Totnes businesses say no to Costa
Costa have decided not to open their Coffee shop in Totnes after strong opposition from local businesses.
Devon MP "spied for Czechs"
Demands for inquiry over allegations that Raymond Mawby, deceased Totnes MP, spied for Czechs
Two rings reunited after 400 years apart
Two rings created as presents for the daughters of a Totnes merchant in the seventeenth century have been reunited after 400 years apart.
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Muslim veil debate
The Taunton Deane MP Jeremy Browne says we need a debate on whether young Muslim women and girls should be banned from wearing a veil or Niqab in public. Claire Manning has been to Plymouth to assess reaction to the proposal.
MP's Islamic veil comments cause Twitter backlash
Poor Sarah Wollaston's twitter feed has become a total car crash of bigotry, Islamophobia, historical ignorance and exceptionalism.
Sarah Wollaston, how about asking a woman who wears niqab what she thinks about her freedom? Or does her opinion does not matter?
Feel quite uncomfortable about Sarah Wollaston's comments about the #niqab today.
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Sarah Wollaston's tweets on 'offensive' Islamic veils
feminists should be allowed to say that they find the #niqab deeply offensive without being accused of being bigoted or islamophobic,
The niqab should be banned within schools & colleges; how on earth do they promote equality when they collude with making women invisible?
The niqab won't be banned in the UK because too many politicians will hide behind freedom; hiding women away is a perversion of freedom
The Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston says Islamic veils are an 'intolerable subjugation of women which should not be allowed to masquerade as freedom.'
Niqabs should be banned in colleges, says West MP
Sarah Wollaston MP (Con, Totnes, Brixham and South Hams) says the niqab (a full-face Islamic veil) should be banned in schools and colleges. A Birmingham college last week reversed a decision to ban the garment on security grounds. Read more about that decision here.
Full report: Sarah Wollaston attacks govt via Twitter
by Bob ConstantineDr Wollaston, who was a family GP before entering Parliament, has criticised the delays on minimum alcohol pricing and plain packaging for cigarettes.
Tory MP refuses to stop government tweet attacks
Dr Sarah Wollaston MP (Con, Totnes), says she will not stop criticising the Government on Twitter, despite the fact that Labour have used her comments to attack Government policies. Here is a sample from her Twitter feed:
R.I.P. public health. A day of shame for this government; the only winners big tobacco, big alcohol and big undertakers
To retain any credibility on lobbying, Cameron must postpone statement on minimum pricing until we know whether CTF has big alcohol clients
Doctors are tired of being lectured on reducing avoidable early deaths by politicians who take away the public health tools to achieve it
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Brains behind Transition Town Totnes awarded
The man who co-founded the Transition Towns Movement in Totnes is to be awarded for his work. Rob Hopkins developed the community-led charity that works towards a low carbon future in 2005. Today he will be named a Doctor of Science at a ceremony in Bristol Cathedral.
Get more information on Rob Hopkin's work here.
Crash death family "sentenced to a lifetime of grief"
A family was in tears today as two drivers walked free from court after admitting causing the death of their son through careless driving. They said 'justice was not done'.
As John Andrews reports, one of the drivers crossed a double white line on an errand to fetch a pint of milk.
ROADS: Serious accident on A381 in Devon
The A381 is closed both ways after a serious accident in Littlehempston involving a car and a motorbike. It happened between Blackpost Cross and Littlehempston Cross and there is congestion on the A385 Station Road to Castle Street.
It's causing delays between Totnes and Newton Abbot.
It's also slowing traffic in Totnes itself.
Full report: Saving our country pubs
by Bob CruwysPubs can be crucial to community life but over the past few years, as people have changed their habits and are spending less on going out, many have shut.
But now, more community pubs have started opening, where locals have clubbed together to buy their local and save it from closure.