The touching story of a crowdfunding appeal to help a family living near South Tawton is our front page news —pick up your copy of today’s Okehampton Times to read about all the stories below.

• A crowdfunding appeal for a North Tawton rugby player left paralysed after falling from a roof has raised nearly £30,000 in just four days.

• Read our 12 page supplement looking forward to next week’s Okehampton Show.

• The Okehampton branch of the Royal British Legion has launched a recruitment drive to reverse a decline in its membership.

• Fiddle music filled St James’ Church in Jacobstowe at a very special summer concert earlier this month.

• A climate and ecological emergency was declared by members of the Dartmoor National Park Authority last Friday — and agreed to work towards being a carbon neutral authority by 2025, subject to a detailed action plan being drawn up.

• Children have been flocking to Okehampton Library to sign up to the Space Chase, a summer reading challenge to encourage children to read for pleasure.

• Okehampton’s Central Devon MP Mel Stride has pledged his full support for new Prime Minister Boris Johnson after having initially backed Michael Gove during the Conservative Party leadership contest.

• NINE pages of local sport including the West Devon cricket derby of Lewdown vs Whitchurch, a rugby festival for girls in the Okehampton area and much more.