Plymouth City Council's Leader is urging the Government to make sure the city is not further disadvantaged by proposed cuts to Public Health funding.
Councillor Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council, has written to both Chancellor George Osborne and Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, to ask them to rethink plans to cut £200m from public health budgets nationally across...
Jane Walker’s obsession has taken her tens of thousands of miles around the world. It’s shaped her adult life, brought her to Devon and to her job at Torquay’s Living Coasts. Her passion is penguins.
Why penguins? “They’re amazing animals, they live in extremes of hot and cold. You can't look at a penguin without smiling - what's not to love? I was given my first cuddly...
Women managers in the South West are effectively working for free an hour and a half every day, new gender pay gap data reveals.
The findings of an annual survey of 72,000 UK managers, published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and salary specialist XpertHR, reveal that women working in equivalent full-time roles in the region earn 20% less than men, meaning that they are...
As teenagers pick–up their GCSE results they are reminded that there is life after exams.
This is the first year that teenagers, up to the age of 18 are legally required to stay in education, training or get a job with accredited training- something that the Government calls 'raising the age of participation'.
More information on this can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/...
With average house prices in Plymouth now reaching a staggering £177,000, over a third of people in Plymouth (36 percent) are avoiding the property ladder and looking for other means of shelter to call home.
A survey carried out by LOOK Insurance, the boat and caravan insurance specialists, found a whopping 36 percent of residents in Plymouth still don’t own their own home.
With the World Cup not far away, the big question everyone’s facing is ‘where’s the best place to catch all the action?’ And if you didn’t get a ticket to the game then there’s only one answer – Walkabout. For the ultimate rugby experience, great food and drinks deals, and an awesome atmosphere, look no further than Walkabout on Union Street.
Plymouth will again be at full strength for the re-arranged clash against Scunthorpe, which was rained off on May 30, but Scunthorpe will be without three of their regulars.
Ryan Douglas is injured while Zdenek Holub and Nike Lunna are both on World under-21 team cup duty. The Scorpions operate rider replacement for Douglas and have Nicolai Klindt (Sheffield) and Rafal Konopka (...
A big thank you to WHSmith for kindly donating £1,000.00 worth of arts and crafts to the children’s wards at Derriford Hospital.
The donation included a fantastic range of items, including colouring books, paints, sticker books, jigsaws, jewellery making sets, ‘build your own’ kits and much more and catered for boys and girls of various ages.
Early figures suggest that 53 per cent of Plymouth students have achieved 5 A* - C Grades. This is a similar result to last year, with encouraging figures for the number of students getting the grades they need in English and Maths.
Councillor Sue McDonald, Cabinet Member for Children, Young people and Public Health said: “Across Plymouth, students from local schools and academies are...
Police have welcomed the custodial sentence given to a 24-year-old Plymouth man jailed for nine months after filming himself travelling at 153mph on a motorcycle.
Ashley Dixon, from Plymouth, used a helmet camera to record himself on motorcycles travelling through rural roads in Devon and was described by the Judge sentencing him as a ‘lunatic’.
