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MTV Crashes travel information

Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to attend the MTV Crashes two-day music event, which continues on Plymouth Hoe.

Today's Plymouth Herald produced a spectacular front page cover celebrating the opening night (pictured).

Plymouth City Council, which is organising the event in partnership with MTV, is urging people to plan their journeys and use public transport where...

Appeal for witnesses to collision

Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision in Plymouth which left a physically disabled man with serious leg injuries.

The 27-year-old man from Plymouth was crossing the road at Derry’s Cross opposite Grosvenor Casino around 3.10pm on Saturday 13 June when a motorcycle was in collision with his electric wheelchair.

The disabled man sustained serious leg injuries after...

Green Flag for Drake's Palace Gardens

The Drake’s Place Gardens and Reservoir at Plymouth University are to receive the prestigious Green Flag Award for the first time.

Reopened in June 2014, it is among 1,582 parks and green spaces – and 90 in the South West – to be awarded the accolade by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

Including parks, cemeteries, universities, shopping centres and community gardens,...

Chip, chip hooray for Harbourside

Plymouth’s Harbourside Fish and Chips restaurant and takeaway on Southside Street on Plymouth’s Barbican has been shortlisted for the 2016 Takeaway Fish and Chip Shop of the Year in the National Fish and Chip Awards.

The top 60 fish and chip shops have been announced by the Federation of Fish Friers as part of the UK’s National Fish and Chip Awards by Seafish.

Competing across...

Royal appointment for Plymouth academics

Academics from Plymouth University will be among those meeting the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall during an event to raise awareness of the problem of marine litter.

Microplastics expert Professor Richard Thompson and Dr Gregory Borne, Director of the University’s Sustainability and Surfing Research Group, will be sharing experiences and ideas of how to reduce the amount of...

New co-working hub for Plymouth

Thrive Hubs, an innovative network of co-working hubs, is due to officially open its door for business for the first time in Plymouth in three weeks, thanks to the completion of its first project in Ocean Crescent.

“The interest shown by the business community during and after the Plymouth Business Show gave the whole team a massive boost. We have always passionately believed we are...

Host families needed in Devon

A Devon-based work placement company is seeking host families for international trainees as it prepares for its busiest summer yet.

The Training Partnership (TTPL) is welcoming more than 240 trainees to the county in July, and another 300 from August to October, with a need for host families in Exeter, Torbay and across South Devon for this summer, autumn and beyond.

Host...

StartUp Britain hits Plymouth

Following a high­profile Downing Street launch, national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain has hit the road and arrives in Plymouth today on the way to helping the number of UK businesses started in 2015 to reach a record 600,000.

At last month’s launch, surrounded by entrepreneurs, David Cameron announced that the target set for the government­backed Start Up Loans company three...

Dramatic cliff rescue in Plymouth

Emergency crews staged a dramatic rescue in the early hours of this morning.

At approximately 03.03hrs Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue recieved a call from Ambulance Control requesting assistance at coastal cliffs just off Admiralty road in the Stonehouse area of Plymouth.

The request for assistance was for rescuing a 25 year old male who had fallen some 25 to 30ft from the...

Plymouth student wins research cash

A medical student from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has received an award of £1,000 from the Peninsula Medical Foundation to pursue a research project investigating neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), as part of the INSPIRE scheme.

James Russell has just completed his second year studying medicine at Plymouth University.

His research project is...

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