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Cofton Country Holidays, Dawlish Warren, have asked planners to approve proposals to provide an area for pitching tents exclusively for use by visitors arriving by public transport. The proposal site would be an asset to the local area in creating a carbon neutral holiday destination this plugging a gap that exists in the Dawlish Warren area for tenting and camp sites. During the last ten years ...

Fire appliances from Dawlish, Teignmouth and Torquay were mobilised to a report of a roof on fire in East Cliff Close in Dawlish. Upon arrival the incident commander requested a further two fire appliances as the roof well alight. Two appliances were subsequently mobilised from Teignmouth and Torquay together with an Incident Command Unit from Totnes and an aerial ladder platform from Torquay. See ...

The £1.5m regeneration scheme for The Strand gets under way on January 21st. The scheme will include widening the pavement, new street furniture, lighting and parking along one side of the road only. The scheme is being jointly financed by Devon County Council, Teignbridge Council and Dawlish Town Council. The stone wall between The Strand and Lawn will be removed, the concrete shelter facing the ...

A Plymouth-based train driver has won a European transport photography competition for his stunning photograph of a passenger train in Dawlish. Chris Hopkins of CrossCountry has won the Arriva Photo of the Year 2012 award for his dramatic image of a Voyager 220 at Coryton Cove. His image of the CrossCountry train nestled in between the magnificent red cliffs of Dawlish was judged alongside other ...

New plastic Dawlish station footbridge opened and immediately listed! Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris has officially opened the UK’s first Grade II listed plastic footbridge at Dawlish Station. She cut a ribbon across the steps to the new footbridge off the main platform at the seaside station on the south coast of Devon. The footbridge was part of a £1m improvement project which saw the removal ...

£25 in cash was found in Marine Parade and handed in to the Police Office in Brunswick Place. Later the same day a wallet containing more than £130 cash was also  handed in. The wallet was found in the Strand by two Dawlish teenagers, despite the claims by two men stood nearby that they thought it belonged to a friend. The girls were not convinced and the wallet was eventually handed over to the ...

Two of Dawlish pubs the Lansdowne and the South Devon Inn will soon be offering a cool new drink endorsed by the police. It is hoped by offering water to drink between sessions will help to reduce the effects of over-indulging and its associated habits of anti-social behaviour, violent crime and domestic abuse. 47 dispensers in the county have been paid for by nearly £12,000 funding by police, ...

There aren't many places where homebuyers can combine proximity to coast, countryside and convenient transport links, but regional housebuilder Cavanna Homes is offering just that mix at Aspects, its new development of 118 homes in Dawlish in south Devon. The new development is situated less than a mile from the sea, is set in a mature, landscapes location adjacent to woods and farmland and is ...

Work will go on during Christmas to stabilise cliffs along the railway line between Dawlish and Teignmouth. Rail bosses confirmed it will be done when trains are not running along the vulnerable stretch of the line and services will not be affected Protective fencing, installed ten years ago has buckled under the weight of mud and rocks brought down after several days of heavy rain. It is the most ...

The unique charms of a Devon seaside town are set for a New Year revamp after close to £2 million in improvements were given the final go-ahead. Dawlish is famous for its stunning coastal railway and a majestic lawn, bisected by a bubbling brook which is home to a flock of rare black swans. But for many years the Victorian resort has struggled to cope with traffic and parking, making the two ...

Composite Advantage LLC’s FiberSPAN™ fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) bridge deck was selected for Boston’s largest pedestrian and cyclist bridge project to date. Steel footbridge replaced with composite at UK railway station The railway station in the English seaside town of Dawlish has seen a corroded steel footbridge replaced with composite. This is the first composite bridge installed at a ...

A MAJOR planning application to develop up to 350 homes on green fields at Dawlish has been refused. Plans for land near Sainsbury's, south of Shutterton Lane, were refused by Teignbridge Planning Committee. After a two-and-a-half-hour debate, chairman Cllr Humphrey Clemens, said it was one of the committee's most difficult decisions in a long time. One of the main reasons for refusing permission ...

A TRANSPORT expert is calling for work to start on Westcountry rail links that were scuppered by Hitler 73 years ago. After train services to London were twice cut in the past week, Neill Mitchell is urging the Government to look again at plans for a new railway line avoiding Dawlish, which were drawn up before the Second World War. The rail line between Exeter and Newton Abbot was shut this week ...

