Teignbridge

A Town councillor has urged community groups in Teignmouth to apply for a share of £211,000 being made available in Devon by the Police and Crime Commissioner, Alison Hernandez.

The end is in sight for Newton Abbot resident Alex Lyons, who’s closing in on the finale of a grueling year-long challenge: running 50 half-marathons in 50 weeks to mark his 50th birthday and raise £10,000 for the local charity Life Chance Trust.

An imminent lengthy closure of a main road in and out of Newton Abbot has prompted Newton Abbot Town Council to speak up on behalf of businesses and residents.

Devon councillors are calling for clarity amid fears that the government’s plans to shut them down are descending into ’disarray’.

Newton Abbot Museum is preparing to celebrate half a decade since opening the doors of its new home at Newton’s Place, the former St Leonard’s Church in Wolborough Street.

The guardians of Dartmoor have given their blessing to a massive makeover for a golf club inside the national park.

A £50,000 donation from Newton Abbot Hospital League of Friends has enabled Newton Abbot Community Transport Association (NACTA) to add two minibuses to its fleet.

Campaigners fighting plans for a new quarry at Kingsteignton say bulldozing trees across an area the size of 60 football pitches is not a foregone conclusion.

Newton Abbot’s community is being offered a chance to add their faces to celebratory flags to be displayed in the town’s museum.

A public information event will be held next week (Tuesday 9 September) about the upcoming A382 improvements near Newton Abbot.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed at a premises near Exminster, Teignbridge, Devon.

Officers are appealing for information over the theft of a memorial cross from a church graveyard in Broadhempston.

The accuracy of statistics and the way they are factually presented has been called into question by the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly following the recent publication of two policing data stories.