Plymstock

Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary at a Plymstock car wash at the weekend.

Offenders smashed a window to get inside IMO Car Wash in Oreston Road sometime between 8pm on Saturday 17 May and 8.30am the next day.

Once inside, the burglars gained entry to the office and stole a quantity of cash and an iPod Nano.

Police are appealing to anyone who may...

Police investigating an attack on a man in Plymstock are appealing for witnesses.

Officers were called shortly before 9pm on Monday 16 December after reports that a man had been attacked with a machete at The Ride travellers’ site on Laira Bridge.

On arrival, a 44-year-old man from Plymouth was found with injuries to his face and arm which are not thought to be life-threatening...

Fire crews were called to Horn Lane in Plymstock on Saturday night after a large blaze was reported at a garage.

Crews from Plymstock, Greenbank and the aerial ladder platform from Crownhill attended the incident.

On arrival at the scene they found a single, two storey detached garage was well alight.

It took crews nearly two hours to bring the blaze under control....

Drivers have been experiencing severe delays in the city following two collisions.

An ambulance and two fire appliances from Plymstock and Greenbank attended a collision on the westbound A379, Billacombe Road in Billacombe, Plymstock, where a car had driven into a lamp post, early this afternoon (Thursday 17 October).

Two elderly women were trapped inside, requiring crews to...

Could you be an on-call firefighter? Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is holding recruitment open evenings for people who live or work within five minutes of Plymstock, Plympton or Crownhill fire stations.

On-call firefighters are paid to respond to emergencies from their workplace or from home when needed. Often they are self-employed or work for an employer within the area...

Thornleys Solicitors of Plymouth closed on Monday ending 32 years of serving the Plymouth, Plymstock and South Hams communities.15 staff have been made redundant.

The Law Society Gazette reported that more than 1,000 small legal practices in the UK have ceased trading in the past year, and they predicted that the figure is set to rise further.

The Solicitors Regulation...

Emergency services, including two fire engines from Plymstock and Greenbank in Plymouth, were mobilised after Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue received reports of a serious two vehicle collision early on Wednesday morning (2 October) on Billacombe Road in Plymstock.

Crews got to work using hydraullic cutting gear and small tools to release two casualties who were "medically trapped"...

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...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a robbery in broad daylight in Plymouth.

Between 3.30 and 4pm on Sunday 18 August 2013, a 32-year-old local woman was robbed while standing at a bus stop opposite a supermarket in Pomphlett Road in Plymstock.

The suspect grabbed a Samsung tablet device from under the woman's arm, pushed her in the stomach and ran off into a waiting car...

Three men were rescued by helicopter from a clifftop above Bovisand Bay, Plymstock late last night after getting stuck trying to climb from the beach to the car park.

Two appliances from Greenbank and Plymstock were mobilised with the Specialist Rescue Team from Camelshead to reports of people trapped on a ledge.

On arrival, crews discovered three males stuck on the cliff in...