A self-confessed Royal Navy loud-mouth has achieved what for him is an amazing feat – keeping schtum for 24 hours.
Leading Physical Trainer (LPT) George ‘Shiner’ Wright, embarked on a sponsored silence to raise money for the Children’s Happy Hospital Fund, which supports the Children’s ward at Derriford Hospital.
The enterprising Geordie managed to continue his job at HMS...
The city’s coroner’s office is to move to a new home near Derriford Hospital as part of a programme to improve the service and make it easier for grieving families.
The Coroner’s Service will be leaving the Crescent and moving to Building One at Derriford to new premises which will enable different parts of the service to come under one roof.
Thousands of Christmas cards are being delivered to let people know what days their bins will be collected as part of a major reorganisation of the city’s rubbish and recycling rounds.
Seasons greetings combined with dates of new recycling and rubbish collection days are being sent out from this week to thousands of homes across the city ahead of the start of the new rounds on January...
Children from Plymouth would most like to share their Christmas dinner with Harry Potter and football legend David Beckham, while one per cent would opt to have Prime Minister David Cameron at their festive table.
New research, released this week by Table Table, suggests a third (34 per cent) would choose to eat their Christmas dinner with the fictional wizard over any other celebrity...
It was the summer of 2012 that Plymouth was treated to a mammoth 6 night run of comedy genius from Michael McIntyre, but now we are very proud to announce, hot off the press, that the king of stand up comedy will return to Plymouth Pavilions this summer! Kicking off his hotly anticipated UK & Ireland tour Happy and Glorious in the city, Michael will head to the venue for 4 nights from...
Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust's Neurology Research Team is now recruiting healthy individuals between 65 and 83 years of age to an exciting international dementia clinical research study.
The study, called TOMMORROW, aims to see if it is possible to predict if a person will develop memory problems based on a method that uses a person’s genetic status and age. It will also test the safety...
Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, has announced ambitious targets to offer free microchipping for all dogs thanks to its biggest award to date raised thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
In advance of microchipping becoming compulsory for dogs across England in April 2016, Dogs Trust is offering free microchipping at its 20 rehoming centres for all dogs and...
Pace of price growth in the South West accelerated slightly over the last three months and new reform in the Autumn Statement is expected to boost sales
House price growth in the past three months accelerated slightly in the South West and new Stamp Duty reforms see surveyors forecasting a sales boost of between 2-5%, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey.
