Caroline Robinson BBC News, South West Devon and Cornwall Police The pilot involves the use of wristbands for people with neurodiversity A police force has launched a pilot scheme in a bid to improve the way emergency services support those living with neurodiversity. Devon and Cornwall Police said the pilot, for Cornwall, would involve the...
A plan for up to 100 homes to be built on land near a historic house has been approved. The proposals for Tidcombe Hall in Tiverton were rejected for a second time by Mid Devon District Council’s planning committee last year, with the plan attracting some 170 letters of objection. Opponents at the time expressed...
The Football Foundation is to provide financial backing for an education scheme set up in the name of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager murdered in a racist attack in 1993. The English football charity – which is backed by funding from the Football Association (FA), Premier League and government – will provide career development opportunities for...
Republicans have claimed they’re “saving” Medicaid from “waste, fraud and abuse” with massive cuts. President Donald Trump has quietly commuted the sentence of a Florida health care executive convicted of leading a Medicare fraud scheme to pilfer $205 million from the program through false means — even as the GOP claims that their massive cuts...
Major U.S. firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has pulled out of its involvement in the U.S. and Israel’s supposed humanitarian aid scheme in Gaza as human rights groups have warned that the operation is actually a “death trap” that has led to hundreds of casualties so far. BCG withdrew its ground operation team from Tel...
Fritz Pinnow Reporter, Comayagua, Honduras Fritz Pinnow Hugo Daniel Chávez is proud of the soap his team makes from recycled cooking oil Few 27-year-olds look at used cooking oil and see a green business opportunity to produce soap or dog food. But that is what Hugo Daniel Chávez, a project manager for the NGO Sustenta...
High street pharmacists in the South West have helped more than 540,000 patients with minor illnesses since January 2024, figures have shown. NHS England South West said following the Pharmacy First scheme’s launch, which aimed to expand services offered by pharmacies, 220,000 people had received help without an appointment for seven common conditions such as...
A second suspect has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist in an upscale Manhattan home for weeks in an effort to steal his cryptocurrency. William Duplessie, 32, turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after his alleged accomplice was arrested last week. Their alleged victim told police he was hung off...
A left-wing legal group with the misleading name Democracy Forward is proving to be the biggest obstacle to translating President Donald Trump’s massive election victory into real change. The group’s mission is to thwart the decisions of the 77 million voters who supported Trump for president. ...
HEADLINES Dartmoor National Park warns of continued high fire risk after wildfire destroys 1,230 acres of moorland Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service took nearly 24 hours to extinguish bank holiday weekend blaze that followed warning of uncontrolled moorland fire risk. Read more. 24 hour year-round Sidwell Street “adult gaming centre” allowed at appeal...
Jane Douglas BBC News, South West BBC Ernesettle Community School has been running a pilot project for five years A programme helping educate pupils at a Plymouth school about child sexual abuse is “helping to stop the silence” on the issue, according to children’s charity the NSPCC. Ernesettle Community School is the first in the...
A planning inspector has upheld Exeter City Council’s decision to refuse the addition of a fifth storey to a four-storey city centre scheme that was approved twelve years ago but has not been built. Proposals to increase the height of the building, which fronts onto Fore Street but extends down West Street towards Grade I...
Not only is Trump a major crypto dealer — he is also the industry’s top policy maker, The New York Times noted. A progressive watchdog organization on Wednesday urged key congressional committees to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump’s involvement in a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency deal that the group warned could open the door to corrupt and...
Malta’s so-called golden passport scheme that lets people become citizens through financial investment is contrary to European law, the EU’s top court has ruled. The EU commission took Malta to court in 2022 over the scheme, which grants foreigners a Maltese passport and thereby the right to live and work in any EU country in...
Michael Buchanan Senior Social Affairs Correspondent Contributor handout It took six months for Lucy Earle to be assigned an Access to Work caseworker Businesses employing disabled people say they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government, and fear they may have to let staff go. Under the Access to Work scheme, companies...