Police are appealing for witnesses and footage following a serious road traffic collision near to Yelverton on the A386. Officers were called at around 12:30pm on Friday 5 June following a report of a collision involving a car and motorcycle on the bend n...
Release date: 08/06/2026
Police in Torbay are reminding youngsters and their parents about the dangers of entering derelict sites and abandoned buildings. Officers have been receiving reports every day of young people going into unsafe buildings throughout the area, ...
Release date: 05/06/2026
Business owners are being asked to check their CCTV following attempted burglaries earlier this week in and around Plymouth. On Tuesday 19 May a male suspect entered two separate businesses in Plymouth via staff entrances and gained access to restricted a...
Release date: 05/06/2026
A woman who died near Helston has been named by police and her family have paid tribute to her. The family of Jenny Firth, 81, from Ashton, said in a tribute: “Our family is utterly devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of our beautiful mum and granny....
Release date: 05/06/2026
Young Plymouth Police Cadets took part in an operation recently when they tried to buy knives from local shops. The test purchase visits to nine retail premises were part of the national Sceptre awareness week to tackle knife crime and keep communities sa...
Release date: 05/06/2026
An Isles of Scilly man piloted a 24ft vessel while drunk and collided with another boat causing tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of damage. Joshua Street, 29, was found by Police the following morning asleep on his boat. Street, of Bryher, Isles of Scil...
Release date: 05/06/2026
A local Launceston teen has been chosen as the High Sheriff of Cornwall’s newest police cadet following a competitive countywide selection process. 15-year-old Faith, who has been a police cadet for over two and a half years, was appointed by the High She...
Release date: 05/06/2026
A man has been jailed for attacking a complete stranger making his way home after a night out and stealing his belongings. David Gibbs subjected the victim to a brutal and unprovoked attack on the Tarka Trial, between Barnstaple and Chivenor on 30 Septemb...
Release date: 04/06/2026
A Plymouth man regularly attacked his partner and then claimed she’d been either injured at work or had inflicted the injuries herself. Joseph Powney, 35, of Beaumont Road, Plymouth, was sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday 2 June to three years i...
Release date: 04/06/2026
We are investigating a serious road traffic collision near Dawlish on Monday 1 June and are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Officers were called at 7.05am to a two-vehicle road traffic collision on Colley Lane near Dawlish. The incident invol...
Release date: 03/06/2026
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