Network Rail has announced that services to Plymouth and Cornwall resumed on Saturday after lines were reopened. This followed a landslip on the Teignmouth-Dawlish section on Thursday. Both tracks reopened at 5am today with a 20 mph speed restriction towards London and 50 mph from London. Up to 1,500 tonnes of soil, which fell onto track during the landslide, will have to be cleared by workmen and ...

A POLICE community support officer has won a prestigious award. Debbie Sleeman, who patrols in Dawlish Warren, Starcross, Kenton and Mamhead, has received the commander's commendation from Supt Jim Nye at a ceremony at South Devon College. Her focus has been based on engaging with youngsters, concentrating on speeding and parking issues and going into local schools. See more...

A fresh landslip has closed the railway line linking Plymouth and Exeter at Teignmouth. The line, which was reopened on Wednesday after weekend flooding triggered a landslip, was closed again in the evening. About 1,000 tonnes of mud lying against a fence is also threatening the line. The main line from Exeter to the rest of the country has been reopened after flooding at Tiverton but there are ...

Rail services are being disrupted again due to a fresh landslip at Dawlish / Teignmouth covering both tracks. Bus services are running from Exeter to Newton Abbot. Pdf of various routes affected

Cofton Country Holidays was awarded a silver in the Holiday Park of the Year category at Visit Devon's annual tourism awards. The competition covers parks catering for holidaymakers in their own touring caravans or tents as well as caravan holiday homes. A new indoor swimming pool complex opened earlier this year. Source: Dawlish Gazette

We have a concern for welfare for a male last seen in the Kenton & Starcross area on Tuesday 27th November at 15.00. He is described as 57 years of medium build wearing black rimmed glasses with yellow lenses. He was last seen wearing a light blue long sleeved jumper, grey track suit bottoms and black ankle working boots, black hat and blue jacket. He was carrying a navy blue bag with a zip across ...

Detectives are investigating a robbery that took place at a bookmakers in South Devon. Police say the crime took place during Sunday, when a man walked into the shop in Dawlish town centre on The Strand. Police say the robber threatened a staff member before making off with !a substantial amount" of money. He is described as being aged 30-40, 5ft 10in and wearing a black-hooded coat, dark blue ...

Update: Many trains have been cancelled from Exeter St Davids towards Tiverton Parkway and bus services are running in their place. You can check your train journey at: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/today.html

A WOMAN who smashed a wine glass into the face of a man who made unwanted advances to her in a pub has been ordered pay the victim £500 in compensation. Chelsea Reed, 19, had been drinking with friends in the Lansdowne Hotel in Dawlish when she followed Mark Bloxham down a corridor and furiously swung the glass into his face. He was left with cuts to his mouth and nose and bits of glass lodged ...

Heavy rain and soaking roads caused problems for motorists in Devon today. This morning police warned drivers of wet leaves, standing water and driving rain. It comes after numerous crashes in the region today. At 6:10am a 125cc motorcycle crashed in Dawlish. Police and an ambulance were sent to Teignmouth Road in Dawlish 100 metres past the junction with West Elliot Road. The female rider of the ...

One of the three surviving black swan cygnets has been found dead near the boating lake. The female cygnet is believed to have been killed by a dog. Anyone found guilty of not keeping their dog under control is liable to a fine of up to £5,000 and the dog can be seized. The police will be looking through CCTV footage in the area to see if anything was caught on camera. Source : Dawlish Gazette

Thousands of tonnes of sand could be moved from one east Devon town to another as part of a plan to shore up flood defences and restore a beach. Dawlish Warren had lost about 100,000 tonnes of sand over 15 years, with most of it ending up at Pole Sands, near Exmouth, the Environment Agency said. The agency and Teignbridge Council are considering dredging and bringing sand back along the River Exe ...

TEIGNMOUTH and Dawlish traders are being put on the map with a new community initiative aimed at boosting the profile of each seaside town. New town centre maps which highlight the range of shops and businesses in both places have been produced by Teignbridge Council in partnership with Dawlish Town Council, Teignmouth Town Council and traders in both resorts. The illustrative maps are aimed at ...

