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The Devon Children and Young People’s Plan brings together all the local agencies responsible for helping children, young people and their families. More than 22,000 children in Devon are living in poverty – that’s one in seven. A third of children in Barnstaple are in poverty, the plan reveals, compared to just 1.1 per cent in Dawlish. Read more... ...

The project follows Devon County Council securing a grant of £817,712 from the European Regional Development Fund. The charge points will be installed in key carparks in Devon’s largest communities. These include Exeter, Barnstaple, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Honiton, Seaton, South Molton, Ilfracombe, Totnes, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Tavistock, Okehampton, Dartmouth, Salcombe, Dawlish, Teignmouth, and ...

Dawlish library have another competition on until 31st October. The prize is 4 main courses and a bottle of wine at The Boathouse in Dawlish Warren. All you have to do is to Guess How Many Books are Normally in Dawlish Library. Entries cost 50p and can be submitted in the library.

Tucker, aged 48, of Second Avenue, Dawlish, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for two years by Judge David Evans at Exeter Crown Court. Read more... http://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=118544&headline=One-punch%20attack%20left%20victim%20with%20brain%20injury&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2019

Heavy rain means sewage and other run-off may have contaminated bathing waters Dawlish Town is on the south coast of Devon. It is a sandy beach resort, approximately 650 metres wide, close to the town and cliffs. There are five storm overflows covered by the Safer Seas Service within 650m off the beach which can operate in heavy rainfall. See more... ...

• dogs are permitted along the seashore from the slipway adjacent to the Railway Station until 230 metres before Red Rock at Dawlish Warren • dogs are not permitted along the seashore from the slipway to Coryton Cove from 1 May to 30 September • See more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/ban-over-77-devon-beaches-3362599

A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing near Dawlish seafront today. Police say the incident happened in the vicinity of the Teignmouth Inn pub, Teignmouth Hill, just after midnight (Saturday September 28). Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/man-24-seriously-injured-dawlish-3371582

How naive can these people be. What do they think there homes were built. How do they think residents who have lived here for decades feel about their over priced and poorly built homes going up on green field sites then?

Every 30 mins? Great!

A mentally ill robber who held up a string of men in the street at knifepoint has been recommended for detention in a psychiatric unit. Michael Green, for Cabanga, said he had been assessed as suitable for treatment by one psychiatrist for a Hospital Order under the Mental Health Act. He is already being held at the Langdon Unit near Dawlish. Read more... ...

I use ECHO for my repeat prescriptions and so far they have been excellent. I requested a refill on my phone on Sunday and on Tuesday they were delivered. Great service.  It saves me from having to go pick it up from the pharmacy which means one less person in the queue.

Some of our local lads in court again. Lets hope they are away for a long time this time. https://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/crown-court-daily/8/lists/2019-09-24

Perhaps someone can ask if the rumours are true that the work is so far behind it won’t even be finished by the end of March!

They are refurbishing it but mainly to reconfigure things to try and stop the thieving that goes on blatantly every night!

COSTS for the reinstatement of a railway from Tavistock to Bere Alston have ballooned to £93-million, councillors have been told. As part of the Devon Metro proposals, the re-opening of this section of line was due to provide a new, sustainable link between Tavistock and Plymouth for commuter journeys. Instead, their top priorities were to get funding for the remainder of the Dawlish to Teignmouth ...

Thanks DEEDOODLE, seems quite likely.

Eyewitnesses say the helicopter landed at the bottom of Pidgley Road at around 11.30am on Wednesday. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/air-ambulance-lands-next-houses-3332453

The full list is as follows: Barnstaple Bristol Brixham Bude Cinderford Dawlish Exeter Exmouth Falmouth Hayle Helston Ivybridge Lydney Newton Abbot Paignton Penzance Plymouth Plympton... Read more... https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/here-south-west-locations-could-3329803

Worldwide, more than 200 million people and counting live along coastlines that are less than five metres above sea level. In 2014, the global sea level was 66 millimetres above the 1993 average, and continues to rise at a rate of about 3mm a year, driven not only by the melting ice caps, but because water expands as it warms. But the old notion of building ever stronger defences is not the ...

