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Adams Kids closes its Barnstaple store

Adams Kids, pictured a few days before it closed.

Children's clothes store Adams Kids has closed its Barnstaple store — the latest victim of the recession.

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Travel later, police warn Devon drivers

Travel later, police warn Devon drivers

Police urged drivers to consider delaying their journeys today because of freezing conditions.

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Firefighters tackle blaze at Norbord factory

Firefighters tackle blaze at Norbord factory

Firefighters have tackled a large blaze in a 5,000 square metre factory building near South Molton.

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Barnstaple Woolworths closes for the last time

Woolworths' staff pose for a final photograph.

Woolworths in Barnstaple closed for the last time on Saturday — making 61 staff redundant.

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Chivenor Royal Marine's funeral will be held in Birmingham

Corporal Rob Deering.

The funeral of Chivenor marine Cpl Rob Deering will take place on January 14.

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Police deploy Taser to make arrest in Hatherleigh

A Taser device.

Police used a Taser device when they arrested a 21-year-old Hatherleigh man on New Year's Day.


Woolworths store closure is delayed — by one day

Woolworths in Green Lanes, Barnstaple.

The closure of Barnstaple's Woolworths store has been postponed — by one day.

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Soldier killed in New Year's Day explosion in Afghanistan

The Rifles' flag flies in Afghanistan.

A soldier from a West Country regiment was killed by an explosion on New Year's Day in southern Afghanistan.

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Two new year babies at North Devon District Hospital

Baby Elsa Llewellyn-Rees

The new year sees a new family for two North Devon couples

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Sand patterns at Westward Ho!

Sand patterns at Westward Ho! Pic by Sylvia Court. Click the image above to see more pictures.





Errea football tournament set for North Devon return

WINNERS: Eastleigh won the 2008 Errea South West Challenge Cup.

The South West Challenge Cup will be back for another pre-season competition in 2009.

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The weekend's football results

The weekend's football results

All the scores from competitions involving North Devon's football clubs.

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Boca battle to victory at frosty Hollands Park

The Journal League champions needed late goals from Taro Bishop and Mark Barrow to beat Combe Martin 4-2.

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Freeze hits football programme

Ilfracombe Town's home game against Hallen and Bideford's trip to Welton Rovers have been postponed.

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Clubs suffer bad breaks in the festive clashes

INJURY BLOW: Barnstaple flanker Jamie Arnold is put under pressure by Ollie Wickett before the Bideford fly-half suffered a broken arm. Picture: Mike Southon 0812-160_15

Bideford's Ollie Wickett and Ilfracombe's Jay O'Beirne suffered broken bones in the Boxing Day rugby matches.

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Joyce happy to see win ground out

BUST-UP: Sean Joyce.

Bideford won the Boxing Day derby at Barnstaple Town but manager Sean Joyce was unhappy to concede a "sloppy" late goal.

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Pickard needs Barnstaple players to be fast learners

MAKING HIS POINT: Owen Pickard.

Familiar defensive errors proved costly for Barnstaple Town in the Boxing Day derby against Bideford.

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Bideford's big hitters can't defeat Barnstaple power

DON'T GET UP: Barnstaple full-back Mark Galliford assesses his options. Picture: Mike Southon 0812-160_08

Barnstaple kept up their winning run in the Boxing Day derbies despite Bideford's "kamikaze" defence.

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Barum stung as lionhearted Wood breathes life into Bideford attack

CLINICAL: Bideford's Ben Wood (far left) nets the first of his two goals. Picture: Mike Southon 0812-161_02

Bideford boss Sean Joyce described two-goal derby hero Ben Wood as "a breath of fresh air".

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Bram Hughes reviews Cinderella at Plymouth Theatre Royal

The panto runs until Saturday January 24

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Croyde-based jazz singer visits North Devon Jazz Club

Rachel Brand

Rachel Brand performs an interesting and unusual repertoire

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U2 tribute band head to the Queen's Theatre

ZU2 aim to create the excitement of a stadium gig at the Queen's

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Try flying lessons at Eaglescott Airfield, Burrington

Try flying lessons at Eaglescott Airfield, Burrington

You'll be spoiled for flying option choices here

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Go ghost hunting at one of Devon's oldest buildings

Above and left: Chambercombe Manor is full of intrigue

Join Most Haunted's historian Richard Felix on a spook search

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Kathleen and May, Bideford

A Bideford Christmas scene.
Pic by Steve Clarke.






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