Plymouth City Council is asking people to pledge to make a difference on National Child Sexual Exploitation Day today (Wednesday 18 March).
Plymouth’s Safeguarding Children’s Board has joined forces with the Council’s Youth Services team, NSPCC and Barnardos to launch a public pledge for action by asking everyone to consider the warning signs of sexual exploitation and reporting them...
The inhabitants of a Caribbean island will soon be able to learn more about the volcano which towers over their homes thanks to a videogame created at Plymouth University.
La Soufrière, perched on the northern edge of St Vincent, last erupted in 1979 while its most deadly blast was in 1902 when 1,500 people lost their lives.
Now volcanologists in Plymouth have developed a new...
The National Trust at Saltram has run its first beach cleaning event in the Plym Estuary to mark the launch of its 2015 South West Coastal Festival. Forty-two students from the Plymouth International Maritime & Shipping Student Society joined regular visitors and volunteers to pick litter from Saltram Beach and the surrounding coastal fringe.
Doctors from Plymouth will be supporting a study to investigate whether routine heart scans for hospital patients with chest pains will help reduce heart attack rates.
Professor Carl Roobottom, Consultant Radiologist at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and Professor Jason Smith, Consultant in
Teenager Tom Gardner from Tavistock in Devon has won a bike designed to his own specifications from the charity Jole Rider based in Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
The first Bike Draw organised by the education charity, one of the UK’s largest bicycle recycling organisations, raised over £1000. The money will go to Jole Rider‘s Bikes4Africa programme and will be used to deliver bikes to...
More than 970 children from low income families in Plymouth attending Early Years providers will be able to take advantage of the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) from this April.
It was announced last June by the government that the new EYPP worth £300 per pupil, would help narrow the attainment gap between young children from low-income families and their peers.
At approximately 9.25am on Tuesday 10th March, an altercation took place between the driver of red taxi and a male pedestrian at the city bound traffic lights of North Hill and North Road East, Plymouth.
It is believed that a pedestrian walked in front a queue of traffic which was waiting to turn into North Road East and an argument ensued, resulting in the pedestrian pulling a chisel...
Plymouth folk band Mad Dog Mcrea are playing at The Donkey Sanctuary Ivybridge on Saturday 28 March from 7pm to raise funds for the centre’s donkey assisted therapy work.
The gig at the centre in Filham Park includes support act Alex Hart with her unique ‘Westcountry Country’ vibe.
Doors and bar open at 7pm. Proof of age ID will be required.
Centre manager Bob Venn says: “Join us for a wonderful night of folky, country, jazz! Mad Dog Mcrea are such a fantastic band and it’s always been a great evening in the past. And this year it will be even better with Alex Hart’...
Plymouth folk band Mad Dog Mcrea are playing at The Donkey Sanctuary Ivybridge on Saturday 28 March from 7pm to raise funds for the centre’s donkey assisted therapy work.
The gig at the centre in Filham Park includes support act Alex Hart with her unique ‘Westcountry Country’ vibe.
Doors and bar open at 7pm. Proof of age ID will be required.
The young woman shown in the attached image is being sought by police as they believe she may have witnessed an assault involving two females in the Two Trees pub on Union Street in Plymouth.
The incident took place at around 2.25am on Sunday 15 March.
If anyone recognises this person or you believe it may be you and you were in the Two Trees pub in the early hours of Sunday...
