West Country Torrington

A man has died in a car crash near Newton Tracey in Devon.

A member of the public discovered a soft top car and called emergency services. The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene.

No other cars were involved and no one else was injured. Police are informing next of kin.

A road near Torrington in North Devon is currently closed following a 30 tonne landslide.

It happened near Bearn Quarry on the A386 early this morning, taking five large trees with it.

Diggers are clearing the landslide and the council's contractors are having to dig out the five root balls, which may need a crane.

A lifesize recreation of the children's television village of Trumpton has been burned to the ground over the weekend. Thousands of people packed Torrington Commons to watch the spectacular bonfire and fireworks show.

You can watch the full report here:

In the late Summer twilight it almost seemed a shame to burn Trumpton down. Two years of hard graft from Torrington Cavaliers had come to this moment.

To the theme tunes of other much loved children's television programmes a stunning fireworks display lit up the chipboard and pallet construction.

But the thousands of people had come to watch the latest incredible bonfire by the charity group that's raised hundreds of thousands of pounds over the past forty five years through these displays.

Windy Millar's windmill was ripped apart in moments. Ironically, in Trumpton the programme the village's famous firefighters Pugh, Pugh and the rest never actually fought a fire.

The past two bonfires raised more than £130,000 for good causes. The cancer charity MacMillan and the Torrington's Plough Arts Centre along with many other smaller groups will benefit this time

The embers haven't yet been extinguished but the fire has already been stoked for five years time the fiftieth anniversary of Torrington Cavaliers.

A stunning lifesize recreation of the children's television village of Trumpton has been burned to the ground. Thousands of people packed Torrington Commons in North Devon last night to watch the spectacular bonfire and fireworks show.

A North Devon group famous for building enormous bonfires with novelty scenes and figures will be setting fire to their latest creation tonight.

This re-creation of the Children's TV village Trumpton will be set alight later this evening.

Around 20,000 people are expected, while raising thousands for charity.

A carer from Torrington told us she is extremely concerned about proposals to close wards at community hospitals across North Devon.

Winnie Hollingsworth cares for her husband Ian who suffered a stroke after a triple heart bypass operation. But Torrington's community hospital has already lost its inpatient beds due to a previous round of cuts, so Ian has to have a hospital bed in the front room of their terraced house.

Mrs Hollingsworth believes that if more inpatient beds are lost across the district then more people will be faced with the same situation that they're suffering.

When the Torrington Cavaliers build a bonfire it goes off with a bang. For the past forty years the volunteer group has been staging elaborate and exquisite displays. From Pudding Lane and the Great Fire of London fifteen years ago to Torrington Castle the last time out in 2010. The latest bonfire creation taking shape on Torrington's Commons is children's TV classic Trumpton.

Watch the below footage of the Great Fire of London in 2000:

Below is footage of the bonfire at HMS Victory in 2005: