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A major search has taken place in Torquay after the Coastguard were told that two people had fallen from cliffs.

Brixham Coastguard received a call just after 2pm on Saturday 12 July 2014 from South West Ambulance Service who had been made aware that people were in trouble on cliffs at Meadfoot beach.

With little information to go on, Brixham Coastguard sent the Torbay, Berry Head and Teignmouth Coastguard Rescue Teams to the scene, along with both Torbay RNLI lifeboats, Torbay Council patrol boat, police helicopter, Devon Air Ambulance, as well as police and ambulance...

East Devon District Council is among dozens of local authorities around the country gathering data that will bring the biggest change to voter registration in a generation.

The next step towards what the Government are calling “a voting system fit for the 21st century” starts this month as Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) begin to contact voters across the UK about changes to the electoral registration system.

Individual Electoral Registration (IER) will give people more control and ownership over the process and increase the accuracy of the register – with the new...

Summer is here and once again the call of the cuckoo has fallen silent across Dartmoor.

Because even though the cuckoo may be one of our most well-known birds, the adult birds only spend about 2 months of the year in this country. The rest of the time they are on their way to, or in their wintering grounds south of the Sahara.

For the past two springs Devon Birds (DB) has teamed up with Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) to fund the satellite tagging of Dartmoor cuckoos to track their movements between Dartmoor and Africa.

This is part of a national cuckoo-...

A new initiative that uses superheroes to teach Religious Education at a school in Cornwall has won a national award.

The distinctive characters, called Know-it-all-Nicky, Debate-it-all-Derek, Ask-it-all-Ava and Have-a-go-Hugo, were created by a University of Exeter education expert in collaboration with a primary school specialist leader of education from Sir Robert Geffrey’s School in Saltash.

Now, this novel approach to teaching RE has been recognised at the Times Educational Supplement School’s Awards ceremony by winning the Humanities Award.

The pilot project...