An Exeter school has joined in paying tribute to the memory of a 12-year-old girl who died after falling from a wall at the Phoenix Youth centre in Burnthouse Lane. The girl, named as Nicole Hartup by police, is thought to have fallen from the wall whilst watching a football game with friends on Friday evening (23 May). Despite immediate care from Staff from the Youth centre and nearby sports centre, Nicole sadly died at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital later that night. Isca college of Media Arts, where Nicole was a year seven student will hold a memorial assembly for Nicole next week and...
Police are appealing for information following the death of 12-year-old Nicole Hartup who fell from a wall at an Exeter youth club on Friday night.
Emergency services were alerted around 8.50pm to a report of the young girl having fallen from an eight foot wall at the rear of the Phoenix Youth Club, off Burnthouse Lane, Exeter.
Youth club support workers and staff from the nearby sports centre were on the scene and immediately went to the aid of Nicole. It is thought that some of the local children also went to help the local girl, who had been playing with her friends when...
A man who killed his crying baby by throwing him into his cot has been jailed at Exeter Crown Court yesterday. Matthew Wickens, 24, was jailed for six years and five months after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of his son, Riley Gardener.
Matthew Wickens, from Newton Abbot, admitted that he had shook Riley and slammed him down in his cot when he could not get the crying baby to settle , in November 2012.
Post-mortem examinations on Riley's body showed that he suffered massive head injuries associated with non-accidental shaking injuries.
A 56-year-old man whose body was found in the River Exe on Saturday morning has been named locally as Kevin Osmond. Although not yet named by police, tributes for Mr Osmond were posted on facebook yesterday evening. Local man Steve Power dedicated a photograph to Mr Osmond with a message of condolence. Mr Power writes: “After hearing the sad news that a body had been found in the Exe yesterday, today it transpires that the man was someone I and many others from the Exwick area knew well. “He used to live next door to me for a while and would drink in my local pub the Thatched House in...
A Sidmouth man in his 30s tragically died this weekend after a car he was working on collapsed onto him. Two crews of Firefighters from Sidmouth fire station were called to the man’s family home on Betjeman Close at around 6:30pm on Saturday evening. The crews found the man had already been released from the fallen car and gave CPR to the badly injured man. Fire crews then called for police assistance to take the man from the scene. A police helicopter arrived on scene at 7:30pm and airlifted the man to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital where he was pronounced dead. A file is being...
The identity of a 52-year old man, believed to be homeless, who died shortly after being found unconscious in a laundrette has still not been confirmed.
Police officers were called to a popular laundrette in Well Street on Saturday 11th January at 12.20pm.
The man was alive when police attended the scene, but died later Saturday afternoon.
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police today said that updates on this incident will be made available on The Devon and Cornwall Police website when more information comes to light.
A 19-year-old man from Exeter has died in a car crash in Wiltshire.
The man, who has not been named, was a passenger in a car which hit the curb and overturned before colliding with a tree at around 18:30 yesterday evening (Monday 11 November).
The driver, a man from the Peterborough area, was taken to Salisbury District Hospital with serious head injuries.
The 19 year-old died at the scene just outside of Tidworth
Wiltshire Police closed the road to investigate and more details are expected once the families have been informed.
Wildlife charities have welcomed the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) swift action to ban ships across the world from discharging all forms of high viscosity polyisobutylene (PIB) into the sea during tank cleaning operations. PIB was the chemical responsible for the deaths of over 4000 seabirds on the south west coast earlier this year.
The tragedy, the largest marine pollution incident of its kind in the region since Torrey Canyon, shocked thousands of people.
At a meeting of the IMO’s working group on the Evaluation of Safety and Pollution Hazards of Chemicals...
With the summer festival season in full flow people in Devon are being warned to keep safe from the silent killer.
Gas distribution business Wales & West Utilities is warning of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning from camping stoves and barbeques and is asking parents to make sure their festival-going teenagers are well aware of the risks before they set off on their camping weekends.
The warning came just days after Bethan O'Brien, 20, died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning while on holiday in Devon.
Police are currently investigating an unexplained death in Sidmouth. Officers were called at around 1.30pm today (9 July) after reports that a member of the public had found the body of a woman on the beach, approximately half a mile from Jacobs Ladder. Along with police, the Sidmouth lifeboat, Coastguard and paramedics were called to the area. The woman was pronounced deceased at the scene. The death is currently being treated as unexplained.
