Exeter

International appeal to trace missing Exeter girl

Devon and Cornwall Police along with local authorities have launched an appeal to help them locate a missing 12-year-old Devon girl who’s been taken to Bangkok by her father.

A High Court Judge has ordered the release of details of Arisara Miles, who is known as ‘Zara’, who travelled to Thailand with her father without permission.

Zara and her father, Trevor Miles, left their...

Op Inheritance reunites people with stolen items

Devon and Cornwall Police are celebrating some great success since taking their Operation Inheritance online.

In January, officers took the operation, which helps trace stolen items, to Facebook and Twitter to spread the word about stolen items in circulation.

In just one month, dozens of stolen items have been successfully reunited with their rightful owners including a...

Students bring happiness and wellbeing to Barne Barton

Residents in Barne Barton, Plymouth, now have all the information they need to achieve happiness and wellbeing in their lives, thanks to an event run for Love Barne Barton by healthcare students from across Plymouth University.

The students were from a number of courses including medicine, dentistry, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, child health nursing and adult nursing....

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation Black Tie Dinner

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) held their South West Annual Conference 2016 at The Rougemont Hotel sponsored by Amey with 75 delegates and speakers. Speakers from across the region presented at the CPD event and this was followed in the evening with a black-tie awards event with 170 guests from the construction industry with a charity raffle raising £1430....

Devon mum's search for lifesaving donor

A mum-of-three from Exeter is urgently searching for a stem cell donor to help cure her leukaemia.

Kate Barnett was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in October 2015.

Following a round of chemotherapy, doctors discovered she also has myelodysplasia, which prevents her bone marrow responding properly to treatment.

The hairdresser and customer assistant is now...

Police launch The Good Consent Guide

Devon and Cornwall Police is promoting a new campaign around sexual consent, which aims to educate and inform young people around what can sometimes be a confusing issue.

The campaign, which targets 16 to 21 year olds, also promotes the message that there are #noblurredlines – sex without consent is rape.

Young people may feel pressured into having sex when they don’t want to...

Have you seen missing Neil Mackenzie?

Police are trying to find a missing 52-year-old man last seen in Bristol.

Neil Mackenzie (pictured) was last seen in the Stapleton area of Bristol at around 10am today, Thursday 11 February, and he spoke to a relative by phone shortly after.

Police are concerned for Neil's welfare and would like to find him as soon as possible.

He may be using public transport and...

Exeter’s Super Sunday attracts stellar cast

Exeter Racecourse’s Super Sunday fixture, which coincides with Valentine’s Day, has drawn a strong card of entries for its seven races, including plenty on target for the Cheltenham Festival that begins in five weeks time and the Crabbie’s Grand National which takes place three weeks later.

The ten entries in the listed Bathwick Tyres novices’ hurdle include the Nicky Henderson-trained...

Success for Devon in SW Tourism Awards

Devon swept to victory, winning 30 awards in this year’s South West Tourism awards and will see ten businesses go through to the national Visit England Awards for Excellence in March.

Ninety-five different awards were announced at the event, which took place in Exeter Cathedral last night (4 February).

Devon saw ‘Gold’ was awarded to Calvert Trust, Exmoor, for Access and...

Rogue traders who targeted elderly jailed

Three men found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the vulnerable and elderly for shoddy and unnecessary home repair work, were sentenced today at Exeter Crown Court in a case brought by Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service.

Thomas Maughan, 27, and Thomas Mahon, 46, were each sent to prison for 12 months for their part in the fraud.

Both had pleaded not guilty but were...

Pages