Plymouth City Council The project to improve drainage and create two new ponds in Central Park began at the end of 2022 Plymouth City Council has diverted almost £1m of cash from other projects into a scheme to tackle flooding in Central Park. The Central Park ponds scheme is the third phase of £9 million...
An indoor amusement park on the Devon and Cornwall border has shut its doors less than two months after opening. Dingles Fun Park in Lifton operated on the same site as the now-closed Dingles Fairground Museum. Manager Tom Ellis said the park had “incredible support from the locals” but the “vast scale” of the site...
Aida Fofana BBC News, West Midlands BBC Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb has died at the age of 101 A decorated World War Two code breaker who spent her youth deciphering enemy messages at Bletchley Park has died at the age of 101. Charlotte “Betty” Webb MBE – who was among the last surviving...
Police are stepping up patrols in a park in Plymouth following reports of anti-social behaviour. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were cracking down on alcohol-fuelled crime in Patna Park in Stonehouse. The force said police visited more than 300 homes in the area to gather information and residents raised concerns over offensive language, public...
Exeter Chiefs back Liv McGoverne has agreed a deal to stay at Sandy Park for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 27-year-old New Zealander – who can play at fly-half or centre – re-joined the club last summer. McGoverne had spent the 2022-23 season at Exeter, playing 26 games, scoring five tries and kicking...
The Met Office is set to sell its Exeter Science Park leasehold property including its supercomputer and an adjacent office building. A procurement tender for a commercial agent with data centre expertise to manage the disposal of the property within the terms of the Met Office leasehold at the ten year-old development site closed last...
Exeter Energy is insisting that publicly-owned greenfield land in Riverside Valley Park is the only viable site for a heat network plant it is proposing to build while failing to explain why it has rejected brownfield alternatives in nearby Marsh Barton industrial estate. The Leeds-based company, which is controlled by 1Energy Group and Asper Investment...