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Lee Howell, Chief Fire Officer of Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service has been appointed as the Welsh Government’s Fire and Rescue Adviser with Her Majesty’s Inspector status. He will be seconded from his Fire and Rescue Service on a part-time basis. He will take up his post on 12 August 2013.

The appointment has been met with fury by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), angry at what...

Police investigating a Plymouth assault, where part of a man’s ear was bitten off, would like to speak to the man and woman pictured in the CCTV image (above).

The unprovoked assault happened in the Two Trees pub in Union Street, Plymouth on Sunday 14 July at around 2.50am.

Anyone who recognises them is asked to call police on 101 quoting EC/13/6764 or alternatively call...

Detectives are investigating after a Plymouth man was robbed at knifepoint in the Stonehouse area of the city.

The victim was approached by two men in Victoria Park who asked him for a cigarette. The man agreed but one offender then drew a knife while a second searched the victim’s pockets.

The pair then ran off towards Stonehouse with the victim’s wallet containing various...

Plymouth's Derriford Hospital has been rated among the worst in the country in a new TripAdvisor-style national survey.

Plans for the Friends and Family Test (FFT) were first announced by Prime Minister David Cameron in January 2012 and the survey was introduced in April this year.

The FFT asks patients whether they would recommend A&E and inpatient wards to their nearest...