Forecasters are warning that further heavy rain is due to hit Devon at 9pm tonight (Monday 27 January) and remain until late on Tuesday (28 January).
The Met Office warns that frequent showers, some heavy, will bring a further 10-15 mm of rainwater into the region with the risk of up to 40 mm of rain on some areas of high ground.
Full Council have agreed to reduce the minimum amount all working age residents in Plymouth are required to pay towards their Council Tax from 25 to 20 per cent.
This will be implemented from April 2014, a year after the Council Tax Support scheme was introduced following the Government’s welfare reform announcements.
Addressing a reduction in Government funding for benefits of...
A team of talented sailors from Plymouth University will be taking on some of the world’s most experienced crews during a 16-day stage race across the Arabian Gulf.
The students will be taking part in Sailing Arabia – The Tour 2014, which will see them travelling in the region of 800 nautical miles over the space of 16 days.
It is the second time the team has taken on the...
Whitleigh residents are invited to St Chads Church, Whitleigh Green this Saturday (1 February) where they can get involved in lots of fun activities at the Every Penny Counts event.
Back by popular demand the Plymouth City Council’s Neighbourhood Regeneration Team and Plymouth Community Homes are running the second Every Penny Counts following the success of the first event held last...
A fantastic opportunity has come up to join the award-winning Communications Team at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust.
We are looking for an apprentice to work with and support us in a role that will be wide-ranging and will offer interesting opportunities, from providing administrative support to learning how to use a variety of communication channels to promoting the care patients...
Plymouth fish and chips business Harbourside Fish & Chips is frying high after being crowned with a national industry award at the 2014 National Fish & Chip Awards, organised by Seafish.
Harbourside Fish & Chips in Plymouth, Devon, who’s Tom Hughes was also shortlisted for the ‘Drywite Young Fish Frier of the Year Award’, was crowned winner of the ‘Staff Training and...
After a Christmas and New Year period that saw Britain battered by high winds, lashing rain and storm waves believed to be amongst the most extreme in living memory, many of the UK’s beaches have been left strewn with huge amounts of litter.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), which organises the annual Beachwatch Big Weekend in September when thousands of people clean and survey...
1) Like the mountain, the peak of it is difficult to reach. Remember that they are also people not demigods. If you want to find him/her, don’t look in the sky, try to search on land.
2) You think that true love waits and destiny itself will find the way for the two of you to meet and to be together. It MIGHT be possible but PROBABLY not. If you want to see him/her, go out and explore...
Three military junior doctors from Derriford Hospital, who are preparing for a 150km race in the Arctic next month, are hosting a fundraising event next week ahead of their gruelling challenge.
Next month, representing all three of the armed services, Flight Lieutenant Michael Thompson, Surgeon Lieutenant Alex Bamford and Captain George Graham, will face a challenge of a lifetime when...
