to mark his recovery from a heart transplant in 2009. He had been born with a congenital heart defect that caused him to have a heart attack at the age of 13 Read more... ...

20/00019/FAST DAWLISH - 3 Mount Pleasant Road Dawlish Warren Appeal against refusal of planning permission for 19/02486/FUL - Roof extension/conversion including raising of ridge height, hip to gable extensions, dormer windows, single storey extensions, balcony/terraces to rear, reconfiguration of garage and raising of roof and associated works APPEAL DISMISSED – DELEGATED REFUSAL 20/00022/FAST ...

Every day people all over the world watch to see the famous Dawlish black swans The fight for survival by a family of rare black swans in Dawlish have become a viral hit with 100,000 people a day tuning in to see the fluffy cygnets. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/worlds-first-live-streaming-black-4611323

Yes it is a shame, I thought he was very good at his job. I understand that he and Victoria Graham have been good friends for a long time, and of course she has split from Simon McCoy, so maybe she found doing an on-air tribute and farewell too much to handle.

Does the (former?) Monopolies Commision look at local issues?

probably the cost of a pint atthe local Inn

And this as at last Sunday: