With temperatures set to soar to 20C this week, the RSPCA is issuing advice to pet owners to ensure their animals are comfortable and happy in the heat.
The Met Office has predicted highs of 20C on Saturday and Sunday, prompting the RSPCA to remind pet owners to consider their animals over the summer weather.
Just as cold, wintry weather can pose a risk to animals, hot...
Volunteers and Council staff will be rolling up their sleeves to extend the North Cross wildflower meadow this weekend.
Building on the huge success of the wildflower display last year, this year’s display will be even bigger and better, by bringing the flowers closer to the public walking and cycling routes through North Cross. The display has also been expanded to the central...
Harnessing naturally occurring chemicals could be used as a means to protect crop seedlings being eaten by common pests, a study suggests.
Research led by Plymouth University and the University of Southampton analysed the feeding preferences of hundreds of snails when presented with several different cultivars of oilseed rape seedlings.
Four students supported by the University of Plymouth Students Union will be attempting to break the world record for the most T-shirts worn inside out in the same place at the same time. The attempt will take place on the City Centre Piazza on the 6th of May at 11:30am and is being called #INSIDE OUT.
The main focus of the attempt is to show the local community what can be achieved...
Wyevale Garden Centres is warning the gardeners of Britain to prepare for an increase of supersized slugs this spring, thanks to our unseasonably mild winter.
Due to a change in recent weather patterns and a lack of hard frost, our slug population is booming. Unlike snails, slugs are active above 5°c and Britain’s mild winter means they’ve been awake for a longer season than usual and...
New data released today by the charity Asthma UK highlights that almost three quarters of people in the South West (70%) would not know what to do if someone were to have a potentially life threatening asthma attack2.
Someone in the UK has an asthma attack every 10 seconds, yet many people wouldn’t know how to help someone if they were struggling to breathe. The charity is...
Devon’s small businesses will receive a welcome boost as Devon County Council announces plans to expand the county’s network of flexible working spaces.
Around 20 per cent of Devon workers work from home, and many of those are home-based businesses looking for larger premises as their business expands.
Their contribution to the local economy is significant and support for the...
Devon police officers are continuing to investigate the garden at the former home of a paedophile couple, who knew serial killers Fred and Rose West.
Excavations began on Tuesday 3 May in the rear garden of a bungalow in Bradnich, near Cullompton, following historic intelligence linked to the former occupants of the council-owned property, David and Pauline Williams.
Police are appealing for witnesses following collision that has left an elderly woman with in hospital with serious arm injuries.
At approximately 5.20pm on Friday 29th April, police were called to Mainstone Avenue in Plymouth.
A Renault Kangoo appears to have struck several stationary vehicles before rolling on to its nearside trapping the 81-year-old female driver by the arm...
Experts will be gathering at Plymouth University this month to discuss digital safety in social care, health and education settings.
Among the speakers at the Digital Wellbeing and Safeguarding Conference on 16 May will be Lorin LaFave, the mother of teenager Breck Bednar who was tragically murdered as a result of online grooming.
