All news on the topic: Devon

A serial killer fan strangled a prison cellmate while on trial for murdering two other men and dismembering their bodies in Cornish woodland, a court has heard.

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been charged by police with attacking a new girlfriend, new parole board documents reveal.

A 26-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of Ann Widdecombe has been released from custody and is no longer part of the investigation.

A brand new school that cost £31million to build is set to be demolished in a shocking “waste of taxpayers’ money”.

The female pilot woman in her 40s was flying alone when the plane crashed near Dunkeswell Airfield on Friday morning.

George Shipley doesn’t mince his words. The 34-year-old acting skipper stands on the quayside at Brixham harbour, the smell of salt and diesel thick in the early morning air, white plastic boxes stacked behind him and the Devon hills rising beyond the trawlers, and says what every fisherman here is thinking.

A care home manager has been ordered to pay £4,000 after two people in wheelchairs drowned when their boat capsized on a day out.

A Tesco store was evacuated after two caravans were deliberately set on fire, according to emergency services.

The prison service risks facing severe penalties from the health and safety regulator after it exposed staff and inmates to dangerous levels of lethal radon gas.

A hotel called "Britain’s worst" has gone up in flames for the second time in a matter of days.

There are concerns that hundreds more inmates and staff may have been exposed to hazardous levels of cancer-causing gas, with the Ministry of Justice now investigating 42 prison and probation sites, The Independent can reveal.

Police have confirmed that remains initially thought to be a “child’s body” found near a Devon village were in fact a “childlike sex doll”.

A night of heavy rain has caused flooding in Devon and Cornwall, forcing some businesses to close or delay opening.

Sunbathers on a beach in Devon narrowly escaped a massive cliff collapse.

Britain has a hidden oral health crisis with children who’ve never seen a dentist needing multiple teeth removed after their first appointment.