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The potholes have all been patched on Warren Road and Mount Pleasant Road.

The council-owned Park Road building will end up costing electors £250,000 despite it lying unused for the last 12 months. Furious residents say they want an opology and have designed a placard bearing the image of a white elephant and handed it over to the council's finance and general purposes committe. The council bought the premises at 34 Park Road, Dawlish in February 2010 at the price of ...

Suggest you tell that to Julian Crow Operations Manager, South West First Great Western, Milford House, 1, Milford Street Swindon SN1 1HL email - julian.crow@firstgroup.com and then let us know his response.

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Council-given-shame-163-250-000-building/article-3217648-detail/article.html

I think it would work in cummunity type places ..not sure about Dawlish!

Still write to Chris Shaw he is in charge of this area, the Dawlish Office is mainly for PCSOs

Anyone else seen it? Can hardly be missed. Three words succinctly expressing the author's/artist's feelings towards the government.

A couple who bought the property 18 months ago for £1.7million are facing life on the edge after their garden crashed into the sea. The house in Dawlish, Devon was built by Nick Skilton, managering directon of Wessex Products. He was granted planning permission in 2005 for a four bedroom house with a glass sprial staircase and indoor pool despite its apparently percarious postion. In 2007 it ...

@DawlishBlue . Already have done it. As mentioned up top. Thank you.

Concerned you are correct and my apologies

It could be sooner, Lynne that is true, but I think the government has not yet p*ssed off enough people for an uprising like we see in Egypt. They have of course already p*ssed off most people under the age of 25 (tuition fees trebled, no hope of ever buying a house, etc.). The reason I say a year is because many of the government funded agencies are being phased out by March 2012. There will be ...

Good idea Lynne, will do.

Lol. I never miss an open goal! :-)

Wonder if anyone can help with the search for Bert Davies ? He worked at Coleshill House during World War 2. This is where the secret army of Auxiliary Units were trained. Antbody know of him?

I don't think that the cost of parking in Dawlish helps. I realise that you can park in the Co-op for free, but anyone wanting to wander around the town looking at shops or having a coffee has to pay high parking charges. We go to France regularly every year and very rarely do we find a town that charges for parking. Consequently the towns are flourishing with people spending time there without ...

Today I noticed that a bench had gone missing in Manor Park by the side of Hedley Centre, it looked like had just been ripped out, it way there yesterday. Anybody know what happened to it?

As I'm picking up very strongly that we may well have Independent candidates for whom to vote on our town council ballot papers in May I wondered if we might be having the same choice in terms of our district council candidates. Dawlish returns 5 councillors to Teignbridge District Council and all 5 seats will also be up for grabs at the May election. Presently all 5 councillors are Conservative ...

PJD I agree. I'm happy with what I know and its easy here! ..just click at the top what you want and bingo its there! ..how is easy that! All this fuss about access via i phone and mobiles..Im sure one day people will look back at the early 2000s generation when people walked everywhere with a phone stuck to their head and adults playing facebooik games on a phone! (at a price) duh!

Attention all garden lovers. The DGS has Toby Buckland and Chris Beardshaw featured in this year's events calendar. See www.dawlishgardensociety.org.uk for details.

Thanks Lynn for finding that... have to ....nobody has anything to say when any 'positive' news is posted!

I think there are 2 schools of thought here. I am all for letting the banks fail, accepting the job losses, repossessions, etc. picking up the pieces, learning by the mistakes and building a better system. In fact, I could not care less if it 'costs' more which I'm sure it would not. It may be 'embarrassing' for some people who overstretched and now are unable to keep up with the Joneses but who ...

People who drive ..cant walk anywhere, he could get a taxi back lol!

Whatever these politicians come out with, they always seem to manage to put their foot in it. I seem to remember that they pay thousands of pounds to advisors and consultants and still they can't get it right.

Network Rail has invested more than £8.5m over the last 10 years to protect the railway line along the Dawlish and Teignmouth coast line. Climate change experts have warned that sea levels could rise making the line more difficult to protect. An alternative line would cost about £100m and would pass through Okehampton, Tavistock and Plymouth. Anne Marie Morris conserative MP for Newton Abbot said ...

@Lynne - sainsbury's of course, but they are all the same really. interesting comment about local economy you mean with have one or how we wont have one in the future ha ha ha

As I've mentioned the government's Localism Bill on other threads recently thought I'd just bring to your attention that our MP, Anne-Marie Morris, has also written about it in this week's Dawlish Gazette. (see page 8 "Power To The People".) Also at tomorrow's (Friday 28th) open day at the Manor House officers from Teignbridge Council will be available to talk about it. Manor House open 11am-8pm.

News release update by Devon and Cornwall Police. Police have arrested a 24 and 26 year-old-man in connection with the ongoing Teignmouth murder inquiry. They were taken into custody in Exmouth this afternoon on suspicing of murder.

Thankyou. (and yes, the irony of my being bullied on this thread had not gone unnoticed by me either).

I'm glad you can see that my post was in jest (hence the smiley face). I've no idea who you are, so unfortunately I can't call in to wherever you are. I'm glad you don't drive a Frontera though! That might, just might, have swing my vote elsewhere! ;-)

Bet they use their DAWLISH shop to sell cheap booze. Just what the local wineos need, not far to walk to the happy huts, At least its another shop occupied in Town unlike many others

Some of you may have seen on the tv last week a news article concerning the devastating impact that will occur to support services in Devon concerning domestic violence should funding be removed because of Devon County Council's budget cutbacks. If you would like more info about this matter here is the website address www.domesticviolenceandabuseservice.org.uk

pefect example of the mentality in dawlish that drive tourists away!!!!!

11am..Live departures from Dawlish all looks ok now >>> http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/en/s/ldbboard/dep/DWL

Spending cuts of £54 million by Devon County Council will affect every home in the country. Dawlish recycling centre will close in March as part of the £2.1 million cut on waste disposal. The nearest recycling centre will be Exeter or Newton Abbot which will be introducing new charges to recycle. It is also feared the conservative plan to cut youth work may have an effect on the new Red Rock youth ...

Sorry, that was slightly off topic from the original post. I had another point and that was that councils tend to take advantage of fines in order to improve revenue when times get tough. So we need to be on our guards. In fact, the cost of implementing the speeding cameras in 1992 was recovered through the fines imposed on speeding drivers.

Hi Ziggy, sorry don't know the charges but they are not too high. Used the hall last year for a child's birthday party and it was ideal, and there is parking too.

After years of planning Sainsbury's has confirmed construction work on its multi-million pound store at Shutterton will start soon. It's hoping to be trading by autumn.Nine months later new business units will be available for tenants bringing with them prospect of desirable new jobs. It is thought between the shop and units more than 200 post could be created. Jim Woolcott, Sainsbury's new store ...

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Lynne, of course it bears thinking about. You can't have free market capitalism if governments pick and choose what companies are allowed to go bust or not. What didn't bear thinking about was the alternative which was the transfer of a huge amount of taxpayer's money, most of which comes from the poorest since most people are poor, to the richest and which clearly continues today unabated as is ...

A Dawlish man who went missing 25 years ago was never found. Police have re-opened an investigation into his disappearance. 24 year old Martyn Tucker lived in Exeter Road at the time he went missing, he also ran the Marine Stores with his wife. Martyn was last seen at around 11.30pm at the Gresham Arms pub in Commercial Road, now called the Laffin Pig. It is beleived he may have walked along the ...