Devon

Plymouth’s newest car park has picked up a prestigious award at the British Parking awards.

The British Parking Awards is an independent competition that recognises the leading examples of car park management, enforcement, design and team work.

Mayflower Street West Car Park beat off competition from other councils and the private sector to be named the ‘Best Surface Car Park...

Illegal skin lighteners, containing potentially harmful products, have been found on sale in our region.

Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service say that the creams are similar to products which have been on sale in London. Trading Standards officers have seized a considerable quantity of illegal skin lightening creams that were being sold over the internet by a Devon-based trader...

A national charity is appealing for volunteers to come forward and help the blind people it supports in the Plymouth area.

British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF) provides specially adapted audio equipment to visually impaired people across the UK.

The charity is looking for radio support volunteers, whose role would be to visit people with sight loss in their homes...

More students than ever before have chosen Plympton Academy as their first choice of secondary school.

Last year the school saw a 30% increase for first choice places for September 2016 and this year all first choices for September have been granted.

“The school governors and myself are delighted that we can ensure the young people of Plympton have a good school they are able...

This summer Theatre Royal Plymouth welcomes the best of musicals, drama, dance and family entertainment to the South West. Musical favourites such as highly anticipated Sister Act and the opening of Crazy For You starring Caroline Flack and Tom Chambers.

Critically acclaimed plays such as National Theatre’s production of Hedda Gabler, which will open its UK Tour in Plymouth, and The...

PEOPLE across Devon are being invited to host a Cancer Research UK Coffee Morning and help raise money to fund life-saving research.

Every day, 85 people are diagnosed with cancer in the south west. And that’s why the charity is calling on people across Devon to join together with friends, colleagues and family for a cuppa and a natter while raising funds to help beat cancer sooner....

Sound of the Sirens are the latest talented musical act to sign up for this year’s inaugural Royal William Yard Festival.

They will be joining headliner and international folk sensation Seth Lakeman for the event on May 27 and 28 – which promises to celebrate “peninsular living” and everything the beautiful West Country has to offer.

The Exeter-based Sirens - Abbe Martin and...

The South West NFU is calling for police forces to devote more resources to combatting rural crime, after a survey revealed that almost 20% of members who responded had difficulty reporting a crime and that when they did, insufficient action was taken.

The crime survey was completed by 200 members and showed that fly-tipping, trespass, poaching and theft are the four commonest offences...

Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Tavistock yesterday [9 March] in which a woman died.

Emergency services were called at 6.40pm following the collision between a blue Peugeot 206 and a black Audi A4 on the B3362 near Milton Abbot.

The Peugeot driver, 34-year-old woman from Tavistock, was trapped in the vehicle and sustained fatal injuries. She...