Devon and Cornwall Poilce officers are joining their colleagues across Europe in a week-long speed enforcement operation.

During the campaign, co-ordinated by the European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL), officers will use a number of speed detection methods across all types of road.

The purpose of the operation is to raise awareness of the dangers of speeding, and to remind drivers of the benefits for all road users of driving at speeds that are both legal and appropriate.

“We urge all drivers to challenge their own attitude to speeding,” says TISPOL President Koen...

Courts wasted an estimated £230 million of taxpayers’ money last year by needlessly locking up people on remand, figures published by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today. During 2013, more than 35,000 people who had been remanded in custody went on to be either acquitted or given non-custodial sentences. The money spent on keeping them in prison would have been enough to build 16 new secondary schools, pay 10,000 nurses for a year, or reverse the government’s cuts to the criminal legal aid budget. Of the 36,044 men, women and children who were remanded into custody by...

Would a stranger save your life? It may depend on who you are, where you live and whether you’ve got a family, according to a survey for Anthony Nolan, a charity which relies on the kindness of strangers.

People in the South West are more likely to come to the aid of their pet than to help a male or teenage stranger in danger, new research has revealed.

A poll conducted for the blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan found that overwhelmingly, over four out of five people in the South West (86%) would be willing to help their pet if it was in danger.

However, only 59% of...

Ladies Do … with a difference!

On Thursday, 18th September 2014 (from 17.30 – 20.00), Ladies Do ... will be holding a prestigious ‘Ladies Do Networking’ event, at Bradburys Kitchens showroom on Marsh Barton and will be combining this with a macaroon making (and eating!) demonstration by Sylvain Peltier of Little French Cakes. Sylvain trained extensively at the 2 Michelin starred, Tour d’Argent in Paris, The Chester Grosvenor Hotel and the 2 Michelin starred Gidleigh Park, so Ladies will be learning from the very best.

The icing on the cake is that Ladies will also have the...

With a fifth of UK homeowners claiming to have had items stolen from their garden, a leading insurer is warning homeowners to look out for their gnomes, as nearly one in ten households report the theft of a garden figurine or gnome. Research from The Co-operative Insurance found that the South West of England is the riskiest place to be a gnome, with almost a fifth of homeowners (16%) reporting the theft of a friendly garden figurine, twice as many as across the UK on average. Gnomes in the North West can however sleep easy tonight, with just 2% of gnome owners in the region reporting the...