News in Sidmouth

Two men have been found dead after being reported missing in East Devon in less than 24 hours.

Police have not linked the two deaths and neither of the deaths are being treated as suspicious.

Monday (May 25) is the Spring Bank Holiday and due to the bank holiday recycling, refuse and green waste collections in Sidmouth will be changed.

If you were due to have a refuse collection on Monday, May 25, the collection will instead take place one day later on Tuesday, May 26.

The A3052 has been closed near Sidmouth after a sinkhole appeared overnight.

The A3052 is closed near The Donkey Sanctuary due to the sinkhole and Devon and Cornwall Police officers have been called to the scene.

Sidmouth Town Council has written to businesses in the town offering to buy face masks for shops to give out to their customers.

The face masks would not be profit making exercise for the council but shops would be asked to charge customers 50p per mask 'to enable supplies to be replenished'.

The body of a man has been located in the search for a missing 60-year-old from Sidmouth.

A search was launched for Trevor Stevens after he was reported missing from his home in the town on Tuesday, May 19.

Recycling rates in Sidmouth and the wider East Devon area have risen dramatically since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak new figures have revealed.

Fresh figures gathered by Every Can Counts, in conjunction with East Devon District Council, are showing a massive increase in recycling during lock down, as reports of the environmental silver lining of social distancing continue to grow.

Dog owners are being warned to be extra vigilant after a black labrador was bitten on the nose by an adder at a Sidmouth beauty spot.

The middle-aged dog was being walked on Aylesbeare Common on Saturday (16 May) when she was struck by Britain's only native poisonous snake.

A new leader of East Devon District Council will be elected at an extraordinary full council meeting to be held next Thursday.

The meeting has been called following the resignation from the leadership position of councillor Ben Ingham on Monday, as well as the entirety of his cabinet from their positions.

Sidmouth Lifeboat was tasked to assist police and coastguard in the search for a missing person from Sidmouth last night.

The lifeboat undertook a search from Salcombe Mouth to the mouth of the River Otter for almost two hours, before being stood down yesterday evening.

Police are 'growing increasingly concerned' for the welfare of missing Sidmouth man Trevor Stevens.

Mr Stevens was reported missing after he left his home address in Sidmouth around 10.30am this morning (Tuesday, May 19).