Selected areas of Plymouth will see meadows created as part of a city-wide scheme to support bees and other pollinators.
Ten areas, which are open tracts of land, are to be cut only three times this year instead of nine as part of a trial to encourage wildlife to thrive in and around housing estates.
It is hoped that while residents may be used to seeing grass short and cut on...
Landlords in Devon and Somerset are being urged to act now to ensure they are ready for new safety laws aimed at saving dozens of lives a year.
The regulations make it compulsory for all landlords to fit smoke alarms in rented homes and are expected to come into effect from October 2015, subject to Parliamentary approval.
Under the new laws smoke alarms must be fitted on every...
The Plymouth-based University of St Mark & St John has become one of only four universities in the UK to have been awarded the Social Enterprise Mark, indicating that it is a social enterprise supporting the community, the environment and with good social purpose.
The Social Enterprise Mark CIC is the UK and international certification authority that safeguards social enterprise...
One of the world's rarest spiders has been given a fighting chance of survival, after an appeal to build new houses in an old quarry was dismissed on Tuesday (9 June).
The Horrid ground weaver (Nothophantes horridus) is a tiny money spider which has only been found in three sites in Plymouth, nowhere else in the world, and one of those sites has already been built on and lost....
Researchers and innovators from across the world will be travelling to Plymouth this month for a major global conference on the potential impacts of computer music.
The 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) – carrying the title Music, Mind, and Embodiment – will take place from June 16-19.
On June 11 two Park and Ride buses will be laid on for people wanting to see Fiona Bruce and her team of experts film the BBC's most popular antiques show.
“The buses should help alleviate parking pressure at the Yard during the recording of the show,” says Emily Handslip, Urban Splash Associate Director, (which starts at 9.30am and finishes at 4.30pm).
A new mobile-friendly interactive website has been launched today to help anglers, and would-be anglers, find the best spot to fish.
Fishinginfo.co.uk provides everything needed for a fishing trip, from searching for fishing spots to what the weather is doing and live water levels to information on buying a rod licence and where to buy kit.
Police are investigating a serious incident in Plymouth after a man was found critically injured in the street in the early hours of Tuesday 9 June.
Emergency services were called to Wingfield Way in Stoke around 2.25am and found the man unconscious having sustained several injuries, including a serious head injury.
The man, in his 40s and from Plymouth, was treated by...
FORMER Plymouth captain and number one Ben Barker is due back at the St Boniface Arena on Friday evening (7.15pm) when the Skills Group Devils meet Berwick in the Premier League.
It will be Barker’s second visit to the Devon track this season as he scored 12 (paid 13) from five rides as a guest for Peterborough’s Oliver Allen when he helped the Panthers to a 52-40 league win at the...
