Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise, established by Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry to bring its successful Dental Education Facilities and community activity under one umbrella, is now up and running and already making its mark.
When it was announced earlier this year it was already a world first, because it was the first clinical entity to be...
Plymouth has been named as one of the UK's first ‘social enterprise cities’.
The announcement on Tuesday (24 September 2013) was made by Social Enterprise UK, a national body which recognised the extent and quality of social enterprise business activity in the city. Bristol has also been awarded the status.
Plymouth’s Social Enterprise City status will raise the profile of the...
Plymouth’s Dial A Ride community transport service is going citywide, thanks to a unique partnership between the City Council, local charity Access Plymouth and commercial operator Plymouth Citybus .
The new service, which has been trialled successfully in the north of the city for the last 12 months, will offer elderly and disabled adults door-to-door journeys from their home to any...
Prolonged sunshine and the hottest summer for seven years (according to the Met Office) kept RNLI teams across the south west busy this summer.
Provisional statistics released by the charity for the period June, July and August show a 24% increase in incidents for RNLI lifeguards, and lifeboat crews attending 652 rescues.
RNLI lifeguards dealt with 10,615 incidents across the...
A man missing from the Efford area of Plymouth has been found.
Police had grown increasingly concerned for the health and welfare of Timothy Harwood from Plymouth who had been missing since 17 September. although it was believed he had been seen at around 1.30pm on 20 September walking out of Plymouth along Embankment Road, close to Marsh Mills.
This year’s Plymouth Food Awards winners have been announced and presented at the Food Plymouth Conference. Local restaurateur and chef Mitch Tonks from Rockfish presented the awards at the National Marine Aquarium on Friday 20 September.
Mitch Tonks said: “It is wonderful to be able to present these awards in Britain’s Ocean City, awards that celebrate all that is important about...
Police have issued images of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a sexual assault in Plymouth.
The incident took place in New George Street at around 7pm on July 13.
The victim, an 18-year-old woman local to Plymouth was sat on a bench near to Debenhams and McDonald's with her partner when they were approached by the suspect who sat down next to her and then...
Plymouth City Council has been awarded £210,000 by English Heritage to carry out works to repair and protect a medieval wall in Stonehouse.
The wall, which forms a boundary between Stonehall Flats and the site owned by Princess Yachts, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and dates back to 1540. It used to defend the town of Stonehouse and is a rare example of medieval military architecture...
Two fire appliances from Greenbank station attended a fire in a flat in St Barnabus Terrace, Millbridge, Plymouth, in the early hours of Monday morning (23 September 2013).
The incident was attended to at approximately 1am; on arrival crews found a fire within a bedroom of the flat. They exinguished the fire using two breathing apparatus wearers, one hose reel jet and one safety jet...
At approximately 3am on Sunday 22 September, a gas leak was detected inside the disused Millenium nightclub complex in Union Street, Plymouth.
It was believed that the gas may have been leaking for some time inside the building from a ruptured pipe. In order to ensure public safety, Devon and Cornwall Police closed Union Street to vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
