Local News

Residents in St Budeaux are invited to find out about how they could save money on their fuel bills with the launch of Plymouth Energy Community’s switching scheme on Wednesday 17 July.

The free event, which will take place at Maine Gardens between 9am and 11am, will offer local residents the chance to learn more about the energy switching scheme and the benefits it could bring....

Police in Plymouth are trying to locate a man and a woman who are alleged to have been involved in the assault of a taxi driver in the Hooe area of the city in the early hours of Sunday morning (14 July).

It is understood the taxi driver picked up his fare – a man and a woman – outside Cuba on North Hill at around 2.40am on Sunday. He was driving a black Metro cab.

He drove...

The family of Katherine Hooper has paid tribute to the young mother and her two sons, Josh and Sam, following their tragic deaths on Friday 12 July .

Katherine Hooper, 24 and Josh Patterson, aged five were killed after they fell from rocks at Haytor on Dartmoor on Friday morning. Police later discovered the body of two-year-old Sam Patterson at Ms Hooper's address in Paignton.

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Businesses in Plymouth and the west country peninsula will benefit from £4 million funding awarded to the Plymouth City Deal partnership.

A Regional Growth Fund bid from Plymouth University, backed by other Plymouth City Deal partners including Plymouth City Council, the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP and the Plymouth...