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Police are appealing for witnesses to an alledged attempted murder on the A30 yesterday evening (June 2).

Officers were called to an area of the A30 near to Lewannick yesterday around 7.30pm after reports of a man injured by the carriageway. Officers found a man with a chest injury, believed to have been caused by a stab wound. The man, aged in his twenties, was airlifted to Derriford Hospital for treatment. His condition is described as stable and he has not suffered any life threatening or life changing injuries.

The victim was discharged from hospital this morning (June...

Transport for Your Community is co-ordinating its first Community Transport Awareness Week across Devon from 9-15 June.

The organisation, which is made up of Community Transport group members across Devon, provides transport to health appointments, services, shops and leisure activities where no transport or no suitable transport is available.

During the Awareness Week, the Transport for Your Community roadshow will be visiting Tavistock, Barnstaple, Newton Abbot, Ivybridge, Honiton, Tiverton and Okehampton, where each local Community Transport group will be showcasing the...

Events are taking place across Devon to mark Britain’s first ever Ecover Go Blue! weekend.

Almost 50 events have been organised across the country to celebrate our seas, shores and marine wildlife. Among them are a sponsored swim at in Brixham, a stand-up paddle board event in Sidmouth, a sea-themed story-reading at a primary school in Exmouth, and a schools science and water sports day in Plymouth.

Go Blue! is part of the 2014 Ecover Blue Mile programme and has captured the imagination of people right across the country.

So far, 46 events have been organised for Go...

Summer downpours and flash flooding are expected to become far more frequent across South England and Wales according to new research by the Exeter based Met Office and Newcastle University. The study, published in the Nature Climate Change, used a high-resolution model to predict the effects that climate change would have on UK’s summer floods. They found that, in a worst case scenario hourly summer rainfall could become five times more frequent by the end of the century, which would hugely increase the chance of ‘flash floods.’ Dr Lizzie Kendon, lead author of the study from the Met...