South Devon News

Devon & Cornwall Police recently worked alongside British Transport Police (BTP) in a bid to target individuals using rail networks to transport drugs.

Nearly 1,000 new homes must be built in Torbay every year under government housing targets.

Torbay could be wiped off the map in the rush to reorganise local government.

Staff at Paignton Zoo are carefully monitoring an extraordinary pregnancy that brings both hope and challenges for one of the world’s rarest primates

Torbay Councils Cabinet has published its final budget proposals for the 2025/26 budget after considering feedback on the draft proposals.

Council tax to be set below limit set by government and Torbay Council’s proposed budget for the coming year includes setting aside £200,000 to be spent in areas of the bay which feature on a national scale of deprivation.

A Torquay man has been jailed for a total of 17 years plus one on extended licence for raping a child and other sexual offences.

Police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of 26-year-old Arezue Tehrani, also known as Hope, who has been reported missing from the South Devon area.

In response to feedback captured in a local police survey, extra police officers will be deployed to Torquay town centre for the next four-weeks to deter offenders and keep people safe.

After last year’s smashing success, the Torbay on the Move Active Workplace Challenge is strutting its stuff again in March 2025. This fabulous initiative aims to get employees across Torbay moving more – whether it’s before, during, or after work hours.

A deal to allow Devon County Council and Torbay to combine forces to secure greater control for various responsibilities now seems confusing at best and redundant at worst.

Police Cadets recently joined officers to support with a plain clothes operation testing the sale of vapes and tobacco to people under the age of 18 in South Devon.

The next stage in Torbay Council’s pioneering scheme to turn redundant hotels into social housing is likely to be rubber-stamped next week.

Torbay Council’s cabinet is likely to rubber-stamp the sale of the last piece of the Wishings Field jigsaw for less than the price of a loaf of bread.

A Torbay councillor, Katya Maddison, was cleared of bullying and code breaches but was found to have brought the council into disrepute and failed to treat officers with courtesy and respect.

Parents of deaf children at Torquay’s St Margaret’s primary are urging Torbay Council to reconsider plans to change support services. PTA secretary Felicity Morris called the current service “exemplar” and vital.

One of Torquay’s historic Victorian villas is to be given a new lease of life. The run-down Thurlow House in Thurlow Road, most recently home to the Probation Service, is to be transformed into 11 new apartments.

Police are seeking witnesses after a fatal collision in Paignton. The incident occurred at 7pm on 5 February on Southfield Avenue, involving a pedal cycle and a van. Witnesses are urged to come forward.

This spring Brixham residents and visitors will benefit from £750,000 of public realm improvements to the harbourside.

Twenty new homes will be built on a greenfield site in Brixham. Torbay Council planning committee gave its unanimous backing to the plan for land off Pilgrim Close.

A controversial plan for 28 new homes on the site of seventeenth century farm buildings on the outskirts of Brixham has been rejected by Torbay Council planners.

Torbay will be hosting the Baton of Hope later this year on behalf of the South West and baton bearers are needed to make it an event to remember.