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Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust Infection Prevention and Control Team (IPCT) presented a number of awards to staff across the Trust at a special study day, which took place on Monday (22 April).

Presented by Greg Dix, Director of Nursing, the awards recognised the outstanding achievements by both entire wards and individual members for innovation, promotion and sustaining excellent...

A woman in her 60s was robbed of her purse outside Plympton Library yesterday.

Detectives are keen to hear from any witnesses to the street robbery that took place on the Ridgeway in Plympton yesterday – Wednesday 24 April – at around 5.10pm.

The woman was near to the entrance of Plympton library when a young man approached her, pushed her, then grabbed the purse that she was...

Preparation has started on the build for this year's Devon County Show on 16-18 May.

A team of eight contractors are making the showground home for the next month as they build marquees equivalent in size to approximately four football pitches.

Show Secretary Ollie Allen said the early days of the build were a testing time for the team.

“This is a really big task!” she...

Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has joined the international Cancer Prevention Network (CPN) Consortium, in recognition of the importance of the University’s cancer-related research programmes.

The CPN was founded in 2003 by pioneering physicians from across the United States and Canada, with the objective of finding new ways of improving quality of life...