Nel Wilton, aged 52, will be taking on Plymouth’s Half Marathon to fundraise for Cornwall Search & Rescue Team (CSRT), in memory of her husband Del Wilton, a Paramedic who took his life in 2013. Nel praises the charity for all their hard work in helping to find and recover Mr Wilton’s body from the Hell’s Mouth in 2013, and has undertaken a number of fundraising initiatives for CSRT to...
Police are seeking mindless burglars who vandalised the home of a 97-year-old man in Plymouth while searching for valuables.
Offenders broke into the property in Landulph Gardens, Barne Barton, sometime between Thursday 18 February and Saturday 20 February while the elderly man was not at home.
They smashed the back door to get inside before searching every room and causing a...
Government funding for early help services in the South West is expected to be cut by 70 per cent, from £416m to £126m, between 2010 and 2020, leaving children and families without the early support that often stops their problems spiralling out of control.
The ‘Losing in the long run’ report published today by the charities Action for Children, National Children’s Bureau and The...
A forum designed especially to help women return to work has been officially launched by the City Council. The forum was the Council’s pledge to make sure that women had access to all the advice and support they would need to help them return to work after maternity or child care leave. The support forum offers guidance on family friendly working policies and where to access all kinds of...
We are inviting anyone who wants to take a Leap Year leap for Gold Dust to join the members of our staff who have already volunteered for the event in April.
On Sunday 17 April 2016, members of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust staff will be standing at the edge of an open doorway, in an aircraft flying at 15,000 feet, waiting to dive through the air at over 120mph – all to support the Gold...
The number of young people applying for a secondary school place has increased this year and thousands of primary pupils in Plymouth will today find out which school they will be going to this September.
The Council have confirmed that 93.16 per cent of young people received their first choice of school, 5 per cent their second and 1.27 per cent their third. Less than one per cent did...
A Grade one listed mansion, overlooking the River Plym and owned by National Trust, has made the switch from oil to a renewable energy heating system.
Saltram, a Georgian mansion on the outskirts of Plymouth, was using over 30,000 litres of oil each year to heat the property. It has replaced the expensive, carbon intensive heating system with a biomass boiler, powered by wood pellets...
