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BBC News
4 days ago
- BBC News
Apathy holding back reporting of crime in Devon, officer says
Policing resources can be prioritised if there is evidence of anti-social behaviour, a council meeting has at a North Devon Council's licensing and community safety committee, Devon and Cornwall Police urged people to report issues to help cut said anti-social behaviour was on the rise in parts of Barnstaple, Ilfracombe and Kevin Connar said: "Resources are finite, but if we know what is happening and told where the issues are we can better prioritise the resources we do have." He added: "Sometimes there is apathy [about] reporting because people do not believe there is an outcome from it... as police we are duty bound to investigate reports of crime. "You must coach the electorate to report and support them to report." Councillor Joy Cann said anti-social behaviour in Barnstaple had increased since street-based youth workers were scrapped as young people did not react well to police police said in the last three weeks a new outreach youth work programme had begun in Barnstaple, and a youth centre had been refurbished and reopened. Councillor Pru Maskell suggested crime was shifting to rural areas because it was more closely monitored in towns, and said one child she had spoken to was terrified of going to school in Braunton. Sgt Connar said when young people were not going to school out of fear it was an issue for schools to address as well as police and said when dealing with young offenders it was important to recognise adverse childhood experiences, deprivation and force said it had seen benefits from employing a dedicated child-centred police investigator.
BBC News
02-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Man 'lucky' not to have killed stranger he stabbed in Ilfracombe
A 56-year-old man who launched an unprovoked knife attack on a stranger was fortunate not to have killed him, a judge has Lammas, of Belvedere Road, Ilfracombe, stabbed a 33-year-old man multiple times on the high street in the north Devon town in September Exeter Crown Court, Lammas admitted wounding with intent and was jailed for three years and four Anna Richardson said "such an unprovoked attack would be terrifying" for the victim. The court heard Lammas admit he "went a bit far" as he went to help a girl who he thought the victim was attacking or having a heated row victim needed hospital treatment and said he was suffering panic attacks and court also heard Lammas, who has complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), had drunk alcohol and used cannabis and Valium before the incident.
BBC News
03-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Devon council gets £762k for energy efficiency improvements
A Devon council has been awarded more than £760,000 of funding to deliver energy efficiency improvements to some of its Devon Council said £762,065 from the government's Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme would be used to improve Ilfracombe's Landmark Theatre and the Brynsworthy Environment Centre in funded by the grant would "help the council's overall aim to improve the energy efficiency of its assets and reduce carbon emissions to reach its net zero target by 2030", it would include the removal of gas and oil boilers to be replaced with air source heat pumps, it added. The total value of the scheme has been costed at £865,984, with the surplus being funded by the council and Landmark Theatres, officials project is due for completion by September 2026, they Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme supported an aim of reducing emissions from public sector buildings by 75% by 2037, compared to a 2017 baseline, the government said.
