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Plymouth City Council is working with the Local Government Association (LGA) to call on the Government to tackle the issue of Housing Benefit overpayments, which contributes to a loss of £1 million a year to Plymouth taxpayers.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays a subsidy to councils including Plymouth to administer Housing Benefit, but councils are losing out largely...

Part of the government’s Help to Buy scheme is ending this December. However, Barratt Homes in Plymouth is advising customers that the most popular part of the Help to Buy (HTB) scheme is definitely not ending. People can still buy a new home with just a 5% deposit, and this is set to continue until 2021.

There are two main elements to Help to Buy: i) the mortgage guarantee scheme, and...

According to a national league table published last week, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust had the highest number of recruiting studies open in 2015/16 within the region.

A vital part of the work of the NHS, clinical research enables clinicians to gather evidence about ‘what works’ so that treatments for patients can be improved.

In addition, there is research evidence to show that...

A BIZARRE winning goal gave Argyle an 13th unbeaten match in succession, in a game befitting the allegedly mystical number.

A stop-start affair, in which Argyle took the lead through Craig Tanner before being pegged back by Craig Slater's equaliser, was won by substitute Ryan Donaldson blocking an attempted clearance by visiting goalkeeper Sam Walker, and watching it loop back into the...