Officers are investigating an attempted robbery on a 14-year-old boy in Seaton.
The Seaton schoolboy was walking along Valley View on 3 January when he was approached from behind by a man who grabbed him by the jumper and tried to snatch his iPhone.
The phone fell to the ground and the offender made off empty-handed towards the fire station.
The boy was left very shaken by the incident which happened around 5.35pm and the phone was damaged.
Police are appealing for witnesses and are asking for anyone who saw the incident to contact them on 101, quoting...
A man from Exeter is hoping to organise a jazz concert in aid of Hospiscare but is in need of funding from local businesses.
Wayne Hill has been inspired to organise this charity event after losing family and friends to cancer. He needs local businesses in Exeter to help support this event by funding for jazz bands and singers, technicians and tickets.
He is hoping to run the event in the Voodoo Lounge at the Phoenix Art Centre, on 10th August 2013.
Hospiscare is a charity situated in Devon, which support and care for patients with terminal illnesses.
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It is feared that 16-year-old Jordan Cobb from Plymouth drowned after he jumped from Torpoint ferry on New Year's Eve. Despite extensive cross-agency searches and a waning possibility that he will now be found alive, a Facebook page set up by his friends is asking for people to keep hoping. A fundraising page to offer support to his family has so far raised a total of £1,184.
All of the money will be given to the Cobb family next month. http://www.gofundme.com/jordancobb
More than a million better-off families will lose some or all of their child benefit, under changes which came into force at midnight. Families with one parent earning more than £50,000 lose part of their child benefit and it will be fully withdrawn where one parent earns above £60,000. However, if both parents earn £49,000 each, they will continue to receive child benefit.
David Cameron described the move as "fundamentally fair" but Labour said it was a "huge assault" on families.
The Rt Revd Michael Langrish, Bishop of Exeter, announced today (Sunday 6th January) that he will retire this year.
Bishop Michael has served as Bishop of Exeter since 2000 and has been a priest for 40 years. His will be 67 this summer. His last service will be in Exeter Cathedral on 29th June.
The Church of England's House of Bishops has announced that it is to end a ban on gay clergy in civil partnerships becoming bishops providing they promise to be celibate.
However, Conservative evangelical Anglicans say they will strongly resist the development in the synod. They have warned they would be willing to bring in bishops from overseas to avoid serving under a gay bishop.
In November, the Bishop of Durham Justin Welby, appointed to succeed Dr Rowan Williams as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, said the Church of England must have “no truck with any form of...
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is appealing for blood donors who are O Rh negative (O-) to come forward to give blood now following the festive period.
