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Communications team search for an apprentice

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...

Harbourside Fish & Chips are high fryers

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...

Plea to help clean storm damaged beaches

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...

7 reasons why you're still single

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...

Derriford's Arctic trio to hold charity event ahead of trek

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...

MP supports demands clarity on adventure holiday safety

Alison Seabeck MP for Plymouth Moor View, is supporting Kate Green, MP for Stretford & Urmston, call for an independent register of adventure holiday providers in parliament after a teenager was killed while on taking part in a conservation project in Fiji.

Alison said, the incident which has prompted a further attempt to improve the protection for young people on adventure...

Marmite 'unfit for sale' in Canada

Bad news for Canadian anglophiles as the Canadian government suddenly declares several popular Britsh foods unfit for sale.

Products such as Marmite, Lucozade, Penguin Bars, Bovril and Ovaltine are all apparently enriched with too many vitamins and minerals, while other products, such as beef stock and canned soup, contain too much animal product.

The move has affected...

Seth Lakeman to perform at HMV in Plymouth

Mercury Music Prize nominee and Devon born Folk singer/songwriter Seth Lakeman will be visiting HMV in Plymouth on Monday 3 February to celebrate the release of his new album Word of Mouth.

Recorded in a Cornish Church, Word of Mouth showcases Seth's skill as a storyteller while the dramatic and melodic sound cements his status as a figurehead of contemporary British Folk.

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Crime continues to fall across Devon and Cornwall

Recorded crime across Devon and Cornwall continues to fall, new figures announced on Thursday, January 23, 2014, reveal.

Overall crime between 01/01/13 and 31/12/13 fell by 2.6 per cent – a reduction of 2,235 crimes.

The Force has continued to see reductions in dwelling burglary, (down 8.6 per cent), non-dwelling burglary, (down 11.7 per cent), and vehicle offences, (down 14...

More flooding as weather warnings issued

Further flooding is possible tomorrow as the Met Office issue yet another weather warning for in Devon.

Bands of rain are expected to move eastwards across southwest England during Fridaywith up to 20mm of rain expected across most of Devon

With the ground saturated over much of the region, the met office has asked people to be aware of the risk of further local flooding and...

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