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The popular Plymouth Seafood Festival will return to the Barbican and Sutton Harbour at the end of the month, but this year with a Plymouth Gin twist!

Located on Southside Street in the heart of the Historic Barbican, the local gin brand joins Brittany Ferries as this year’s sponsors of the event which is organised by the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership Business Improvement District...

A FEMALE Royal Air Force Officer from Plymouth currently deployed on operations in the Middle East has raised money for Cancer Research by smashing a fitness challenge, taking her the length, breadth and circumference of a country.

Squadron Leader Tracey, deployed in a media and communications role, completed the ‘Air Base’ challenge in just 7 days: cycling 345 miles, running 100 miles...

An El Niño climate event is under way that could lead to conditions similar to those of 2009/2010 (which saw the coldest January in decades) and possibly the worst for 65 years.

El Niño is one of three key climate patterns that could lead to changes in our global temperature.

It can trigger droughts in some areas, typhoons in others and is associated with an increased chance of...

The number of unauthorised absences allowed in Plymouth schools before a penalty fine is issued will reduce from 15 September 2015.

The changes come in line after the government increased the persistently absent threshold from 85 per cent to 90.

To continue to drive down the numbers of persistent absenteeism in Plymouth the Council has now updated its Local Code of Conduct in...