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A new campaign aimed at tackling domestic abuse has been launched by Devon and Cornwall Police.

The campaign will highlight the fact that domestic abuse can happen to anyone, at any age, in any kind of relationship.

Messages around types of abuse are being communicated across the Force area to show the forms that domestic abuse can take, such as intimidation, financial control, psychological abuse and others.

Domestic abuse survivor, Kate Bolsover, describes her experience: “My abuser made me feel as if I was the one in the wrong, that I deserved the abuse and that...

A Devon County Show steward is preparing to embark on a 200-mile charity cycle ride from the showground in Exeter to London on Monday (December 7), to raise money to develop a new rural hub.

Fifty-one-year old Deborah Custance Baker, who is a Director of the Devon County Agricultural Association and the County Show’s chief steward of the Crafts and Gardens Pavilion and the Spring Sausage competition, hopes her gruelling ride will raise thousands of pounds.

“The Wadsworth Pavilion on the showground is a terrific building and full of character but sadly it can’t be used to...

Retail traders and businesses will benefit from council’s exclusive short term reserved winter car parking offer in run up to Christmas Following a meeting between East Devon District Councillors Matt Booth, Cathy Gardener and John Dyson (ward members for Sidmouth) and Andrew Ennis, the service lead for Environmental Health and Car Parks at East Devon District Council, it has been agreed that car parking spaces in East Devon District Council’s Mill Street and Holmedale car parks will shortly be available to rent on an exclusive basis, from Monday 7 December to Sunday 27 December, to raise...

Police in Exeter are appealing for information following an incident of disorder on a city bus.

The incident occurred on a Stagecoach bus travelling between South Street and Countess Wear, Exeter at around 9.50pm on Thursday 3rd December.

A man and a woman who appeared drunk were allegedly abusive and threatening to a number of passengers, some who were accompanied by young children.

A witness reports seeing a man and a woman being assaulted by this couple, initially on the bus and continuing after they had alighted the bus at Countess Wear.

Although a...