Twenty volunteers from Plymouth University School of Tourism and Hospitality will play a key part in welcoming visitors to Plymouth in a new pilot scheme.
Plymouth Hosts is due to be launched today (27 November) by Destination Plymouth working in partnership with the City Centre and Waterfront partnership Business Improvement Districts.
Children who go missing from their homes are the focus of a new team in Plymouth who will work with parents and their children to reduce the number of runaways.
Plymouth City Council has teamed up with the police to create the REACH team (Reducing Exploitation and Absence from Care and Home) in an effort to reduce the number of young people reported missing and prevent the sexual...
Police have issued images of a man and a woman they would like to speak to following a series of thefts at Superdrug stores across both Devon and Cornwall. To date there has been fourteen separate incidents of theft of ‘Loreal’ cosmetics at Superdrug stores involving the same two suspects. The series commenced in August when two suspects entered Superdrug stores in Penzance, Falmouth and...
Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg will answer the public’s questions on policing in Devon and Cornwall at a meeting in Plymouth tonight.
At the meeting in the Council House in Plymouth, Tony Hogg along with Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer will take questions submitted online and over the phone.
The doors will open at 7pm with the meeting itself starting promptly at 7:30pm...
A senior officer from Devon and Cornwall Police will land herself in 'jail' in Exeter tomorrow – all in the name of charity.
Superintendent Sarah Sharpe is taking part in The British Red Cross’ first ever Devon Jail and Bail event where high profile ‘felons’ will be locked up for the day to help raise at least £4,000 for the charity’s work in the UK and overseas.
The Honest Truth Partnership has launched a campaign at Exeter Airport yesterday (Tues 26 Nov) to reduce anti social driving and the number of young people killed or seriously injured on the roads.
Representatives from Devon County Council’s Safe and Sustainable Travel Team, Devon and Cornwall Police, Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, Teignbridge District Council and Exeter...
Sara Bowler employs research techniques to gather information and stories about particular places as a precursor to making work about them. For the Looe Street Detectives project she has worked with a team of collaborators to unearth historical facts and anecdotes about 38 Looe Street and the immediate neighbourhood. The Detectives’ investigations into personal connections and specific interests in the area have led to a new understanding of Looe Street and the vicinity.
For this exhibition, Bowler has drawn together the Detectives’ findings and created an installation that...
Plymouth councillors agreed to lobby Government to make safe rooms for the victims of domestic abuse exempt from the bedroom tax today.
Councillor Nicky Williams, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, put forward the motion to Full Council calling for cross-party backing of the exemption. She asked for agreement in the meantime for discretionary housing payments to cover the...
