The world’s oldest solo transatlantic race makes its return to Britain’s Ocean City this year. From 24 April to 2 May 2016 Plymouth’s waterfront will come alive with events and entertainment for all ages.
Preparations are in full swing in Plymouth as the city gets ready to host one of the most famous and gruelling transatlantic races, The Transat. Setting sail from Plymouth competitors...
The latest figures for 2015 shows that crime continues to fall across Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Recorded figures for January to December 2015 showed a decrease of 4.9% or 3,998 fewer offences compared to 2014, with reductions across a number of crime groups. The updated picture shows the Force continues to see reductions in public order offences (down by -12.4%),...
On the 20 January, officers from both Avon & Somerset and Devon & Cornwall Police along with staff from Devon and Somerset Trading Standards, Environmental Health and the National Wildlife Crime Unit visited nine premises in the Barnstaple area as part of a wildlife crime operation.
This activity follows a two and a half year investigation and intelligence gathering by both...
The South West’s housing market has seen a rise in demand following the Government’s recent announcement that stamp duty is set to increase for buy-to-let investors, the latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has revealed.
The RICS UK Residential Market Survey, December 2015, has shown that demand for new properties in the South West rose at the fastest...
A group of students from Ridgeway School in Plympton are taking part in this year’s BBC News School Report.
It gives 11- 16 year old students across the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. Using lesson plans and materials available from a dedicated website, and with support from BBC staff and partners, teachers can help students develop their journalistic...
More jobs are heading to Plymouth after the Council secured its first tenants for new business units at Langage Science Park – and they are taking the lot!
Contracts have just been signed between the Council and Dartmouth Foods who plan to take over all nine units available at the park as part of its exciting business expansion plans.
Police are trying to trace the driver of a red car that stopped to offer assistance during an unprovoked attack on a group in Plymouth at the weekend.
Officers were called to Honicknowle Green shortly after 12.30am on Sunday 17 January after a group of men and women were reported to be assaulting another group in the park area.
A 28-year-old local man was taken by ambulance to...
Over one quarter (27%) of people in Plymouth confess to having both tried and failed healthy eating plans time and again at the beginning of each year and 36% of people are putting pressure on themselves to battle the bulge left by Christmas calories, according to new research.
With people in Plymouth having pledged to be healthier this January – one quarter (25%) concentrating on...
