New figures announced today (Thursday, 21st April) show that recorded crime continues to fall across Devon and Cornwall.
Crime recorded between the 1st April 2015 and the 31st March 2016 shows a 3.8 per cent reduction on the same period the year prior. This equates to 3,021 fewer crimes compared to 2014/15.
Victim based reported crimes reduced 5.2 per cent with further reductions in burglary dwelling (14.9%) and burglary non-dwelling (11.5%); plus vehicle offences (10.1%); theft (13.1%); shoplifting (12.5%); and criminal damage (6.2%) also saw a reduction.
Firefighters from Ottery St Mary Fire Station will be teaming up with Sixth Form students from Kings School for a charity car wash this Saturday (23 April) from 10am-2pm.
They will be rolling up their sleeves at the local fire station in Canaan Way to raise funds for the Fire Fighters Charity and the Goodwill Children’s Home in India.
Bring your car along and have it washed in return for a donation to the charity, the UK’s leading provider of services that enhance the quality of life for serving and retired fire service personnel and their families.
Police are appealing for witnesses after reports of a car failing to stop following an incident that left a young rider injured on Moor Road, Ipplepen.
Just before 9.30am on Saturday 16 April, a 17-year-old girl was knocked from her horse after a car drove around a corner causing the horse to spook and rear.
The rider sustained a suspected broken arm and sprained ankle.
The car then drove off without speaking to the rider. The driver is described as a white man, approximately 40-years-old, of large build and was possibly wearing a high visibility jacket.
Motor insurance specialist, Churchill Insurance, has launched a nationwide campaign to identify schools in need of a Lollipopper and have pledged to recruit and deploy 50 in areas of need for the next school year. The campaign, launched by actor and father-of-two, Robert Webb, will give the public the opportunity to nominate a primary school they feel is in need of a Lollipopper before 50 are selected by representatives from Churchill, road safety charity Brake and leading parent champions PTA UK. Since UK legislation was introduced in 2000 stating that Lollipoppers were no longer a legal...
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’), confirmed today (Thursday 21 April 2016) that a new Southern US inspired gourmet chicken brand, Absurd Bird, will be the eighth restaurant, completing the line up at Exeter's exciting new Queen St dining quarter.
With their restaurant in London's Spitalfields opening just last month and another branch opening in Soho very soon, Exeter has been selected by Absurd Bird for the opening of their first restaurant outside the capital. For Aviva Investors, signing up Absurd Bird marks a culinary milestone for...
After the long wet winter, Castle Drogo’s rhododendron garden is bursting into colour following vital conservation work and visitors can now stroll through the new paths and admire the vivid plants and other spring flowers such as daffodils, camellias and bluebells carpeting the garden floor.
For those who find accessing areas such as the garden or wider Drogo estate difficult, there is now a tramper available to hire as part of the Countryside Mobility South West scheme. The tramper route takes in some of the most fragrant parts of the garden including the azalea path and rose...
Playing ‘bourbon soaked gypsy blues bop ‘n’ stroll’, The Urban Voodoo Machine are a seven to ten-piece band hailing from Dalston, East London.
In 2002 Paul-Ronney Angel had an idea. He’d lead a band. They’d dress in black and red. There would be a LOT of them. And their music would sound like a great night out in a dangerous part of town. From the get-go, The UVM fused junkyard blues and stinging rockabilly with mariachi horns, fiddles, sinister cabaret and punk rock tangos.
‘I wanted to play rock’n’roll music with a different instrumentation,’ says Angel, ‘Taking...
The first shrouded figures in an astonishing grand-scale art installation in memory of those who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have gone on sale.
Artist Rob Heard is creating 19,240 hand-stitched figurines to represent each man who died on that day, one hundred years ago, at the beginning of the notorious World War One battle.
For each one completed he crosses a name off a list of those who died and says their name out loud to remember them.
On 1st July 2016, at 07:30 hours, exactly 100 years since the whistle was blown to ‘go over the top’, 19,...
Drivers parking in communities throughout Devon for an hour or more are being urged to help tackle congestion by choosing district council car parks over Devon County Council’s (DCC) on-street parking bays.
In what will be the first on-street parking increase in Devon for five years, from Monday 9 May 2016 an increase in tariffs will begin to be rolled out across the county.
It follows concern that many drivers contribute towards congestion by preferring to ‘circle’ the roads looking for vacant slightly cheaper on-street parking bays, instead of using district, city or...
The first cuckoo of the 2016 season has already been heard on Dartmoor, thereby heralding the long-awaited spring.
Over the last two years, Dartmoor National Park Authority, in partnership with Devon Birds and Exeter University, has been asking the public to report their cuckoo sightings.
During that time, we have collected over 2,000 records of cuckoos across Devon, with 90% of those records coming from Dartmoor.
This spring, we are again collecting as many sightings as possible. Please log your observations by going to our interactive map at www.dartmoor.gov.uk/...
