April 2013 sees the launch of the newly-commissioned Independent Health Complaints Advocacy service, a free, independent advocacy service that helps individuals to make a complaint about any aspect of their NHS care or treatment. This includes treatment in a private hospital or care home that is funded by the NHS.
SEAP (Support Empower Advocate Promote) has been delivering the former...
A woman in her 60s was robbed of her purse outside Plympton Library yesterday.
Detectives are keen to hear from any witnesses to the street robbery that took place on the Ridgeway in Plympton yesterday – Wednesday 24 April – at around 5.10pm.
The woman was near to the entrance of Plympton library when a young man approached her, pushed her, then grabbed the purse that she was...
Information and advice to help young people in Plymouth make the move from services for children to adult services was the focus of an event for families yesterday.
The ‘Transitions’ event took place in the Upper Guildhall on Tuesday 23 April from 9.30am until midday and included a wealth of exhibitions and information stands, staffed by professionals in children and adult...
Plymouth’s iconic landmark Smeaton’s Tower will become a beacon for culture on Tuesday 30 April.
The tower will be lit up by the Council that evening to mark the deadline for the bid for UK City of Culture 2017.
Council Leader Tudor Evans said: “We wanted to do something symbolic to mark the handing in of the bid. Smeaton’s Tower is such a well-known landmark it only seemed...
I was asked... As it generally falls to me, in the absence of a 'Laureate' poet for the city, to deal with any 'municipal' poetry required by the City of Plymouth; to write a poem to support the bid...
Here it is - and is entitled: 'Art & Artifice..'
‘Art & Artifice..’
In the kiln’s wild, white infernos; molt glass fishes dart and...
Staff and patients of Derriford Hospital's new Royal Eye Infirmary (REI) enjoyed a day to remember yesterday (Tuesday 24 April) when HRH The Countess of Wessex officially opened the new site.
The Countess is a Global Ambassador for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and Patron of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight.
Councillor Ted Fry has been elected as the new leader of the Conservatives' council group. The councillor for Compton was previously deputy leader and replaces Cllr Vivien Pengelly who begins a year's tenure as Lord Mayor next month.
The new deputy leader is Patrick Nicholson, a councillor in Plympton St Mary ward.
Cllr Fry saw off competition from Cllr Ian Bowyer and Cllr Sam...
Plymouth based, Paralympic table tennis player David Wetherill has secured a long term commitment from supply chain and logistics experts, LCP Consulting, to help support his goal to win a medal at the Rio Paralympics. The 23-year-old became famous at London’s Paralympics for what the Daily Mail described as the ‘shot of the tournament’ – a feat that attracted over 6 million views on YouTube...
A fire that began in a spray workshop at Youngs Car Body Repair in Miller Court in the Millbay area of the city has been extinguished by fire crews.
The severity and potential of a fire that began just after 4pm and had spread to neighbouring buildings containing toxic substances, led police Police to treat the fire as a major incident . People were advised to...
