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Estates manager the winning career for Stoke Damerel Community College

Health Education England (HEE) is delighted to announce that students from Stoke Damerel Community College in Plymouth are the South West regional winners of the Step into the NHS national schools' competition!

Year 8 students Rion Recica and Charlie Harrison impressed the judges with their entry to promote the role of estates manager to their peers. Rion and Charlie created a...

Dartmoor’s Ten Commandment Stones restored to former glory

Specialist restoration work to the Ten Commandment Stones monument on Buckland Beacon has just been completed. The work was carried out in two phases by Bath-based conservator and lettering expert Iain Cotton.

The first phase, completed in late May, saw the stones cleaned and wrapped in preparation for the restoration work to commence. The second phase of the process saw further...

New picnic benches transform Plymouth city centre

​Ten new, brightly coloured picnic benches have been installed around Plymouth’s City Centre hand made by jobseekers with learning difficulties.

The benches have been made by talented jobseekers at Pluss Training, an award winning national organisationthat helps thousands of people with disabilities find careers.

They have replaced existing benches in the centre - which had...

Plymouth first to recruit to post-surgery quality of life improvement programme

Last December, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust became the first site across the UK to recruit patients for a national programme aiming to improve quality of life after surgery.

Major complications following surgical operations can be up to ten times more common than death, yet reducing morbidity tends to be the main focus of research studies. Now, the pilot Perioperative Quality...

Appeal for witnesses after bike theft

Police were called to Rockin Bikes in Yelverton on Sunday 2 July to reports of a high value burglary.

Offenders broke through rear basement doors to the bike store on Harrowbeer Mews and took approximately £21,000 worth of bicycles. The offenders escaped with the bikes using a Ford Transit van.

The Transit van was later located in Horrabridge by police and all items were...

Trading Standards donates counterfeit clothes mountain to charity

Around 5,000 seized items of counterfeit clothes have been donated to the charity Planet Zero by Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service.

The mainly counterfeit goods, which include track suits, t-shirts, sweatshirts and trainers, are the result of seizures by trading standards officers across the area.

On Friday trading standards officers packed a lorry bound for...

Murder investigation launched in Plymouth

Detectives have launched a murder investigation following the suspicious death of a man in Plymouth on Sunday 2 July.

Police were called at around 12.40am on Sunday morning by paramedics after concerns were raised for the welfare of a man outside The Clarence pub in Stonehouse, Plymouth.

On arrival, paramedics found a man in his 60s collapsed and after several attempts made to...

Museum on Tour celebrates Dartmoor Archaeology

Get a real ‘hands on’ experience with Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery’s Museum on Tour this July. Dartmoor National Park is hosting this exciting heritage event at its award winning Visitor Centre in Princetown on Saturday 15 July 2017.

In celebration of the Festival of Archaeology there’ll be lots of hands on activities - have a go at making Bronze Age inspired beads, pinch pots...

Thirst Project improves the experience of children having surgery

Staff from our Plym Children’s Theatres have recently introduced a project within the Trust, aiming to improve the experience of children having surgery.

Known as the ‘Thirst Project’, the aim is to allow children to drink clear fluids up to an hour before their operation, resulting in reduced stress response, post-op nausea and vomiting, as well as improving cooperativeness....

Back updated Plan for Libraries council leader urges

The leader of Plymouth City Council has made an impassioned appeal to fellow councillors to vote for the updated Plan for Libraries to unlock £250,000 investment, create a fairer access to services across the city and a more modern offer for users.

Speaking ahead of the Full Council on Monday, Council leader Ian Bowyer said: “We have done our utmost to create a package that will take...

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