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Work gets underway this week at Weston Mill Cemetery on a new memorial garden.

The new garden is designed around 250 solid granite memorial vaults. Each vault is designed to hold up to two sets of cremated remains and comes with a plaque that gives families a choice of personalised artwork to commemorate their loved one.

The garden is an expansion of the range of onsite...

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is encouraging people to start taking part in its new initiative by remembering the 74 men commemorated on the CWGC naval memorial, who lost their lives a century ago on HMS Vanguard.

The Commission’s ‘For those in Peril’ project, is encouraging Plymouth residents to research the names on the CWGC Plymouth Navy Memorial and share their...

The family of 60-year-old John Olver (pictured), who died in Plymouth on Sunday 2 July, have made the following tribute:

The family said: “Avid Plymouth Argyle fan, John Olver, sadly taken too soon. An amazing, loving father of three and a doting grandfather of seven, will be terribly missed by all the family. Rest in peace dad. As a family we would like to thank all the emergency...

An extremely rare breed of seahorse has been discovered off the coast of Devon. The Short Snouted Seahorse, also known as Hippocampus Hippocampus, was found by experts at the National Marine Aquarium and volunteers, as part of an ongoing review into the local marine life, called the Community Seagrass Initiative.

The Biodiversity Action Plan species of seahorse is most commonly found...