News in brief
The pair have just spent Christmas in the hands of the pirates who snatched them from their yacht off the east coast of Africa.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office say they have had no news to release about the couple although they are still monitoring the situation and offering support to the family.
Mr Chandler's 98-year-old profoundly deaf father Alfred lives in Churchfields in Dartmouth.
Mr Chandler senior's daughter Jill Marshment did not want to comment on her brother and sister-in-law's situation.
Mr Chandler, 59, and his wife were sailing near the Seychelles when they were hi-jacked by pirates who are demanding a ransom for the couple's release.
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted at a Torquay train station.
The 48-year-old man received minor injuries in the attack at the traffic lights outside Torre station at about 6.20pm on November 28.
The alleged attacker and the victim had been travelling on the train and both men disembarked at Torre.
The victim, who was driving away from the station and had stopped at the traffic lights, was approached by the offender, 49, and attacked while he sat in the car.
Police confirmed the two men are known to each other.
Police spokesman John Ball said: "There was a lady in a red car picking someone up from the station and she was calling out to the alleged offender to stop fighting.
"We would like to speak to the lady and anyone else who was in the area at the time and may have witnessed the incident."
Anyone who has information relating to this incident should call John Ball on 01803 841 412 or the police switchboard on 08452 777 444 quoting crime number FT099090.
A THIEF stole a handbag from a pub bar in Totnes early on Christmas Day.
The bag worth £20, which contained a £10 purse, cards, keys and £20 worth of make-up, was taken from the bar at the Dartmouth Inn some time between 11.20pm Christmas Eve and 1am on Christmas Day.
VANDALS caused £100 damage by smashing a window in the Flamingo gift shop in Duke Street, Dartmouth, some time between Christmas Eve and Monday, December 28.
A CHILD'S scooter, with the words JD Bug written on the front and worth £50, was stolen from the south embankment in Dartmouth, between 1.45pm and 3pm on Boxing Day.
WE have been asked to clarify that planning permission granted for the £2.5million development at Curledge Street Primary School does not include the closure of a road splitting the site, as reported in the Herald Express on Monday.
The road plan will be discussed by planners at a later date.
We are happy to set the record straight.
