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Roads closed for emergency landing at airport
EMERGENCY services were scrambled and roads around Derriford were closed after reports of an airplane suffering electronic failure. At...
1,000 properties without water as burst main rips up road
EMERGENCY services have been called to the scene of a major water main burst in Plymouth.Police were called to Reservoir Road in Elburt...
City centre roads closed by bomb threat
POLICE have arrested a man after he allegedly claimed there was a bomb in the city centre. The man - said to be in his 20s - was arrested after police received a call at around 5.30pm this...
Waterfront hunt for missing woman
POLICE carried out a number of searches along a part of Plymstock’s shoreline for a missing woman this evening. The woman - who was said to be of “very high risk of harm” -...
Transformer explodes in lightning blast
AN ELECTRICAL transformer carrying 11,000 volts exploded after being hit by lightning. Firefighters were called to Colliford Lake in St...
Growing gulf in South West water charges
A GROWING gulf is emerging between water charges paid by Plymouth households on meters and those without. As an increasing number of...
Scaffolder died in horror fall
THE devastated widow of a popular scaffolder and father-of-two, who died after falling through a skylight, today paid tribute to her...
Ninety new jobs for Plymouth
A PLYMOUTH call centre is to take on 90 new staff as part of a 'significant expansion', it announced today. The Number Ltd, the informa...
Ex-council chief 'gets £500,000 payout'
THE former chief executive of Cornwall County Council is walking away with a half a million pound pay-off in a secret deal, according...
835 jobs axed by HM Customs
NINETEEN South West offices are to close and 835 jobs will be axed as HM Revenue and Customs makes severe cutbacks. The Government...
It would be much more appropriate to have an outsized bronze or even brightly coloured acryllic statue of one of Beryl Cook's Janner women.