A Devon film-maker has almost completed her work on an ambitious new movie. Diana Townsend, a Dawlish-based producer, has been working on a paranormal thriller set in South Devon. A crew of 25 members, including her husband and brother, have been working on Deadly Intent for the past few years. Now the scary film is almost ready to be put forward for debut showings at major film festivals in the ...

FREE Sunday parking has been re-introduced in Teignmouth and Dawlish car parks for the winter - just in time for Remembrance Sunday. Both resorts have joined the successful scheme which sees all 35 of Teignbridge District Council’s car parks free of any charges on a Sunday. With numerous Remembrance Day services planned for this Sunday, the scheme will provide a timely boost to motorists ...

The Fire Service received several calls to a fire involving outbuildings at The Strand, Starcross on Saturday evening.  Fire appliances from Dawlish, Danes Castle and Teignmouth attended. Upon arrival, fire crews confirmed outbuildings well alight and started to tackle the fire using four breathing apparatus wearers and two hose reel jets. Fire crews requested a fourth fire appliance from ...

The seaside town of Dawlish, on the south coast of Devon, hosted a landmark event in the history of UK railway infrastructure during the weekend of 13th - 14th October 2012 when a replacement footbridge was installed. The coastal railway line, part of Network Rail's mainline network is noted for its particularly scenic qualities and for being one of the most exposed in the country, constantly ...

A woman has been freed from a car which got stuck in the mud during a rising tide after it ended up in a harbour. The vehicle hit a wall, flipped over, and landed on its wheels in Cockwood Harbour near Starcross, Exeter, Devon, at about 21:50 BST on Sunday. Read more...

Dawlish Ladies Hockey Club is one of Dawlish's oldest sports set ups and is in danger of closing after almost 60 years. The club is appealing for new members and meets for training sessions every Tuesday evening between 6.30pm and 7.30pm at the all weather pitch at Sandy Lane. Women and girls aged 13 and over and of any ability can take part. Source: Dawlish Gazette

BASIC HIKE: from Shaldon around The Ness to Labrador Bay, and then inland over the hill via series of unpaved lanes to Teign estuary before heading back along the waterside. RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey Explorer 31 – Torquay and Dawlish. Read more....

Prices for a half plot at Lanherne had been just £10 a year. The land is owned by Teignbridge Council who originally wrote to the holders saying the price was to go up to £100 for a half plot. After complaints Teignbridge Council have agreed to revise the increase to £50 a year for a half plot and £100 for a full plot. One allotment holder said that £50 is still too high for a small plot with no ...

THE £27million redevelopment of Langdon Hospital has reached a milestone. Health bosses and construction partners marked the topping out of the new Dewnans Centre (pictured) at the mental health unit in Dawlish. Read More....

The home of sport in Dawlish could get a top quality new all-weather pitch if Teignbridge District Council's Executive agrees the next step of a £300,000 refurbishment programme. The 20-year-old artificial pitch at Dawlish Leisure Centre, Sandy Lane, will be replaced with a modern AstroTurf Pitch (ATP) if the Executive approves a recommendation to appoint an approved contractor to carry out the ...

A brave band of seven cyclists faced the worst of the Westcountry weather as they began a 150-mile cycle ride in aid of Help the Heroes. Describing themselves as "more senior gentlemen", the group set off from their home town of Dawlish first thing in the morning. Organiser Mike Swift, whose son is a colour sergeant in the Coldstream Guards, said: "People have been very supportive and there is ...

A mother from Devon is spearheading a campaign to make a cystic fibrosis drug available on the NHS immediately. Jess Nickless, from Dawlish, whose daughter Ellie has the condition, has asked the government to make Kalydeco available to those who would benefit. Read more...

A NEW Town Development Manager for Teignmouth and Dawlish is set to boost the profiles and economic development of the popular seaside resorts. Teignbridge District Council is advertising the position which has been created to lead the way in rejuvenating and revitalising both town centres while ensuring each resort retains its own unique identity. It is the result of separate deals struck by the ...

A young marine biology enthusiast from Birmingham claims she saw a Great White off the coast of plymouth. 15 year old Chaynee Hodgetts who was on holiday to the region said she spotted the shark through her binoculars off Baggy Point, near Croyde. The cold-blooded predators are most often found in warm temperate seas, but the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth says there is a possibility that ...