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Trading Standards will increase the number of routine petrol forecourt checks across Devon, Plymouth, Somerset, and Torbay this summer.

Usually around a dozen forecourts a year are tested – this summer up to an extra 20 will be tested, with a possibility of more if needed.

Fuel pumps are regularly tested by Heart of the South West Trading Standards Service to ensure that the...

Devon and Cornwall Police are continuing to change the way incidents are dealt with, to ensure the best service possible can be given to the public with the existing resources.

Across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in 2015 the Force received around 1,600 reports where a customer had left without paying for fuel from a garage forecourt. These are not offences of fraud or theft...

A new scheme has been launched by Devon and Cornwall Police to stop rogue drivers evading the law after hit-and-run collisions.

The Force has set up Garage Watch, a messaging system to alert local garages to any vehicle police suspect of being involved in a collision.

The scheme aims to stop drivers avoiding justice by getting car repairs done swiftly at garages while lying...