Alison Seabeck, Labour MP for Plymouth Moor View, today wrote to Business Secretary Vince Cable demanding to know why the Government continue to block action on equal pay.
Last month MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of measures for pay transparency that would see big companies (with over 250 staff) publish their gender pay gap. However the Government has so-far refused to implement...
What connects a slightly squashed paper cup, a Swedish tape measure, a tiny wooden model of shoes and a 1/14 scale paper chair? The answer is they are all items of value donated by a host of top designers to feature in a unique exhibition at Plymouth University.
The curator of Envelope asked around 100 leading designers – in disciplines from architecture to illustration, and product...
Police in Plymouth are appealing for witnesses after a woman’s necklaces were taken during a robbery.
On Friday 16 January at around 9.15pm a 43-year-old local woman was walking home alone from the Herbert Pub in Stoke after attending a funeral that day.
She was approached by a man as she was walking across the rear courtyard which runs between Herbert Street and the Keat...
Back in November, Saltram House held the first night run in Plymouth and it was a roaring success; so the National Trust have decided to host another one in Plymbridge Woods on Saturday 7 February. The aim of these new events is to get people to experience special places in a different way by having a torchlight adventure with family and friends.
A local car dealership has offered a helping hand to local charity St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth to enable them to care for more patients at home.
Murray Skoda Plymouth, located in Valley Road Plympton has supplied a brand new Skoda Octavia Tour de France to be used by St Luke’s specialist nurses.
The nurses form part of St Luke’s new Crisis Team who provide terminally ill...
Students from City College Plymouth have recently signed up to a national anti-bullying campaign aimed at tackling bullying and abuse and supporting every young person to grow up and be themselves.
The campaign, ‘No Bystanders’ was set up by the lesbian, gay and bisexual charity, Stonewall, in March 2014. It aims to end bullying, abusive language and discrimination of all kinds. Words...
The partners of Plymouth’s History Centre have reached out to the world’s best designers and invited them to submit tenders for the exhibition design for the new History Centre.
A couple of weeks ago many of these designers visited the site on North Hill to see the scope of the opportunity for themselves and to experience the partners’ enthusiasm first hand.
A petition by Buglife to save one of the World's rarest spiders has been met with resounding success after receiving over 8,800 signatures in less than a week. The petition was against the plans to build new houses in an old quarry in Plymouth, one of only two sites in the world where the Horrid ground weaver (Nothophantes horridus) lives.
Figures have been released for Devon and Cornwall Police’s Christmas drink driving campaign 2014.
Police officers administered a total of 1,766 breath tests of which 156 were positive, refused or failed to provide. This represents 9% of the total and is a decrease of 3.5% on last years result.
Last year the figures were 167 positive, refused or failed to provide from a total of...
