Plymouth

A meeting of Plymouth City Council's cabinet on Tuesday (3 September) has seen the approval of a number of landmark development projects which will bring a high profile transformation of 'Britain's Ocean City' over the next few years.

The cabinet gave the green light for free wi-fi for the city centre and waterfront areas, a critical land deal in the £50m redevelopment of Home Park, a...

Plymouth City Council is ahead of the majority of local authorities in launching a strategy to support the city centre’s high street retailers according to a report released by former Wickes chief executive Bill Grimsey.

Plymouth has already begun plans to implement a free wi-fi system for use on the high street, one of the key recommendations of the report published today.

The...

Police in Plymouth are appealing for witnesses after a dog walker was attacked in the Manadon area of the city.

Between 2.45am and 3.15am on Sunday 1 September 1 2013, the male victim was walking with his German Shepherd dog on St Peter’s road near the junction of Vanguard Close when a blue, Jaguar estate taxi pulled up alongside him.

The lone driver of the taxi, a man, shouted...

Police in Plymouth are appealing for witnesses after two teenagers were attacked in the Southway Drive area of the city on Saturday (31 August).

At around 9.30pm, three teenage males aged between 17 and 18 years were walking from Frontfield Crescent to Southway Drive when two of them were shouted at and attacked by a large group of ten to 12 people aged between 17 and 20 years....

New term means new schools and new opportunities for hundreds of young people in Plymouth.

Around £30 million worth of Council funding has helped create new facilities in the city's schools and academies.

The new term brings new facilities for:

• University Technical College in Devonport
• Marine Academy Plymouth in St Budeaux
• All Saints Academy
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Barne Barton is getting a new football pitch. Plymouth City Council says it is working co-operatively with the local community to support the new junior football league teams and create the pitch at Estuary Way.

Goal posts are being installed on the previously inaccessible land and a pitch is being marked out.

The Barne Barton Partnership’s Green Space Forum that includes the...

Police in Plymouth are appealing for the public’s help to identify a woman suspected of stealing power tools from a DIY store in the city.

Some time between 7pm and 7.25pm on Tuesday 23 July 2013, the woman was seen in the Homebase store on Montpelier Road.

Staff at the store challenged the woman before she left, but she still escaped with around £300 of Stanley power drills...

Police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a man not seen since Wednesday 31 July 31 2013.

Daniel Farrier, aged 24, from Plymouth, is currently of no fixed abode, but may still be in the Plymouth area.

He also has links with Truro, Launceston and Delobole.

Mr Farrier is described as 5ft 7ins tall, with a slim build and dark brown, short hair.

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The former chief of chain stores Wickes and Iceland has claimed that 20,000 independent shops in the UK are at risk of closing, in an alternative report into the high street to be published this week.

Bill Grimsey has criticised a government report and high street rescue strategy overseen by 'Queen Of Shops", Mary Portas, as "little more than a PR stunt". Mr Grimsey has compiled an...

A sonic sea level which immerses audiences beneath the ocean waves – without getting wet – will be unveiled at the launch of a major new cultural festival celebrating the River Tamar.

Fathom , a new sonic artwork by Plymouth University media arts specialists Jane Grant and John Matthias, will use cutting edge technology to create this artificial surface 6ft above the floor of a 17th...