allergies

Support for people with life threatening allergies

A woman with a severe, life threatening allergy has started a support group to help support others affected by severe allergies, or anaphylaxis.

Katy Hannaford, from Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, has a severe drug allergy herself and is also carer to her daughter 12-year-old daughter, Alicia, who has multiple severe allergies.

Food allergies are thought to affect around 5-8% of...

Plymouth man seriously injured in A30 accident

A 23-year-old Plymouth man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries following a single-vehicle road traffic collision on the A30 at Tedburn St Mary.

Devon and Cornwall Police say the collision took place at around 5.30pm on Sunday 17th March 2013 and involved a Peugeot 106 car which was travelling east.

The driver lost control of the vehicle which left the road and came...