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A 47 year-old man may lose his sight after an unprovoked attack in an Exeter night club.

The victim was hit in the eyes with a bottle or glass while in Club Rococo early on Sunday Morning (24 November).

The man was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery but there is still a concern that the damage to his sight may be permanent.

Police investigating the assault are currently studying CCTV but as yet no arrests have been made. A police spokesman said: “We are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed anything in the club in Mary Arches Street on Saturday night...

Update: The 43 year-old who died after being severely injured at a house on Alphington Road has been named as Stephen Michael Crook.

Ryan Singleton, 25, appeared in court today and will begin preliminary hearings on December 12.

Singleton will also return to court for a bail hearing tomorrow.

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A 25 year-old man charged with murder has been named as Ryan Singleton from Coventry.

Mr Singleton is appearing in Exeter Magistrate’s court this morning to begin initial hearings.

Mr Singleton is being charged...

John Bidmead a 65 year-old former lorry driver has been sentenced to a 19 year prison sentence for child sex offences in Exeter Crown court today.

Bidmead from Cullompton was found with over a million images and videos of child pornography on his computer.

Police began investigating Bidmead after Interpol alerted them that Bidmead had been downloading the images.

A raid on his house caught Bidmead in the act of watching child pornography.

Officers at the Child Exploitation Unit forensically catalogued Bidmead’s collection of child pornography but had to stop...

Police are asking if anyone has seen a woman and her young child who left the Teignmouth area several months ago.

Angel Hudson, 25, left the area with her 17 month-old son Arthur Hudson-Cardy and has made no contact with her family since. Police would like Angel to make contact with them to ensure she and Arthur are both safe and well.

Angel (pictured) is described as a white woman, 6ft tall with shoulder length dark straight hair.

Police say she often wears jeans with a brown, leather coat and either boots or Vans type trainers Anyone who sees or knows of their...

Update: Police have arrested a 25 year old man on suspicion of murder.

The man is being held in Police custody and will be interviewed shortly

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Police in Exeter have launched a murder investigation after a man died from severe injuries last night.

Police were called to a home on Alphington road after neighbours raised concerns for a man’s safety.

At the scene Police found a badly injured 43 year-old man who was rushed to Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

The man later died of his injuries in the hospital.

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A Plymouth woman who reported a burglar had taken a picture of himself on her phone has said that she knows the man in the photo.

The woman found a picture on her mobile of an unknown man sitting in her home

The woman contacted Devon and Cornwall Police believing that a burglar had left a chilling calling card.

However, in what the police have called a “genuine lapse in memory” the unnamed woman forgot that the man had been in her house and was known to her.

The woman also reported that crisps and other food had gone missing from her house around the...

Crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers’ latest campaign to locate 13 wanted fugitives, believed to be hiding in Spain, includes an appeal for a man wanted for a series of drug offences, with links to Devon.

Stephen Blundell, 35, is wanted for the conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, and was convicted for being principal organiser of his own heroin supply chain.

He regularly arranged for heroin to be supplied from Liverpool to Devon, and is now believed to be hiding in Spain after skipping his hearing to be sentenced.

The Liverpudlian joins 12 other new wanted...

Police found smoke bombs and vehicles suspected to be stolen in Paignton yesterday.

The property in Broadsands Court was searched yesterday when a man and a woman failed to stop for police when driving through Torquay yesterday morning.

Police followed the car and arrested a 21-year old man from Wales and a 17-year old woman from Brixham.

They were taken into custody in Torquay police station and are still being held there until they can be interviewed.

The Explosives Ordnance Disposal unit were called in to assist with the safe removal of the smoke bombs...

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.

Anyone with any...

Five Police and Crime Commisioners, including Devon and Cornwall PCC Tony Hogg have sent letters to Policing Minister Damian Green over potential further cuts to police funding.

PCCs from the South West have come together to voice their concerns on the dangers of further cutting police budgets which would see a reduction to policing numbers. In the letter from from the PCCs they write: “In addition to grant reductions under the austerity programme we have recently faced a number of additional burdens. “These include the direct imposition of higher costs in relation to national...