Dawlish News' Posts

An update on what's happening at Dawlish Community College. See more... http://www.dawlish.devon.sch.uk/news/

A DISHONEST maintenance man put the safety of tenants in Dawlish at risk by carrying out illegal gas safety checks. Adrian Hunt, 42, ran a property maintenance business, but carried out compulsory safety checks on rented domestic properties when he was not qualified to do so. He has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out community work for forging the details of a Gas Safe ...

Date: 16/09/2013 Time: 08:25 Location: Church Street, Dawlish Area: Western County: Devon The Fire Service received a call reporting a fire in a property at the above location.  One fire appliance from Dawlish and one fire appliance from Teignmouth attended. Fire crews confirmed a fire involving an electrical appliance lead in the kitchen of a domestic bungalow.  Fire crews escorted one female ...

District leaders were due yesterday to discuss plans to provide a new £2.5million country park in Dawlish. When EU protected wildlife sites such as Dawlish Warren are threatened by an increasing population, the law requires that steps are taken to reduce the impact. Because of the increase number of houses in and around the town there is a need for a new park where residents can relax and exercise ...

Hosted by Karen Duxbury-Watkinson ( @KDWScience ), Nann Stimpson (@NannStimpson) and our compere for the evening Mr Pete Reeves Our first Teach Meet is happy to announce the fabulous Nina Jackson ( @musicmind ) as our keynote speaker. Who will help launch your teaching into space. If you would like to sponsor/contribute prizes please email Karen . Date Thursday 14th November 2013 Venue Dawlish ...

The 113 bus from Tavistock to Dawlish in Devon takes passengers on a scenic route through Dartmoor, and runs just three times a year See more... http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/aug/28/britains-rarest-bus-service

Fire appliances from Dawlish and Teignmouth were mobilised to a report of a fire in a first floor flat in High Street in Dawlish. Upon arrival crews crews gained entry and rescued two persons from the flat who were suffering from smoke inhalation from a fire involving an electrical cooker. They used breathing apparatus, a hose reel jet, a covering jet, a thermal imaging camera and small tools to ...

AQUARIUS DEVON UNDER 13 BOYS CUP First Round (to be played on or before September 15): St Martins Youth v Tiverton Town Youth; Roselands Youth v Waldon Athletic Youth; Okehampton Argyle Youth v Eastside Youth; Kingskerswell Colts v West Hill Juniors; Dawlish United Youth v Bovey Tracey Youth; Signal Box Youth v Marldon Youth; Ipplepen Athletic Youth v Weston Mill Oak Villa Juniors; SB Frankfort ...

Police say two men from the Teignbridge area are on their 'most wanted' list and warned the public not to approach them. Drugs dealer Damien Pearce 36 is known to have been living in the Dawlish area and has had class A dealing connections in Teignmouth. Another man Aaron Elliott-Smith, sought by Totnes and Newton Abbot police has 252 crimelinks to his name. He failed to appear in court after ...

The Princess Royal met staff, patients, architects and construction workers on a 45-minute tour of the Dewnans Centre. The Princess opened the state-of-the-art medium secure unit at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish which cost £27million. Source: Dawlish Post

Date: 05/08/2013 Time: 09:52 Location: B3381, Black Forest Lodge, Mamhead nr Exeter Area: Central County: Devon Our Co-Responders from Dawlish, together with a fire appliance from Teignmouth, were mobilised following a request from Ambulance for our assistance to a one vehicle RTC, no persons trapped. Due to the ETA of the ambulance our Dawlish Co-Responders assisted with rendering first aid to ...

Next month children's entertainment and live music will be laid on in Dawlish and Teignmouth in an aim to lure shoppers into the towns. Teignmouth's will be on a Wednesday, Tuesday's are being set aside for Dawlish, except for carnival week. The activities for Dawlish will be at Red Rock. On August 6th and 20th will be arts and crafts with artist Angie Jenner.August 27th face painting. Live ...

Wasn't there talk sometime ago to relocate the museum? The old Woolworth's store was mentioned before the Co-op moved in. Would have been great. Teignmouth museum is brilliant, not sure how they managed to raise the money.

