Advice Plymouth

Rogue traders target elderly in Plymouth

Police are urging householders to be on their guard for a gang of rogue traders targeting elderly people in Plymouth and Exeter.

Detectives are investigating a number of reports of men calling at pensioners’ homes over Easter weekend deploying high-pressure tactics to carry out so-called ‘essential’ work on their properties. The victims have then been forced to pay thousands of pounds...

On the Black Hill

Venue: 
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Event Date: 
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 19:00
Category: 

Film adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin.

Filmed on location in Wales and adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin, this is the story of two brothers, identical twins, who farm the same land their family have farmed for generations. The film covers 80 years in the siblings’ lives which forms a backdrop to the drama of the land, and the changes in agricultural life throughout the 20th century. The film celebrates the people and land of the Black Mountains and of how the world of rural existence and struggle is inextricably linked to the lives of the people who inhabit it....

Council releases second Money Advice booklet

Plymouth City Council has produced a second money advice booklet specifically for carers and people living with disabilities.

The decision was made following a positive response towards the first advice booklet released following the welfare reforms last April.

The two booklets explain the changes to the benefit system such as the introduction of the Personal Independence...

Benefit changes explained in Council booklet

People living in Plymouth can access a ‘Money Advice’ booklet which the Council has produced with Plymouth Community Homes to help explain changes to the benefit system.

From 1 April 2013 the Government introduces the Welfare Reform Agenda which will have an impact on approximately 20 per cent of Plymouth’s working age residents. That’s around 16,000 households.

Council Tax...