MORE work undertaken by the magistrates' court at Newton?Abbot is set to go.

The court is scheduled to close in two years time, but now first appearance cases and remands are to be transferred to Torquay.

A video link system will also be moved.

But solicitors are meeting next week to discuss the measures, which they believe will be counterproductive.

Some facilities at Torquay are not as good as those at Newton Abbot, claimed Simon Colman, chairman of the Teignbridge and South Hams Duty Solicitors Scheme.