Tomorrow, 18 September, the community information hub near Colonnade underpass will be open from 11am-2pm to help keep residents, visitors and members of the general public informed about works at Dawlish. Do drop in if you have a question.

Derrick May, 60, was on Monday (September 16) brought to Truro Crown Court from Langdon Mental Hospital in Dawlish where he was flanked in the dock by a number of medical staff who had travelled with him. Read more... https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-surrounded-court-dock-admits-3325521

The EU membership will have to come up with something, because we are going to come out deal or no deal, and however others try and argue to keep us in, that will not happen.

Every year these @#£%S have their raves over a weekend solid....I just get a supply of wax ear plugs and when the booming start I stick them in, sleep like a baby.

Cash reward offered by heartbroken owner of stolen puppy in Devon https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/cash-reward-offered-heartbroken-owner-3319723

Police have been called to Starcross Train Station this evening following reports of an incident on the railway track. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/police-called-incident-train-track-3318657

A shocking report also stated there were safeguarding failures, dog poo left in the garden and a "mass walkout" by staff In May this year Gatehouse Farm Childcare in Dawlish was deemed "inadequate" by Ofsted inspectors who found holes in children protection procedures, inadequate recruitment practices and that children were not making enough progress. Read more... ...

Bet sbhe won't do it again.

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union? with the responses to the question to be (to be marked with a single (X)): Remain a member of the European Union Leave the European Union Answer = LEAVE Three years ago. As you can clearly see there is nothing about a treaty (referred to as deal) in the question, so we should be out. However we've had Soft ...

12) Dawlish (Below dates may not be correct and will be updated soon) With the lights switch on taking place November 30 and the Christmas Market on December 1 and 2, Dawlish will be feeling wonderfully festive in 2018. See more... https://www.devonlife.co.uk/home/christmas/christmas-markets-in-devon-1-5212698

@scapegoat Are you Tom Watson in disguise ?

Incident on board train between Exeter St Davids and Newton Abbot halts services Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/security-alert-halts-trains-between-3305113

Work resumes on Monday on the £30m scheme that will see a new sea wall built at Dawlish. The plans will raise the wall from its current height of 5m to 7.5m, widen the walkway to 4m from its current 3.1m width, and include a barrier between the pedestrians and the edge of the to stop people falling off the wall. Read more ...

Good riddance, Boris was wrong to include her in his cabinet, she's a Remainiac through and through.

Didn't hear anything this morning.

(Last Updated On: September 5, 2019) Network Rail is set to restart work on a new bigger sea wall at Dawlish on 9th September which will provide greater protection to the railway and town from rising sea levels and extreme weather for generations to come. Read more... http://wearesouthdevon.com/work-set-to-restart-on-new-sea-wall-at-dawlish/

Today we’re at the Manor House in Dawlish to provide residents details on the next stage of works on the new sea wall along Marine Parade, Dawlish. We’ll be here from 3pm until 6pm if you have any questions or feedback.

Katie Worsley, 30, who has lived in Dawlish for the past year said in the space of two days her two sons, Harry, six and Ronnie, 11, made their lucky discovery. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-mums-shock-after-sons-3278254

Guy Hamer, 18, from Dawlish, barely knows Craig Dennis, 25, who was lucky to be alive after a horrible accident in North Tawton left him paralysed in June. Guy Hamer will set off on his journey from Penzance tomorrow (Monday, September 2) and aims to do the 253 mile journey across two counties in ten days, finishing at North Tawton RFC, Craig Dennis' 'spiritual home' on Wednesday, September 11, ...

@Calamari ------sorry. misreadit

Very rude people and incorrect statements will never get anyone any where other than dismissed . MH.