A local hospice charity is calling on children across Devon to join its annual festive challenge. Throughout December, schools, pre-schools and nurseries across the region are invited to join ...

A North Devon man has been jailed for 19 years after being found guilty of serious sexual offences against a vulnerable ...

South West Water has come under fire again for the way it has responded to the cryptosporidium outbreak that hit South Devon ...

The government’s decision to axe winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners has been described in South Hams as ‘cack-handed’. The district council voted unanimously to condemn the decision ...

Mid Devon District Council is urging the government to continue allowing three-weekly bin collections after the authority reduced waste going to landfill and upped recycling rates.

The announcement sparked fury from South Hams district councillors, who wanted all the cash ploughed back into housing. The ...

A £4.5 million transformation of Plymouth’s Tinside Lido, a flagship project in the UK’s first national marine park, begins ...

Complaints about police call-handling in Devon and Cornwall have reduced from 60 a year to five, with people now waiting 30 ...

Exeter’s Matford Brook Academy appears to have become a victim of the collapsed construction giant ISG. Contractors trying to ...

Tiverton and Minhead MP Rachel Gilmour is to give the money she gets for sitting on a district council to charity. Ms Gilmour ...

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey will hear about North Devon District Hospital’s ageing operating theatre and critical care ...

Dame Maggie Smith, known for her roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89, her sons have said. Her children Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens said in a statement she died in ...