Plymouth City Council’s Trading Standards have revealed that a Plymouth woman was the target of hundreds of prize draw scams prior to her passing away.
Trading Standards was alerted by Mrs Norma White that her sister Colleen had been receiving hundreds of letters and phone calls from scammers even after she had passed away.
It is thought that Colleen was put on a list of those...
A muddy, messy section of footpath along the River Plym will be getting dried out as part of a programme of improvements along the river valley.
A half-kilometre stretch of riverside path that runs from under the A38 toward the sewerage treatment works at Plympton is prone to flooding and during wet weather is often passable only with wellingtons.
Plymouth CIty Council has announced another two-week patching programme gets under way on Monday to repair another 17 sites on 11 roads around Plymouth.
Patching involves resurfacing areas of road where multiple potholes have developed and the general surface quality is deteriorating. Amey, Plymouth City Council’s highways contractor, is carrying out the work.
The fourth and final phase of access improvements into and around Plymouth train station will begin on Monday 16 September.
Developed by Plymouth City Council and its highways contractor Amey in partnership with First Great Western and Network Rail, the scheme aims to better connect the train station with the city centre and is funded by the Department for Transport and Sustrans, the...
Despite the warm weather, Plymouth City Council is looking ahead to the colder months with the launch of a new volunteer snow warden scheme in the city.
Following several severe winters, many communities around the country are setting up volunteer snow warden schemes to help local people during icy or snowy weather.
The Council’s highways contractor Amey will pilot one of these...
Grants of up to £5,900 are up for grabs by communities to tackle crime in their neighbourhoods.
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall has given £59,000 to Plymouth’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP) to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and substance misuse. The CSP has decided to divide the funding and offer it to the ten neighbourhoods that have the highest...
Plymouth City Council is ahead of the majority of local authorities in launching a strategy to support the city centre’s high street retailers according to a report released by former Wickes chief executive Bill Grimsey.
Plymouth has already begun plans to implement a free wi-fi system for use on the high street, one of the key recommendations of the report published today.
Plymouth City Council is launching a set of large scale spending reforms to tackle a projected £65million shortfall in funding.
The funding reforms are in response to a £9.5million cut to the council’s budget despite an increased demand on key services such as social care for older people.
The council has warned that the reforms would have to be supplemented with cuts to...
