This week’s Gazette leads with a council issuing an urgent warning after a rise in the number of youngsters jumping off a bridge into the river. The parish council is concerned that with the dry weather resulting in the river being at its lowest point, jumping in could result in injury or even death.

Our front page picture shows an 18-year-old competing in a Tall Ships Race from Sunderland to Dartmouth.

Inside the paper, a drink-driver has admitted causing the death of three-year-old Reuben Williams in a car crash just before Christmas.

As ever, there is much much more inside.