Keep the kids busy this Easter holiday with cracking free activities hosted by the Council’s library service.
Staff at libraries across the city will be making Easter bonnets and sharing stories with a ‘hatty’ theme, such as ‘Millie’s Marvellous Hat’, ‘I Want My Hat Back!’ and ‘The Cat in the Hat’. There will also be a film showing at Plymstock Library.
Most activities are suitable for children aged four to 11 and are all free of charge but booking may be required for some sessions – contact your local library for more information.
A 23-year-old Plymouth man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries following a single-vehicle road traffic collision on the A30 at Tedburn St Mary.
Devon and Cornwall Police say the collision took place at around 5.30pm on Sunday 17th March 2013 and involved a Peugeot 106 car which was travelling east.
The driver lost control of the vehicle which left the road and came...
Police have arrested a 13 year old boy after receiving a call from a Plymouth school that the student was in a classroom holding a knife.
Just after 11am this morning, Tuesday 19th March, police were contacted by the Marine Academy school in Kings Tamerton in Plymouth. At the time it was not clear if anyone had been threatened.
Devon and Cornwall's Police Commissioner Tony Hogg is reinforcing his aim to make a real difference for policing in our rural areas.
The Devon and Cornwall Police force has a vision of being the ‘best rural, urban and coastal police service’ and the allocation of resources between these three areas has been long debated. Tony Hogg has always stressed that there will be no ‘poor...
Police in Plymouth have launched a murder enquiry following the discovery of a man’s body in a property in Molesworth Road, Plymouth. Police were called to the property just after 1.00am on Tuesday 12th March. The man who has not yet been formally identified was aged 33 and lived in Molesworth Road in the Stoke area of Plymouth Two people, both local, a man, aged 50 years and a woman aged 29...
Residents and businesses in Plymouth are showing their support for farmers and communities in the developing world to mark Fairtrade Fortnight.
Plymouth was one of the first to be given the status of Fairtrade City 9 years ago, for showing commitment to raising awareness and promoting the use of Fairtrade goods. Its status was reconfirmed in 2012 and the city will celebrate 10 years as...
Taking into account the range of uncertainty in the forecast and observations, the Met Office are predicting that it is very likely that 2013 will be one of the top ten warmest years on record, which goes back to 1850, and it is predicted to be warmer than 2012.
The forecast follows provisional figures for the observed temperature in 2012, published by the Met Office and University of...
