All news by author: Mary Stenson

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Mini 'tornado' sparks weather chaos in UK village and destroys ancient oak tree
Villagers were terrified by gusts of wind that left a trail of destruction. A large tree came crashing down - narrowly missing a house and bringing down power cables
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Hospital car park 'chaos' forces staff to arrive at work an hour before shift
Staff at North Devon District Hospital said they need to arrive up to one hour early to park their cars - and some even received a parking ticket as they could not find a spot
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Urgent warning to Brits over dangerous 'Tesla tablets' found at UK festival
Boardmasters organisers have erected a sign urging people not to take 'Tesla tablets' - a form of the Class A drug ecstasy, also known as MDMA - after it was discovered on site
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Woman suffers gruesome 'garrotte' injury as she warns of dangerous dog leads
WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE: The anonymous woman was walking with a friend in the woods near Bodmin when she got tangled in a dog's lead and suffered a horrific injury which has since become infected
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Hero police smash car window to save crying baby in hot car
Temperatures exceeded 20C across the United Kingdom yesterday, but one mother left her daughter unattended in the hot car near a market in Truro, Cornwall
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New dad, 28, dies just weeks after daughter is born
Ryan White's devastated family have also had to come to terms with the loss of his father, sister and mother in the past few years and now friends are raising money for his funeral
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Parents blast 'ridiculous' school plan to put CCTV in toilets after vandalism
A Devon school said it has proposed the installation of CCTV cameras in all student toilets to deter vandalism, vaping and fighting, but parents have reacted angrily to the plans
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Huge shark fin spotted off Cornwall coast freaks out beachgoers
The fin was spotted by a woman in Gunwalloe near Porthleven on the south Cornish coast sparking warnings to swimmers and surfers in the area
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Family blasts KFC after gran spits out 'disgusting' chip that 'smelled like poo'
Katie McAllister and her family attended the town's KFC restaurant and ordered of the chain's popular popcorn chicken buckets but when her mum bit into one of the chips, Katie says she immediately spat it out