Detectives in Devonport are investigating the death of a 25 year old man who was found at an address in Stoke on Saturday 12 January 2013.
Ambulance staff called officers to the Albert Road flat at around 2.15 p.m. where they found the body of a man inside. He has yet to be formally identified.
Uniformed Officers and Detectives attended the scene and interviewed other residents at the address.
This will be referred to the HM Coroner. Police have not yet ruled out the possibility that the death is drug related.
Anyone with information regarding this matter is...
Devon County Council is gearing up for the onset of freezing conditions and possible wintry showers this weekend, and motorists are being advised to take extra care on the county’s roads.
Rain is forecast across the county tomorrow, but once that clears there may be sleet and snow showers on high ground, followed by temperatures dropping below zero overnight on Saturday and into Sunday morning.
With run-off from the rainfall, widespread ice and frost is likely across Devon and the County Council's gritters are expected to be out treating more than 2,000 miles of the county’...
Police are concerned for the welfare of 18-year-old man Jamie Grewal, who has gone missing from the Ivybridge area.
He was last seen last on Friday afternoon, 4th January, after having a drink with friends after work in the Abbey Inn pub at Buckfastleigh during lunchtime. He was then dropped off in Ivybridge around 1.30pm to 2pm.
He has not been seen or heard from since that time.
Jamie is described as five feet five inches tall, of very slim build with dark brown, short hair.
He was last seen wearing a turquoise blue jacket with jeans and trainers.
According to eye witness reports and local activists, police are preventing protesters from demonstrating at the adventure playground set for demolition in Battersea Park, South London.
Police are said to be denying entry to the park, meaning that people already inside the protest area are having to use bottles instead of using the toilets outside of what is effectively a kettle.
Some participants have travelled a long way to join Occupy in Battersea Park, saying it is an example of how the financial crisis impacts locally. (NewsPoint)
A main highway in Tel Aviv, Ayalon, has been shut due to extreme flooding which is currently affecting Israel.
Photographs shared by Israeli police show the road submerged in water, after the river that runs alongside the highway burst it's banks. Three people were killed and another was seriously injured in a car accident early on Tuesday morning, on Highway 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The cause of the accident is thought to be due to the adverse weather conditions. Magen David Adom rescue services pronounced the three casualties dead at the scene.
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...
Members of Devon and Cornwall Police have hit the streets of Falmouth ‘Gangnam Style’ to help raise funds for a young boy left with disabilities following a brain tumour.
Sergeant Gary Watts ‘persuaded’ colleagues from the town station to join him in a public re-creation of the cult music video by South Korean rapper PSY. Officers and PCSOs put their dancing skills to the test to film the parody at various locations in the town, including Falmouth Quay.
The tongue-in-cheek charity video, which has now been posted on the Force Youtube site at: http://youtu.be/jhWrCGVMQf8 and...
Yesterday afternoon (Thursday, 3rd January) police arrested two men under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act – the preparation of a terrorist act.
The two arrested men were initially detained on suspicion of committing criminal damage, but later rearrested under the Terrorism Act.
Police spent much of yesterday searching an address in Lymington Road, Torquay, which required the evacuation of a small number of neighbouring properties, including a 31-week pregnant woman. The road cordons have now been removed, although police remain at the property.
After yet another day of searching for Jordan Cobb, who was last seen jumping from Torpoint Ferry on New Year's Eve, there appears to be no sign of the missing boy.
From 10am, three RNLI Lifeboats and two MoD launches undertook searches in the area north of the Breakwater in Plymouth Sound. The coordinated search involved some 50 members of staff from the Coastguard and Devon & Cornwall and Ministry of Defence (MoD) Police and included both sides of the river and the dockyard taking advice from the force Lost Person Search Manager (LPSM).
