The following is a blog piece written by Police and Crime Comissioner Tony Hogg.
People will know that I have had some wide and contrasting experiences in life. Thirty years in the Royal Navy took me into many unpleasant situations, and, in the years that followed, I worked with many disadvantaged and disabled youngsters through a Cornish charity.
Since being elected as Police and Crime Commissioner I have joined police and officers and staff at the ‘sharp end’ on numerous occasions, and my latest foray onto the streets has had a profound effect on me.
The overwhelming response to help farmers affected by floods in Somerset has left the South West NFU with more supplies than it can keep.
People from across the UK delivered forage and bedding to Sedgemoor livestock market tohelp keep the animals displaced by flooding on the Somerset Levels.
The South West NFU has thanked everyone who helped but has asked for no more deliveries as they simply cannot find room for any more at the current time.
“What we need now are pledges of fodder and straw or financial donations rather than actual deliveries, so that we can call...
In recognition of the World War One centenary, Exeter University Choral Society is performing Karl Jenkins' highly acclaimed work The Armed Man (together with a chamber orchestra)
Tickets (£12 front nave, £10 rear nave, £8 side aisles) from euchoraltickets@gmail.com or buy online by clicking here
About the work
The Mass begins with a marching army and the beat of military drums, the orchestra gradually building to the choir’s entrance, singing the 15th-century theme tune – The Armed Man. After the scene is set, the style and pace changes and we are prepared for...
Three East Devon Dsitrict Council employees got up early to help promote blood and organ donation in Axminster.
The trio from EDDC’s StreetScene team were helping Jo Seddon from NHS Blood and Transplant with a new campaign.
Dave Seal, Graham Trude and Jerry Preston were in the town centre at 6am hanging woollen blood drops in a tree.
Anyone wanting more information can visit www.blood.co.uk or go along to the church in the centre of Axminster to see the tree in all its glory and get more information from a stall in the square.
The Rotary Club of Exmouth & District is delighted to announce that a “Last Night of the Rotary Proms” concert at Exeter Cathedral to celebrate the Centenary of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland will be held on the evening of March 1st 2014.
Monies from the event will be going to three charities, the Childrens Hospice South West, at Little Bridge House, Barnstaple; Devon Air Ambulance Trust and the End Polio Now initiative from the Rotary Foundation, Rotary’s own charity.
Entertainment for the evening will be provided by the Military Wives choirs from...
Dartmoor Training Area and Okehampton Battle Camp were the location of a simulated aviation incident for a training exercise recently. The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team, who organised the exercise at Okehampton, were testing their capabilities, and those of several other agencies, in responding to a mass casualty exercise.
Exercise Indigo was designed to identify and explore the quality of care received by patients in a mass casualty situation and involved personnel from Devon and Cornwall Police, Devon and Somerset Fire and...
A controversial budget making cuts of more than £28m to Devon County Council’s spending has been passed at a full council vote.
The budget outlines several significant cuts to the council’s services including the provision of day centres, residential children’s homes and the closure of youth clubs run by Devon’s youth service. At a meeting on Thursday, the Conservative-led council was widely criticised by opposition councillors for making spending cuts in these areas. The council has also confirmed that council tax will rise for the first time in four years by an average of £22 per...
After the success of last year’s festival, plans are well underway for the second year of Exefest – Exeter Canalside Folk Festival.
Headliner Melrose Quartet, nominated for Best Group at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, is the coming-together of multi-award winning duo Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, and legendary Sheffield duo Richard and Jess Arrowsmith.
Also featured are Luke Jackson, nominated for both the Young Folk Award and the Horizon Award at the 2013 Folk Awards, and newcomers The Dovetail Trio and The Black Hares.
Police are appealing for information after a spate of off-road motorcycle thefts in the Teignbridge area over the last weekend. Some five bikes worth £34,000 were taken in one raid from a remote location in Tedburn St Mary. The five bikes belong to motocross freestyle professional Jamie Sqiubb (pictured) whose bikes are his livelihood. Taken were a green 2014 Kawaski KXF450F, a blue 2011 Yamaha YZ250, a red Gasgas 250 trial bike and two red Honda CRF 50cc mini bikes. The bikes were taken from his home at Five Mile Farm sometime over the weekend of 14 to 16 February. Between 15 to 18...
