Businesses in Plymouth are being urged to set up payment plans for their business rates as charges for failure to pay are increased.
Summons and liability orders are issued to businesses that continuously fail to pay their rates to the Council. Last year 619 summons and 456 liability orders were issued to businesses for outstanding rates of £2.835m.
Plymouth Albion have announced James Shanahan, a former player at the club, as their new Head Coach.
The 36 year old replaces Nat Saumi whose contract is not being renewed. Saumi is returning to his native Fiji after a 10 year association with the club.
Shanahan joins the club from Old Albanian RFC where is he is Director of Rugby and Cambridge University RFC, where he is Head...
Police have charged the two suspects they were holding in relation to an attack on Saturday evening with attempted murder.
The 23-year-old victim was stabbed and seriously injured while he was getting into a taxi in the Mutley Plain area at approximately 11pm on Saturday evening (13 April).
The two males, Nigel Saunders, 45, of Peter's Close, Elburton, and...
Plymouth police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen a man and a woman carrying a large flat screen television and accompanied by a dog sometime between the 9th and 15th of April 2013.
The television and dog are thought to have been stolen from the Whitleigh and Whin Bank Road area of the city. Police say it is possible they were stolen from two different locations.
People should take historical and cultural influences into account before forming opinions about those who spit in public, an academic has suggested.
Ross Coomber, Professor of Sociology at Plymouth University, said while the UK now largely condemned the practice, in many nations it remains a fully accepted part of the lifestyle.
A Plymouth University student has beaten competition from across Europe to win a major prize at a continental computing conference.
Dusan Repel won the Best Paper accolade at the European round of Kaspersky Lab’s annual Cybersecurity for the Next Generation conference, which was held in Aachen, Germany.
His paper, titled Obfuscation and Formal Grammars Revisited, discusses the...
A trip to the Derbyshire town with the crooked spire this evening may be a return to his previous club for Pilgrim's boss John Sheridan, but much more importantly, the fixture represents another crucial test in Plymouth's fight to remain in League Two.
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is throwing down the gauntlet for staff in a Cup Challenge at this year’s Plymouth Half Marathon.
In teams each department that enters the 13.1 mile challenge submit their five fastest times, with the overall fastest group time earning the right to lift the coveted Challenge Cup.
The inter-departmental challenge, designed to foster healthy...
Join the fun on the Piazza for coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest live from Malmo, Sweden.
With coverage from 7pm and catering and seating on site, go along and support Bonnie Tyler representing the United Kingdom, or your home nation, for an evening of themed entertainment.