A man with a cow slurry fetish who threatened to kill a farmer who banned him from his land is to undergo a new psychiatric assessment, a judge ruled. David Truscott, 43, was remanded to Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, Devon, in May after admitting threatening to kill the Cornish family on whose farm he rolled naked in animal muck. At Exeter Crown Court, Judge Francis Gilbert issued a new interim ...

Teignbridge Council will not give permission for the carnival procession nor the pram race to take place without the training of 45 marshals ahead of the events. No volunteers have come forward despite repeated requests from the organisers. This year the route of the procession has been changed and will end at the viaduct. The carnival are hoping to secure a grant from Dawlish Town Council of ...

AN INVESTIGATION is under way after a 47-year-old construction worker from Liskeard was crushed by a forklift truck. John Small died from injuries he sustained during the incident at a construction site in Dawlish, Devon, on Friday, June 28. A rapid response team, ambulance and air ambulance were all dispatched to the scene at Secmaton Lane at just after 4pm. Mr Small, who worked for Steve Hoskin ...

An elderly woman has been taken to hospital with “serious injuries” after a being hit by an out-of-control car outside her home. Emergency services were called to the cul-de-sac at Gatehouse Close in Dawlish just before 12noon today. The air ambulance was called for and the victim, who is in her mid-70s, was conscious and breathing on a stretcher but initial indications were that her injuries ...

An accident involving a 9 year-old girl and a car has occurred adjacent to the Tourist Information Office. The Air Ambulance is in attendance. Drivers are advised to avoid the town centre.

Date: 09/07/2013 Time: 11:53 Location: Gatehouse Close, Dawlish Area: Western County: Devon One appliance from Dawlish was mobilised to reports fo an RTC at the above location. On arrival an RTC was discovered involving one car that had gone into the side of a house. All persons were free and clear of the vehicle. Crews made the vehicle safe. The Police and Ambulance also attended this incident. ...

Dawlish carnival organisers are appealing for more sponsors to come forward to support the annual event. Last year the carnival still lost £8,000 despite cutting cost to try to reduce the losses. The committee's efforts to keep the carnival in the black are not helped by red tape. The disco where the carnival royalty are chosen and cost £300 to put on was cancelled also the loss-making Easter ...

A fire at baily's Chip Shop, several Fire Appliances in attendance.

The Fire Service were called to reports of a road traffic collision.  Two appliances from Dawlish and Teighmouth were mobilised to this incident. Upon arrival crews confirmed no persons trapped and made the vehicle safe. See more... http://www.dsfire.gov.uk/news/newsdesk/IncidentDetail.cfm?IncidentID=25151&siteCategoryId=3&T1ID=26&T2ID=35

Two fire appliances from Dawlish and Teignmouth attended a building fire in Dawlish, a further appliance from Danes Castle was mobilised for the use of Compressed Air Foam (CAFS). Crews on scene also requested an aerial platform attend to assist with fire fighting capabilities, this was mobilised from Taunton. Crews set to work using 4 breathing apparatus, 2 hose reel jets, a thermal imaging ...

Elderly care home patients are having to pay up to £40 for private taxis to hospital appointments in Devon because of a change in policy. South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust trust said eligibility for transport services had been reviewed. Nigel Morris, manager of the Palm Court nursing home in Dawlish, said the situation was "awful" and "abhorrent". He said residents who used wheelchairs ...

According to an Ofsted report Gatehouse Primary School needs to make futher improvements to become a good school. Inspectors said there had been too little good teaching in the school and students had not made the progress they should and there had been a high staff turnover. A more recent visit by Ofsted said the senior leadership team has now been strengthened, teaching improved and pupils are ...

A £30MILLION-plus commitment to protecting the main seafront rail line into South Devon has been made by Network Rail. Patrick Hallgate, western route managing director for Network Rail, revealed the commitment at a meeting of Torbay Business Forum when he gave details of the company's current plans for protecting and enhancing the region's rail network. He pledged to protect the main route to the ...

