Plymouth

Intelligent Optimisations (IO) has announced it is expanding its West Country arm to the Science Park in Plymouth where it will take over the top floor of One Research Way - the most technologically advanced building in the region.

IO are the first tenants to sign up to Plymouth Science Park’s new multi-million pound development.

With offices in London and Plymouth, IO is a...

A report published today by the Centre for Justice Innovation provides fresh evidence that innovative Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) save taxpayers money by keeping families together and breaking parents’ drug and alcohol problems.

FDACs deal with families at risk of having their children permanently removed because of drug and alcohol problems. These problem solving courts are...

A new Change4Life campaign from Public Health England is encouraging families to get Sugar Smart and take control of the amount of sugar they consume.

It follows revelations that four-to-10 year olds consume the average weight of a five-year-old in sugar, that’s 22kg or more than 5,500 sugar cubes. ,

Matthew Norton, Head Chef at River Cottage Canteen is supporting the campaign...

During this month taxpayers across the UK will be receiving their new tax codes, to be effective as of 6 April 2016. ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is reminding taxpayers that it is their responsibility to make sure that the codes are correct, so they will be paying the right amount of tax. Chas Roy-Chowdhury, ACCA head of taxation, said: “The government has left...

Police have issued CCTV images of a man they wish to speak to in relation to a robbery in the Southway area of Plymouth.

The incident took place at the junction of Skerries Road and Alderney Road, Southway, Plymouth, at around midday on Tuesday 23 February.

The victim, a 72-year-old woman, was pushing a pram which contained her one-year-old grandson when her handbag was pulled...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenage driver suffered serious injuries following a collision with a tree in Yelverton.

The green Vauxhall Corsa left the carriageway and collided with a tree on the A386 at Chubb Tor, near Yelverton Golf Club, on Sunday 6 March 2016, at around 6.50am.

No other vehicles are believed to have been involved in the collision.

The...

Plymouth Students are to host D-plus lingerie brand Curvy Kate’s Star in a Bra party on Thursday 10th March 2016.

In conjunction with Breast Cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel!, the Star in a Bra party will promote the lingerie brand’s search for their next curvy model, whilst raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and encouraging party-goers to get to know their...

Award-winning South West based company, WITT Ltd, is to change the face of renewable energy forever with its ground-breaking new energy harvesting technology - and is launching with its Crowdcube raise on 7th March.

The WITT is the only device in the world that can capture energy from all movement and turn it into electricity. No other energy system can exploit the full spectrum of...

Researchers at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust have played a key role in two major, national trials which will change treatment for mothers-to-be.

The results of the trials have been published in international journals within days of each other.

The OPPTIMUM study was published in The Lancet at the weekend and The 35/39 Trial was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (...

South West independent accountancy firm Thomas Westcott has announced a merger with one of Plymouth's leading firms of chartered accountants and taxation advisers, Parkhurst Hill.

The merger sees Thomas Westcott's Plymouth-based staff move from the firm's Queen Anne Terrace location to Parkhurst Hill's offices in Plym House, Marsh Mills, bringing total headcount there to 35 including...