PARAMEDICS were kept busy over the weekend with a string of 999 shouts involving four road accidents and three assaults. Five of the incidents - including all the assaults - happened in Newton Abbot.

The most recent emergency response was in the early hours of this morning (April 3) in the town centre’s Market Street where a male was attacked. The casualty, who has not been named, suffered an injury to his nose. He was taken to Torbay Hospital for treatment just after 1am.

Early on Sunday morning a cyclist was taken to the same hospital after a collision involving a pedestrian in Newton Abbot’s Ashburton Road.

The casualty suffered a chest injury in the accident which happened just after 8.30am. At about the same time another cyclist was hurt in collision with a car at Pear Tree Cross in Ashburton. The injured party was taken by ambulance to Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital for treatment to back pain.

Exactly 24 hours earlier a woman on a motorbike suffered minor injuries when the machine collided with a car at 8.20am in Edgelands Lane, Ipplepen. She was taken to Torbay Hospital. And in the early hours of Saturday two doormen, one in his 20s and the other 44, were rushed to the same hospital with facial injuries after an assault at a Newton Abbot town centre pub at about 12.30am.

A 23-year-old man from Newton Abbot was arrested after the incident. Some eight hours earlier, in Newton Abbot’s Highweek Road, a 14-year-old girl from Teignmouth suffered an eye injury after an alleged assault involving a girl of a similar age. Police said that inquiries were continuing.

Earlier in the day a cyclist suffered a knee injury and back pain in Bradley Lane, Newton Abbot, after colliding with a car. He was treated by paramedics at the scene.