South West

29/06 12:24,This is Gloucestershire
A woman was taken to hospital after a road traffic collision in Hardwicke this morning. Emergency services were called to the incident in Bristol Road at around...
29/06 11:55,Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
Firefighters spent three hours pumping out dirty water at a building on Pickwick Road, in Corsham on Friday morning. A crew had to pump out water after heavy rain left a sewage pipe blocked which overflowed into Greengate...
28/06 16:58,BBC News England
Emergency crews in Plymouth have been called to two fires at the same building in just over eight hours. Two fire appliances were called to the two-storey property in Merrivale Road in the North Prospect area of the city just before 0400 BST on...
27/06 23:00,This is Plymouth
GARDENING equipment, logs and a fridge were completely destroyed in a fire which engulfed storage units in a Devon village. Firefighters from Exeter, Bovey Tracey and Moretonhampstead were called out to Dry Lane, Christow, on Dartmoor, early...
27/06 17:43,Somerset County Gazette
TAUNTON firefighters were this afternoon involved in the rescue of a woman who had been trapped underneath a horse and cart. One fire engine and co-responder from Dulverton and a rescue tender from Taunton were mobilised at just before...
27/06 08:30,Dorset Echo
s (6) Have your say ' By James Tourgout ' A WOMAN died and a man was seriously injured in a head-on horror crash on the A354. She was pronounced dead at the scene of the smash on Dorchester Hill at Winterborne Whitechurch yesterday...
26/06 08:19,BBC News Dorset
Two Dorset homes have been damaged after being struck by lightning during overnight storms. Dorset Fire Service was called to a "spate of lightning related incidents" due to severe...
24/06 23:31,This is Cornwall.co.uk
At a meeting of the South West Regional Management Board this week, members raised their concerns about a possible seven to 10-month delay. Fire authority chairman Bernard Hughes, said: "The costs would be a considerable burden on council tax payers if the authority had to...
24/06 11:39,This is Plymouth
FIRE chiefs have warned that council tax payers in the South West may bear the brunt of the spiralling costs of a centralised control project. At a meeting of the South West Regional Management Board in Clyst St George, Exeter, members raised their concerns about a possible seven to 10-month...
24/06 07:58,ComputerWeekly.com
Some parts of England will not benefit from a modern Fire Brigade communications network in time for the 2012 Olympics. The news follows further delays in the FireControl project .