Residents were left puzzled over the weekend after an entire lamppost bearing speed cameras was removed. The cameras were installed following the tragic deaths of a young mother and her daughter after they were hit by a motorist on a busy Plymouth road.

Police are investigating after two men were reportedly seen damaging the lamp-post on Victoria Road in St Budeaux at around 12.10am on Saturday, November 1. The pair fled before officers arrived.

A fixed speed camera mounted on the column was undamaged, but the structure was deemed unsafe. Highway contractors removed the post and isolated the power supply following a structural assessment.

One person took to social media and stated: "If the camera was cut down, it’s down to local and national government insisting on strangling the

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