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A DEVON pig farmer is lobbying his MP for clearer labelling on pork packaging, in line with a TV programme aiming to raise awareness of how pigs are reared. Keith Partridge, who runs Duckaller Farm, an organic free-range pig farm at Dawlish, with his wife, Roz, decided to raise the issue with Teignbridge MP, Richard Younger-Ross, when he heard of the programme, presented by celebrity chef Jamie ...

DEVON and Cornwall are to miss out on Government plans being considered to run electric trains between London and the West of England – a move that could have made journeys quicker, cheaper and more reliable. Marking a shift in Government policy, Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon has expressed his enthusiasm for electrifying the Great Western main line, and intends to make a decision on whether or ...

Tests revealed a high presence of bacteria in water flowing from a waterfowl compound in Dawlish into the sea. A single member of the public complained that the town council did not have a proper disposal system to deal with water flowing from the pond in the waterfowl enclosure. But the resort could also now be deprived of its 14 black swans, which are kept on a brook adjacent to the pond, after ...

The stores in Exeter's Guildhall Shopping Centre and Dawlish will close on Friday and the Exmouth store will be among the final batch to close on Monday. The closures mark the end of an era for British retailing, with Woolworths having been trading on the High Street for 99 years. Some 27,000 employees nationwide are facing unemployment as the 807 stores are closed.

A DAWLISH vicar is to have four months away from his church after falling out with his choir and congregation. The Rev Jerry Bird is to leave his flock at the St Gregory the Great Church for four months to have 'time to seek God'. His departure comes after his entire 18-strong choir quit last year, leaving no one to sing any carols. Parishioners claim resentment against the vicar, who has been in ...

OK you're probably correct, but that doesn't help me much. Myself and a few mates are hoping to go out for a few drinks one weekend and I'd like to know the most popular evening to do so.

SKATERS in Dawlish are celebrating after their long-awaited skate park was officially opened. Teenagers with a talent for boarding descended on the new facility when the ribbon was cut by town mayor Wally Protheroe. Dawlish Action for Youth, the charity behind the project, has said the opening was a huge milestone in what has been a long journey. The campaign for a skate park in Dawlish has been ...

February 7, 1855 was a cold night in Devon, England, cold enough for a heavy snowfall that kept many would-be travelers inside-- all except one, according to some reports. And that one may have been the Devil himself. Our story begins on the morning of February 8th, when the citizens of Devon awoke to find a set of strange tracks lying on the ground. The prints were u-shaped, as if made by a ...

FAMILY and friends filled Cornwood church yesterday to say a tearful goodbye to a "cheeky and loveable" young man who touched many lives. Ian Keenan, from Seaton Orchard in Sparkwell, and known to all as 'Smithy', was just 17 when he died in Derriford Hospital on September 22, four days after his motorbike collided with a tractor. Bob Fernival, one of Ian's teachers from Ratcliffe Special School ...

A JUDGE has ordered a top level investigation into why the case of an arsonist who was later caught with a knife and made serious sex threats against women was given a lenient sentence by magistrates. At Exeter Crown Court Judge Stephen Wildblood QC heard that Devon fire raiser Martin Cooper had been roaming the streets despite the fact that he could pose a serious danger to the public and was ...

THE final phase of a scheme to prevent another devastating flood at a Dawlish Warren residential park has been given the go-ahead. Eight years ago, about 100 people had to be rescued by RAF helicopters and coastguards using inflatables, from Hazeldown Park, now Beechwood Residential Park, after the Shutterton Brook burst its banks. The water rose up to six feet and it was a major emergency with ...

THREE people were taken to hospital yesterday after being involved in a head-on collision at Kenton. The driver and passenger in a Toyota MR2 and the driver of a BMW suffered suspected broken bones in the incident on the A379. Ambulance staff treated the people at the scene just after 4.30pm, before they were taken to Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Their injuries were not thought to be ...

ATROCITIES of the Second World War were brought vividly to life for a group of South Devon veterans and their families during an emotional trip to Normandy this week. The Normandy Veterans' Association is on the French coast to mark 64 years since D-Day, and their visit to the Caen Memorial Museum turned out to be too much for some. While many of the veterans, proudly wearing medals on their ...

