Someone paying rent for an average two bedroom home in the South West would have forked out £38,137 to their landlord over the last five years, new analysis by housing and homelessness charity Shelter reveals today.
This is just under the sum needed for a 20% deposit on the average first time buyer home in the region, which is currently priced at £195,672.
Devon and Cornwall Police along with local authorities have launched an appeal to help them locate a missing 12-year-old Devon girl who’s been taken to Bangkok by her father.
A High Court Judge has ordered the release of details of Arisara Miles, who is known as ‘Zara’, who travelled to Thailand with her father without permission.
A pilot scheme to keep people safe on nights out in Plymouth’s Waterfront Business Improvement District (BID) has been hailed a success.
The Evening Ambassadors scheme was a six-week pilot launched in December in which two teams of Ambassadors patrolled the area and used a radio network to report any issues directly to the Council’s CCTV Control Room. On Saturdays between 21 November...
This year’s Bank Holiday weekend will see the unveiling of the results of Newton Abbot Racecourse’s £350,000 winter redevelopment programme ahead of the first racing fixture of the new season at the South Devon course.
In the five months since the last race of 2015, the course has undergone a number of improvements aimed at enhancing the visitor experience for racegoers, owners,...
Nine out of 15 shops that sell electronic cigarettes in Plymouth failed a recent test purchase operation.
New laws on selling E Cigarettes to children were introduced last year, and Trading Standards were checking whether they were being applied by retailers.
E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that are marketed as an alternative to cigarettes containing tobacco. While...
Competition was fierce at a recent Plymouth School Sports Partnership primary basketball competition held at Ridgeway School.
Seven schools from across Plymouth played against each other in a round robin competition. Three points were awarded for a win, two for a draw and one for a loss. The event was refereed by young leaders from Ridgeway School.
Tackling should be banned in school rugby games due to the risk of "serious injury" among under-18s, a group of more than 70 doctors and health experts have warned.
Academics, doctors, and public health professionals are among those to have signed the letter, and said studies show children were being made vulnerable to "serious and catastrophic risk of injury".
Plymouth University, Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust and Cornwall Royal Hospital and Oxfordshire-based charity SUDEP Action are delighted that EpsMon – the world’s first self-monitor app and developed by this partnership – is the winning solution to the international challenge launched by Epilepsy Foundation of America. The challenge was for a method to reduce the risk of seizures with the...
Nel Wilton, aged 52, will be taking on Plymouth’s Half Marathon to fundraise for Cornwall Search & Rescue Team (CSRT), in memory of her husband Del Wilton, a Paramedic who took his life in 2013. Nel praises the charity for all their hard work in helping to find and recover Mr Wilton’s body from the Hell’s Mouth in 2013, and has undertaken a number of fundraising initiatives for CSRT to...
Police are seeking mindless burglars who vandalised the home of a 97-year-old man in Plymouth while searching for valuables.
Offenders broke into the property in Landulph Gardens, Barne Barton, sometime between Thursday 18 February and Saturday 20 February while the elderly man was not at home.
They smashed the back door to get inside before searching every room and causing a...
