South Devon News

Officers are appealing for information to help identify these men in connection with the theft of more than £10,400 worth of skincare products from a Torquay store.

‘Vision’ is back in vogue in Torbay, according to the man whose own glimpse of the future started a furore 20 years ago.

Torbay’s council tax payers will have to foot the clean-up bill for red ‘St George’ crosses daubed on roundabouts and street furniture across the bay.

Following discussions with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), we have received approval to reallocate Future High Streets Funding originally earmarked for public realm improvements. The funding will now support the delivery of a much-needed extra-care housing scheme in Paignton.

More than 30 much-needed homes for local families will be provided across Torbay after bay councillors signed off on two fresh projects.

On Sunday morning, Falmouth Coastguard paged RNLI Torbay at 10.26am to inform us that a young male adult had gone ‘missing

This week Torbay Council were made aware of changes that needed to be made in order to ensure their designated Blue Flag beaches in Torbay meet the Blue Flag Award criteria.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is issuing an urgent plea for volunteers to help people to remain independent in their care home.

A new patient app and monitoring system has been launched in Torbay and South Devon to help people who are having a total hip or knee replacement to prepare for and recover from their surgery.

Police are appealing for the public’s assistance identifying this man following a sexual assault in Torquay.

Torbay Hospital are inviting people across the Torbay and South Devon to help shape their future by taking part in a short survey.

Torbay’s ‘chronic’ lack of industrial units has prompted members of the bay’s planning committee to defy their officers.

Officers are appealing for information about the whereabouts of a 44-year-old man from Torbay who is wanted by police.

Torbay has been selected to host the South West leg of the UK’s biggest suicide prevention initiative.

Providing homes for children who can no longer stay in their own is costing Torbay Council far more than expected.

People who have been treated for cancer at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust have rated their care and the service as among the best in the country for the third year in a row.

People living in up-market Torquay apartments could be in line for protection from wayward golf shots.

People in Torbay have been warned they face steep rises in council tax if a local government shake-up sees them having to  join forces with their neighbours.

Work on multi-million-pound flood defences at Paignton will begin next month.

A complex web of scaffolding is going up around Paignton’s most prestigious historic building as long-awaited renovations begin.

A Torquay shopkeeper who had thousands of illegal cigarettes hidden behind a mirror and under a bed upstairs in his town centre shop has lost his licence.

Beach hut owners at a Blue Flag beach in Torbay have been warned they face a ‘season of disruption’ as their huts are put in storage during a massive seafront revamp.

A man who lived with the dead body of his former partner for over two years has been jailed for preventing the lawful burial of her body.

Torbay is becoming a West Country hotspot for illegal tobacco linked to organised crime. Police and trading standards have shut four shops, revoked a licence at another, and vow to keep fighting rogue traders despite slim chances of successful prosecution.

Torbay’s NHS trust has applied to demolish Kitson Hall, a 1960s-built former staff accommodation block at Torbay Hospital. Once deemed ‘unfit’, it has more recently served as offices. The application is now with Torbay Council for consideration.