Plymouth

Businesses across Devon and Cornwall are being urged to enter one of the South West region’s top award schemes recognising excellence and enterprise.

The South West’s Institute of Directors Awards 2014 seek to recognise outstanding business people and focus UK-wide attention on the region's success.

Award nominations are open to anyone working at director level in any type...

The specific developmental challenges facing bilingual children as they bid to become proficient in two languages is to be explored in a pioneering nationwide study.

Led by Plymouth University’s BabyLab, in collaboration with five other UK universities, the research will examine the language skills of hundreds of toddlers growing up in bilingual families.

It will then look to...

Mums-to-be and new mums can feel reassured that the maternity staff at Derriford Hospital are providing safe and a high level of clinical care, following an intensive review by the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA).

Following a rigorous assessment, the maternity service has, for the first time, been awarded the highest level status under the insurance scheme for NHS hospitals.

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Kelechi Nnoaham will be joining Plymouth City Council at the beginning of next month as the new Director of Public Health.

He will take over from Stephen Horsley, who has been the interim Director of Public Health since the departure of Deb Lapthorne to Public Health England last year.

Kelechi will join the Council from Bristol City Council where he currently holds the position...

Police are appealing for witnesses to a domestic incident in Plymouth city centre on Wednesday 5 March.

At around midday, a man in his early 20s approached a woman with a young child and started shouting at her.

Police are keen to speak to anyone who may have seen the incident in New George Street.

A 21-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of a causing...

MTV will be ‘crashing’ Plymouth Hoe this summer to stage a spectacular live music event as part of the city’s ‘Three Towns’ centenary celebrations.

Organised in collaboration with the City Council, ‘MTV Crashes Plymouth’ will take place in July and feature a number of headline music acts.

It follows other massively popular MTV Crashes events staged in Glasgow, Belfast and...

South West shoppers have a chance to bag a designer bargain as part of a charity treasure hunt launching today (Monday 10 March).

Designer creations from some of the biggest names in the fashion world will arrive at Cancer Research UK shops across the region as part of the Tatler Treasure Hunt.

For two weeks, shoes, scarves, clothes, handbags and other stunning creations will...

Councillors at Plymouth City Council are recognising the efforts residents and businesses are making as more waste is reused, recycled and composted.

Despite an increase in households the amount of household waste currently collected in the city has fallen by 2.39 per cent compared with last year, suggesting that residents are being greener. That’s a decrease of 2,200 tonnes of rubbish...

Excitement rises as the long awaited new shiny library in North Prospect is set to open in just over a week’s time.

After 80 years at Wolseley Road the public library is moving to the brand new Beacon on North Prospect Road and will be opening its doors for the first time at 9am on Friday 14 March.

Residents of all ages are invited to join the celebrations by coming to take a...