Plymouth

After decades of the number of deaths in the UK falling, 2015 will mark a “tipping point” where the historic trend starts to reverse: as the oldest of the babyboomer generation move through their later years deaths are predicted to rise by 20%.

This trend reversal will have significant implications for current forecasts of funeral costs and highlights a growing need for families to...

Volunteers Robin Younge and Elizabeth Taylor run a table top sale every Tuesday between 8.30am–12.30pm, in the Main Outpatients Department at Derriford Hospital, which raises funds for The Plymouth and District Leukaemia Fund.

Since setting up the table in 2006, a total of £26,000.00 has been raised for the charity, with members of the public donating items to sell, including knitted...

An event showcasing the great ways a healthy lifestyle can be achieved will take place at the Cumberland Centre in Plymouth on 22nd April, and will feature input from health profession students from across Plymouth University.

In conjunction with Plymouth Community Healthcare, which runs primary care services in the city, the event will focus on fun and achievable healthy lifestyle...

LONG way to go for nothing! For a team whose first-choice colours are green, Argyle did not enjoy the rub of the same at faraway Brunton Park.

In a game from which victory would have put them within a point of qualifying for the Sky Bet League 2 play-offs, they started brightly but fell behind after a third of the match to a worldy strike from Gary Dicker which the Irishman will do...

PLYMOUTH suffered their second successive home defeat when they lost 48-41 to group leaders Rye House in the Premier League Cup at the St Boniface Arena on Friday evening, writes Graham Hambly.

The Skills Group Devils went down despite some spirited displays by Jack Holder and Morten Risager, who contributed three of the team’s five race wins between them.

Co-promoter Ashley...

The first group of young people from three city schools celebrated completing the Skills Aid Plymouth (SAP) course at an award ceremony yeseterday afternoo(17 April) in front of their parents, teachers and mentors and the business that have taken part in the project.

The SAP scheme, the first of its kind in Plymouth, is a joint project between the City Council and Plymouth’s Rotary...

Mums and dads in Plymouth are being told to give the real deal a go and try out real nappies.

A number of events are taking place next week designed to give parents and carers the low down on the alternative to disposable nappies.

Modern real nappies are absorbent and easy to use and by using them parents can help cut down the amount of rubbish that goes to landfill and save...

MusicLab – iOrchestra’s touring musical truck – is back in Plymouth.

Fuelled by the latest digital technology, the free pop-up ‘play-and-create’ truck will be visiting North Prospect, Whitleigh, Efford, Stonehouse and Devonport until Saturday 9 May.

MusicLab offers schools, community groups and the public the chance to put themselves in the shoes of a horn, timpani, cello or...

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust have announced that the Gold Dust Appeal has been awarded a grant of £5,000 from Global’s national charity, Make Some Noise.

The Gold Dust Appeal is one of 100 children’s and young people’s charities from across the UK benefitting from Global’s Make Some Noise, who are funding projects which support youngsters who may have been affected by illness,...

‘Soil Culture: Dig It’ launches at Plymouth University this week. The exhibition is part of a three-year programme of cultural events across the South West region that encourages visitors to look beyond the surface of earth, mud, dirt and grit to find its underlying beauty and purpose in our existence.

Supported by the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) Soil...