Devon

Plymouth’s City Market is to get a £3.5 million makeover as part of a major investment to help the city’s West End businesses.

Market traders are being invited to an event next week to talk to the project team and see some of the proposed designs for the revamp that will secure the long term future of the much-loved market by addressing maintenance and condition issues.

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Police are hunting for two men who robbed and assaulted a 42-year-old physically disabled man on a Plymouth street for just £10.

The victim, who uses a walking stick, was on Mannamead Road at 10.45pm on Thursday [28 January] when he was approached by the two men.

They demanded cash and then rifled through his pockets.

When he hit one of them with his stick, he was...

Families from Plymouth, South West Devon and Cornwall who have suffered the pain of baby loss at any stage of pregnancy, birth or in infancyare invited to join a special service on Saturday 30th April 2016 at 7pm at Plymouth Minster.

The International ‘Saying Goodbye’services helpfamilies pay tribute to their lost babies and provide an opportunity for people to say goodbye.

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SOME of the most powerful and influential health professionals in the west country attended a free health conference at Plymouth Science Park addressing the status of healthcare in the city and its future.

The “Health and the City’ conference was organised by Plymouth Science Park and 100 delegates signed up for the event held in conferencing rooms at the 25-acre site adjacent to...

Now that the Government’s new Universal Credit scheme has been introduced the City Council is hosting a special event to explain the changes for private landlords.

Universal Credit is a single monthly payment for people in or out of work, which merges together some of the benefits and tax credits that people currently receive. Universal Credit has replaced income-based Jobseekers’...

The National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS) will be running an event for people who have been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis (axial spondyloarthritis) (AS) in the last 18 months called AS & You.

The event will take place at Plymouth Copthorne Hotel from 6.00pm on 10 March 2016 and is completely free. Anyone who goes along is also invited to bring friends and family so...

Francis Clark’s annual Finance in the South West event, now in its 4th year running, will be taking place on Tuesday 23rd February from 08:00 to 14:00 at Exeter Racecourse. The

Seminar brings together specialists representing funding and business support available to businesses in the Heart of the South West LEP area.

This year the keynote speaker will be Radio 4 business and...

There was energy, enthusiasm and attitude aplenty last Friday as nearly 500 young athletes and volunteers from schools all over Devon gathered at the Plymouth Life Centre in the region’s biggest celebration of inclusive sport. Young people with a range of physical and learning disabilities came together to get active, try new sports and compete against one another.

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The Chinese New Year will be heralded in with a series of special events at Plymouth University.

The Year of the Monkey officially begins on Monday 08 February, and a host of festivities will take place all over the world.

But before that, the party will be getting underway early with a celebration of Chinese culture being staged in the Rolle Marquee on Thursday 04 and Friday...

Much-loved BBC Radio Radio Devon presenter Tony Beard has died, it was announced today.

Tony told his listeners that he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer in April last year.

A former Dartmoor farmer Mr Beard, 79, had been a presenter for about 35 years.

He was known to listeners as the "Wag from Widecombe".

Listener Gwen Ottery was among the first to post a...