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Police and the Fire Service had to tackle a major fire in the Southway area of Plymouth on Monday night.

Police received reports of a fire at the disused Paper Converting Machine Factory in Southway at around 9.30pm on Monday 27th July.

A joint services operation between police, fire service and local authority Civil Protection Department was launched in response to the fire...

Local employer, Vispring, hosted former employee Beatrice Denby, who visited the factory in Plymouth for the first time, at the age of 87.

Beatrice worked as a payroll clerk at Vispring for two years after leaving the army in 1945, aged 19; in those days, the factory was based in Willesden, North London. The luxury bed maker moved its operations to Plymouth in 1971, after the London...