A woman with a severe, life threatening allergy has started a support group to help support others affected by severe allergies, or anaphylaxis.
Katy Hannaford, from Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, has a severe drug allergy herself and is also carer to her daughter 12-year-old daughter, Alicia, who has multiple severe allergies.
Food allergies are thought to affect around 5-8% of...
American musicians will be playing close to the Mayflower Steps at the Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival 2014.
Mississippi blues guitar-man Robin Henkel will headline the event, which takes place from June 13-15 on The Barbican, close to where the Pilgrims left for the New World in 1620.
The Festival’s music programme is due to run between noon and 9pm on...
Ocean Crescent, which changed its name from Zero 4 following the acquisition by Burrington Estates and is currently undergoing a £1 million refurbishment, is officially due to launch today between 5.30pm and 7pm.
There is a range of studio, one- and two-bed apartments, many of which benefit from an underground parking space as well as four stunning luxury duplex penthouses, which boast...
Plymouth University will be a hive of activity on Saturday 17 May when it hosts two fun family-friendly events inspired by an exhibition about bees.
‘Bee Happy’ will be led by the Wild About Plymouth team – a partnership between the City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth University, which organises a natural history or science-based event each month throughout the year.
An Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) from Plymouth who was invited to attend the annual commemoration of the life and work of Florence Nightingale at Westminster Abbey last week (Wednesday 7 May 2014) has reflected on her memorable experience.
The annual service is held to celebrate nursing and midwifery staff, both registered and unregistered, working in these services....
MORE than 175 apprenticeships are waiting to be snapped up by youngsters looking to start work after their exams this summer, it has been revealed.
School-leavers in Devon and Cornwall are being urged to avoid the post-exam rush and think now about securing an apprenticeship in their chosen career, and not wait until September.
Mark Boulting, managing director of Plymouth-based...
Nurses and midwives will have the opportunity to hear from their colleagues at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust next week at the Trust’s first nursing and midwifery conference.
The nursing and midwifery teams at Plymouth Hospitals have organised the #WeCare Nursing and Midwifery Conference, which will be held at the Postgraduate Medical Centre on Tuesday 13 May, to coincide with...
School meals in Plymouth are making headlines again for all the right reasons after being shortlisted for another prestigious national award.
Plymouth City Council’s Education Catering Service has been chosen as one of the nine finalists for the Best Council Service Team of the Year at the highly regarded MJ Achievement Awards 2014.
