South Devon News

Run-down care homes and empty churches could be used to help Torbay cope with demand for social housing.

Officers from Torquay neighbourhood team worked alongside Trading standards and Torbay council to execute a warrant at a shop premises in Torquay town centre, this week.

Accusations of racism have marred a meeting to elect Torbay’s civic mayor and deputy.

This Mental Health Week (12 – 19 May), Torbay-based Healthscape CIC and Triathlon England are celebrating the success of their inclusive swim, bike, run programme.

Councillors keen to get South West Water (SWW) to build a new solar farm in Torbay are sticking to their guns despite efforts to get them to change their minds.

Residents at the heart of community life are being sought to join the Torquay Place Leadership Board and help create a 10-year-strategy to help those in the town who most need it most.

Torbay on the Move, our programme to get more people moving more often, is inviting applications for two funding pots

A full-scale multi-million-pound revamp of Torquay’s tired town centre has moved a step closer.

Councillors keen to hand South West Water the task of building a new solar farm in Torbay have been told to think again.

Torbay is marking Foster Care Fortnight (12-25 May) with local events, new initiatives to support Foster Carers including free access to a Beach Hut and other support, and will also be congratulating a number of local Foster Carers who have more than 25 years’ experience of fostering.

Officers have charged eight people with drugs offences following a day of action in South Devon.

Road signs have gone up to enforce a new 20mph zone around Torquay Academy.

Free business support is once again available for creative businesses in Torbay, designed to address the challenges facing investment in the creative industries and support founders to develop their creative business.

Officers are appealing for information about the whereabouts of a 43-year-old man from Torbay who is wanted by police.

South Devon’s MPs have turned up the heat on the area’s healthcare providers amid fears for the safety of local heart patients.

Torbay Council are delighted to announce that the Torbay Local Heritage Grant Scheme will support a further 14 heritage related projects across the Bay.

Police are investigating a report of assault in Torquay and are appealing for any witnesses to come forward.

A man has been jailed for robbing his local shop at knifepoint.

Torbay Councils contractors are continuing to work in challenging conditions caused by the highway collapse in Sands Road, Paignton.

Children and young people, school representatives, and partners from across the public, private, voluntary and community sectors, joined forces with Torbay Council at a special event as part of Torbay’s work with The UK Committee for UNICEF.

With just over four-weeks until the 2025 English Riviera Airshow (30 May to 1 June), event organisers have announced the full display line-up. Airshow fan favourites and several new thrilling additions promise a captivating weekend of aerial performances and impressive flybys.

A long-planned new development of around 240 homes on farmland on the outskirts of Paignton will be considered by Torbay Council this summer

Comments made by a Torbay councillor which referred to ‘black officers’ on a police patrol have been officially recorded as a ‘hate incident’

Volunteers from Teignmouth RNLI were initially tasked at 8:48pm, to assist in a multi-agency operation following reports of a person down a cliff in the Babbacombe area. They were also joined by both of Torbay's lifeboats.

People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stage are nearly 20 times more likely to survive for five years than those whose cancer is caught late.

A plain clothes police operation to tackle the anti-social use of e-bikes in Torbay saw bikes seized and a number of irresponsible cyclists stopped.

Hundreds of people have put their names to a petition which aims to save Paignton’s ambulance station

Opponents of a plan to get South West Water to build a solar farm in Torbay have mounted an official challenge.

Work on a controversial development in Torquay has been halted amid claims the developers went too far.

Police are appealing for witnesses and information following a serious road traffic collision in Paignton on Monday 28 April.

Four Torbay councillors have been barred from debates on setting the bay’s council tax for the coming year – because they haven’t paid their own.