... Dartmoor prison blaze inquiry An inquiry is to be held into the Cause of a fire which severely damaged a two-storey building used as a store and workshop at Dartmoor prison on Saturday. After firemen from Tavistock. Yelverton and Princetown had got the ...

... HOME NEWS Ili • IN BRIEF rnson . A BOUT 250 volunteers In Dartmoor Prison, including prisoners and staff, are giving three-quarters of a pint of blood each following the personal appeal made last Sunday by Freddie Mills, former world light-heavyweight ...

... TOBACCO SMUGGLING AT GAOL ALLEGED Dartmoor officer and' a prisoner sent for trial A. DARTMOOR Prison officer was said by prosecuting counsel, Mr. Alastair Morton, at Tavistock. Devon, yesterday, to have received more than £2oo_ in return for conveying ...

... - Police theory on Roads claim dynamite theft Police be'ieve the dynamite theft from Dartmoor Prison Quarry tenth victi m is the work of the man who took in Bradford some from the same some months ago. It is thought the latest haul have been used to blow ...

... assault incidents in Dartmoor Prison. Two prisoners are charged with gross personal violence against two other prisoners and the third man is charged with assault against Prison Officer Jack Cartwright, secretary of Dartmoor Prison Officers' Association ...

... discontinuing the use of Dartmoor Prison. the Home Secretary. SIR DAVID MAXWELL Fyn, said that in view of the pressure on prison accommodation the Prison Commissioners had been obliged to proceed on the basis that Dartmoor Prison must remain in use and ...

... What I did it for. PRISON AIDS FUND At Dartmoor Prison a e”llecttee for the Lynmouth ReLet 15s. ...

... Prison attack hearing A prisoner aregecT to rave a acked Prison Officer Roche with an iron bar at Dartmoor Prison wit come before a Visiting Committee onMonday. The attack took place in the carpenter's shop about a fortnighl ago. and the officer received ...

... One still fasts at Dartmoor One man was still refuslpg to eat his meals at Dartmoor Prison over the week-end. Ten days ago 47 of the 660 prisoners refused to eat their dinner of stew and rice pudding. Two days later, however. it was reported that all ...

... Following investigations lasting near , a week into allegations that there had been tobacco smuggling. a senior officer at Dartmoor Prison has been suspended from duty. • A Home Office spokesman said: I An officer has been -suspended and I the matter now in ...

... waits Mr. Trevor Thomas. woodwork teacher at Tavistock (Devon) Grammar School. who was due to take a woodwork class a: Dartmoor prison yesterday was found shot dead in his garden at Tavistock. A double-barrel shot gun lay nearby. The shooting came to light ...

... Dartmoor escape: Bail for warder Leslie Walton Abbott, Dartmoor prison officer, was remanded on bail until December 14 when he appeared at Tavistock (Devon) Yesterday charged with aiding a prisoner to escape. Abbott was arrested on Friday after he reported ...