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Police are appealing for witnesses to a fight involving two men in Plymouth city centre.

At around 11.30am on Tuesday 10 May the men were seen fighting and making threats opposite the Guildhall on Royal Parade.

One man suffered a minor facial injury and the other suffered a minor head injury.

Officers attended and arrested two men, both aged 20 and from Plymouth, on...

On the 20 January, officers from both Avon & Somerset and Devon & Cornwall Police along with staff from Devon and Somerset Trading Standards, Environmental Health and the National Wildlife Crime Unit visited nine premises in the Barnstaple area as part of a wildlife crime operation.

This activity follows a two and a half year investigation and intelligence gathering by both...

Police investigating a serious incident in Plymouth after a man was found critically injured in the street in the early hours of Tuesday 9 June have made a further arrest.

A 50-year-old Plymouth man has been arrested on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm with intent and remains in police custody at Charles Cross police station.

The arrest was made at 8.40am on...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested this morning (Monday 9 December) on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm.

He is currently in police custody at Charles Cross police station.

The arrest is in connection with a serious assault that is alleged to have taken place at around 9.15pm outside the Ridgeway Service Station on the Ridgeway in Plympton on 4 December 2013. The...

A Plymouth schoolgirl has been arrested for the second time in a week after two alleged attacks on a member of staff at the Mount Tamar school.

The girl, who has not been named, was first arrested on 16 October on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, and was bailed.

After the second incident on the 21 October, she was arrested on suspicion of assault. She has been...

A man who was wanted by police after breaching his bail conditions, has been arrested.

David Dams, 47, was arrested at 9.55pm on Wednesday 25 September after he attended Charles Cross police station in Plymouth.

He has been charged with breaching his bail conditions and appeared at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 26 September at 9.30am.

Mr Dams' bail conditions...

Police have arrested a 72-year-old woman at a property in North Devon on suspicion of attempted murder.

Devon and Cornwall Police were called to a property in Northam at around 2.40am on Monday (16 September 2013) after receiving reports that a man had been stabbed.

On arrival officers found a man, aged 79, with a number of stab wounds to his neck, hands and leg.

The...

Police have arrested three men in the Prince Rock area, near Cattedown, on suspicion of possessing a firearm.

The men, aged 19, 24 and 29, are being held at Crownhill police station after armed police were called just after 1pm on Wednesday (5 June).

No-one was hurt in the incident although it is alleged threats may have been made by the men.

Police, who also took away...

Detectives from the major crime investigation team have continued to make a number of enquiries over the last few days after discovering the body of Michael Brincat, aged 76 of Marlborough House on Granby Way, Devonport.

Early this morning, Friday 15 February, at around 7am a 52 year old man from the Devonport area was arrested on suspicion of murder. He is now in...