CCTV

Plans to keep Plymouth’s shoppers and visitors safer under the watchful eye of a new state-of-the-art CCTV control centre have taken a major step forward.

The Council has today announced the contractor who will be responsible for the work, which includes separating the Civic Centre from the Council House as well converting the basement for the CCTV system to be installed.

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Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a number of people following an assault on a man in the Stonehouse area of Plymouth.

A group of around 10 men are reported to have attacked a 19-year-old local man following an argument.

The victim was kicked in the face and punched before the offenders ran from the scene.

The victim suffered minor facial and arm...

Police have released an image of a man they want to speak to in connection with an assault in Plymouth last month.

A group of men assaulted a 26-year-old Plymouth man outside Jesters nightclub on Union Street at around 4.50am on Saturday 29 November.

As a result of the assault, the victim suffered extensive facial injuries and was taken to Derriford Hospital.

Officers...

A group of cyclists could hold vital information for detectives trying to establish the last movements of Katherine Hooper and her son Joshua.

Katherine Hooper, 24, and her five-year-old son Joshua died after falling from rocks on Friday 12 July. Police discovered the body of her two-year-old son Sam at her home in Dukes Close, Paignton later that day.

A murder investigation...

Police have issued brief CCTV footage showing the last sighting of the missing Polish woman Magdalena Krawiec in Marine Drive near the Radcliffe Hotel in Paignton on Monday 13th May.

PCSO’s will be in this area over the weekend carrying out public engagement and providing posters with information.

The CCTV footage follows the picture released on Wednesday 22 May showing a...

Police have released a new CCTV image showing the last known sighting of Magdalena Krawiec, the missing 20-year-old Polish woman.

The picture shows a woman walking along Marine Drive near the Redcliffe Hotel in Paignton in the direction of Torquay on Monday 13 May at 8.17pm (it was previously reported that the last sighting had been on Tuesday 14 May). The woman in the photo has been...

The risk posed by global warming and rising ocean temperatures to the future health of the world’s marine ecosystem has been highlighted by scientists studying fossil records.

Researchers at Plymouth University believe that findings from fieldwork along the North Yorkshire coast reveal strong parallels between the Early Jurassic era of 180 million years ago and...