A lorry transporting 200 pigs overturned near Ilminster yesterday (Thursday), leaving the driver injured and 130 of the animals dead.

An Exeter farmer has been fined after a teenage worker suffered severe head injuries when a dumper overturned.

Devon and Cornwall Police has a new All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) it will use on Bodmin Moor.

A fire that broke out on Dartmoor Tuesday afternoon damaged 700 metres of moorland having been intensified by strong winds.

As people calling to report the fire were describing flames issuing from the roof, an aerial ladder platform from Barnstaple was then sent to the scene.

A Cornwall skip hire boss has been ordered to pay more than a quarter of a million pounds for operating without an environmental permit.

Just after midnight the fire service was called with reports of a shed on fire on Hall Hill in Brendon.

The plume of black smoke was so thick that nearby residents were advised to keep their windows and doors closed.

A rider who ended up entirely under water when her horse spooked and jumped into an innocuous-looking lake said both are lucky to be alive.

Colin Martin Fowler, aged 58, Trenoweth Farm, Gweek, Helston was due to appear for sentencing today (Thursday) at Truro Magistrates' Court after being proved in his absence at a trial on September 28 to which he also failed to appear.

Shocking footage of a car overtaking a tractor and driving into the path of an oncming car is just one of the examples shared by Devon and Cornwall Police.

The 63-year-old security guard, who was working for an independent security company, was on duty at the gated entrance of the Dunbia (UK) abattoir at Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon early on the morning of November 29, 2018.

A foreign farm worker accused of raping a woman in Falmouth has been cleared at Truro Crown Court following a third trial.

Fire engines from Buckfastleigh, Ashburton and Ivybridge were sent together with a water carrier from Plympton.

Devon and Cornwall Police said three similar systems were also stolen from tractors in North Devon, overnight on September 16.