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Police support Plymouth Pride

Devon and Cornwall Police will be supporting Plymouth Pride, a local family- friendly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) festival in the heart of the city on Saturday (13th August).

LGBT officers will join the parade in the festival and will have a stall on The Hoe where the main event will be held from 1pm.

Local policing team officers and the Diverse Communities...

Brexit having 'negligible effect' on housing market

House price growth remained resilient in July although key indicators covering, agreed sales and new instructions all remained negative in the South West, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.

The UK house price growth indicator posted the softest survey reading in three years in July. Just 5% more respondents nationally saw a rise rather than fall in prices, a...

The Sound of Music comes to Plymouth

Bill Kenwright’s production of one of the greatest family musicals of all time, The Sound of Music comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth, on stage between Tuesday 13 September and Saturday 17 September.

BBC1’s The Voice runner-up and award-nominated Lucy O’Byrne continues in the role of Maria in this spectacular five-star production. Star of stage and screen Andrew Lancel joins the company...

Pitch perfect play for Staddiscombe

Playing fields that have been dogged by drainage and condition problems have been officially opened following a major revamp.

Staddiscombe playing fields are ready for the new football season after the eight full-size senior football pitches had high specification drainage and new goal posts installed.

Other works carried out by the contractors include soil improvements and...

Plymouth photographer wins national competition

Sam Hussey from Plymouth has been selected as the eighth winner of the Jessops Share Your Summer competition; winning an exhibition in 52 store high streets across the UK!

Share Your Summer is a campaign by camera and photography experts, Jessops, searching for the very best summer snaps to showcase in the windows of its 52 nationwide stores.

Sam Hussey from Plymouth has been...

It's Time to Stand Up to Cancer

A joint fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4, Stand Up To Cancer brings the UK together to raise money to help accelerate progress in life-saving cancer research.

Launched in the UK in 2012, Stand Up To Cancer has already raised more than £25million to fund translational research, which takes developments in the lab and transforms them into brand new tests and...

New business slumps in SW post-EU Referendum

Private sector firms in the South West increased employment despite a decline in business activity in the month following the EU Referendum, according to the latest Lloyds Bank Regional PMI.

The data, which is the first indicator of regional business activity since the ‘leave’ vote, revealed that business activity in the region has gone from growth to contraction in July. New business...

Reading 2 Argyle 0: Match report

TO no-one’s great surprise, Argyle fell at the first hurdle in the EFL Cup for the fourth season in succession, succumbing to Championship opponents who, at the moment, they can only aspire to emulate.

A double Dutch dose of first-half goals from Joey van den Berg and his fellow Netherlander Roy Beerens, a full international, gave countryman Jaap Stam his first knockout victory since...

Video CCTV appeal after attempted robbery

Police are investigating an attempted robbery that took place at CJ Brown’s Newsagent in Thurlestone Walk, Leigham, Plymouth.

Two men walked into the store at around 9.45am on Sunday 7th August demanding to be given money. One of the suspects threatened a female shop worker with a kitchen knife but when the alarm was activated both suspects ran off. The member of staff was not harmed...

Day of action on rogue doorstep traders

Legitimate businesses in East Devon are giving Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service a helping hand in its fight against rogue traders.

Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service, Devon & Cornwall Police, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and HMRC all took part in a day-long operation.

Trading Standards officers and Police Community Support Officers talked to...

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