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At around 2:30pm on Friday the 10th of February, the suspect knocked on the door of an elderly woman who was in her home at Elmore Way in Tiverton.

The suspect claimed that she was in the area visiting a neighbour who wasn’t in, and convinced the victim to let her into her home to allow her to warm-up.

Whilst the victim was making the suspect a cup of tea, £100 pounds was taken from her purse.

The suspect is described as a white female, aged between 30 and 43, 5’6” tall, slim build, wearing a black felt hat with felt flowers on the right hand side. She was wearing a...

National Trust garden teams have conducted their annual flower count for Valentine’s Day and although this year spring seems to be on the way, just as we would normally expect, but what is noticeable is how many scented plants are out in flower at this early time of year. National Trust gardeners reported 1,737 plants blooming in this year’s 12th annual Valentine’s Flower count, 34% down on last year’s figure of 2,644. Although numbers are down on 2016, they are still higher than the previous three years.. For the second year running, Saltram had the highest number of flowers recorded with...

This isn’t a typical prison story: instead it’s an amazing achievement by 10 people in HMP Exeter who in just one day rowed the English Channel, ran up Ben Nevis and rode a stage of the Tour de France, raising hundreds of pounds for a local charity.

Two teams of five - a total of eight prisoners and two prison officers - did not leave the city centre jail while doing this task, of course, but instead undertook the gruelling challenges in the gymnasium.

Each of the prisoners who undertook the challenge is a Samaritans volunteer Listener, specially trained to offer emotional...

The MS Trust’s Survival Skills Weekend will be taking place in Ashclyst Forest in Devon from 23-25 June to raise funds to help people with multiple sclerosis. The charity is looking for 10 budding Bear Grylls to take part in this outdoor adventure where participants will be sponsored to live in shelters they have built and eat food they have foraged from the forest. This wilderness survival challenge will be raising funds to help the MS Trust ensure no one has to manage MS alone. Jon Makin, who work as Lead Trade Manager for Tesco in Cullompton, explains why he will be taking part: “It's...