South Devon News

Torbay residents are being invited to give their views on a proposed change to the Council Tax Support Scheme from April 2026.

A series of roadshows, surveys and public events will be taking place in Torbay throughout the autumn months to give local people the chance to have their say on local services.

A Torquay town centre shop that has become a ‘safe space’ for the town’s diverse communities could face closure as a result of a new multi-million-pound housing plan

A community garden in Paignton which provides fresh produce and wellbeing activities for local people, has expanded its rainwater harvesting capabilities thanks to support from South West Water.

The government is coming under pressure to re-introduce the £2 bus fare cap as people in places like Torbay face increasing financial challenges

Ten community groups in Torbay have been given a total of more than £140,000 for projects in some of the bay’s most deprived areas.

Residents living near the site of a planned new mobile phone mast in Torquay say they fear sinkholes in the area could cause it to collapse.

Organisers have confirmed that the skies above Torbay will once again come alive as the English Riviera Airshow returns from Friday 29 May to Sunday 31 May 2026.

Councillors who unanimously backed a plan for new homes on a clifftop site overlooking an award-winning Torbay beach decided it was much better than a design they passed five years ago.

A ‘game-changing’ multi-million-pound plan to revitalise Torquay town centre has been given the go-ahead despite its early design being described as ‘Stalinist’.

New 20mph zones introduced around schools in Torbay are in force 24 hours a day, drivers have been warned.

Failing lifts and escalators which have left the top floor of a Torquay shopping centre off limits to some shoppers will soon be fixed.

Torbay parents whose children are being educated outside the school system are suffering crisis and stress as a result of a new ‘pathway’ designed to help them, it has been claimed.

Primary schools across Torbay will get a windfall of nearly £300,000 thanks to a ‘trailblazing’ change in the way Torbay Council allocates free school meals.

In a first for Devon & Cornwall Police a total of six shops in Torbay have been closed down on the same day for selling illegal vapes and counterfeit tobacco.

Seven more shops in Torquay and Paignton have been shut down by trading standards officers

South Devon MP Caroline Voaden has spoken out after the vicar of Totnes was arrested in London while taking part in a protest on Gaza.

Providing homes for local families in need will be one of the priorities when it comes to spending £20million in government cash in Torquay.

Ambitious plans for a once-in-a-generation’ transformation of Torquay’s town centre are likely to get the go-ahead next week.

So many people have fallen in love with Torquay’s new harbourside tribute to the Queen of Crime that she has had to have running repairs.