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Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault on Lea Road, Tiverton.

The incident took place around 9.30pm on Friday 24th June opposite the entrance to the Tesco Express car park.

A confrontation took place between the occupants of a Red Volkswagon and a dark coloured Ford Mondeo on Lea Road. A 29-year-old man received minor injuries and a 42-year old woman was arrested and question in connection to this matter.

She has since been bailed until the 1st August pending further enquires.

Anyone who witnessed this incident is asked to contact PC Zane...

Police are appealing for witnesses following an unprovoked assault in Dawlish on Saturday 18th June.

The incident took place between 9:20 and 10pm.

Two men and a woman left the Mount Pleasant Inn at around 9.20pm on Saturday 18th June and walked up Mount Pleasant Road. When the three went to cross the zebra crossing, a red Nissan Micra drove at the pedestrians in dangerous manners, which lead to the group having to jump out of the way.

The 21-year-old woman in the group suffered a broken ankle following this incident.

At around 10pm, a red Nissan Mirca...

A man has made an emotional appeal for thieves to return his father’s war medals, after they were stolen from a train earlier this week.

The 64-year-old was returning from his father’s funeral on the 11.17am train between Birmingham New Street and Exeter St Davids on Tuesday.

He left his bag, which contained the medals, on the luggage rack but found it missing when he exited the train at Exeter.

The medals were won by the victim’s father (pictured) between 1945 and 1948.

He said: “I inherited these medals from my father’s estate only a couple of weeks ago...

Police are appealing for anyone with information about a series of car fires in Exeter this morning (9 June 2016) to contact them.

Police were made aware just after 2am that two cars were on fire in Church Terrace. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service attended to extinguish the fires and no further damage was caused to other vehicles in the road.

The fire service was already dealing with another car on fire in a driveway of a property in Magdalen Road, and another car was reported on fire in Fore Street, Heavitree.

The fires are being treated as suspicious,...

Police are appealing for witnesses following an unprovoked assault in Sidwell Street, Exeter.

At around 9.55pm on Wednesday 1st June, a 36-year-old local man was walking past the Monkey Suit pub on Sidwell Street when a man ran past him, punching him to the left side of his face.

The victim did not require medical treatment but was shaken by the incident.

The suspect is described as a white male, 5’10 in height with a stocky build and short mousy brown coloured hair.

It is believed that a number of people were in the area at the time and may have witnessed...

Police are appealing for witnesses following an unprovoked assault in Sidwell Street, Exeter.

At around 9.55pm on Wednesday 1st June, a 36-year-old local man was walking past the Monkey Suit pub on Sidwell Street when a man ran past him, punching him to the left side of his face.

The victim did not require medical treatment but was shaken by the incident.

The suspect is described as a white male, 5’10 in height with a stocky build and short mousy brown coloured hair.

It is believed that a number of people were in the area at the time and may have witnessed...

Police are seeking witnesses after two women were racially abused in Sidwell Street, Exeter on Saturday 28th May at around 6.15pm.

The women were walked passed a man in the street who then subjected them to verbal abuse using racist language - Both women were left shaken and distressed by the incident.

Police are appealing for witnesses and are seeking the offender who is described as being a white man, of stocky build aged between 40 and 50 years old. He was wearing jeans and a pale blue polo shirt.

Sergeant Colin Harper, from Exeter Neighbourhood Team, said: “This...

Police are seeking witnesses after a woman was racially abused in Exeter on Bank Holiday Monday night [2 May].

The woman, who was wearing a hijab, was approached by a man while she waited at the bus stop outside Evans store in the High Street around 9.50pm.

He subjected her to verbal abuse using racist language before following her onto the bus using threatening behaviour.

The victim, in her 20s and from Exeter, was left shaken and distressed by the incident.

Police are appealing for witnesses and are seeking the offender who is described as being aged...

Police are appealing for witnesses following an indecent exposure in Exeter.

In the early evening of Monday 25th April, police received a report of a man cycling around Market Street, Exeter wearing no trousers or underwear, and only wearing a dark hoodie.

It is believed that this is the same person who was seen cycling in and around the same area on the 18th of April at around 4am; once again he was wearing a dark hoodie with the hood up and no trousers or underwear.

On both occasions the man was seen cycling on Market Street before heading along Smythen Street,...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted and two cars were damaged in a car park in Exeter at the weekend.

A 46-year-old local woman was assaulted by a man, who was known to her, in the Stone Lane Retail Park in Marsh Barton on Sunday 10 April at around 3.45pm.

The wing mirrors and a windscreen wiper were reported to have been damaged on a silver Volkswagen Touran, which was parked next to the Matalan store.

A black Skoda was also damaged during the incident.

A 25-year-old man, from Dawlish, was arrested on suspicion of common assault...