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Update 9 July: Charleigh has been found safe and well in the Bristol area. The Police thanked the media for their help in locating her.

First published 8 July: Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 15-year-old girl from the Newton Abbot area. Charleigh Bindon has been missing since Friday 28 June. Charleigh is described as white, 5ft 4in, of slim build and with long dark hair with light brown hair extensions. At the time of going missing she was wearing dark leggings, an indigo strappy top and a white cardigan. Charleigh also uses the surname ‘Robson’. She...

A company in Honiton has won a national technology award from BT for innovation in technology.

Cosmic, ( www.cosmic.org.uk ) a social enterprise offering IT services across the South West, was announced as the winner of the BT Get IT Together Award in this year’s Technology4Good Awards, organised by AbiltyNet.

The award, sponsored by BT, recognises inspiring UK-based organisations which are supporting digital inclusion activities by enabling and encouraging people to get online.

Cosmic, of East Devon Business Centre, Heathpark Way, is an ethical IT company which...

Hundreds of thousands of women across England and Wales could be spared the distress and uncertainty of a breast cancer diagnosis by taking a daily pill to help prevent the disease. Updated guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says the NHS should give tamoxifen or raloxifene to particular groups of women with a family history of cancer [1] because the drugs can help stop them getting breast cancer if they are taken for five years.

Roughly 50,000 women and 400 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK [2], making it the most common...

Devon & Cornwall Police say that they received a call from the fire service shortly before 3am on Monday 24 June, with a report that a man in Torpoint had doused himself in petrol.

On arrival at the scene, they found a man holding a petrol can and the property from the outside smelt strongly of petrol.

Police and fire then attempted to engage with the man, who began setting fire to items within the house.

Police report that the fire service then took action and flooded the house with water and gained entry.

The fire was quickly extinguished and the man...