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A private hot tub featured in one of Ladram Bay's holiday park lodges in Devon.

UK holiday park unveils £2,000,000 upgrade just in time for summer 2025

Channel: Travel Travel March 2, 2025 By Emily Bashforth
General view images of Derriford Hospital Credit: PlymouthLive/BPM

Boy, 13, arrested at hospital for 'impersonating a doctor'

Channel: UK UK February 5, 2025 By Jasper King
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Rare 'one-in-a-billion' spherical egg to be auctioned off for charity

Channel: Weird Weird January 17, 2025 By Tom Sanders
A CrossCountry train makes it's way along the line near to Basingstoke in Hampshire.

The UK's longest train journey with 36 stops and ‘breathtaking countryside’

Channel: Travel Travel February 12, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
Pic by Mark Passmore. 09/01/2025. Rosie Parsons (Professional Headshot Photographer, pictured in her home in Codrington Street, Exeter, Devon for the WHAT I OWN FEATURE.

What I Own: I spent £130,000 renovating my £225,000 Victorian three-bed in Exeter

Channel: Property Property January 11, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
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Body found in hunt for missing woman, 24, last seen getting into taxi

Channel: UK UK January 8, 2025 By Gethin Hicks
Alan Forster with his wife Dianna in hospital. Photo released December 19 2024. A dad-of-two has died from a suspected kidney failure after falling seriously ill with norovirus on a cruise ship.Alan Forster, 77, set off from Southampton onboard the P&O Arcadia Cruise with his wife Dianna when he was struck down with gastric illness.Two weeks into the month-long trip and after returning from docking in New York, Alan, from Paignton, had diarrhea, stomach cramps and vomiting.The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has since confirmed there was an outbreak of norovirus on the ship.

British dad dies after cruise ship outbreak infected 100 passengers

Channel: UK UK January 4, 2025 By Danny Rigg
BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833) Pic: SarahGreenslade/TheSealProject/BNPS There is a race against time to try and save a seal from being choked to death by a plastic rim that is stuck tightly around its neck. The juvenile grey seal has been seen in Brixham Harbour, Devon, with the bright red collar. The piece of plastic pollution is believed to be the discarded seal from a tin of marine paint.

Race to save seal being slowly choked to death by plastic ring

Channel: UK UK December 29, 2024 By Jen Mills
Jude Hill British woman thrown in Thai jail after trying to have sex on hotel glass table

British woman jailed in Thailand for trying to have sex on table named and pictured

Channel: Weird Weird December 30, 2024 By Oliver Jones
A Santa or Grinch grotto at a pub in Sidmouth, Devon.

Grinch party at pub cancelled after staff were 'bullied' at £20 event

Channel: UK UK December 25, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
Police marker tape for cordoning crime scene

Four-month-old boy found dead in caravan with man arrested for ‘neglect’

Channel: UK UK December 21, 2024 By Brooke Davies
Police were called to Helston Business Park, Cornwall, in the early hours of this morning where a man's body was found

Two women arrested after man's body found in car parked in business park

Channel: UK UK December 19, 2024 By Gethin Hicks

Shop owner makes 50 citizen's arrests because shoplifting at his store is so bad

Channel: Weird Weird December 18, 2024 By Jay Davis

Britain's 'oldest Christmas lights' fail for first time in 54 years

Channel: UK UK December 13, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

I took out three of my teeth by myself after waiting six years for a dentist

Channel: UK UK December 1, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
Police Constable Christopher Spence, leaving Lidl, in Bideford. A serving officer with Devon & Cornwall Police has today, Tuesday 26 November, been sentenced to an 18-month community order for theft from a shop in Bideford. Police Constable Christopher Spence, aged 44, who is based in North Devon, appeared before Exeter Crown Court, where he had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of theft from a shop, following an incident at Lidl, in Bideford, on Monday 12 February. He was given an 18-month community order, told to do 150 hours unpaid work, pay ?300 towards prosecution costs within 12 months, as well as a victim surcharge and ?30 compensation to the store. Spence was seen on CCTV placing a number of items in his rucksack but only paying for one thing which he kept in the open and leaving the store.

Police officer caught red handed stealing snacks from Lidl

Channel: UK UK November 28, 2024 By Danny Rigg
TORQUAY, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 16: A general view of Torbay Hospital is seen as police continue searching for missing junior doctor Rose Polge on February 16, 2016 in Torquay, England. Fears are growing for Doctor Polge, who works at Torbay Hospital in Devon, after she was last seen on Friday afternoon and her car was found abandoned in a carpark near Anstey's Cove in Torquay. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Fresh update after car crashes into hospital injuring driver in his 60s

Channel: UK UK November 28, 2024 By Jasper King

Man in his 30s fighting for life after 'chemical attack'

Channel: UK UK November 26, 2024 By Liam Coleman
Jonathan Elliott, 62, from Torquay, died after two car drivers crashed into him at a Sainsbury's petrol station.

'Wonderful' grandad, 62, who died after petrol station car crash pictured

Channel: UK UK November 21, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
A luxury home with an outdoor swimming pool and lawn

I won a £2,000,000 Omaze home — but I almost lost it for a pint

Channel: Property Property November 8, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce
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