An award-winning inventor has unveiled a cheap and easy to use medical device , which he believes could save more than one million lives each year.
Oliver Blackwell has designed a simple addition to the needles used for collecting blood, which would substantially reduce the risks for healthcare professionals.
His design involves using an automatic needle sheath that prevents...
Union Street will be closed for a free family friendly street party - it's the only one of its kind and everyone is welcome!
So far we welcome back some firm favourites to get us dancing and having fun in the street including: Cuckoo Collective, Dub Class, Filipino Dancers, Pole Dancers, Emerge Circus Acts, Ameera and her Belly Dancers, Stonehouse Play Association, free Plymotion bike checks, Stonehouse Timebank, Oasis Cafe, Gloucester Court Performers, Plymouth Community Homes, and Neswick Street X Factor singers.
Plus some new events and activities including... Hoola...
A brave graduate who overcame a brain tumour while studying for her degree has set up a hardship fund for use in emergency situations where a student suddenly falls ill.
April Watkins, 22, graduated from Plymouth University last week with a 2:1 in Sociology after she was forced to miss most of her first year as she battled the life-threatening condition.
A driver became trapped in his car after the vehicle left the slipway of the Exeter-bound carriageway of the A38 between Deeplane and Smithaleigh on Thursday morning (26 September). Police, paramedics and fire crews all attended the scene.
The car went into a field where three fire appliances from Plympton, Crownhill and Plymstock attended. Fire crews worked, alongside paramedics and...
160 new jobs could be created as a new care company moves into Plymouth.
The Council has awarded the Human Support Group a contract for reablement services in the city, bringing the company into the region. The Human Support Group intends to open a flagship operation for the south west in Plymouth. It will take on the reablement team currently employed by the Council and plans to...
Police in Plymouth are appealing for information following a serious assault involving two men and a dog.
The incident occurred at around 4.30pm on Tuesday 24 September in the Stonehouse Creek area. . The victim, a man, aged in his early forties, was walking through Stonehouse Creek, past the social club, when he was attacked by a black Staffordshire bull terrier. He tried to kick the...
Plymouth's Olympic diver Tonia Couch will officially launch the city's newest primary-level academy at a special ceremony on Friday (27t September).
Tonia will join city dignitaries, education leaders – and around 400 pupils – when she unveils a commemorative plaque at Mayflower Academy in North Prospect.
The academy, formerly Mayflower Community Primary School, is being...
An 18-year-old man from South Wales has been arrested after crashing twice on the road to Plymouth this morning.
Police in Devon would like to appeal to early morning drivers who may have seen a white Vauxhall Corsa being driven erratically along the M5 westbound and then onto the A38 heading towards Plymouth.
It is understood a white Corsa was in collision with another vehicle...
Police in Plymouth are appealing for information following an assault in the Barbican area.
The incident took place in Bar Rakuda on Quay Road on the Barbican just after 1am on 7 September 2013.
The victim, a 23-year-old local man, was assaulted in an apparently unprovoked attack on the dance floor by an unknown man who punched him to the head from behind.
