Police are asking the public for information after two boys were seen shooting an air rifle at birds. The incident happened at around 4.30pm on Thursday 28 February 2013 in the car park near to bridge at Bromhams car park in Exeter. Officers are keen to speak to people who may have witnessed the incident or saw the boys with the weapon. Anyone with any information is asked to call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 or the police switchboard on 101 quoting crime reference DE/13/1948
1.30pm: Upton Pyne Hill remains closed due to an earlier accident. No further details have been released of the number of vehicles involved or any injuries.
Upton Pyne Hill in Upton Pyne is reported to be closed around the Burridge Road junction, because of a serious accident. Recovery work is currently being carried out to clear the accident.
Update: Formal identification has now been carried out and the deceased has been named as Keith Dance aged 33 years who lived on Molesworth Road in the Stoke area of Plymouth.
Jacqueline Cooke aged 29 of Victoria Place and Ian Gollop aged 50 of Molesworth Road – both Stoke addresses - have been charged with the murder of Keith Dance. They are both due to appear at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning, Thursday 14 March.
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Police are unable name the deceased at this time as formal identification has not yet been carried out, though the family has been...
Fire crews were called to reports of a property fire in Mount Pleasant, Exeter just after 11pm last night, where there were still people within the building.
One fire appliance from Danes Castle and one from Middlemoor attended the incident.
On arrival, crews found there to be a fire on the ground floor. One baby was rescued from the property by police officers before fire service arrived. All other persons were accounted for.
Crews extinguished the fire using two breathing apparatus wearers and one hose reel jet.
Four teenagers have been found safe and well after they became separated from the adults they were with while training for Ten Tors. The alarm was raised at 7.45pm on Saturday 9 March 2013 when the missing youngsters rang the police, but were unable to give their exact location. Although dressed appropriately, they had no shelter with them. The weather prevented the force helicopter from lifting, and the Dartmoor Rescue Group was called in to take part in the search. Through careful questioning of the missing people the officers organised a systematic search and found them just after...
Shortly after 7am on Sunday 10 March 2013, police attended an address in Randolph Close, Plymouth. A 21-year-old female named Jenny Launder was found dead at the address.
A forensic post mortem has been completed due to the nature of the scene. The initial findings of the post mortem would indicate that the death is no longer deemed as suspicious albeit the investigation is continuing jointly with HM Coroner.
Seven people from West Cornwall have been charged with drugs offences following a two-year Police investigation.
The six men and a woman have all been charged with conspiracy to import drugs into the UK and also with supplying Class B drugs.
All seven will appear before Truro Magistrates Court on Thursday 28 March 2013.
Those charged are: Martyn Couchman, 34; Aaron Lampshire, 34; Valerie Isaacs, 48; Ryan Clapp, 24; Brian Hendra, 26; Jonathan Taylor, 24, who are all from the Camborne area; Peter Cuffe, 30, from the Redruth area. Police ref: AC/13/754
A 56-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a woman in Torquay. Police were called to a property in Shelley Avenue at 6.40am today (6 March) and discovered the body of a 54-year-old woman. The man has been taken to Torbay District Hospital but remains in police custody.
A police investigation is underway and scenes of crime officers are conducting an examination of the property today. The cause of death has yet to be established and next of kin have not yet been informed.
Update: Following police enquiries, Darren Cockburn was located safe and well this morning (08/03) in the Woolacombe area of Devon.
Police are appealing for information to help trace 46-year-old Darren Cockburn from West Yorkshire, who has been missing from his home in Shipley for just over a week since Monday, 25th February. He is described as a white man, 5ft 8 tall of a medium build. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He has access to a black Renault Laguna registration HV 57 YTY - this vehicle was last seen in the Tiveton area of Devon on the night he disappeared. He is known to...
Police in Honiton are appealing for information following an attempted robbery. The incident occurred at around 7.55pm on Tuesday 5 March in New Street Honiton. The victim, a woman aged 40 years was approached by a man who assaulted her by grabbing her right shoulder and spun her around to face him. He then grabbed her bag and punched her in the face. The victim kicked the man and was able to get her bag back before the suspect ran off. The victim was conveyed to hospital for treatment but was not seriously injured. The suspect is described as a white man, aged 20 years old, approximately...
