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Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez and Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer, the National Police Chiefs' Council Lead on Modern Slavery, have welcomed today’s news that the Home Secretary is backing their bid for extra resources to tackle modern slavery. Amber Rudd has announced that the Government is giving an extra £8.5 million nationally to help police fight this crime. This new response, led by Devon and Cornwall, will provide over 50 dedicated analysts, specialists and investigators. These additional capabilities will help police in England and Wales transform their current work....

The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has become the new provider at Honiton Minor Injuries Unit (MIU).

The Trust is running the service, based at Honiton Community Hospital, for a 12-month period. The MIU was previously run by Northern Devon Healthcare Trust. Highly qualified nurse practitioners with expertise in treating a whole range of minor injuries will staff the unit.

Adel Jones, Divisional Director for Medicine at the RD&E, said: “We would encourage the population in and around Honiton to use the Minor Injuries Unit as much as possible whenever it is...

Jack Walker, from Plymouth, has been named the south west’s Most Promising Trainee Civil Engineer in a prestigious regional awards programme run by the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA). Jack joined Dawnus Construction in Exeter in 2013 as an industrial placement student, but kept in touch with his colleagues after returning to university. He graduated from Plymouth University with a 1st class honours degree and re-joined Dawnus in May 2015. Since that time, he has been working on the 12 Dock project in Devonport, where he is now the sole engineer supervising the...

Police are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision that has left two dead and a further two in hospital.

Emergency services were called following reports of a collision on the A358 Chard Road near Tytherleigh, just outside Axminster at 3.30pm on Monday 17th October.

The collision involved a Citroën Xsara Picasso and a Ford Transit Luton van; the Citroën was heading towards Axminster and the Ford Transit was heading in the opposite direction.

As a result of the collision, the 44-year-old female driver of the Citroën and a 17-year-old passenger both...