Turkey

Let’s talk Christmas turkey!

Before you gobble up Turkey with all the trimmings for Christmas, you might want to take note of a new campaign to make sure you don’t end up getting food poisoning.

Plymouth City Council is working with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to offer tips on how you can safely prepare turkey at home, as the Christmas lunch of choice for around two thirds of UK households.

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Sounds of the Tamar taken to Turkey for arts exhibition

An innovative sonic arts project which aimed to immerse audiences beneath the surface of the River Tamar is to be showcased at a major new exhibition in Turkey.

Fathom, created by Plymouth University media arts specialists Jane Grant and John Matthias, used cutting edge technology to create an artificial surface 6ft above the floor of a 17th century Royal Navy victualing yard....

12-year-old wheelchair tennis star who overcame life-threatening infection is selected for GB team

Esperanza Merry is an amazing 12-year-old from Plymouth who overcame a life-threatening disease just five months ago which left her confined to a wheelchair and crutches for life.

Determined not to give up on her love for tennis, Esperanza has now taken up wheelchair tennis and in just this short space of time she has gone from strength to strength. Her amazing talent has been...

Car bombs rock Turkish-Syrian border, 46 dead

Nine Turkish residents have been arrested in connection to two car bombings that went off near the Syrian border, killing 46 people.

The explosions happened in Reyhanli, when two explosive-laden cars blew up in the small Turkish town near the border with Syria.

The town has a residency of 60,000 and is a popular crossing. Several ambulances rushed to the scene to tend to the...