Teignbridge

Following the resignation of a Dawlish Town Councillor, a casual vacancy has been created on the Town Council. As there were insufficient requests for an election to fill the position.

On Monday 3 March 2025, local neighbourhood police officers seized and destroyed a total of eight cannabis plants along with growing equipment found at a property in the Heathfield area

Shaldon Wildlife Trust will be celebrating a milestone birthday for Ricky the ring-tailed lemur who turns 30 today, making him the oldest resident at the zoo based in Shaldon, Devon.

As visitor numbers continue to grow at Newton Abbot Museum a call has gone out for extra volunteers. Help is needed both at the welcome desk and nearby St Leonard’s Tower which opens for the 2025 season in May.

External advisors confronted members of Teignbridge Council with a catalogue of incidents including swearing in the council chamber, shouting, muting one another’s microphones and walking out of meetings.

Officers investigating a serious assault in Newton Abbot have charged a man.

Devon & Cornwall Police have successfully arrested and charged an individual from Dawlish for 14 shoplifting offences and an assault on a police officer, securing a twenty-four week prison sentence.

Officers were called at 12.50am Sunday after a man and woman were assaulted by another man near to The White Hart public house in East Street, Newton Abbot and a man has been arrested.

Avian influenza H5N1, also called bird flu, has been confirmed in commercial poultry at premises near Teignmouth this week, meaning that all poultry will need to be humanely culled.

Fly tipping is not only unpleasant but also illegal and costly for councils to clean up. However, there are steps we can all take to prevent it.

£7,500 worth of suspected illegal tobacco, cigarettes and vapes were seized from a shop in Newton Abbot as part of a joint operation with Trading Standards and Devon & Cornwall Police.

A Devon council is planning to appoint an independent expert to work out why some of its members are behaving so poorly.