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Clear out your wardrobes to help beat kids' cancers

Men and women in the South West are being called on to clear out their cupboards, dig through their drawers and donate any unwanted items to TK Maxx’s fundraising campaign for Cancer Research UK - Give Up Clothes for Good.

Give Up Clothes for Good is the UK’s largest and longest running charity clothing collection partnership. Since 2004 the campaign has raised £13.5 million for Cancer...

Appeal to find owner of family photographs

Caroline Wetton, of Coventry, is appealing for help in locating the rightful owner of over 1,000 photographs which are believed to belong to someone in Devon.

Caroline was given a bagfull of photographs after they had been found in an old cupboard. Rather than dispose of the photographs she believes they should be returned to their rightful owner.

The photographs date from the...

Man assaulted outside Plymouth nightclub

Police are appealing for information after a man suffered a fractured skull in an assault outside a Plymouth nightclub.

The 21-year-old was waiting with his girlfriend outside Reflex nightclub around 2.45am on Saturday (15 February) when the incident happened.

He became involved in an argument with another man who was being racially abusive to people in the queue.

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Appeal after road rage incident in Plymouth

Police in Plymouth are appealing for witnesses to a road rage incident on Tuesday 21 January.

At around 9.15am a small, black hatchback stopped near a red Transit van at the mini roundabout leading to Vauxhall Street and Bretonside.

The driver of the black car got out and became verbally abusive to the van driver, kicked the van repeatedly and threw something at it before...

Appeal to trace family after fatal collision

Police are trying to trace the family of a man who died following a collision on the A30 near Launceston in December.

The victim has been identified as Cameron Turner, aged 38, from Launceston. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision which took place around 5.50am on Sunday 22 December.

He was previously known as Stuart Long and has lived across the Midlands and...

Woman assaulted in Greenbank

Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault on a woman walking alone along Hospital Road in Greenbank in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday 8 January 2014.

A man approached the 21-year-old woman at around 12.45am and grabbed her around the throat and pushed her against a wall.

When she screamed, he ran off along Hospital Road in the direction of the...

Police appeal after heavy object thrown from footbridge

Police have condemned the actions of two men who threw a heavy object from a Plymouth footbridge into oncoming traffic.

The object hit a car being driven by an elderly woman who was extremely shaken but fortunately uninjured.

The incident took place between 2.45pm and 3pm on Saturday, 28 December at Manadon.

The 75-year-old local woman was driving her blue Nissan car up...

Owners to spend £300 million pampering their pets this Christmas

Animal lovers are expected to spend about £300 million pounds pampering their pets this Christmas a survey by the RSPCA has revealed.

Nine out of ten owners (91%) are buying their pet a present this year with almost a fifth (18%) admitting they will be spending more on their pet than their mother-in-law.

An RSPCA poll of almost 900 pet owners revealed most (54%) will be...

Woman seriously injured in collision

A 78-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries after being in collision with a van in Bideford on Thursday, 12 December, 2013.

The woman was walking her dog in Eastbourne Terrace in Westward Ho! at around 3pm when she was in collision with a Vauxhall Combo van.

She sustained a serious head injury and was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth by air ambulance. The woman...

Police appeal after serious assault

Police in Plympton are appealing for help from the public after an 18-year-old man was seriously assaulted.

The incident took place at around 9.15pm on Wednesday 4 December 2013 outside the Ridgeway Service Station on Ridgeway.

A spokesman for Devon & Cornwall Police said: "The local victim entered the service station to buy a sandwich and as he left was assaulted by a...

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