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Year three medical students at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have worked with residents and staff of the Salvation Army’s Devonport Lifehouse to create a ‘health corner’ to benefit the health and wellbeing of residents.

Three groups of medical students worked with Devonport Lifehouse. The first discussed the idea with two local GPs involved in the...

Plymouth University is marking National Honey Bee Day this week – and its leading academic in the area hopes the event will underline the importance of sustaining bees and other pollinators.

To coincide with the national day on 20 August, the University is holding a free, bee-themed ‘make and take’ event in its Drake’s Place Gardens tomorrow, 18 August.

Dr Mick Hanley, Reader...

The steep hillsides in the uplands of the UK present access problems when it comes to the control of one particularly difficult to manage plant – bracken. The difficulties associated with operating on steep bracken infested land, particularly for the management of livestock, and the difficulties faced by walkers and other land users increase significantly as it spreads. Bracken spread also...

British Cycling and Sky are celebrating another successful year of delivering cycling in partnership with the Council.

We teamed up in 2012 and since then the Sky Ride recreational cycling programme has had 21,000 sign-ups, with more than 100 people going on to train as lead riders themselves.

In recognition of the achievements made over the last four years, British Cycling has...