Small business owners have been warned about a telephone scam offering cheap or heavily discounted advertising in local newspapers and magazines.
Devon and Cornwall Police say scammers have targeted at least three firms in North Devon during the last week. Each time, regular advertisers were offered discounted advertising space in a sister publication and asked for credit card details...
After last year’s success, SSG Training and Consultancy organised a second annual Easter Egg donation for local children’s charity CHICKS (Country Holidays for Inner City Kids). CHICKS provides free, life changing respite breaks for disadvantaged children from all over the UK with centres in Devon, Cornwall and Derbyshire.
SSG team members and course delegates donated over 70 Easter...
Tavistock Fire Station is looking for prospective on-call firefighters to join their ranks.
Interested? An open evening will be held at the fire station on Wednesday 13 April, at 7.00pm.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is asking for people in the Tavistock community to be on-call or ‘retained’ firefighters. No previous experience of firefighting is necessary for...
ERNIE is definitely testing Agent Million this month, who will be travelling from Scotland to the South West to deliver good news to two new Premium Bond millionaires. Two lucky women - one in Devon and one in Mid Scotland and Fife – are this month’s Premium Bonds jackpot prize winners.
In Devon, the winner has £21,008 invested in Premium Bonds and bought the winning Bond in June 2009...
Ridgeway School Year 7 football team has won the Plymouth Cup. Under the new management of PE teacher and head of the school’s Football Academy, Richard Harvey, the team has gone from strength to strength. The team beat four schools on their way to lifting the coveted trophy. “The boys did not make it easy for themselves, going 2-0 down in the semi-final against Lipson, however they showed great...
Spend an afternoon at the races this Easter break at Newton Abbot Racecourse on Tuesday 5 April.
Why not treat the family? Children aged 16 and under plus students with a valid student ID / NUS card enjoy free entry!
There is also a brand new children’s play area for this season, open at every fixture.
Gates open at 11:50 and the first race is at 13:50. The last race is at 17:15.
Tickets can be bought at the racecourse’s online ticket store until 17:00 on Monday 4 April. There will be tickets available at the gates on the day. Tickets are priced at £18 for...
The Home Secretary is actively campaigning to erode the independence of the British Police, claims former Devon and Cornwall police chief Bob Spencer.
Mr Spencer, who is standing as an independent candidate in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, has slammed Theresa May for her plans, which he claims will mean the loss of more police stations and more officers on the beat....
Liz Lawson, Managing Director of Lawsons, who have traded in Plymouth since 1904 and are a key fixture of Plymouth’s high street, has decided to stand down as vice-chair of the Plymouth City Centre Company and its Business Improvement District (BID).
Liz was a founder of the City Centre BID in 2005, the first BID to be established in the UK outside of London.
A group of ‘Cornish pirates’ from the Halfway Harmony choir in Kingsand & Cawsand raised £761.00 for the Torpoint and Rame Peninsula Lions New Year’s day Dip.
20% of the total raised went to the Lions own charities leaving a magnificent total of £610.00 which was donated to the South West Mesothelioma Support Group.
The South West Mesothelioma Group is based at The...
Last year, the iPlymouth Photography Group on Flickr united with the South West Mesothelioma Support Group to produce a 2016 charity calendar to raise funds and spread awareness, whilst at the same time remembering all those who have lost their lives to asbestos related cancer mesothelioma and other asbestos diseases.
The calendar focused on the issue of asbestos in UK schools and...
