Protesters to march against council sell-off
A Westcountry council has submitted fresh plans to its own planning committee to move away from its former headquarters and sell off the surrounding parkland for housing and a care home.East Devon...
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Firefighters race to rescue car crash woman from rising tide
Firefighters raced against the clock to free an injured woman from a car trapped in a muddy harbour with the tide rising in the dark.Emergency crews rushed to Cockwood Harbour near Starcross, Exeter,...
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An apple a day keeps Wild Futures Monkey sanctuary in play
Monkeys at a Cornish sanctuary dumped their usual staple of bananas for fruit of another kind.Staff at the Wild Futures Monkey Sanctuary, near Looe, south east Cornwall, kept visitors amused at...
View ArticleFirefighters travel for Nepal training mission
Firefighters will travel to Nepal this week to train the country's fire service at the request of the United Nations. The Nepal Fire Service is ill-equipped, with firefighters often turning up at...
View ArticleDriver cut free after car overturns in ditch
A driver had to be cut-free from his car by firefighters after it careered off the road, flipped over and landed upside down in a ditch yesterday at just before midday. Emergency services were called...
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U-turn on plan for wind turbines
A plan for a giant wind farm in Devon has been approved after a planning inspector reversed a council's decision to reject the scheme.The proposal to erect nine 103-metre-high turbines at Batsworthy...
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Scale of second homes in Cornwall revealed
Cornwall is the second homes capital of the country, new figures have revealed.Statistics published for the first time by the Office of National Statistics showed that 22,997 people listed a second...
View ArticleBard slams 'ignorance' of Cornish history
Many people are ignorant of Cornwall's culture and language because schools fail to educate children about their history, according to the Grand Bard of the Gorsedd.In her first major speech in the...
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Flying 'wow factor' flag for Perranporth
VIBRANT eye-catching flags depicting the life of Perranporth and creating a cultural "wow factor" are being planned for the resort.Perranporth School is leading the Ā£8,000 project to install up to 39...
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Plan to alter Bodmin and Padstow constituencies 'unnatural'
ST AUSTELL could be paired with Bodmin and Padstow in a radical shake-up of the electoral boundaries in a move that has been described as "unnatural".The Boundary Commission published a final draft on...
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'Green wedge' fears over 160-home plan separating St Austell and St Blazey
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build on the green section of land that separates St Austell and St Blazey were unveiled to the public this week.Tiverton-based developer Devonshire Homes Ltd wants to build 160...
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Isles of Scilly chief executive Philip Hygate under scrutiny
The conduct of the Scilly Isles top administrator is to come under scrutiny at a special meeting next week.Philip Hygate, chief executive of the Council of the Isles of Scilly, has recently been at the...
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Bus services face disruption after First staff union calls 24hr strike
Bus drivers and depot staff will take part in a 24-hour strike on Friday, which may cause disruption to hundreds of passengers.First Devon and Cornwall announced yesterday that the company had been...
View ArticleFamily poisoned by gas leak in oven
Two adults and two children suffered carbon monoxide poisoning when a coal-fired Rayburn cooker leaked the gas into their home. The family alerted Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service just before...
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Summer rain leaves clifftop road unsafe
A coastal road closed by a cliff fall following a period of heavy rainfall in the summer will not reopen, Devon County Council has confirmed. Old Beer Road in Seaton was shut down in July when a...
View ArticleVacancy rates in coastguard service run at 'worrying' 14 per cent
Ministers have been accused of failing "to win hearts and minds" over controversial coastguard cutbacks which will see the Brixham station close.It came as bosses of the maritime rescue service...
View ArticleLifeboat crew called out for sunken boat
Exmouth Lifeboat crew were called out to a suspected sunken ship just off Maer Rocks at 9am on Monday. A fishing vessel had found signs of a wreckage at the mouth of the River Exe and alerted the...
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Golden girls Helen Glover and Ruta Meilutyte join campaign to rid the world...
Westcountry Olympians have thrown their weight behind an on-going global campaign to rid the world of polio.Penzance rower Helen Glover and Plymouth swimmer Ruta Meilutyte have signed up to the Rotary...
View ArticleFarmers to delay cull on badgers
Farming EditorControversial plans to cull thousands of badgers in the South West to tackle tuberculosis in cattle are to be delayed because farmer groups do not have enough time to carry them out.The...
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Dog destroyed after attacking cows in Perranuthnoe
MAGISTRATES haveĀ ordered the destructionof a dog that savaged three rare breed cows in Perranuthnoe. The 18-month-old pitbull, named Rocky, was involved in the incident at Trenow Cove Dairy on March...
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