A big thank you to the Prince Maurice pub in Eggbuckland, Plymouth, for kindly donating £766.50 to Birch Ward.
For many years, the pub has raised money for local charities by holding a quiz night every month. Each team is able to nominate a charity of their choice and one is then pulled out of a hat, with all proceeds from the quiz entry and the raffle going to the one selected....
A successful and popular local Who’s Got Talent competition held in front of a live audience at The Devonport Playhouse, Plymouth, has raised £1100 to support research into Huntington’s disease at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.
The winner of the competition was dance act Hollie Chapman, who won a cup and £250. There were also separate prizes for junior...
Police are appealing for witnesses following a collision that left two men hospitalised.
Police were called just after 2pm on Sunday 27th December after a collision between a blue Ford Focus RS and a green Ford Fiesta Flight on the B3416, Plymouth Road, Plympton, Plymouth near to the junction with St Mary’s Close.
The 21-year-old male driver of the Focus was taken to Derriford...
Plymouth folk are being reminded to recycle as much as possible and to get rid of rubbish responsibly over Christmas.
The Council is putting on a special collection to pick up all the real Christmas trees once the festive period is over. This scheme will run from the weeks beginning Monday 11 January and 18 January and will run until Thursday 21 January.
Students from Plymouth University are using up-to-the-minute data to tap directly into the pace and excitement of the financial markets.
The Plymouth Business School has teamed up with finance and media company Bloomberg to create an interactive learning suite accessible to those on a range of business courses.
It brings the complexities of financial decision making and...
December 2015 has already been exceptionally wet in places, and we have more stormy weather to come this week
This is has already been a record breaking month for rainfall in some parts of the UK, with exceptional amounts of rain falling onto already saturated ground, and Met Office meteorologists are predicting a further spell of stormy weather for this week.
Exercise can reduce the amount and intensity of hot flushes experienced during the menopause, according to a study published this month in The Journal of Physiology.
Exercise that makes you hot, sweaty and fitter reduced the severity of hot flushes by minimising the symptoms that occur during a hot flush, such as the amount of sweating and elevations in skin, as well as blood flow in...
At approximately 2.05pm Sunday 27th December 2015, a two vehicle road traffic collision occurred on the B3416, Plymouth Road, Plympton, Plymouth near to the junction with St Mary’s Close.
At the time of the collision the road conditions were clear abd dry.
A locally registered blue Ford Focus RS, collided with a locally registered green Ford Fiesta Flight.
A 53-year-old man has died following a fire at a residential property in Bere Alston, Yelverton.
Fire and Police received a call at around 7am on Boxing Day (26th December) following a call from a member of the public.
Fire attended and ambulance took a 53-year old man to Derriford Hospital where he was declared deceased. The man’s next of kin have been informed. There was no-...
