Cashless Parking in Torridge will be changing from Parkmobile to RingGo on the 26th October. The move is part of a wholesale consolidation of cashless parking across the County, with single provision by RingGo across all Devon Councils. As part of the move to RingGo, and to encourage safer, touch […]

Frustrating times for house buyers and people applying for planning permission as extra workload post-lockdown creates delays … Torridge District Council are making customers aware that high work volumes are having a direct impact on the turnaround times within the Planning and Land Charges Services. Workloads have peaked post lockdown […]

Fire appliances from Hartland and Bideford, along with the heavy rescue vehicle from Middlemoor, were mobilised to a report of a road traffic collision on the road from Baxworthy Cross, Hartland to Stitworthy Cross, Higher Clovelly, involving a vehicle on its side with a female casualty trapped. Fire crews extricated […]

From Torridge Council: This summer has seen a major increase in the amount of litter being left behind by people who live in or visit our district. Litter bins throughout Torridge, but especially in Westward Ho! are constantly being overfilled, often resulting in litter spilling out. Because some people appear […]

From Clovelly Lifeboat FB page: The RNLI Lifeboat crew was paged by Falmouth Coastguard at 17.58 yesterday to reports of two people cut off by the tide at Hartland Quay. On arrival, the Hartland Coastguard Rescue Team were already at the scene. RNLI Crewman, Paul Smale, went ashore to assist […]

From Clovelly Lifeboat: The RNLI Clovelly lifeboat crew were paged late afternoon on 15th July by Falmouth coastguard. A fisherman had fallen from a cliff at Barley Bay near Hartland Point, with severe injuries reported. The rescue was a challenging one. The RNLI Clovelly lifeboat, The Toby Rundle, arrived on […]

The weather was relatively kind to the stallholders at the Hartland Farmers’ market yesterday. It was not quite the bustling indoor event Hartland normally enjoys, but it was lovely to see people getting out and moving towards some new kind of normality, and it attracted lots of locals. On their […]

From Torridge Council:   Torridge Council has announced the reopening of some of the facilities it owns or operates in response to changes in Government guidance and directives issued over last weekend. Officers and Councillors have been reviewing which facilities can be safely reopened, how these would be manned and […]

Farmers in Devon and Cornwall are being asked to be alert for sheep rustling. Most people find the sight of spring lambs a joy. However, it seems not everyone thinks the same way. In a grim case in Hartland last week, a January born lamb was found killed in a […]