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Everyone is invited to bring their sandwiches, blankets and deckchairs to the Plymouth Hoe this weekend for a big picnic.

To help celebrate the end of Co-operatives Fortnight Plymouth City Council has partnered up with lots of local businesses to host a Fairtrade family picnic on Saturday 6 July.

Taking place between 11am and 2pm on the grassed area of the Hoe by Elliott Street...

Police are investigating after a 49-year-old man was assaulted on Vauxhall Street, Plymouth in the early hours of Thursday 20 June.

The victim was inside the Favourite Foods takeaway between 2.00 and 3.30am where he was involved in an argument with a drunk woman who had allegedly pushed in the queue.

The argument escalated and two men became involved inside the restaurant....

Police are investigating the death of a 45-year-old woman at a paintball centre in Sparkwell near Ivybridge.

Officers and ambulance staff were called to the Delta Force paintball centre in Ledgate Lane at 9.25pm on Friday 28 June.

The woman who has not been named, was a member of staff. She became trapped while unloading wooden barriers from a transit van and was pronounced...

Luke Pollard has been selected as the Labour Party's parliamentary candidate for the Plymouth constituency of Sutton and Devonport.

Mr Pollard will fight the seat for Labour at the next general election, due in 2015, after being elected in a ballot of Labour Party constituency members.

The seat of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport is held by the Conservative MP Oliver Colvile who...