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Scientists from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have been awarded a grant from young person’s cancer charity The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust to investigate a new drug-based treatment for a multi-tumour brain and nervous system cancer which affects teenagers and young adults.

The research team will work with a condition called neurofibromatosis, in...

Carrie Southwell, local resident and direct descendent of a Pilgrim Father on the Mayflower, will take part in Plymouth’s ‘Illuminate’ event and light the candle at the Mayflower Steps.

The event, which is organised by Plymouth’s Mayflower 400 project team and takes place on Thursday 20 November at 6pm, will mark the start of the official countdown to the 400th anniversary of the...

More than 1,000 people across Devon and Cornwall have taken part in a consultation process which allows communities to decide how low-level criminals may be punished in the future.

Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg carried out a summer long consultation asking people across the peninsula what sanctions they felt would best deal with those who commit crimes such as antisocial...

A Plymouth University composer has earned two award nominations for a film which reads the minds and bodies of its audience, and a series of musical pieces based on the career of David Bowie.

Dr Alexis Kirke, from the University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, has been shortlisted twice in the Installation/Exhibition/Live Event category of the 2014 Media...