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A hawk will be flying above the buildings in Plymouth City Centre as part of the Council’s crackdown on badly behaved gulls.

Harvey Binniger from NBC Bird and Pest Solutions patrolled the streets yesterday (Tuesday) with a harris hawk to scare the gulls away from the main shopping centre.

Called Izzy, the hawk has been trained to fly but not attack gulls. His presence is enough...

Plymouth City Council is consulting on proposals to improve walking and cycling links between the rail station and Central Park.

The proposals, which link in with improvements recently made around the station itself, will address challenges faced by cyclists and pedestrians, including those with visual impairments. They include:

• new sections of off-road cycle route on
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The South West Coast Path Association have been successful in their bid to the Coastal Communities Fund to secure £1 million investment in the South West Coast Path.

This project will repair, improve and promote the South West Coast Path (SWCP). Funds will help with 32 urgent repair works to the path, in addition to a range of projects providing information boards and signage, events...

Scientists studying the Earth’s climate are to set sail for one of the most hostile areas on the planet in a bid to improve our understanding of the interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere.

The team, led by Plymouth University, will be travelling 200 miles south of the Falkland Islands, close to Drake’s Passage, in the Southern Ocean, for a month-long investigation into how...