SEASIDE areas across the Westcountry will have to abandoned within two or three generations because the cost of protecting them from coastal erosion is too high, the new chief of the Environment Agency has warned. The sea will reclaim vast stretches of the UK's coastline, with some vulnerable sections of the coast in this region evacuated and left to the mercy of the sea, according to Lord Smith ...

Visitors to seaside resorts have been put on alert after potentially-deadly Portuguese Man o' War jellyfish were washed up on Devon beaches. The creatures were found on beaches at Smuggler's Cove, Dawlish, and Salcombe Regis, near Sidmouth. Marine experts have warned beach lovers not to pick up the jellyfish, which can inflict severe stings from their lengthy tentacles. A seven-year-old boy was ...

ESCAPED psychiatric patient Martin Cooper was found to be carrying a knife and a single stocking in his pocket when he turned up at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital and refused to leave, Exeter Crown Court heard. Cooper's friend, a fellow patient from Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, was carrying rope when they were searched by police who were called to the RD&E Hospital by worried staff. Cooper, 34, ...

A main rail line was under threat after a section of a historic sea wall in Devon was torn out by storm waves, while some parts of the country had four fifths of an average month’s rainfall in one day. Train services on the Paddington to Penzance route were affected after part of the seawall, built between Teignmouth and Dawlish by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 years ago, was torn out. The rain led ...

Two policemen were hurt as they arrested a man after a disturbance at a pub in Dawlish over the weekend.One of the officers needed hospital treatment for facial injuries after the incident in Brunswick Place after 2pm on Saturday. His colleague received bruising to his back, arms and legs in the fracas. A 23-year-old man was eventually subdued by officers who were helped by members of the public. ...

The Red Arrows are to headline the 40th Dawlish Carnival later this summer. The aerobatic pilots will be joined at the event on August 14 by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, with a Lancaster Bomber making an appearance, and the ground-shaking RAF Typhoon fighter.

A frightened pensioner had an anxious start to Father's Day after witnessing thieves stealing money from a car park ticket machine. Anne James was up at 3am yesterday to make a special Father's Day meal when she saw thieves breaking into the machines in Dawlish Warren.But after realising what was going on Mrs James's first anxious thought was to turn off the lights to make sure the criminals could ...

An icon of the British coast is making a return to a Devon seaside town after a 20-year absence. Fifteen beach huts have been officially unveiled by Teignbridge Council on the promenade at Dawlish Warren. Eleven are being offered on three-year leases, with three for weekly or daily hire. One hut will be used for storage. It is hoped that the locally-built brightly coloured huts, with views over ...

I think it was Ace Cleaners and Wessex Products.

Tesco has identified a site for a new supermarket in Dawlish after an earlier plan was withdrawn because of local protests. The retailer revealed it had secured land at the Lady's Mile Holiday Park, days after dropping a plan to build a store on a playing field at Sandy Lane, following strong opposition from residents in the South Devon coastal town. A Tesco spokesman said: "We know the majority ...

The recent deluge of weather has caused The Brook to burst it banks whilst flood-hit communities in other towns braced themselves for a possible second bout of flash-flooding after more severe weather forecasts. A clean-up operation was under way in Somerset and Devon following the previous night's torrential downpour. Firefighters evacuated homes in the worst-hit areas and hundreds of people woke ...

Desperately needed access for emergency vehicles to a tourist mecca is finally to be improved after years of campaigning. Vehicles which need to reach Dawlish Warren in a hurry will now be able to use a workmen's railway crossing after a breakthrough in negotiations between local campaigners and Network Rail. Tall vehicles, such as fire engines, currently cannot reach the Warren because the ...

People in the south west are more likely to live into their mid 70s than those living elsewhere in England and Wales, official data shows. The Office for National Statistics compared the current likelihood of living to 75 with the early 1980s. It found survival chances increased from 47% to 66% for men and 66% to 77% for women in England and Wales. Survival was generally higher in the south, but ...

Bt is looking to pull the plug on 51 telephone boxes across Teignbridge.District council leader Alan Connett has expressed his concerns about the service being reduced. But BT have revealed four public phone boxes in the area have not taken a single penny in more than a year. And another 12 are only averaging one call a month, as calls have plummeted in the last two-years. BT spokesman Jason Mann ...

