To help patients stay connected with life outside, Derriford Hospital is now offering free wireless internet services for patients, visitors and guests.
Wireless internet access ('Wi-Fi') has previously been available from WiFi SPARK at a cost for patients, visitors and staff but this is now free to anyone with a compatible mobile device. The wireless...
Youngsters enrolled on the Prince’s Trust TEAM project in Plymouth will learn more about oral cancer, thanks to Year 2 dental students from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.
Oral cancer is the 15 th most common cancer in the UK and affects both sexes, although statistics show that almost twice as many men as women have the disease. In many cases the...
Residents in West Devon are being asked for their views on proposals to reopen the railway between Tavistock and Bere Alston. Devon County Council wants to reinstate the section of railway, which closed in the 1960s, to help minimise the impact of traffic resulting from planned development to the south and south-west of Tavistock, including 750 new homes.
With forecasters predicting a cold snap in the weather over the coming weeks, a joint project being run by Devon County Council and NHS Devon is offering support to vulnerable people who might be affected by the colder weather.
The Staying Warm and Well service, set to run until the end of March, provides support to vulnerable Devon residents living in a cold home, who need extra...
At around 9.20am on Saturday 12th January a dog walker found a female’s body on the beach at Westward Ho!, near to Golf Links Road.
Police were called and the body was initially taken to the lifeboat station.
Formal identification has not yet taken place though it is thought to be that of a 31-year-old woman who had been living in the area, although is not local to North...
Advice Plymouth, the new partnership between Plymouth CAB, Age UK Plymouth, Plymouth Guild and Routeways , have arranged a day's conference on the 18th April 2013 at the Holiday Inn, which will be of interest to anyone either providing advice or for those who signpost others to appropriate advice services in the city.
The conference will explain how the new combined service will work...
Following yesterday’s extensive search by police divers off the Tamar ferry along with shoreline searches carried out by the MOD, coastguard and Royal Navy during the low tide, police report that the body of Jordan Cobb has still not been located.
Based on the time since he went missing, the last known sighting of him in the River Tamar on New Year’s Eve and no information since,...
