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Policing teams welcome new students to Plymouth

Devon and Cornwall Police are proud to be supporting the University of Plymouth during Fresher’s Week for 2014.

Over the course of the week the University policing team will be out and about meeting new and returning students, as well as participating in a series of events and activities to raise awareness of important issues.

On Wednesday 24th September, the team will be...

High Streets have weathered worst of downturn

A number of key towns across the West Country have registered the largest quarterly fall in empty shops since 2006, according to Colliers International’s latest research.

Colliers International’s National Retail Barometer for Q3 2014 shows that the average void rate across the UK by number of units now stands at 13 per cent. Bournemouth, Chippenham, Plymouth and Worcester were among 12...

Leading Women UK launches in South Hams

SOUTH Hams MP Dr Sarah Wollaston and more than 80 Devon businesswomen attended the latest branch launch of networking group Leading Women UK this week. Inspirational speaker and conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency, Dr Wollaston outlined her journey from GP to MP and the importance of including more women in politics including through possible job-sharing schemes for MPs. The...

Plymouth Teaching Schools launch Science Hub

MORE than forty Plymouth Primary Schools attended the city’s first Science Hub Conference to try to help them and their pupils to engage more with the subject.

The event, held at The China Fleet Country Club at Saltash, was organised by Carla Jenkinson and Sara Gill from Leigham Primary School and Prince Rock Primary School.

It is part of the Plymouth Teaching Schools and is...

Bag It. Beat It. for BHF at Drake Circus

Drake Circus Shopping Centre has joined forces with British Heart Foundation (BHF) shops to launch their Bag It. Beat It. campaign, which urges the Plymouth community to donate bags full of unwanted items.

Every bag donated will help fund life-saving heart research, helping over 40,000 little heroes continue to fight congenital heart disease.

Before the BHF was founded, only...

Fresh appeal for witnesses to fatal A38 crash

At 10.53am on Friday 5 September, emergency services attended a serious injury road traffic collision on the A38 Exeter bound carriageway near Smithaleigh, approximately one mile from Lee Mill.

Involved in the collision was a lorry and a pedal cyclist.

The cyclist was treated at the scene before being conveyed by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital with serious injuries where...

Plymouth University awarded cash to help transform lives in Africa

Plymouth University has been awarded more than half a million pounds of Comic Relief funding to help transform thousands of lives in rural Africa.

Academics and students from the Futures Entrepreneurship Centre will work in partnership with the Farm Shop Trust, to help the organisation develop a sustainable and commercially viable supply chain for agricultural inputs across its network...

Appeal after serious assault in Plymouth

Detectives have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a serious assault in Plymouth.

A 20-year-old man from Plymouth sustained a broken jaw after being attacked by two men outside Bar Cuba, North Hill in Plymouth.

He was punched in the face by one man during the assault which happened between 6.30am and 7am on Sunday 7 September....

Council's commitment to construction skills

Construction companies are being asked to help Plymouth City Council set up a scheme that puts skills into the heart of significant developments.

Big building firms as well as contractors are being asked for their input on how to ensure major developments have a commitment to increasing training and skills as part of planning negotiations.

The call has come from Plymouth City...

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