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It will be free to park on Sundays in TDC car parks at Teignmouth, Dawlish, Shaldon and Dawlish Warren from 5th November until Easter.

A 70-year-old woman was left terrified after a fire started at her home this morning. The woman had to be treated by medics after the incident in South Devon just after 6am. Three crews from Dawlish, Middlemoor and Teignmouth were mobilised following the call from the distressed woman. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/70-year-old-woman-terrifed-721876

Aleasha Scibilia was desperate for drugs or money to buy them and ransacked the other woman's room before stealing morphine, methadone, an iPad, money and jewellery. Scibilia also went shoplifting in Dawlish and Teignmouth on four occasions to get items which she could sell to raise cash to feed her heroin habit. Read more... ...

I want to know what comes after the Fu** you.... It's like a pregnant pause lol

A proposal to merge two special schools in Dawlish into a single residential special school is being consulted on. Plans are being proposed to merge the schools to create one special school which could accommodate 190 children with 35 weekly residential places. The aim is to provide better opportunities for pupils with special educational needs and increase the number of places for vulnerable ...

Is it any wonder people are disillusioned with our corrupt system.  The voter turnout figures speak for themselves.  Local elections barely scrape above 30%, and general elections are now less than 70%.  Coincidentally, the biggest drops in turnout have occurred since Blair won his first term in office; he fuelled this disillusionment.

A father has told of his anger and disgust at learning that his 14-year-old daughter had been allegedly sexually abused by men in a seaside flat when he thought she was sleeping at a friend's house. His daughter lied about having a sleepover with a schoolfriend and instead the two girls went to stay with the older sister of another 14-year-old in Dawlish. Read more... ...

Tip.  If you need to phone the police tell them that kids are playing football in the street -guranteed to get a squad car down asap......

Does anyone on here know if there have been any collisions on that short stretch since the road was modified?

Well i believe i am due a 3% pay rise next year on the state pension and if my memory serves me correctly my two other pensions will also increase by 3% what a joy to be retired.

Bump

This is what would happen to the new proposed play park.

A mental health patient has denied threatening staff at a hostel in Exeter with an air pistol but admitted having a knife with him during the same incident. Armour appeared by video link from Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, where he is being treated after being transferred from Exeter Prison because of his mental condition. Read more... ...

The body of a man whose last words were about the size of the waves hitting the Devon beach he was walking on has been found. The 67-year-old Paignton man spoke on the phone about the size of the waves hitting the sea wall at Dawlish and drowned moments later, an inquest has heard. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/body-found-beach-mans-last-684809

It is all a pointless game, we have forgotten how to look after our countryside and will allow a house or two....hundred anywhere.

A railway-themed holiday park could soon be open all year round as a holiday destination. The Brunel Camping Carriages site in Dawlish Warren, which features eight chalets in converted rail carriages, was sold at auction for £261,000 last year. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/property/iconic-dawlish-warren-railway-carriages-669415

Just had a reply back from Torbay Borough Council and they are deeper in pooh than DCC. The cost to the council and ultimately to the tax payer will be in excess of £200,000. And people vote in those that are supposed to be looking after our affairs. Yeah- alright then. So are councillors fit for purpose and more importantly the officers that they employ to carry out the functions they are given?

As a result of a weather warning that has been issued for the sea wall at Dawlish tonight, CrossCountry's 'Voyager' trains are unable to run between Newton Abbot and Exeter St Davids between 7.15pm and 11pm. Trains through Dawlish cancelled due to Storm Brian See more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/trains-through-dawlish-cancelled-due-656145

A patient who used butane gas to try to blow up a former NHS clinic is to be detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. He was ordered to remain under the care of doctors at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish after a judge at Exeter Crown Court ruled he posed a potential danger to the public. Read more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/patient-detained-indefinitely-after-tried-651977

The warning says: “High water at Exmouth is at 7:45pm, times of high water will vary along the coast. Strong force 6 to 7 south westerly winds and offshore wave heights of up to 2m are forecast to cause wave overtopping of sea defences and sea spray in exposed coastal locations at Torbay, Dawlish, and Teignmouth. Read more... ...

Have been told that the powers that be are aware that more dog poo bins are needed and that getting more of them installed at the park is underway.

Low pay/not having enough money to pay bills etc is indeed a subject to be taken seriously.* But bear with me if now I sound frivolous on the subject. So........... all these low income families in Dawlish are going to spend their spare income (what spare income?!!!?? ) in the shops in the centre of town when they come into town in order to take their under 8 year olds to the proposed playpark. ...

Phew.!!!!..................I thought it said refugees at first...

Who is the main Doctor at the Barton Surgery ?.

Some info here re the closure of Daw Vale care home and the provision (or lack of) of elderly residential care in Dawlish. https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/34205 http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2014-11-03/in-full-the-20-devon-care-homes-facing-closure/

Perhaps someone could write to network rail on a personal level, and ask NR why they do not like the idea of putting seating along the sea wall at various locations.

It was certainly imaginative.

I totally agree with 1263. I only half agree with majorp.

Low life like that deserve more than that.

Continues here - https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/45809

What is it with the need for everyone to be swearing all over this site @webmaster - I really think the beach needs to be concentrated on and I'm sure somehow more could be made of the railway attraction it brings.

I thought it was still open. When did it close? Ah! Just remembered - I think it is now called the Funky Frog or something similar. Click here for more info http://www.funkyfrogsplaypad.co.uk/ (Does T'mouth have anything along the same lines? )

I don't know, but it may have something to do with LA's cutting costs and therefore cutting out some of the services provided by the community service buses. Awhile ago DCC cut the services of some rural buses and I belive there is more to come. This committee may be tasked with providing a soloution to any further potential cuts and deciding whether it is value for money to keep all or allow some ...

I think that most people who are agaisnt the playpark, myself included in those agaisnt, are not wholeheartdely agaisnt having one, they are more agaisnt where it is proposed to go, the down effect it will have and the accuracy of the information we have all been provided with in the first place. It will no way near be a match to that of Teignmouth. I don't believe that the number of those Dawlish ...

A masked robber has been found guilty of taking part in an ammonia attack on a shopkeeper who was almost blinded as his takings were snatched. Ward sprayed undiluted ammonia into his face while Rowntree grabbed a bag which contained the takings from the Costcutter shop during the attack on The Strand in Dawlish on January 20 this year. Full article here

Interesting.

Well he certainly got the point.

As most of the parents will have cars, I honestly cant see many of them using the town. My money is on most of them using Sainsburys and/or Exeter. There has been a dramatic increase in new housing but has there been additional parking (in town) to help with this influx? No.

A driver who took two men from Dawlish to Torquay after the robbery has told the jury that he had no idea they had just committed a crime. Ross Morton said he had been rung up in mid afternoon and taken the men shopping as an unpaid favour, picking up his girlfriend and her child at Teignmouth on the way. Read more... ...