Police are currently dealing with a road traffic collision at Holsworthy Beacon, Holsworthy, involving a school minibus which has collided with a lorry and a building.
At around 3.45pm on Tuesday 25 March, the minibus was involved in a collision witn a lorry which was carrying a crane and a the Old Post Office at Holsworthy Beacon.
Royal Malaysian Police will be heading to Devon this week to investigate how local police use technology to track child abuse offenders.
Nine officers are visiting Devon and Cornwall Police today (25 March) to witness how the High Tech Crime Unit utilise triage techniques and forensically examine computers for child abuse images.
HEALTH conscious Manuka honey fans should ensure that what they are buying is genuine after it was revealed that five out of six jars are fake. The warning came as Channel Four’s Dispatches programme this week (Monday, March 17) documented figures which show that UK consumption of the immune boosting honey exceeds global production. And with jars of Manuka honey selling for up to £45, someone...
Devon County Council has received almost £7 million to help repair the damage caused to the county’s roads by the severe winter weather.
The additional funding from the Department for Transport is a share of £183.5 million of extra funding made available by the government to help with much needed road repairs following the wettest winter on record.
A Devon conservation charity has found a rare African frog after a painstaking search lasting three years.
The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, which runs Paignton Zoo, Living Coasts in Torquay and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, carries out fieldwork with rare amphibians in the mountains of Eastern Tanzania.
The work is funded by zoo visitors and supporters and carried out with...
South West Water has taken another step to keep bills as low as possible while continuing to invest heavily in improved services.
The company has presented Ofwat, the independent water industry regulator, with updated plans that could see average prices falling by 13 per cent in real terms by 2020.
South West Water has already confirmed a price freeze on its standard tariff and...
A Devon Freewheeler was lost for words when fraternal organisation the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB) announced the result of their year of fundraising for the charity.
Plymouth Provincial Grand Primo Mick Navesey handed over a cheque for the grand sum of £3,079 to volunteer rider and Operations Director of the Devon Freewheelers, Neil Gardner.
Torquay-based Dave Morris (26) has left a 10 year military career with The Royal Air Force (RAF) to launch an exciting new commercial business, ‘Nomad LED’, the UK’s first all-electric, emission free, fleet of mobile advertising vehicles sourced in Europe. And the newly launched company is already drawing attention in the region including Torbay Council and the Police for a potential local...
Haines Watts Rural Business farming consultant Lucy Thomas has been kept busy helping agricultural clients to apply for the latest round of ‘Catchment Sensitive Farming’ Capital Grants at various locations around the South West.
The scheme is part of the Catchment Sensitive Farming project which provides advice to farmers to help them implement changes in farming that reduce the risk...
