An attempt to delay Devon’s local elections in May has failed, and that could have big ramifications for the county, the latest episode of Devoncast discovers. Councillor Julian Brazil, the Liberal ...

More details have emerged about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of a British man and woman in a rural area of southwest France. French news sites have named the couple as Dawn and Andrew ...

A child sex offender from Devon has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for abusing a young girl and possessing thousands ...

YMCA Exeter has been given permission to use the Holly-Lets flatlets in Paignton’s Sands Road for nine young people. The ...

One of the three Israeli hostages released by Hamas in the fifth such swap of a fragile ceasefire in Gaza appeared "skinny" and "gaunt," a member of his family has said. Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and ...

Adding fluoride, a chemical element, to drinking water in Plymouth may be considered as part of a drive to improve oral ...

Protests over plans to close two specialist units for deaf children in Torquay schools have prompted the promise of a full ...

Some communities in Exeter are calling for safer streets and slower traffic in the wake of an aborted ‘active streets’ ...

Parents of deaf children using an ‘exemplar’ service in Torquay have made an impassioned plea for it to be saved. Felicity Morris, secretary of the parent teacher association at St Margaret’s primary ...

Plymouth rejected a directly elected mayor more than 20 years ago when 59 per cent of people who took part in the referendum ...