Thousands of schoolchildren are to benefit from one of the biggest Teach on the Beach projects in the UK, being launched by the Ecover Blue Mile and Plymouth University based Natural Connections.
The programme will provide training in blue spaces for teachers across the South West of England. Among the organisations providing the training are the Eden Project in Cornwall and the Marine...
Police have identified the man who was found on Perranporth Beach on Tuesday 25 February as a result of the public appeal.
Following formal identification on Wednesday 5 March, the man can now be named as Alan Eric Jeal, 64, from Wadebridge. His next of kin have been informed.
Two callers, including family members, rang police giving Alan’s name after seeing the artist’s...
A rare, warm water Kemp’s Ridley turtle has washed up on Woolacombe Beach, North Devon.
The small dead turtle was reported to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) on Tuesday 28 January.
Just 30cm in length, the creature is not the first Kemp’s ridley to be washed up along the UK coastline this winter. According to Dr Peter Richardson, MCS Biodiversity Programme Manager: "Two...
Beach lovers will be able to take a bus straight to the seaside again this summer.
Families will be able to hop on board the number 54 to the popular beach of Bovisand, which overlooks Plymouth Sound.
The ‘beach bus’ will be operated by Jackett’s Coaches and run daily from Sunday 21 July until Sunday 1 September. It will run from the A9 stop on Royal Parade every hour from...
Family-friendly natural history group Wild About Plymouth are heading to the Jurassic Coast on Sunday 28 April for a ‘Big Beach Fossil Hunt’.
The group, which is a partnership between Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth University, usually organises a natural history or science-based event in and around the city every month. For its April event it has decided to travel a...
The RSPCA have expressed concerns after more dead birds have been washed up on beaches in Devon and Cornwall.
There have been reports of birds being washed up at Wembury and Heybrook Bay in Devon as well as Port Wrinkle and Whitsand in Cornwall. On Saturday, the RSPCA said that for all the affected birds found washed up on land, it was likely "more are dying out in the Channel"....
The Chancellor, George Osborne delivered his 2013 budget today in the House of Commons, calling it "a budget for our aspiration nation".
To a packed and noisily partisan Commons chamber, Osborne was forced to announce that the forecast for growth had been downgraded to 0.6% for 2014, a cut of 50% from the Autumn Statement figure, predicted back in December.
