The South West’s housing market has seen a rise in demand following the Government’s recent announcement that stamp duty is set to increase for buy-to-let investors, the latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has revealed.
The RICS UK Residential Market Survey, December 2015, has shown that demand for new properties in the South West rose at the fastest...
A group of students from Ridgeway School in Plympton are taking part in this year’s BBC News School Report.
It gives 11- 16 year old students across the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. Using lesson plans and materials available from a dedicated website, and with support from BBC staff and partners, teachers can help students develop their journalistic...
More jobs are heading to Plymouth after the Council secured its first tenants for new business units at Langage Science Park – and they are taking the lot!
Contracts have just been signed between the Council and Dartmouth Foods who plan to take over all nine units available at the park as part of its exciting business expansion plans.
Police are trying to trace the driver of a red car that stopped to offer assistance during an unprovoked attack on a group in Plymouth at the weekend.
Officers were called to Honicknowle Green shortly after 12.30am on Sunday 17 January after a group of men and women were reported to be assaulting another group in the park area.
A 28-year-old local man was taken by ambulance to...
Over one quarter (27%) of people in Plymouth confess to having both tried and failed healthy eating plans time and again at the beginning of each year and 36% of people are putting pressure on themselves to battle the bulge left by Christmas calories, according to new research.
With people in Plymouth having pledged to be healthier this January – one quarter (25%) concentrating on...
A new interactive video featuring local actors with disabilities reveals what it can feel like for vulnerable people when a charity fundraiser knocks on the door.
It’s been created by Plymouth-based elearning company, Sponge UK as part of an online training programme for The Public Fundraising Association (PFRA), the membership body for charities and agencies carrying out face-to-face...
Every year at this time Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service attends a number of fires caused by the sun’s rays focussing through or onto glass, and then setting fire to nearby objects.
At this time of year the winter sun is low in the sky, and shines directly through windows. Any mirrored or glass items close to the window may re-focus the sun’s rays onto combustible items,...
Cluttons, acting on behalf of Hanover Housing Association, has completed the sale of a 20-apartment residential building in the heart of Plymouth’s Barbican area to Bunny Homes for £1.3million.
Built in 1967, the five-floor premises known as Hanover Court includes 14 studios and six self-contained apartments. It also benefits from off street parking.
Stagecoach South West confirmed today that it is expanding its smart ticketing scheme across the region.
From Monday (18th January), all Megarider tickets* bought on board Stagecoach South West buses will be stored on StagecoachSmart cards. Drivers will issue customers with a smartcard, which will store their ticket electronically, instead of using a paper ticket.
Four chefs have battled it out in a cook-off to be crowned a South West School Chef of the Year.
This is the second year in a row that CATERed and Plymouth’s own Sharon Cundell, from St Edward’s Church of England Primary Academy in Eggbuckland has claimed the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA), South West School Chef of the Year title.
