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Police are issuing a warning after people have been defrauded of thousands of pounds following burglaries at premises across Devon and Cornwall.

The most recent occurrences were on 18 April when members of staff at doctors’ surgeries in Liskeard and Newton Abbot had their wallets stolen.

In the days following the thefts, the victims received bogus phone calls which have led...

Police are hunting for a masked offender who threatened two shop assistants with a knife during an attempted robbery in Teignmouth.

The man struck at Tesco in Bitton Park Road around 11.50pm on Sunday (21 April) as staff members were closing the store.

A female member of staff was disposing of empty packaging at the back of the store when she was approached by the offender who...

Householders, drivers, business owners and major employers are the target for a major new crime prevention campaign.

Thieves don’t care….. is a police led campaign which is backed and funded by Crimestoppers, Plymouth Community Safety Partnership, the City College and Plymouth Against Retail Crime (PARC).

The group will join with media partners across the city and use social...

Fire services were in attendance at Pymouth Airport yesterday evening after numerous calls from the public reported seeing plumes of black smoke in the vicinity.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue deployed three appliances, two from Camels Head and one from Greenbank, to extinguish a fire in a coach and two portable buildings near to the runway.

Fire crews used two hose reels...

The second Boston bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been captured after he was found hiding under the tarpaulin of a boat parked in a suburban backyard of Watertown. His whereabouts were discovered after a member of the public spotted blood in his garden. Dzhokhar's capture came after a frantic night of violence that left one MIT police officer dead, an MBTA Transit Police...

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating police actions after a man reportedly became engulfed by flames in his garden.

The incident occurred in Honicknowle, Plymouth on Thursday evening (18 April 2013) and resulted in the 32 year old local man - named by local sources as Andrew Pimlott - sustaining serious burn injuries. The man was taken to Derriford...

Police in Plymouth are to install knife arches in certain key locations in the city in a bid to deter clubbers and revellers from carrying knives.

The arches, which will be introduced from tonight (Friday 19 April), work in a similar way to airport metal detectors and are fully portable and easy to assemble.

The initiative follows last weekend's stabbing of a 23-year-old man in...

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, Tony Hogg believes that a pilot trialled in Ipswich restricting the sale of high-strength alcohol, should be looked at for Plymouth.

The scheme is being considered by Plymouth's senior officer, Chief Superintendent Chris Singer who believes it might help to reduce alcohol-related street crime in certain areas of the city. The...

Christopher Copeland aged 51 years from Copplestone, near Crediton has today, Wednesday 17 April been charged with 16 counts of fraud by false representation in connection with the Help for Heroes Charity.

He has been released on bail to appear before Exeter Magistrates Court on Wednesday 8 May.

Following the charging of two men on Tuesday (16 April) with attempted murder, a third man was today charged with the same offence at Plymouth Magistrates' Court this morning (Wednesday 17 April).

John Randolph, aged 40 and from the Whitleigh area of Plymouth was jointly charged with attempted murder of Matthew Bird in the Mutley Plain area on Saturday.

David Woolley of...