Here are the biggest stories in this week’s Tavistock Times.

• Devon’s schools could soon be forced to shut on Friday afternoons due to budget pressures, a leading councillor is predicting.

• Controversial plans to cut fire station services in Devon and Somerset have gone out to public consultation this week.

• Tavistock Town Council voted against a motion to declare a climate emergency last week, deferring the declaration until ‘more substance’ could be put behind it.

• Twelve local residents were personally invited to the Houses of Parliament for a meeting on climate change by West Devon and Torridge MP Geoffrey Cox.

• A new state-of-the-art exhibition has brought ‘Dartmoor’s past to life’ and provides a glimpse into the ancient moorland.

• A Tavistock couple who went plastic free for a month said the challenge was both ‘interesting and frustrating’ — and helped not only the environment but the local trade.

• People power helped a West Devon village reopen its only main road after high winds played havoc in the area last week.

• More than 100 people converged on Tavistock’s former magistrates courts in Victorian costume for the filming of independent period film The Ballad of Lucy Sands.

• 60 students presented their projects to more than 200 visitors on June 25 at Tavistock College’s Product of the Year.

• SEVEN pages of local sport, including Tavistock Cricket Club’s seconds team enjoying an away victory against Plymouth thirds.