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The higher education institution said the new facility would help 'plug workforce shortages' in Devon and Cornwall

Ministers have given the green light to Plymouth and South Devon Freeport, which backers hope could help city attract millions of pounds of investment and create thousands of jobs

A 57-year-old man was arrested near Plymouth on Tuesday.

Local people call for rethink on £12.7m city centre project, and dismiss saplings plan as a ‘greenwash’

Grandad David Crawford, 59, was knocked off his bike, dragged hundreds of metres under a van and then left for dead by the side of the road, Plymouth Crown Court heard

SNP MP Alyn Smith, who represents Dunblane, and Luke Pollard, the Labour MP for Plymouth, want an overhaul of existing gun laws.

In November 1620 the Mayflower deposited about 100 Pilgrims at the Wampanoag community of Patuxet, which the newcomers renamed New Plymouth. A year later, the English and Wampanoags enjoyed a three-day feast. For generations, Americans have celebrated that meal as the first Thanksgiving.

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The defence giant, which has a base at Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth, has reported flat revenues and marginally dipped profits

President Abraham Lincoln instituted the celebration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863 after the Union victory at the battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War. It was not a new idea – in 1789, President George Washington had proposed a yearly presidential proclamation of each annual Thanksgiving…

The new recruits will be based at the defence giant's Devonport Royal Dockyard facility in Plymouth