Croquet may seem a rather rarified sport but a group of Plymouth students have been learning the finer points of the game as part of a pioneering US project to reconnect Alzheimer’s patients with the world around them.
James Creasey and his brother Andrew from 'Through Hoops To Hope' came to Stoke Damerel Community College on Tuesday (15 October 2013) to teach students how to play...
National Crime is down by the largest ever recorded amount according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today.
The period between June 2012 to June 2013 saw the number of recorded crimes against households and resident adults drop by 7% nationally, the largest single drop since the survey began in 1981.
Well over 500 businesses have now signed up to Plymouth's 1000 Club – just days after it celebrated a year of success.
The club set itself a target of attracting 1000 companies and organisations to give the city’s young people a head start with their careers. Now it has shot passed the half way mark with 580 companies now on board and more signing up all the time, with opportunities...
A number of Plymouth's schools will be closed (scroll down for an alphabetical list) on Thursday 17 October due to industrial action by the two largest teaching unions, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and NASUWT, over pay, pensions and conditions.
The NUT wil be holding a rally in Home Park from 11am.
The strike action relates to a dispute with the Government over...
Plymouth City Council has chosen Plymouth Guild to lead a funding bid for a new social enterprise run by older people for older people.
The bid which is worth up to £6 million over six years is being submitted to the Big Lottery Fund’s Fulfilling Lives: Ageing Better programme. It funds community-led projects that enable older people who are most at risk of social isolation and...
Labour’s Luke Pollard, parliamentary candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has called on the Government to give greater protection to shop workers in Plymouth who are threatened with violence
Last year 4% of retail staff across the country were attacked at work and 34% were threatened with violence. Shop workers in Plymouth also reported violence and threats of violence...
Plymouth's Twofour Group, one of the UK’s leading independent media groups, will be merged with Welsh production company Boom Pictures in what they are describing as "a transformative deal which sees the creation of a major new Nations and Regions player in independent media production."
The merger sees Twofour Group’s global business – comprising Twofour Broadcast, Twofour Rights and...
CrossCountry launches student competition to find travel savvy bloggers
Parents in Plymouth are regularly funding their children’s travel home from university and are willing to pay over the odds to help broaden their horizons.
Over the course of a year Plymouth parents say they spend more than £500 broadening their child’s horizons with more than half (58%) splashing out on...
Fire crews have rescued a man from a fire in a second floor bedroom after receiving reports of fire alarms from the building.
Two appliances from Camels Head were mobilised in the early hours of Wednesday morning (16 October) following a report to the Fire Service Control Room of fire alarms activating in Devonport Road in the Stoke area of Plymouth.
Plymouth City Council’s cabinet have agreed to move forward with setting–up a business to share ICT services with four other public sector organisations.
Set to save in the region of £27 million over 10 years the company, called DELT, will consolidate services, make better use of ICT and improve service delivery for customers. Plymouth is expected to see £12 million of these savings...
