Local News

Plymouth shows its support for the Paris terror victims

Plymouth is showing its support to the people of Paris after Friday night’s terrorist attacks.

The French Tricolore flag is being displayed on the Big Screen and this evening Smeaton’s Tower will be lit red, white and blue, joining with other cities across the world who have done the same with their own landmarks since...

Police in Plymouth searching for a missing woman have found a body.

Christina Harding, 55, was reported missing from her home in the Stoke area of Plymouth since Tuesday 10 November.

Officers were called to the Richmond Walk area of Plymouth, just before 2.30pm yesterday afternoon, Saturday 14th November after a member of the public sadly discovered a woman's body in the water...

Plymouth’s work to tackle problem drinking comes under the spotlight as Alcohol Awareness Week begins (16-22 November 2015).

Excessive drinking is one of four lifestyle behaviours, along with smoking, unhealthy diet and lack of exercise, which contribute to four chronic health conditions which, in Plymouth, cause 54% of deaths.

Thrive Plymouth, the city’s ten-year public health...

House prices are expected to rise in the South West by 4 per cent per annum, over the next five years (a cumulative increase of around 22%)

Rising property prices in the Home Counties could be having a knock-on effect in the South West, encouraging urbanites to downsize into the region’s small holdings, says a local RICS spokesperson. Anecdotally, chartered surveyors in the South West...