A TELEVISION crew descended on Tavistock today (Friday) to use the location as a backdrop to a new series of a popular BBC drama.

Cox Tor car park was filled with TV crew vehicles, catering vans and filming equipment as the BBC filmed part of its new series of The Coroner around Foggin Tor Quarry.

The crew was not around for long as the vehicles had cleared out by early afternoon and moved on to the next filming location.

The Coroner is a crime drama telling the story of a solicitor who returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up the post of a coroner, becoming an advocate for the dead as she investigates sudden, violent or unexplained deaths. The drama stars Claire Goose and Matt Bardock.