Andrea Ormsby BBC News, Devon BBC Bramble’s owner has died, leaving K9Focus to try and find her a new home Dog rescue charities in the South West are calling for greater government support due to the demands being put on their services. The charities say increases to the national living wage and national insurance contributions...
Plymouth City Council is urgently appealing for more foster carers to take in children in care. It said there were 534 children living in care Plymouth, but there were only 119 fostering households registered with the council, it said. Councillor Jemima Laing, cabinet member for Children’s Social Care, said fostering was a “fantastic opportunity” and...
Jane Deith and Emma Forde BBC File on 4 Investigates Getty Images When Kate and her husband sat down one evening to have a chat, she could never have prepared for what he was about to tell her. “I have been raping you. I’ve been sedating you and taking photographs of you for years.” Kate...
Developers have been ordered to stop work at a site in Devon where 1,200 homes are set to be built. Teignbridge District Council issued a temporary stop notice to Vistry Homes relating to the development at Wolborough, on the edge of Newton Abbot. Residents said they were concerned that groundworks being carried out at the...
Nine people have appeared in court charged over a fatal acid attack on a man in his home. Danny Cahalane, 38, was attacked on Lipson Road, Plymouth, on 21 February and died in hospital on 3 May, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Seven men from London and two women from Plymouth made separate appearances at...
A teenager has appeared in court charged with a number of rape and sexual offences close to a train station alleged to have occurred on the same evening. Sonny Boyes, 19, from Exeter, is accused of two rapes against a 16-year-old girl at Clyst Halt Avenue in the city on Friday evening, Exeter Magistrates’ Court...
Mariam Issimdar BBC News, Cambridgeshire Blue Door Productions/Stan Gaskell Ex-marine Mitch Hutchcraft undertook the mammoth triathlon to reach the summit of Mount Everest A former Royal Marine has reached the summit of Mount Everest after swimming, cycling and running more than 8,000 miles. Mitch Hutchcraft started by swimming the English Channel on 15 September and...
BBC Work is being done to repair the damage done to peatlands on Dartmoor New mapping data has shown 80% of England’s peatlands to be dry and damaged. The government said the findings, shown on an open source map, presented a worrying picture, with degraded peat emitting carbon into the atmosphere and contributing to global...
Alison Stephenson Local Democracy Reporting Service North Devon Council The site is located at Bynsworthy, off the A39 An application for 450 homes near Barnstaple has been submitted to North Devon Council. Developer Wessex Strategic Ltd has made plans to build the new properties in Bynsworthy, off the A39. It comes after a previous application...
Share Shed The Share Shed, which travels weekly to seven towns in Devon, offers items such as tools, gardening equipment and kitchen appliances A “mobile library of things” that encourages people to share and repair items has been awarded more than £250,000 in National Lottery funding. The Share Shed, which travels weekly to seven towns...
Baxter says he is “really looking forward to pre-season” as he tries to put the worst campaign in Exeter’s recent history behind him. Sunday’s victory was just Exeter’s fourth in the league this season – although as with the win over Saracens in January, it came against a side shorn of its international stars. Chiefs...
A rehab cycling service has covered more than 50,000km (31,000 miles) with its clients – more than the circumference of the Earth. Freetrike, based in Exminster, launched in 2010 and uses specially adapted electric trikes to take people with mobility issues out on Devon’s traffic-free trails like the Exe Estuary Trail. Founder Tom Pales said...
BBC The electric buses are due to start operating in June The first vehicles that are part of a new fleet of electric buses will soon be rolled out onto the streets of Plymouth and parts of Cornwall. Plymouth Citybus is replacing some of its current diesel vehicles with 50 zero emission double-decker buses as...
Remembrance services for fishermen lost at sea were held across Devon and Cornwall on Sunday. Brixham Fish Market was packed for the Fishermen’s Mission (FM) memorial service which marked the second National Fishing Remembrance Day. During the service FM area officer Helen Lovell-Smith read the names of the fishermen who had been lost in local...
Exeter: Hodge; Lilley, Slade, Rigg, Brown-Bampoe; Skinner, Townsend; Sio, Yeandle, Street, Tuima, Jenkins, Vermuelen, Capstick, Roots. Replacements: Frost, Blose, Iosefa-Scott, Tshiunza, Moloney, Cairns, Haydon-Wood, Tua. Sin-bin: Rigg (21). Northampton: Garside; Cousins, Seabrook, Litchfield, Glister; James, Weimann; West, Walker, Millar Mills, Prowse, Munga, Lockett, Brown, Scott-Young. Replacements: Wright, Haffar, Green, Hunter-Hill, Logan, Benson, Witheat, Baker. Referee:...