Dawlish News
Flooding could change the coastline forever by 2050 Key flood defence schemes include a completed £32million scheme alongside the River Exe at Exeter, and plans for a flood wall along the seafront at Paignton and Preston on the south Devon coast. The effect of storms has already been widely seen, including a major breach of the railway line at Dawlish in 2014, and the main A379 road partly ...
A walker and his elderly dog were rescued after the pet became trapped in dense undergrowth near Mamhead Obelisk. As darkness fell one of the men went looking for the dog. An hour later neither the man nor the dog had returned and the remaining concerned dog walker called 999. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/missing-dog-walker-sparks-major-6158256
Emergency services are currently on the tracks near Dawlish All train lines between Exeter St. Davids and Newton Abbot are currently closed as emergency services are dealing with an 'incident' on the track. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/live-train-powderham-police-incident-6150924
Sewage has been emptied into the water at over a dozen popular swimming spots along the Devon coastline. Dawlish Coryton Cove Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours. A sewer overflow discharges over the rocks at the southern end of the beach. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/not-swim-14-devon-beaches-6096682
A road in Dawlish is closed due to a two vehicle crash. The incident happened on Teignmouth Road where one of the vehicles overturned as a result. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-dawlish-crash-police-updates-6095501
It is the only purely early intervention service in Devon so pupils travel from all over the county to attend While some may refer to it as the 'naughty school', staff prefer to describe it as a 'half-way house' for secondary school students who, for a range of reasons, are struggling in mainstream school and are at risk of being excluded with rates increasing in Devon Read more... ...
The signal engineer started digging at his Dawlish home in 2002 Engineer Allan Pyne, 56, has spent his life working on the railways - and for the last two decades he has also spent his time off digging with pick axe and shovel to create the narrow gauge, funicular railway, which pulls up to seven tonnes on a flatbed mineworking truck up and down the 1:4 incline beside his house. It uses a ...
"Out of all of Devon's larger towns and cities, Torquay is the most dangerous," CrimeRate summarised. "The next most dangerous is Plymouth, and Exeter comes in as third most dangerous. The Crime Rate where you live out of Devon's Population Centres Dawlish 636 42 23% safer See more... ...
Environmental charity Surfers' Against Sewage has issued alerts around the county Dawlish Coryton Cove Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours. A sewer overflow discharges over the rocks at the southern end of the beach. See more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/not-swim-warnings-issued-13-6027406
Paige Kimberley said the group had messages containing vile images and sexist attitudes towards women Now former Detective Superintendent Paige Kimberley, from Dawlish, is set to be compensated after a tribunal ruled that she did tell her civilian former line manager Tatiana Southon about the images and a day after doing so, a job offer was withdrawn from her. Read more... ...