Dawlish News
Shaun Powney, 51, pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to the manslaughter of Patrick Powney in Plymouth in February on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was remanded to doctors' care in Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, and will be sentenced after psychiatric reports. Read more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-57385322
LIFEGUARDS will be back on Teignmouth and Dawlish beaches from May 29, reports Wendy Richards Wood, Volunteer Press Officer Teignmouth RNLI Fundraising Team Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=120618&headline=Lifeguards%20back%20on%20the%20beaches%20at%20Dawlish%20and%20Teignmouth%20for%20Bank%20Holiday%20weekend§ionIs=news&searchyear=2021
Darryl Riches was given just a 20 per cent chance of survival and was left with life-changing injuries - now he wants to give back to those who helped save his life In May 2002, Darryl Riches from Dawlish was on his way to work when he was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry. The result was catastrophic, and all of the bones in Darryl's skull were broken upon impact. Read more... ...
DAWLISH WARREN and Teignmouth Town are among 14 beaches in Devon that have been awarded Blue Flag status for 2021. See more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=120572&headline=Devon%27s%20best%20beaches%20named%20as%2014%20awarded%20Blue%20Flag%20status%20for%202021§ionIs=news&searchyear=2021&fbclid=IwAR1ISecOFmVrmnFOa8fuCRKBS17nBz2gkp3MguYVyjYET_3TiUk36UUe6BQ
Network Rail has awarded Morgan Sindall Infrastructure a £28m contract to construct an extension of the existing rockfall shelter over the railway line between Dawlish and Holcombe in Devon. Read more... https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2021/05/13/morgan-sindall-wins-28m-dawlish-rockfall-shelter/
Date: 12/05/2021 Time: 21:08 Location: Dawlish, Devon Area: Central County: Devon One fire engine from Dawlish, one from Teignmouth and a specialist rescue team from Exmouth were all sent to a report of a person in the brook next to the railway station. On arrival crews were initially unable to locate the person and started searching the ...
A woman has been rescued from a house in Dawlish after her kitchen caught fire when food was left unattended on the cooker. Crews gained entry to the two-storey property and and found the woman suffering from smoke inhalation. Read more... https://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/woman-rescued-from-dawlish-fire/?IYA-mail=96d7d7c9-7d11-4c37-ad17-b9df5e01ec3a
A volunteer with the Strand Community Centre, and the whole team behind the Open Daw Centre, have received Civic Awards from Dawlish Town Council. The individual award went to Marie Whitehead for her ‘outstanding service to the community as a volunteer for the Strand Community Centre’. Read more... ...
The club had applied for £1,000, but councillors agreed to give it double that amount, at the Finance and General Purposes committee meeting on Thursday, April 29. Read more... https://dawlish.nub.news/n/town-council-agrees-2000-grant-to-dawlish-lawn-tennis-club?fbclid=IwAR3R2xHeXodTBsreWNLWREkZIu6FiAA251JeOQBV7ON7pTSMe0oIhn3vrwM
Dawlish’s new farm shop is still on course to open – but it’ll be slightly later than originally planned. Earlier this month Dawlish Nub News reported that Darren Lakin had taken over the old Ladbrokes premises on the Strand, to open a new branch of the Teignmouth Farm Shop which he and his brother Scott started about two years ago. Read the article here . At the time he was hoping to ...