Hundreds waved flags and displayed banners at Devonport Dockyard today as Plymouth's Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll arrive back home after seven months at sea.
The deployment saw the ship travel 35,000 nautical miles, visiting 16 countries across eight time zones and included operations in the seas around Africa, the Falklands, the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean.
School uniform, proms, school trips and activity weeks - how expensive is it to send a child to school and how much does a family’s wealth affect a child’s education?
These are the questions a concerned group of Plymouth councillors will be asking during a four-month project that aims to investigate the impact of the Government’s Welfare Reform on a child’s education.
The number of people out of work and claiming Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) in Plymouth fell to 5,142 in August, 3% of those of working age (16 to 64), according to official figures.
The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, reflect an ongoing downward trend in unemployment in the city and represent a seventh successive month-on-month fall in the 'Clamaint Count'...
Hundreds of sailors and Royal Marines will march through Plymouth on Friday 20 September for a ceremonial event celebrating the close relationship between the city and the Royal Navy.
Around 550 serving personnel and veterans will take part in the parade, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the Naval Service in Plymouth being granted the Freedom of the City.
Record numbers of people have signed up to take part in this year’s Ecover Blue Mile in Plymouth.
Some 300 people will be making a splash off Plymouth’s Barbican waterfront this weekend (14-15 September) – that’s 100 more than the event’s previous record. They’ll be swimming, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding their way along the one mile course in a series of ‘waves’ throughout...
Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg will today (Wednesday 11 September) visit Plymouth drug and alcohol treatment charity Broadreach House.
Broadreach House is an innovative and dynamic registered charity, offering treatment and support services for men and women whose lives have been adversely affected by addiction.
Chief executive Gina Dormer has invited Mr Hogg to tour...
Plymouth is one of the destinations for a public consultation by the Bank of England on the introduction of 'plastic' (polymer) bank notes. The consultation event will be held at Drake Circus on 12 October.
The Bank is undertaking the consultation as part of its process of deciding whether to proceed with printing on the polymer material. This would initially only be for the new-style...
Plymouth's Derriford Hospital will be opening its doors to everyone on Saturday 28 September with its first Open Day in more than a decade.
Among a variety of activities, the general public will have the opportunity to visit an operating theatre and a delivery room, find out about organ donation, check their livers and try some hospital food. The hospital will also be explaining how...
A unit from Plymstock and the Specialist Rescue Tender from Camelshead have rescued a dog from a cliff above Bovisand Beach.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service report that on the crews' arrival at the scene at Bovisand Bay, Plymstock, the dog was found to be stuck in heavy gorse approximately 40 feet up a cliff.
The crews used a 135 ladder and an animal restraint to...
Shantelle Clarke, the 15-month-old toddler who fell from a fifth-floor window of her home, has been moved to a specialist care unit in Bristol. She remains in a "critical but stable condition".
The girl suffered serious internal injuries after the estimated 100ft (30 metre) fall from the window of her home just off Savage Road, in the Barne Barton area of Plymouth on Saturday morning (...
