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
Six volunteers from Exmouth RNLI lifeboat crew are cycling in full kit from Dawlish to Exmouth on Sunday 20 January. They intend to raise money towards the launch and recovery equipment needed for their Shannon lifeboat, expected by early 2014.
SOS Day is all about having fun and raising funds. On the last Friday in January, lifeboat stations and RNLI supporters around the UK and Ireland hold lots of fun events, really brightening up this otherwise dull month! The Exmouth volunteers have decided to hold their event on the previous Sunday in order to catch supporters at each of...
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 Families with one parent earning more than £50,000 lose part of their child benefit and it will be fully withdrawn where one parent earns above £60,000.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.
A light-hearted survey of some of the more unusual characters to hold ecclesiastical office in the Diocese of Exeter. Using papers from the Cathedral Archive and the County Record Office, Paul Evans, who is giving the lecture, explores the lives some of Devon's clergy who have not merely erred and strayed from the social, cultural and liturgical norms of the Church of England, but also those who naughtily followed the devices and desires of their own hearts. From Bishops to unbeneficed preachers (sometimes not without reason), this lecture aims to explore a broad and colourful...
Update: Mr Kerr returned home safe and well earlier this morning.
Police are appealing for sightings of a missing person in the Devon area. Stephen Kerr was last seen on Thursday 3rd January, 2013, at the car park at Parke in Bovey Tracy, Devon, a parkland and forest area belonging to the National Trust.
Stephen is described as a white male in his mid-50s. He is 5’8’’ tall and of slim build with green eyes and straight grey hair, which is receding. Stephen was last seen wearing a black jacket and dark trousers.
Police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen...
The two men arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences in Torquay have been released without charge. However, Police say that a criminal investigation will continue. The men, aged 18 and 20, were arrested under the Terrorism Act on Thursday following the discovery of a suspect package at a house in Torquay. Police forensics experts had been searching the house in Lymington Road. The area, between Upton Road and Upton Hill, was closed to the public for about five hours on Thursday.
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...
This year we are delighted to be able to welcome Mike Nelhams, Garden Curator of Tresco Abbey Garden, Isles of Scilly to present the Gardening Talk in aid of ELF. If led blindfold into the Abbey Garden you would be hard pressed to tell which region of the world you were in. Mike will lead us through this Island Paradise.
Tickets are just £5 and are available from the ELF Office on 01392 493344, the ELF Centre on 01392 247725, Kings Garden Centre (Exmouth) Otter Nurseries (Ottery St Mary) and the Garden Shop (Budleigh Salterton) or on the door. Refreshments and raffle will be...
Responding to the Shadow Chancellor’s suggestion today to cut pensions tax relief for top-rate taxpayers to fund a “jobs guarantee” for the long-term unemployed, Richard Ayre, chairman of the Institute of Directors in the South West, said: “However laudable Ed Balls’ job-creation aim may be, pensions saving is the wrong target to produce money to pay for the scheme. “Pensions have been hammered repeatedly by governments looking for more cash, damaging public confidence in retirement saving. “If the coalition wishes to encourage people to save more, they should resist calls for further...
