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The locations of four new wildflower meadows in Plymouth, which help local bee and butterfly populations to thrive, have now been announced.

Plymouth City Council has identified four new sites across the city to establish new wildflower meadows, which will be prepared and planted this month, when ground conditions are good for sowing, and will be flowering by the summer.

The...

New research from local housebuilder Barratt Homes shows that the government’s Help to Buy scheme can knock more than three years off the time it takes to get on the property ladder.

Barratt, which is building new homes in Plymouth, surveyed around 1,600 of its customers who had used Help to Buy to get their views on the scheme. More than half of the respondents (55 per cent) said it...

Two women who devoted much of their lives to helping unwanted and abused pets are to have her ashes buried at a Plymouth sanctuary, alongside the animals they helped.

Jean Riggs and Pat Fitzpatrick spent decades supporting Woodside Animal Welfare Trust, and the 1,000-plus animals taken in by the charity each year.

For Jean and Pat, the sanctuary at Elfordleigh became part of...

A new campaign has launched to encourage people across the South West to register to vote, ahead of local elections on 2 May 2019.

The Electoral Commission estimates that 16% of people are not registered to vote in the region. Its ‘Got 5?’ campaign encourages people to take five minutes to register to vote online at www.gov.uk/registertovote .

Elections are taking place in 23...