BUILDERS, bricklayers, decorators and hairdressers were among the players aiming to prove they were ‘on par’ during a charity golfing competition. Representatives from almost 50 businesses battled it out in the Skills Group Golfing Challenge, held in two stages at Elfordleigh Hotel Golf and Country Club in Plympton. Competitors were also invited to test their style and swing against PGA...
An Exeter man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a a coach hit a wall in Cornwall killing two female passengers.
Emergency crews were called to the scene at around 1pm yesterday (Tuesday). The coach had been travelling on the A387 from the Plymouth direction towards Looe between Sandplace and Widegates when the incident occurred.
Two people are dead and 12 injured after a major coach crash in Cornwall.
The crash occurred at around 1pm this afternoon (13 May) when the vehicle crashed into a hedge on the A387 at Morval near Looe.
The coach from Carmel Coaches, which operates throughout Devon, was thought to be carrying passengers from Exmouth aged 60 and over at the time of the crash.
The impact of small businesses on the economies of Devon and Cornwall and the ways in which they can continue to flourish are to be analysed in a new study by Plymouth University.
Conducted by the University’s Futures Entrepreneurship Centre, the research will aim to gather the views of business owners, and allow them to access in-depth information about how they might improve their...
BUSINESS leaders could find themselves a wealth of home grown talent by supporting a competition to create the next generation of entrepreneurs. Local businessman Ali Carnegie, director of Total Energy Solutions, was speaking as a team of engineering students from Plymouth University this week secured the national title of Flux 2014 champions.
Christian Barber, 41, was sentenced to 59 months in prison for fraud and theft at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday 14 February.
His offending came to light in 2012 when one of his victims reported to police that she met Barber on an online dating website before meeting up with him in a Lincolnshire pub.
Barber told his victim that he was a multi-millionaire National Lottery...
It was always going to be the case that the role of police and crime commissioner would develop quickly – it had to. So whereas 2013 set a necessary but probably unsustainable pace my restructured OPCC team is now better configured to face the challenges ahead and allows me to focus on key areas such as lobbying Government and on issues that matter most to us who are a long way away from the...
