Drivers and rail travellers have been warned of delays and potentially hazardous conditions as the UK braces for Storm Gerrit.
The storm will bring strong winds and heavy rain to[1] many parts of the UK on Wednesday, with wintry hazards also likely, fo…
At the SHDC meeting, South Hams’ councillors were asked to agree to a long list of measures to support the project, but Green representatives Georgina Allen (Totnes) and Jacqi Hodgson (Dartington and Staverton) asked for assurances that if the freeport…
Drink-driving Maxine Grocott has been banned from the roads for 12 months. The 34-year-old was seen driving a Citroen Picasso in Dawlish Drive, Bentilee[1], at 2.30am on September 10.
Prosecutor Hannah Baddeley told North Staffordshire Justice Centre[2…
We have been swamped with political commentary about the Prime Minister’s bold announcement to reverse HS2 and spend the £36bn on Network North at the start of the month, MP Johnny Mercer writes. In this column I would like to clear the air by explaini…
Local lines benefit from culling HS2’s northern route (image courtesy: Mid Devon District Council)
HS2 cash diverted to local lines
MPs, council leaders and rail campaigners across Devon have welcomed government investment in the county’s rail service…
Forecasters have warned the “worst conditions are still to come”, with Storm Agnes making landfall in the UK after battering the south of Ireland with gale force winds.
Agnes, the first named storm of the season, has triggered a series of Met Office y…
A community leader says people shouldn’t let a recent shooting distort their view of her neighbourhood.
A man in his 40s remains in hospital after a shooting in the Bentilee area[1], which saw him taken to hospital with serious injuries. However, they …
‘Pointless’ £1.7bn Stonehenge road tunnel ‘waste’ of taxpayer’s money. (Photo: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/National Highways)A £1.7 billion project to build an underground road tunnel near Stonehenge has been slated as a “waste of money” and a “pointless pr…
Sitting closer to the heart of Colebrook than Plympton itself, Plympton railway station was for a time known as Colebrook station[1]. It opened to passenger traffic on Thursday, June 15, 1848, although the first test train had passed this point some we…
19:15 Penzance to Bristol Temple Meads due 00:06 – will be started at Exeter St Davids It will no longer call at Penzance, St Erth, Hayle, Camborne, Redruth, Truro, St Austell, Par, Lostwithiel, Bodmin Parkway, Liskeard, Menheniot, St Germans, Saltash,…
Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris has sounded the alarm after hearing that funding for vital work to protect the exposed coastal railway line through her constituency is at risk. She says it is “wholly unacceptable” that huge sums of money are being sp…