The pollination service provided by bumblebees on the field-side boundaries of hedgerows may be limited because farming methods are having a negative impact on their sources of food, a study has found.
Research by ecologists at Plymouth University has shown some of the most common species of bumblebees are more than twice as likely to visit flowers on the road-facing side of hedgerows...
Plans to keep Plymouth’s shoppers and visitors safer under the watchful eye of a new state-of-the-art CCTV control centre have taken a major step forward.
The Council has today announced the contractor who will be responsible for the work, which includes separating the Civic Centre from the Council House as well converting the basement for the CCTV system to be installed.
Focus on future growth, not the past, urges leading independent accountancy
With the 2015 budget just days away independent accountancy firm Thomas Westcott has issued a wish-list it believes will help businesses in the South West.
But, with a General Election looming, the experts at Thomas Westcott fear the Budget announcement will be a "benign affair" focused on what has been...
Plymouth City Council has approved funding contributions towards two major transport improvement schemes for the north of the city.
The Derriford Transport Scheme and Derriford Hospital Interchange were recently awarded a total of £11.56 million from the Heart-of-the-South-West Local Enterprise Partnership (HotSW LEP) – the body responsible for allocating funding for large-scale...
This year for the first time Ham Woods nature reserve will be considered for a Green Flag Award.
Each year Plymouth City Council submits entries for each green space to be considered for a Green Flag.
The Green Flag Awards are the national standard of excellence for parks and green spaces. Plymouth currently holds six Green Flag Awards for parks and green spaces including, Hoe...
When Comic Relief awarded more than half a million pounds to Plymouth University last year, it marked a new beginning for both the institution and the charity.
The first instance of the biennial appeal awarding funding to higher education, it also enabled the University to forge a partnership with an established social enterprise in eastern Africa, taking its mission to transform lives...
The South West property market has seen the pace of price rises start to accelerate again due to the demand supply imbalance, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.
While nationally Northern Ireland and Scotland continue to outperform the rest of the UK, there were upward shifts in price growth across the South West and the South East, while London saw its sixth...
Employees of local heating controls manufacturer, Drayton, have raised over £300 for Comic Relief, by undertaking ‘Red Hot Nose Day’ fundraising for Red Nose Day 2015.
Staff at the factory created a number of exclusive Drayton Red Nose Day thermostats, complete with funny faces on the front of the control! Both staff and friends of Drayton have been going ‘Red Hot Nose Day’ crazy on...
Police in Plymouth are appealing for information following a serious assault.
Officers are investigating a serious assault which occurred at around 10.00pm on Friday 27th February, during a ‘Royal Blood’ rock concert at the Plymouth Pavilions.
The incident occurred at the rear of the dance hall and during an altercation the victim, a man, aged in his late 50’s was pushed to the...
Kris Delmhorst’s latest release Blood Test (Signature Sounds, 2014) describes a moment of reckoning and centring in the songwriter’s life, and in society as a whole. In her new collection, Delmhorst acknowledges the weary work of an intentioned life – and the new American dream of presence and perspective in a frenetic time.
Blood Test is Delmhorst’s first album of original material...
