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After 200 years of active service as a paper mill, the iconic Stowford Mill site in Ivybridge has been acquired by Burrington Estates and joint venture partner Pillar Land Securities as part of a £20 million regeneration project. Burrington Estates’ vision is to transform this eight-acre site, which sits in a beautiful location in the Erme Valley and is framed by Dartmoor National Park and...

Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg has begun a consultation process which will see communities across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly set their own list of restorative sanctions for low level offences.

Mr Hogg is asking individuals and organisations across the peninsula to take part in the survey on a new Government initiative, the Community Remedy, which will give victims...

The body of a man found in a clay pit in Cornwall has been identified as that of man missing since 2007.

Mr Nicolas Prouse was reported missing from his home in St Dennis, Cornwall, on 30 November 2007. An extensive missing person enquiry was undertaken at the time but he was never located. No reason for his disappearance was ever established.

A member of the public contacted...

Devon’s former county chairman of the National Farmer’s Union is thought to have been arrested and questioned by Police following a cannabis raid on a farm near Chagford.

John Shears, 69, also an unelected member of several Dartmoor National Park Authority committees is thought to be one of four men arrested and questioned following the police raid on May 7.

A police search of...