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A number of families had to be evacuated last night after a fire in a block of flats in the Devonport area of Plymouth.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service were sent to the flats on Devonport Hill after receiving a call reporting smoke issuing from inside the three-storey block of flats. Two fire appliances from Greenbank and one fire appliance from Camels Head attended....

Plymouth councillors are calling for the Government to implement a ‘Robin Hood’ tax on the finance sector instead of continuing to make massive public spending cuts.

The full council agreed a motion to ask the Government to raise £20 billion of additional revenue by extending the current Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) and ensure that is spent on protecting valued local public services...

Two men are in Police custody after a 33-year-old man was assaulted with a glass bottle at a Plymouth bar.

The incident took place at the Cuba bar in Mutley at around 1.40am on Friday 26 July.

The victim attempted to intervene when a fight broke out inside the bar and was then hit with the bottle, sustaining a cut to the back of the head.

Two men aged 24 and 21 years...

A two-month-old pony has been found dead on Dartmoor. Police say the body shows signs of deliberate mutilation.

The pony was discovered on moorland at Yennadon Down, Dousland, Yelverton near Plymouth at around 6.50pm on Tuesday 23 July.

Police report that the pony appears to have been deliberately mutilated and officers are investigating the possibility that the body had been...