Victims of child sex abuse in Devon will be given personal support and trauma counselling to help them rebuild their lives – as figures show reports of abuse are on the increase.
The service, which will draw from Cognitive Behavioural and Family Therapies, will provide one-on-one help and advice and counselling and will be delivered by The Children’s Society’s Checkpoint project in...
A £500,000 programme of safety and maintenance works across several of Plymouth’s best known landmarks will get underway in the autumn.
The programme of works include resurfacing the children’s pool at Mount Wise, stabilising the Cliff face at West Hoe and demolishing the old fruit store in How Street.
Council Leader Tudor Evans approved the funding for the project and said: “...
Following on from last year’s lively adaptation of Godspell, Into the Light is a thought-provoking and beautifully written piece that will be performed at Buckfast Abbey from 7th -12th September by the Torbay-based Unleashed Theatre Company. Based on St John’s Gospel, it follows a group of refugees fleeing from Eastern Europe in the late 1930s at the start of the outbreak of the Second World...
Ten of thousands of people will be taking to The Hoe for the British Firework Championships and people are encouraged to think how they are going to get to and from the event.
With the championships taking place on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 August many of the city’s main car parks will be open 24 hours with Western Approach and Lambhay Hill open until midnight.
Preparations for next year’s elections are already under way and Plymouth City Council wants residents to make sure they’re able to vote and have their say.
More than 116,000 forms have been posted to households across the city as part of the Council’s annual voter registration canvass. Residents are being asked to check the forms and make sure the information listed for people living...
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward who may have seen a car being driven dangerously around Plymouth.
Officers received reports of a green Renault Megane being driven erratically around Beacon Park Road, Montpelier Road and Westeria Terrace around 10pm on 27 July.
The vehicle, containing around five people, was seen mounting pavements and doing wheel spins before...
Detectives in Devonport have released EvoFIT images of the two teenagers they are trying to trace in connection with an attack on a pregnant woman on Friday 31 July.
The teenage boy is described as being 14 or 15, with mousy brown bobbed hair, 6ft tall and of skinny build. He was wearing dark jeans and bright white trainers.
The teenage girl is described as being 14 or 15, with...
Young people in Plymouth due to pick up their GCSE and A-Level results fear too much competition, not having enough confidence and a lack of experience and training will stop them from getting their dream job, new research by the British Army – the UK’s largest apprenticeship provider – has revealed1.
People aged between 16 and 24 are currently three times more likely to be unemployed...
A pioneering project has been launched to design, build and sail the world’s first full-sized, fully autonomous unmanned ship across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Mayflower Autonomous Research Ship, codenamed MARS, will be powered by state-of-the-art renewable energy technology, and will carry a variety of drones through which it will conduct a variety of experiments during the crossing....
