Plymouth

Pair sought in Superdrug theft series

Police have issued images of a man and a woman they would like to speak to following a series of thefts at Superdrug stores across both Devon and Cornwall. To date there has been fourteen separate incidents of theft of ‘Loreal’ cosmetics at Superdrug stores involving the same two suspects. The series commenced in August when two suspects entered Superdrug stores in Penzance, Falmouth and...

PCC Tony Hogg in public Q&A

Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg will answer the public’s questions on policing in Devon and Cornwall at a meeting in Plymouth tonight.

At the meeting in the Council House in Plymouth, Tony Hogg along with Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer will take questions submitted online and over the phone.

The doors will open at 7pm with the meeting itself starting promptly at 7:30pm...

Senior officer to be 'arrested' for good cause

A senior officer from Devon and Cornwall Police will land herself in 'jail' in Exeter tomorrow – all in the name of charity.

Superintendent Sarah Sharpe is taking part in The British Red Cross’ first ever Devon Jail and Bail event where high profile ‘felons’ will be locked up for the day to help raise at least £4,000 for the charity’s work in the UK and overseas.

An Exeter City...

Exeter Airport Launch for Safety Campaign

The Honest Truth Partnership has launched a campaign at Exeter Airport yesterday (Tues 26 Nov) to reduce anti social driving and the number of young people killed or seriously injured on the roads.

Representatives from Devon County Council’s Safe and Sustainable Travel Team, Devon and Cornwall Police, Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, Teignbridge District Council and Exeter...

Driver made off without paying for fuel

Police are appealing for information after the driver of a 4x4 took fuel from a garage in Tavistock and drove off without paying for it.

The incident happened at around 1.45pm on Monday 25 November at the Tavistock Service Station on Plymouth Road (A386).

The vehicle is believed to be an old-style cream or silver Vauxhall Frontera, and the registration plate was partially shown...

Looe Street Detectives

Sara Bowler employs research techniques to gather information and stories about particular places as a precursor to making work about them. For the Looe Street Detectives project she has worked with a team of collaborators to unearth historical facts and anecdotes about 38 Looe Street and the immediate neighbourhood. The Detectives’ investigations into personal connections and specific interests in the area have led to a new understanding of Looe Street and the vicinity.

For this exhibition, Bowler has drawn together the Detectives’ findings and created an installation that...

Plymouth will lobby to spare safe rooms from from Bedroom Tax

Plymouth councillors agreed to lobby Government to make safe rooms for the victims of domestic abuse exempt from the bedroom tax today.

Councillor Nicky Williams, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, put forward the motion to Full Council calling for cross-party backing of the exemption. She asked for agreement in the meantime for discretionary housing payments to cover the...

Hospital Communications Team Do the Double

“We are lucky to work with so many amazing people”... the words of the Communications Team at Plymouth Hospitals after becoming double award-winners at a prestigious industry awards ceremony.

The Communications Team, based at Derriford Hospital, was shortlisted in two categories, Not for-Profit Campaign and Public Sector Campaign, in the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)...

£40,000 investment opens up Coast Path to thousands of wheelchair and pushchair users in time for Christmas

The completion of seven coastal access schemes along parts of the South West Coast Path, and the addition of 40 extra walks on its website means that now, for the first time, thousands of people with limited mobility and those with young children in pushchairs are able to enjoy stretches of the breathtaking National Trail that were once impassable.

Newly accessible walks include parts...

Freefalling for Freya: Medics skydive to support terminally-ill student

A group of medical students have taken the plunge from a plane to support “inspirational” Freya Barlow, who has terminal leukaemia and is setting up a charity trust fund.

Freya, 22, was unable to join students and staff at the Peninsula School for Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD) on their skydive yesterday (Friday 22 November), but she was on site to cheer them on as they landed safely at...

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