The Latest Breaking News from Devon

Giant tortoise mystery: how did seven protected reptiles end up dead in Devon woods?

As discovery baffles community, police examine potential link to 2021 find in same forest

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2024

Manson Junior MA and Verona review

Manson Guitar Works' most affordable UK-built guitars arrive as two well-spec'd, streamlined models – but how do these single-pickup instruments stack up?

MusicRadar · Jan 18, 2024

Police probe after seven giant tortoises found dead in Devon forest

Police are trying to work out who owned the tortoises, and how they died

Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2024

Friends of Ukrainian girl who fell from Devon sea wall blame rail chiefs for safety failure

Albina Yevko, 14, fled Ukraine for Dawlish and died after falling from barrier maintained by Network Rail

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2023

‘It doesn’t get easier’: Thomas Orchard’s family on their search for truth

After 11-year wait for inquest into his death in custody, relatives say Devon and Cornwall police still need to admit mistakes

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2023

‘Horrified’: Devon village in shock at felling of 100 ancient beech trees

Outrage in Colaton Raleigh after trees felled by government agency without consulting community

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2023

Felling of Torquay’s famous palm trees ‘pure vandalism’, say residents

Council cutting down dozens of trees on seafront of ‘English riviera’ town in Devon provokes public outcry

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

Minnows into seadogs: inside England’s new fishing apprenticeship

A recruiting crisis in the fishing industry has inspired a pioneering new initiative in south Devon

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023

Surfing was my life – then Britain’s filthy water left me with an incurable illness

The disease left me debilitated and jobless. What will it take for the water companies to clean up their act, asks surfer Reuben Santer

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023

Country diary: Thatching in the rain is unpleasant, but not impossible

Poundsgate, Dartmoor, Devon: At one point, bundles I have spent hours preparing in the barn are lifted off the roof and scattered across the garden 30ft below

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2023