Devon

Recycling rates remain high in Devon but still more to do to meet targets

Devon is in the top three performing counties in the country when it comes to recycling its waste, thanks to many of you who make the effort on a daily basis.

With a recycling rate of 55%, it remains slightly behind Oxfordshire and Leicestershire in the recycling league tables.

Residents in West Devon have the best recycling rate in the county at 57%, followed closely by...

£40,000 investment opens up Coast Path to thousands of wheelchair and pushchair users in time for Christmas

The completion of seven coastal access schemes along parts of the South West Coast Path, and the addition of 40 extra walks on its website means that now, for the first time, thousands of people with limited mobility and those with young children in pushchairs are able to enjoy stretches of the breathtaking National Trail that were once impassable.

Newly accessible walks include parts...

Clare's Law goes national in 2014

The government has announced plans to give police powers to disclose certain details of people’s criminal pasts to forces across England and Wales next year.

The Home Office led scheme gives people the ‘right to ask’ police if their partner has ever had convictions for domestic abuse and allow police to disclose details of a criminal in certain circumstances.

All requests must...

Australian Cricket Captain fined

Australian Cricket Captain, Michael Clarke, has been fined by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for breaching the Code of Conduct in the first Ashes test.

Clarke was fined 20 per cent of his match fee for “using language or a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting during an International Match” the ICC has said.

Clarke was picked up on the stump microphone saying...

Police operation to stop-check commercial goods vehicles

Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police are involved in a three week operation aimed at reducing road casualties and collisions in the force area. Operation Fatigue will run over a period of three weeks during the months of November and December and will involve the stopping and checking of goods vehicles as they travel through both counties. This will include both national and foreign based...

Devon’s Health Visiting Service gains accreditation from the Baby-friendly Initiative

Devon Integrated Children's Services’ Health Visiting Team, which is led by Virgin Care, has been accredited with ‘Baby Friendly’ status having passed the stage three assessment of the Baby Friendly Initiative – a worldwide programme of UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) and the World Health Organisation.

The initiative recognises that most of the barriers that prevent women...

Two from Devon bailed in Russian court

Two from Devon bailed in Russian court

Update: Alexandra Harris and Kieron Bryan have been granted bail - set at 2m rubles each

Before the judge Kieron Bryan said: "To be accused of hooliganism for doing my job as a reporter is the same as suggesting that every journalist who works in a warzone is a soldier or that the court reporter here today is somehow responsible for the...

Appeal following 'stop checks' by bogus police officer

Police are appealing for witnesses following reports of a bogus police officer stop-checking vehicles. Officers are aware of two incidents in the Plymouth area where the driver of an unmarked Volvo has attempted to stop other drivers for "traffic offences". A man, dressed in plain clothes, has been using a silver-coloured Volvo V70 which has been equipped with flashing lights and a siren. In...

Missing man from Newbury with Devon links

Thames Valley Police is continuing to appeal for information regarding the whereabouts of a missing person with links to Devon

Jonathan Hayward, aged 50, was reported missing on Saturday (16/11) from a property in Monks Lane, Newbury.

Mr Hayward is white, 5ft 7ins, of stocky build, with light brown hair and has a brown and grey beard. At the time of going missing, he was...

£300,000 funding for Restorative Justice

Devon and Cornwall police are to get £300,000 from the government to increase the practice of Restorative Justice as a punishment for some crimes.

Tony Hogg, the Police & Crime Commissioner will be given the funding over the next two years (£114,535 in 2013-14 and £185,000 in 2014-15).

Mr Hogg said: “Restorative justice is in some ways a simple subject and in some ways a...

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