Local business-woman Rebecca Weaver with extensive experience in the hospitality industry is to open an exclusive live music destination in Exeter. Located in Cowick Street adjacent to St. Thomas’ station, Charlie’s Live Lounge will cater strictly for the over 25s’ market. It will offer three floors of entertainment and hospitality and will open to the general public on the weekend of Friday...
Staff and volunteers at Buckland Abbey, Garden and Estate near Yelverton are gearing up for a bumper half term week full of activities, crafts and Halloween events. There will be plenty for families to do throughout the day, every day between 26 October and 3 November.
Families can set off with a bag full of activities to complete on the estate’s Autumn Adventure Trail which boasts...
Devon and Cornwall Police has crowned its champion dog and handler at its annual trials.
PC Lee Adamson and dog Vinni from Barnstaple came out winners after a series of tests and trials held across the Force area.
Trials are used to assess the ability and standards of the Force’s general purpose police dogs and Vinni was victorious ahead of PC Tim Goodwin and Buzz from...
The Children’s Society and The NWG Network have developed the ‘Say Something if you See Something’ campaign pack to help support businesses and local groups in tackling and preventing child grooming, sexual exploitation and child trafficking.
Recent high-profile cases of child sexual exploitation have involved children being groomed, exploited in hotels, restaurants and other...
A special health and wellbeing event will be held this Friday to provide support to people and their families and carers living with a laryngectomy in Devon and Cornwall.
The event is being held in the Mustard Tree Cancer Support Centre and is being run by the speech and language therapists in the peninsula area (Plymouth, Torbay, Cornwall and Exeter), in conjunction with the Macmillan...
Police in South Devon are warning residents after a string of bogus caller incidents in Newton Abbot and South Brent on Tuesday 22 October 2012.
Three properties in the Newton Abbot area and two in South Brent have been targeted with callers claiming to be from the water board – and in one occasion police officers – conning their way into people’s homes.
The Met Office has issued another yellow warning for the South West as the forecast for the next few days continues to bring rain and the risk of localised flooding to the region.
The Met Office said: "Further heavy showers are likely through the rest of Tuesday and particularly overnight into Wednesday, when organised bands of heavy showers and thunderstorms will move northeastwards,...
Police working on an ongoing investigation into alleged abuse at a number of care homes in Devon have now arrested a total of seven people in relation to the enquiry.
The care homes under investigation are Teignmead in Teignbridge, Veilstone in Bideford and Gatooma in Holsworthy.
Those arrested are three people from Teignmouth (a man aged 67, a man aged 39 and a woman aged 26...
