British Transport Police (BTP) officers in the South West are urging the public to do their level best to stay safe when using crossings.
The call comes as they take part in the latest phase of Operation Look, a week of action (5–10 October), which will see extra patrols at a number of crossings.
BTP recorded more than 100 offences at crossings in the region during 2014/15,...
Police have launched an investigation after a car collided with a house in St Levan Road, Plymouth, at around 11.40 pm last night (Wednesday 7th October 2015) causing substantial damage.
Emergency services attended an apartment building in Warleigh Court following reports of a Ford Focus collided with 2 parked vehicles and the building.
People in Plymouth are being urged to keep on supporting England in an extra special way– by giving platelets.
NHS Blood and Transplant is appealing for new volunteers to give it a try and check if they can be a platelet donor during the world’s biggest rugby tournament. More than 50 new platelet donors are needed in Plymouth this year.
Communities across the South West are set to benefit from nearly £40.5 million after the Big Lottery Fund and EU have joined forces.
The Big Lottery Fund is matching funds from the European Social Fund (ESF) 2014-2020 to provide joint investment in 61 local projects tackling poverty, promoting social inclusion and boosting local economies.
People in Plymouth would rather go without alcohol or dessert at dinner time than miss out on their fix of potatoes according to new research. Almost half (41%) of people in Plymouth confessed that they would banish the booze, 40% would happily ditch a dessert and 23% would rather wave goodbye to water than forego a healthy potato with their dinner (20%).
House sales continue to pick up across the South West in September supported by a modest improvement in the availability of mortgage finance, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.
Across the region, 19% more chartered surveyors saw a rise in agreed sales, with 23% more respondents expecting a rise in sales expectations over the next three months. This trend in...
This is what Plymouth’s new history centre could look like at night.
The team behind the project has issued the latest concepts for the project which will be a game changer in how Plymouth celebrates its incredible history and culture.
The images are being released as exciting plans to put Plymouth on the national cultural map with a new world-class History Centre look set to...
Older people in the UK are disproportionately at risk from electrical hazards, according to research by leading charity, Electrical Safety First.
The Charity has found that a person over 60 is ten times more likely to die in a fire than somebody aged 17 to 24i. And more than half of the accidental fire-related deaths last year in Great Britain were people aged 65 and olderii.
PLYMOUTH Science Park has become the first Zero to Landfill business park in Devon.
The site, which houses 80 businesses and 800 employees on the 25 acre site near Derriford, has partnered with Devon Contract Waste as part of their green strategy to minimise their impact on the environment.
Plymouth Science Park Director of Operations Christian Jenkins said: “Plymouth Science...
