The future of Dartmoor prison is set to be decided when the government ... according to the UK Health Security Agency. Follow BBC Devon on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to ...

Consider the infamous 'mad axeman', a figure whose escape from the imposing Dartmoor Prison almost 60 years ago remains etched in local lore. Frank Mitchell, serving a life term, eluded capture by ...

Devon, was costing the local economy millions of pounds. A Prison Service spokesperson said it was continuing to take advice from specialists to explore how HMP Dartmoor could be "reopened as ...

A Dartmoor inmate who attacked and held a prison officer at knifepoint is set to be sentenced later this year. Scott Patterson, of no fixed abode but hailing from Newton Abbot, appeared at ...

A PRINCETOWN man has been given a suspended prison sentence for assaulting two fellow inmates at Dartmoor Prison.

Several large fire burned across Dartmoor on Monday, March 3, and, despite large clouds of smoke appearing across Devon, it is not a cause for concern. Many local residents in different parts of ...

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service responded to multiple calls to a fire at Nattadon Common, Dartmoor National Park at around 6:51 p.m. Fire crews confirmed that the fire front measured 25 ...

The Not My Sentence support programme was developed in Devon in 2022. Repeated self-harm incidents at the prison accounted for 28% in England and Wales, a watchdog finds. Three new four-storey ...