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Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg says young people will have a major input into the future vision for policing in Devon and Cornwall.

Mr Hogg turned over his office to a group of nine community police cadets as part of the Children’s Commissioner’s Takeover Day and said he was constantly impressed by their willingness to get involved in the policing family.

The group was made up of community cadets from across Devon and Cornwall and though they were hosted by the OPCC engagement team they also spent time visiting the various operational units at Middlemoor.

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The former Axminster Carpets’ spinning mill will be handed back to its new owners Buckfast Abbey in December.

A team of administrators have been stripping the assets for the past eight months with machinery being relocated as far afield as Belgium, Turkey, India and Pakistan. Some of the machinery has also been moved to areas within the UK including Telford, Gloucester, Axminster, various parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Buckfast Abbey’s Financial Director Jonathan Deacon, said: “It was incredibly sad when the former mill had to close with the loss of so many jobs.”...

The opening of the Exeter City Centre Chaplaincy is drawing closer as training begins for a team of volunteer chaplains.

The volunteers are being trained by Lead Chaplains Rev. Tony Raven and Rev. Preb Norman Wallcock to help provide services to the shops in the City Centre.

The training is expected to be completed by January 2014 when the City Centre Chaplaincy will be officially launched.

At the launch, on Wednesday 22 January in St. Stephen’s Church, supporters of the Chaplaincy and other interested parties will be able to speak to the Lead Chaplains to find out...

Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, is seeing an increase of people left with no wages and no money to pay their bills because of the closure of their employers’ business.

Following changes to the fee structure for employment tribunal claims, employees are left with no money and faced with an issue fee of up to £160 to lodge a claim for unpaid wages, holiday pay, notice pay, or redundancy pay, and a further fee of £230 for a hearing.

Steve Barriball, Chief Executive of Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau said: “This cannot be right. In these circumstances the employee has kept up...