Does anyone know if Dawlish is having a Christmas market again this year? And where will the Christmas lights go now that the trees are being cut down?

Now that it is railway line smashing season at Dawlish, my mind wonders back to speculation about a railway line from Exeter to Newton Abbot and thus avoiding the coast and the associated damage. Does anyone have any more information on this interesting rumour.

A planning application for a new supermarket, petrol filling station and access roads has been lodged with Teignbridge District Council by supermarket firm Sainsbury. The development is proposed for land on the eastern side of Dawlish at Shutterton Bridge.Dawlish Town Council will be holding a special planning meeting at The Manor House, Old Town Street, Dawlish, on Thursday, May 1, starting at ...

As far as we know dogs are allowed on all Dawlish beaches during the summer seasons if they are on a lead. From Town Beach (The Viaduct) dogs are allowed off the lead to Red Rock apart from the last 500 meters. From Town Beach towards Shell Cove (right turn) dogs are not allowed. At the end of the Warren, which faces Exmouth, there are no restrictions in place, but this is a few miles from what we ...

Stretches of the Devon coast are at severe risk of flooding as persistent rain and gale-force winds were forecast to batter the county today. People are being warned to stay away from the coastline as heavy rain is expected to continue throughout much of today, while gale-force winds are predicted to cause some damage to property. Richard Horrocks, Regional Flood Risk Manager for the Environment ...

Dawlish is (I mean was) a lovely place. Viewing old pictures, films of Dawlish always shows how nice the town used to look. The black swans, the brook and the manor gardens were not discovered they were created with a lot of effort by people many years ago. It is with this earlier effort that Dawlish gained its reputation as a tourist destination. Today Dawlish only has a few dirty and ...

More than 200 people attended a public meeting in Dawlish to debate whether the town needs a new supermarket.The meeting was called following proposals by Tesco for a supermarket at Sandy Lane and Sainsbury's interest in the Shutterton Estate. Alan Connett, leader of the district council, said: "I was delighted to see so many people at the meeting who are concerned about achieving the best for ...

An elderly Dawlish antiques dealer who acted as "a fence" for stolen jewellery was caught on a covert video selling items to an undercover policeman.Kenneth Paterson, 70, was twice recorded selling jewellery to an undercover officer known only as John, said Malcolm Galloway, prosecuting at Exeter Crown Court. Police caught Galloway as part of Operation Moonstone which had centred on the activities ...

A carer who attacked a fellow pub-goer in the street, causing a broken bone in his ear, has been convicted.At Exeter Crown Court 40-year-old Paul Drane, of Park Road, Dawlish, was found guilty after a two day trial of causing grievous bodily harm to Mark Symonds in October 2006. Sentence on Drane, who had denied the charge, was adjourned for the preparation of a pre-sentence report and he was ...

Devon thrashed Dorset 9-1 in their latest South & West Counties Championship Group B game at Budleigh Salterton.Plymouth Argyle's Sam Blake scored five of the goals. After a couple of early scares, Devon were 3-0 up inside 15 minutes, with all the goals coming from Ellis Glanfield's corners. Carmen Thornton headed home the first, Blake got the second and Cullompton Rangers' Jess Hooper side footed ...

A wave of Lottery cheer is washing over South Devon with £160,000 going to two good causes by popular vote. The Dawlish Action for Youth Skate Park and Torbay Disabled Sailing Association have each been awarded £80,000 in TV voting for the People's Millions.The Dawlish skate project for a street-styled skate park was pitted against a sporting scheme for youngsters in Bude. Designed by Dawlish ...

Devon youngsters have taken part in one of the UK's biggest online competitions.Pupils from the Isca College of Media Arts and St Peter's School in Exeter, and the Cullompton and Dawlish community colleges, were among the 600 teams from the South West to compete in the Make Your Mark Challenge, in which students create and market a company similar to Comic Relief and Fair Trade. Cullompton were ...

A woman who ran a Dawlish play scheme for children with special needs has called for local councillors to provide more help for families with disabled children.Margaret Noel, from the Happy Holidays play scheme, said she was forced to close her venture after 14 years because a lack of sufficient funding. She said: "There is a desperate need for safe environments for the children and teenagers to ...