Tributes have been flooding in for a "beautiful, kind, amazing woman" who was a "beacon of sunshine" - after she has been named locally as the victim in a murder investigation that has been launched today in Plymouth.

Devon and Cornwall Police said a murder investigation had been launched following the death of a woman in Plymouth A major police manhunt is under way after a woman died following a serious attack in a street in Plymouth.

Footage shows scene as police have launched a murder investigation following the death of a woman in Plymouth. The woman was found seriously injured in the street on West Hoe Road.

A manhunt is underway for a male murder suspect after a woman in her 40s died having been found seriously injured in the street in Plymouth on Wednesday night, Devon and Cornwall Police said. The force said that officers rushed to the scene at 8.