This week we lead on an interview with a paramedic who has claimed that the cuts to the ambulance service in the South Hams will cost lives.

Also included is the response and dismissal of those claims from South Western Ambulance Service Trust, a report on the Ivybridge Community College production of Billy Elliott and much more inside.

We also take this opportunity to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year! You can also look back through our front pages of 2016 in our Year Review.

As usual there is also the family announcements, public notices, letters to the editor, Village Voice pages, clubs and societies and what’s on, plus much more inside.

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