Plymouth

St Luke’s Hospital Team have been commended for their services in the recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) Report for Derriford Hospital ‘End of Life Care’, published 21 July 2015.

Providing specialist palliative care services alongside NHS professionals at Derriford Hospital, St Luke’s Hospital Team is a service of the charity St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth and operates across the entire...

Plymouth City Council is committed to improving private rented housing as a national list of rogue landlords is published.

Environmental Health News (EHN online) and The Guardian have published a database of landlords convicted under the Housing Act 2004 between 2006 and 2014. In Plymouth there have been two such convictions within the past five years, and the Council also recently...

Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted in Plympton as he left the pub.

On Friday 17 July between 9.30pm and 10.30pm, a 38-year-old man was assaulted outside the Joshua Reynolds Inn, in the Ridgeway area.

The victim was attacked as he left the pub following an argument in the car park next to the Co-operative store.

He was punched in the face and...

Ham Woods Nature Reserve has been awarded a prestigious Green Flag. The Green Flag Awards are the national standard of excellence for parks and green spaces

This is the first time that Plymouth City Council has submitted Ham Woods to be considered for a Green Flag and now the council are proud to be able to say that Ham Woods is one of only a very few Nature Reserves to be given the...

Why has the sound of ping pong balls bouncing on tables, happy voices and shrieks of laughter become a familiar sound in city centres nationwide this summer? It’s all down to Ping!; the sensational public street festival which has taken the nation by storm once again!

By placing 1,000 ping pong tables in the streets of 19 towns and cities, Ping! offers members of the general public the...

Tattoo equipment has been seized as two more ‘scratchers’ have been raided through Plymouth Council’s Operation Itchy.

Officers from the Council’s Public Protection Service, together with the police, executed Court orders at addresses in Devonport and St. Budeaux over the last two weeks in the continued crackdown on illegal tattooists known as ‘scratchers’ who have bought a tattoo kit...

Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to attend the MTV Crashes two-day music event, which continues on Plymouth Hoe.

Today's Plymouth Herald produced a spectacular front page cover celebrating the opening night (pictured).

Plymouth City Council, which is organising the event in partnership with MTV, is urging people to plan their journeys and use public transport where...

Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision in Plymouth which left a physically disabled man with serious leg injuries.

The 27-year-old man from Plymouth was crossing the road at Derry’s Cross opposite Grosvenor Casino around 3.10pm on Saturday 13 June when a motorcycle was in collision with his electric wheelchair.

The disabled man sustained serious leg injuries after...

Thrive Hubs, an innovative network of co-working hubs, is due to officially open its door for business for the first time in Plymouth in three weeks, thanks to the completion of its first project in Ocean Crescent.

“The interest shown by the business community during and after the Plymouth Business Show gave the whole team a massive boost. We have always passionately believed we are...

Following a high­profile Downing Street launch, national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain has hit the road and arrives in Plymouth today on the way to helping the number of UK businesses started in 2015 to reach a record 600,000.

At last month’s launch, surrounded by entrepreneurs, David Cameron announced that the target set for the government­backed Start Up Loans company three...