identification

Police are appealing for the public’s help to identify a man who was found deceased at Bideford this week.

Officers were called at 2.15pm on Monday 27 March after the man’s body was found in the River Torridge at Bideford.

Detectives are now working to establish who he may be and to locate his next of kin. They have eliminated any known local missing people from their...

A government scheme requiring voters to show identification at polling stations have been labelled unnecessary or appropriate.

The new rule means that people will need to bring a certain form of ID – which include passports and drivers’ licenses – or they won’t be able to vote. It will come into effect at local elections in less than two months.

Among accepted IDs are older...