MPs criticise 10-year deal struck in ‘blind panic’ to rent Dartmoor prison, where high levels of radon had been detected ...

A £4m-a-year lease for a prison that has been empty for 18 months has been a "needless waste of taxpayers' money", a report ...

Five Dartmoor ponies have arrived at a National Trust estate where they will help restore the landscape by grazing on ...

HMP Dartmoor was shut down in August 2024 after radioactive radon gas had been detected at the jail in Princetown, Devon. The ...

The Ministry of Justice has spent £100m of taxpayers’ money keeping open a “radioactive” prison it cannot use, an investigation by MPs has found.

Dartmoor ponies helping to restore landscape at National Trust estate - The conservation charity hopes that the three mares ...

Radon concentrations of 10 times the safe level in some areas subsequently forced HMPPS to close the prison in August 2024.

Alex Murdin, artist and author of Rock Idols which explores the moor's ancient stone formations, said the tors and valleys ...

The government is spending £4m a year on the upkeep of a prison that has not held any inmates for 18 months, a report from ...

Unless steps are taken that will enable Dartmoor to reopen and prisoners to return to the site, the prison service will ...

The Duchy of Cornwall said the Dartmoor Curlew Recovery Programme had been running for five years at the national park in an ...