Transmitter and relay stations are having frequencies adjusted on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is part of work to increase 4G mobile phone coverage. Satellite and cable viewers would not be affected, transmission officials said. In east Devon and west Dorset, areas affected include Beaminster, Bincombe, Dawlish and Preston. In south Devon, the changes would affect 134,000 households who get their ...

Park Home residents are celebrating the Mobile Home Act 2013 which forbids owners of Parks from being able to prevent residents selling their Mobile Homes to whoever they want at a price the two parties agree. Unscrupulous operators have in the past intervened telling prospective buyers that the dwellings aren't fit for sale, then purchase the units themselves at knock down prices and put them ...

Police in Devon are seeking a 35-year-old man who is wanted for recall to prison following a conviction for drugs offences in 2011. Damian Pearce from Dawlish (pictured) is currently sought by police for breaching his prison licence when he was released. Officers says they are proactively following a number of lines of enquiry to try and find Pearce, and intend to arrest and return him to prison ...

@Gadget . many thanks for putting the record straight as there were many rumours circulating. hope your wife is recovering well.

Two schools are celebrating after being crowned as the best of their kind in the Westcountry. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg named Dawlish Community College as the best secondary school in the region and Widey Court Primary School in Plymouth as the best primary school. Both schools received a letter of congratulations from Mr Clegg following their accolades in the 2013 Pupil Premium Awards. ...

A "manipulative" paedophile, caged for the sickening sexual abuse of a boy while sleeping over at his home, has had his potentially lifelong sentence quashed. Jade Cook, 23, "duped" a 13-year-old boy into performing oral sex on him, having accepted his parents' hospitality and lied about his age while grooming the boy online. Cook, of Oak Park Villas, Dawlish, Devon, was caged indefinitely for ...

A man with a cow slurry fetish has admitted threatening to kill a family who live at a farm where he has repeatedly rolled naked in animal muck. David Truscott, 43, formerly of Pengegon Parc, Camborne, Cornwall, is currently a patient at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, Devon. He also admitted threatening to destroy Woodbury House Farm near Redruth Francis Gilbert, QC warned Truscott he was likely to be ...

DCC's scheme - piloted in Ilfracombe, Ivybridge and Tiverton - has proved so successful it is now being expanded to a further eight towns, including Dawlish and Teignmouth. The sessions offer those seeking work or claiming benefits up to two hours' free computer and internet access each Friday. The scheme was developed in response to the Government's "Digital by Default" strategy, to help those ...

All Year 11 students are expected to attend all lessons as normal up to and including THURSDAY 23rd MAY , when students will leave the College at the end of the English Literature exam, at approximately 3:30pm. Students are still required to attend normal classes/revision sessions after this date for any subject where they still have an exam. There will be a final leavers' assembly for all of Year ...

The Transport Secretary is due to visit South Devon today. Patrick McLoughlin will have a chance to see the coastal railway line at Dawlish and discuss possible investment. The line was damaged in the recent floods and there are fears for its future in the face of erosion. He'll then visit Kingskerswell where a new bypass is being built to improve transport links in the region. See more... ...

SOUTH Devon police raided a property in Elm Grove Road, Dawlish, and seized what's believed to be £1,400 of heroin. "It was another great result for us," said a police spokesman for the South Devon Proactive Unit, who led the raid. "It's another £1,400 of drugs off of our streets. We will keep going into properties until people get the message drugs will not be tolerated." A 32-year-old man from ...

The Fire Service received a call from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to a seagull trapped on a flat roof at the above location. One fire appliance from Teignmouth attended. Fire crews released one seagull from third floor flat roof using a ladder and small tools. The care of the seagull was handed over to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. See ...

Data from every school in Devon shows that 94.9% of students at Dawlish Community College continued on into some form of learning after leaving our school compared to just 91.9% of students from other schools. In addition just 1.1% of our students did not go into further education, employment or training compared to 2.9% of students at other schools across Devon. Full article: ...

Motorists are being advised that the road through Dawlish Strand will be closed for around two weeks from Monday (29 April) as work on the £1.5million regeneration of the Strand continues. The road will be closed for reconstruction and resurfacing, which is expected to be completed by Friday 10 May. As per the previous road closure in February for water mains diversion, deliveries to the ...