TWO motor bike riders were taken to hospital after they were in collision with a 4x4 car.

The crash, which closed part of the A3122 near Blackawton on the outskirts of Totnes for several hours shortly after noon on Saturday, involved a Nissan X-Trail four-wheel drive and a green Kawasaki 1,000cc motorbike and blue Suzuki 750cc bike.

Police said the circumstances of the collision were not quite clear but it is believed the two bikes were both in collision with the car.

Ambulances and police attended the crash.

A police spokesman said: "It was not as serious as we first thought.

"We only had to deal with walking wounded."

The two bikers were taken to Torbay Hospital for non life-threatening injuries.

The police spokesman said the road was re-opened after 2pm.

A FISHING boat had to be towed back to port after a rope became tangled in its propeller.

The Dartmouth-registered Delia Jane fishing vessel was 14 miles south east of Start Point when the incident happened.

The boat, with three crew members on board, radioed in for help and Brixham coastguards took over the rescue operation.

A spokesman for the coastguards said: "We tried to see if there was any other vessel in the vicinity.

"Nothing was suitable to provide assistance to the fishing vessel so we contacted the lifeboat at Dartmouth."

The incident happened at 7.20am on Saturday.

The coastguard spokesman said the fishing vessel was towed back to Dartmouth without problems.

Totnes poet Matt Harvey will be helping to launch an environmentally friendly art show in Totnes.

Recycled Art in Landscapes is an exhibition of work which opens at the Ariel Centre in Totnes on Wednesday.

Matt will be at a private viewing on Wednesday evening to help start the show, which involves artists and practitioners passionate about the environment.

Each art work exhibited has to be made principally from recycled materials or express a strong environmental theme.

Hawaii — Message in the Waves — the film about plastic pollution in the Pacific and made by Rebecca Hoskins, who persuaded Modbury to go plastic-bag free, will also be screened alongside the work.

It is due to remain on show until March 31.

FIREFIGHTERS were sent to a house in Newton Abbot to tackle a cooker fire.

Two pumps arrived in Abbotsbury Road just before midday yesterday.

The crews found there had been a small fire in the ground floor of the terraced property involving an electric cooker, but it was out on their arrival.

TWO people were rescued by firefighters after being stuck in a lift at a residential home in Moretonhampstead.

Crews from Chagford and Moretonhampstead attended the incident in Butterton Lane just after 11am on Friday.

They released the pair from the lift car between floors using a short extension ladder and the internal lift gear.