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A JUDGE has ordered a top level investigation into why the case of an arsonist who was later caught with a knife and made serious sex threats against women was given a lenient sentence by magistrates. At Exeter Crown Court Judge Stephen Wildblood QC heard that Devon fire raiser Martin Cooper had been roaming the streets despite the fact that he could pose a serious danger to the public and was ...
THE final phase of a scheme to prevent another devastating flood at a Dawlish Warren residential park has been given the go-ahead. Eight years ago, about 100 people had to be rescued by RAF helicopters and coastguards using inflatables, from Hazeldown Park, now Beechwood Residential Park, after the Shutterton Brook burst its banks. The water rose up to six feet and it was a major emergency with ...
THREE people were taken to hospital yesterday after being involved in a head-on collision at Kenton. The driver and passenger in a Toyota MR2 and the driver of a BMW suffered suspected broken bones in the incident on the A379. Ambulance staff treated the people at the scene just after 4.30pm, before they were taken to Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Their injuries were not thought to be ...
ATROCITIES of the Second World War were brought vividly to life for a group of South Devon veterans and their families during an emotional trip to Normandy this week. The Normandy Veterans' Association is on the French coast to mark 64 years since D-Day, and their visit to the Caen Memorial Museum turned out to be too much for some. While many of the veterans, proudly wearing medals on their ...
Does anyone know when the bandstand is being knocked down to make way for something that doesn't look like it belongs in afghanistan.
SEASIDE areas across the Westcountry will have to abandoned within two or three generations because the cost of protecting them from coastal erosion is too high, the new chief of the Environment Agency has warned. The sea will reclaim vast stretches of the UK's coastline, with some vulnerable sections of the coast in this region evacuated and left to the mercy of the sea, according to Lord Smith ...
Visitors to seaside resorts have been put on alert after potentially-deadly Portuguese Man o' War jellyfish were washed up on Devon beaches. The creatures were found on beaches at Smuggler's Cove, Dawlish, and Salcombe Regis, near Sidmouth. Marine experts have warned beach lovers not to pick up the jellyfish, which can inflict severe stings from their lengthy tentacles. A seven-year-old boy was ...
ESCAPED psychiatric patient Martin Cooper was found to be carrying a knife and a single stocking in his pocket when he turned up at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital and refused to leave, Exeter Crown Court heard. Cooper's friend, a fellow patient from Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, was carrying rope when they were searched by police who were called to the RD&E Hospital by worried staff. Cooper, 34, ...
A main rail line was under threat after a section of a historic sea wall in Devon was torn out by storm waves, while some parts of the country had four fifths of an average month’s rainfall in one day. Train services on the Paddington to Penzance route were affected after part of the seawall, built between Teignmouth and Dawlish by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 150 years ago, was torn out. The rain ...
Two policemen were hurt as they arrested a man after a disturbance at a pub in Dawlish over the weekend.One of the officers needed hospital treatment for facial injuries after the incident in Brunswick Place after 2pm on Saturday. His colleague received bruising to his back, arms and legs in the fracas. A 23-year-old man was eventually subdued by officers who were helped by members of the ...
