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A former firefighter who tried to set light to his home while suffering from the male equivalent of post-natal depression has been allowed to resume a normal life after completing almost two years of counselling. Jason Jerome was under stress from the change from being a fireman to a house husband when he sprayed lighter fluid around his home in Dawlish and tried to set light to himself. Read ...

As the number of businesses especially retail is falling in and around the town centre, what about the businesses on the Warren and the Industrial estate. Guess we wont count once again.

The Land Society - Dawlish meeting - the next public meeting at Dawlish is tomorrow, Wednesday 20th at the Methodist Chuch Hall at 7.30pm. If you are interested in joining a self-build group in Dawlish, then come along and hear how it works. "What will it cost?" I hear you say. You could end up owning a 3 bedroom detached house for £5,000 deposit and around £600 per month! Bring your friends, ...

If only we had a phone line

Hundreds of people descended on a sunny town to celebrate Valentine's Day on a brand new scale. Around 500 people flocked to Love Dawlish in the town centre. The event on Saturday was all about love and included performances, workshops and activities including a Passionometer to test the strength of love and an Imaginarium to hear love stories and songs. A cabaret night of music and comedy took ...

This is now becoming stupid. Was up there yesterday and speaking to the agent from Cavanna. Apparently the need for all these houses is so great they have managed to sell, wait for it - Three. Someones having a laugh here and its obvious that public money is just being wasted on these projects. Whats the point in building houses that nobody wants or can afford, when there are no jobs and no ...

Probably a local councillor that bought it,  through the back door of course

@Fred Main reason from my experience is to employ a paid manager because volunteers are overall less reliable or don't like to do certain aspects of the job - like the adding up, training, covering illness in other shops, banking, buying supplies, ensuring H&S legislation is obeyed (COSSH) etc.  Great volunteers certainly exist, but the ones that can run a shop and do all the other little jobs day ...

http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/housing_benefit_and_local_housing_allowance/housing benefit_changes_2013 and the info in this leaflet produced by Leeds City Council may also be of use (can't find anything similar produced by TDC). http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/Welfare%20Reform%20Booklet.pdf

Nothing wrong with the system as is drivers get a chjance to stretch their legs and have a walk into town.

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Saw this ad on the back of this week's Dawlish Post. ECT (Educational and Cultural Travel) are looking for host families in 2013 for overseas students in the following areas: Newton Abbot, Bovey Tracey, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Shaldon, Bishopsteignton and all the other towns and villages in surrounding areas. Phone Barbara 01626 871372 info@ectdevon.co.uk (the same organisation is also looking for ...

Yes i understand but hes pratically dying and people still slag him off! I understand it isnt right what he did! But like i said dont write it all over the internet! Trying too say hes making up his illness!!!! How dare they. Imagine if this was all your family youd feel the same!!!

We have been told the chip shop in Newton abbot is the best around (eat in as well) so we went over yesterday for lunch 9 of us arrived at 2.03pm only to find it had shut, all the staff were inside, they didn't want our business. Maybe we should have stayed here and walked down the warren. We will try the new one next week.

Sorry too see you go chef,and thanks for the video you filmed about old rusty. It was very well filmed.Best of luck for the future chef.

Nah - BNP mate

Almost everybody.

You busy? Your postings have been noticeable by their absence.

i think that sainsburys have done a great job for dawlish overall...the way it mingles into the green backdrop and scenery is perfect...you can see a lot of thought went into design and you would think it had been there years...the price match offer is excellent..and soon adds up as do nectar card points...but everyone must remember to use the town shops still...for both convinience...a friendly ...

More than £35m is to be spent on flood defence schemes in Devon. New £23m flood defences in Exeter would protect more than 2,000 homes and businesses, the government said. A further £8.6m is to be spent on a beach management scheme for Dawlish Warren and Exmouth in a bid to reduce the flood risk to 2880 properties, plus protect the main national rail line. Nearly £3.75m would also be spent on a ...

Outreach Service helps residents in Dawlish and surrounding areas apply for benefits,the service is likely to close at the end of March due to funding crisis. To keep the service going a minimum of £25,000 is needed.The service has helped more than 1,900 claim benefits in the last five years, with 30 people supported by benefits specialists at hearings. The services unaffected by the funding ...

New flood defence money has been announced. Cowley Bridge Junction there is no extra money  but the Enviroment Agency and Network Rail are continuing to work together on that one.Dawlish Warren has been given £8.2million for new flood defences,to protect Railway Line and Houses.

Thanks, but i don't think i could get a difinitive answer as it's very complicated. As it pertains to UK and US pensions.

It's actually for a friend of mine, I think she wants to do gifts / childrens clothing

Missed this episode, I have to admit I have enjoyed his travels through devon and was looking forward to this one.  Will catch up with it on iPlayer hopefully.   the closing credits for this series include footage of the steam train at the warren and past the coastguard cottages.

The US National Climate Data Centre is obviously feeling threatened by groundhog Phil because it has apparently published a formal rebuttal saying that groundhog forecasts have not been as accurate as claimed!!  What they haven't done is compare Phil's six week forecast with their own.

Andy, I struggled to find it too, you're not being thick!  Hover over the bottom of the message of the person you want to contact, where agree/report is and there is a message option too.

7.30pm - 11.30pm Raffle, bar, hot food Tickets £8.50 email dawlishtransition@gmail.com http://dawlishtransition.blogspot.co.uk/p/aims.html

@ Webmaster. Well done in adding private messaging and on the updates. It took a few attempts to get it going again for me, even pressing Ctrl + f5. Had to do it a few times.

Hi flo there is a park planned opposite Gate house school though it's part of a planning condition so when the houses are built the park will be built.

I would be Interested in hearing more !

Just out of interest did the site manager say who he was working for, only it dosent look like the transformer had anything to do with building industrial units but was an replacement/upgrade unit for Shutterton Ind Estate installed by Western Power.

regarding the spend spend spend comments on here, you are correct, if in hard times you pull back and stop spending the economy reduces, I believe we should continue to spend though on things such as research and development also supporting export businesses and new inventions, new technologies. On a personal level I believe in hard times like these I think people should really think about how ...

personally I would pay the bill but still question your charges. If you rainwater recycle then your sewage rate is reduced, if you reduce your water usage by flushing loo with rainwater your sewage will go down again. A toilet uses 7- 9 litres per flush average home 200 litres a day from toilet use @ £1.95 per cube = £3.90 a day water plus £2.35 sewage Rainwater electric use £3.12 per month water ...

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I just want to publicly say a BIG THANK YOU and WELL DONE to the entertainments committee of Dawlish RBL for their magnificent production Panto of Sinbad the Sailor, last night, Saturday 26th. £5 extremely well spent. Looking forward to your summer show.

Yes, very good Don.

What a very odd comparison to make; Dawlish, Totnes and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.  Is there some relevance, I'm presuming you once lived in Tower Hamlets.

This topic has gone strangely quiet

No matter how much he was off his t*ts on drugs, there is no way he would have ever won the Pram Race !