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Volunteers and staff came together this week to celebrate the 95th birthday of Ron Price, one of the estate’s best loved volunteer room guides.

Ron trained as a carpenter joiner at Yelverton in the early 1930s, a time when Lady Seaton and Lady Drake where still in residence at Buckland Abbey. He vividly remembers the night the Abbey caught fire, on 6 January 1938, when Yelverton Fire...

A new community allotment site has been officially opened on the grounds of Saltram House near Plympton.

The land from the National Trust run country-estate was developed as part a scheme to encourage local communities to grow their own food. The scheme has created over 1000 community allotments on land across the UK.

The development, which is comprised of 46 plots of various...

Police have re-issued their appeal to trace two people who they believe are key witnesses to a collision on the A38 on Sunday 14 July and may have vital information which could assist with the investigation.

A pedestrian was killed after being hit by a Nissan van near the Lee Mill Industrial Estate on the eastbound carriageway at about 10.30pm. The 47-year-old man was from Smithaleigh...

Figures published on Thursday 18 July show that crime in Devon and Cornwall has reduced despite significant budget cuts to local police.

The overall level of crime has fallen by 6.3% in the year between 15 July, 2012 and 14 July 2013. There were 5,740 fewer reported crimes than in the previous year.

Although crime in most categories has fallen with a significant reduction in...