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Young People Thrive Through Hands-On Forest School Learning at The LookOut@Haldon

Young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) across Devon are building confidence, gaining nationally recognised qualifications and reconnecting with education through an innovative Forest School programme run by Newton Abbot-based Community Support Team (CST) at The...

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Knife detectors for city revellers

Police in Plymouth are to install knife arches in certain key locations in the city in a bid to deter clubbers and revellers from carrying knives.

The arches, which will be introduced from tonight (Friday 19 April), work in a similar way to airport metal detectors and are fully portable and easy to assemble.

The initiative follows last weekend's stabbing of a 23-year-old man in...

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Driver dies after being trapped under his coach in a car park

A coach driver has been killed after being trapped underneath a coach in a car park in Ivybridge.

Police report that the incident happened just before 5.00pm on Thursday 18th April 2013 in the Car Park of the Famous Lee Mill, Lee Mill Bridge, Ivybridge.

The coach was carrying passengers on a day excursion from Paignton. The driver had exited the coach which then rolled forward...

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Plymouth apprentices one step closer to UK team of the year

After two months of tough competition between more than 90 teams of apprentices Plymouth City Council’s team have made it through to the finals of the Brathay Challenge to become ‘Apprenticeship Team of the Year’.

Eight teams across the country were announced by Skills Minister Matthew Hancock as finalists in the 2013 challenge after planning, delivering and communicating a community...

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Communities encouraged to go wild about their woodlands

Communities in Plymouth will be able to play a major part in protecting their local woodlands thanks to a new project which aims to inspire and reconnect people with wildlife.

Plymouth University has secured £55,900 of Heritage Lottery funding to run the ’Plymouth Woodland Project’, which will work to engage schools, youth groups, community groups and the general public with their...

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A flavour of Hollywood's golden age comes to the university

The sights, sounds and smells of Hollywood in the late 1950s and early 60s are coming to Plymouth University.

For five weeks from April 27, the Peninsula Arts Gallery will host an exhibition which features a recreation of a Los Angeles coffee house, complete with authentic entertainment and a working vintage espresso machine.

The exhibition has been coordinated by Fine Art...

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PCC Tony Hogg welcomes debate on sale of super-strength alcohol

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, Tony Hogg believes that a pilot trialled in Ipswich restricting the sale of high-strength alcohol, should be looked at for Plymouth.

The scheme is being considered by Plymouth's senior officer, Chief Superintendent Chris Singer who believes it might help to reduce alcohol-related street crime in certain areas of the city. The...

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Plymouth Plan sofa goes nautical

All aboard the Plymouth Sofa! Sailors and seafarers are being encouraged to enter the debate on the future of Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City.

Plymouth City Council’s planners will be taking the sofa to the Plymouth Marine Showcase at Queen Anne’s Battery on Saturday 20 April from 10am to 3pm.

The team want to hear the views of yachties, fishermen and watersport enthusiasts as...

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Children help design playground of their dreams in Rothesay Gardens

A group of young-looking lumber jacks have been getting to grips with logging as they help design the playground of their dreams for Honicknowle’s Rothesay Gardens.

Youngsters at three schools will be building bridges, log stripping and helping to build log play equipment during a series of sessions this week with play contractors, Earthwrights.

Children at Shakespeare Primary...

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Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue extends public consultation

A public consultation into the future of Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue has been extended until the end of next week.

The consultation is asking the public to provide feedback on proposals to manage the service in the light of cuts of 17% to its government grant. The cut means savings of £5.5m need to be found.

The proposals include a reduction in some full-time crewed...

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University scientist collaborates with Jeremy Irons for environmental film

An internationally renowned scientist from Plymouth University has worked with multi award-winning actor and Oscar winner Jeremy Irons on a major documentary about marine pollution.

Professor Richard Thompson, from the University’s Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, is a recognised expert on the accumulation of marine debris and was invited to appear in the documentary,...

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