Someone paying rent for an average two bedroom home in the South West would have forked out £38,137 to their landlord over the last five years, new analysis by housing and homelessness charity Shelter reveals today.
This is just under the sum needed for a 20% deposit on the average first time buyer home in the region, which is currently priced at £195,672.
A pilot scheme to keep people safe on nights out in Plymouth’s Waterfront Business Improvement District (BID) has been hailed a success.
The Evening Ambassadors scheme was a six-week pilot launched in December in which two teams of Ambassadors patrolled the area and used a radio network to report any issues directly to the Council’s CCTV Control Room. On Saturdays between 21 November...
Nine out of 15 shops that sell electronic cigarettes in Plymouth failed a recent test purchase operation.
New laws on selling E Cigarettes to children were introduced last year, and Trading Standards were checking whether they were being applied by retailers.
E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that are marketed as an alternative to cigarettes containing tobacco. While...
Competition was fierce at a recent Plymouth School Sports Partnership primary basketball competition held at Ridgeway School.
Seven schools from across Plymouth played against each other in a round robin competition. Three points were awarded for a win, two for a draw and one for a loss. The event was refereed by young leaders from Ridgeway School.
Plymouth University, Cornwall NHS Foundation Trust and Cornwall Royal Hospital and Oxfordshire-based charity SUDEP Action are delighted that EpsMon – the world’s first self-monitor app and developed by this partnership – is the winning solution to the international challenge launched by Epilepsy Foundation of America. The challenge was for a method to reduce the risk of seizures with the...
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...
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...
The principal of Ridgeway School in Plympton has been nominated for The Herald’s Splash competition.
Lisa Boorman now needs as many votes as possible before March 12 to join the competition.
Nominees who get enough votes will train with Tom Daley’s coach, Andy Banks and be in the Plymouth version of the successful ITV show, Splash. The contest will involve school teachers...
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...
