Three shops in Torquay and one in Paignton have been shut down after an operation discovered they had links to crime and were selling illegal tobacco and cigarettes. The shops were visited by local police officers and Heart of the South West T...
Release date: 29/07/2026
A triple murderer has been found guilty of killing two vulnerable men in Cornwall before strangling his cellmate to death while on remand in prison. James Desborough, 40, murdered and dismembered Claudio Aquilino and Daniel Coleman then tried to burn and ...
Release date: 28/07/2026
The new Devon & Cornwall Police tractor rolled into Teignmouth on Monday as part of the town’s fantastic Blue Light Day. Local residents and holiday makers in the coastal resort had chance to get up close with the newly-named ‘Crop Cop’ machine during...
Release date: 28/07/2026
Shane Waldron, 43, who had been reported missing from the Exeter area today, Tuesday July 28, has been found safe by police. We would like to thank members of the public for their help. ...
Release date: 28/07/2026
A Torquay drug dealer has been jailed for three years and four months after officers located nearly £30,000 worth of illegal drugs within an address. Robson Cann, 30, from West Pafford Avenue in Torquay, appeared at Exeter Crown Court for sentence on Tues...
Release date: 28/07/2026
Officers are appealing for witnesses and footage following an alleged unprovoked attack in Teignmouth which saw a man hospitalised with serious injuries after coming to the aid of his two friends. The victims – two men and a woman – were walking through t...
Release date: 27/07/2026
Officers are appealing for witnesses and information following a serious road traffic collision on the A39 at Morlaix Avenue, Truro. Emergency services were called to the scene around 9.20pm on Saturday 25 July following a report of a single vehicle colli...
Release date: 27/07/2026
We are appealing for witnesses and information following a stabbing in Plymouth. We were called to Honicknowle Lane in Plymouth at 11.30pm on Sunday 19 July following a report a man had been stabbed. A 49-year-old local man was taken to Derriford Hospital...
Release date: 27/07/2026
Police are appealing for witnesses after 81 lambs were discovered missing from a farm in Kenn near Exeter earlier this week. The farmer has been feeding the flock daily and noticed the drop in numbers when he brought the livestock in for shearing on 22 J...
Release date: 24/07/2026
We are appealing for witnesses following a report of outraging public decency in Plymouth. Shortly before 9pm on Thursday 23 July it was reported a man was causing a nuisance and performing a sex act on himself in the alleyway next to the gin distillery o...
Release date: 24/07/2026
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