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Reducing the harm caused by alcohol is the key aim of a new five year plan for Plymouth being considered by Plymouth City Council’s cabinet on 6 August 2013.

The Strategic Alcohol Plan aims to change attitudes towards alcohol and prevent problems developing, support those in need and create a safer, more vibrant city.

The objectives are to:

• Reduce the rate of
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A number of families had to be evacuated last night after a fire in a block of flats in the Devonport area of Plymouth.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service were sent to the flats on Devonport Hill after receiving a call reporting smoke issuing from inside the three-storey block of flats. Two fire appliances from Greenbank and one fire appliance from Camels Head attended....

Two men are in Police custody after a 33-year-old man was assaulted with a glass bottle at a Plymouth bar.

The incident took place at the Cuba bar in Mutley at around 1.40am on Friday 26 July.

The victim attempted to intervene when a fight broke out inside the bar and was then hit with the bottle, sustaining a cut to the back of the head.

Two men aged 24 and 21 years...

A two-month-old pony has been found dead on Dartmoor. Police say the body shows signs of deliberate mutilation.

The pony was discovered on moorland at Yennadon Down, Dousland, Yelverton near Plymouth at around 6.50pm on Tuesday 23 July.

Police report that the pony appears to have been deliberately mutilated and officers are investigating the possibility that the body had been...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in West Park, Plymouth on Sunday 14 July.

The incident happened at about 2am in Shaldon Crescent.

A 29-year-old man confronted a man who was damaging his car, a green Vauxhall Astra, parked on his drive.

The 29-year-old victim and his partner were then assaulted by that man and another.

During the...

Witnesses are sought by police after a 19-year-old woman was assaulted in a Plymouth street on Monday 15 July.

The woman was walking on Culver Way in Eggbuckland when she was approached from behind by an unknown man who threw her to the ground and punched her several times.

Police would like to speak to anyone who may have seen the man in the area at the time of the assault,...

A fourth man (a 22-year-old from Looe) has been arrested in connection with a series of attacks in Looe.

The man has been released on police bail until this evening (22 July).

A man and a woman from Plymouth and a woman from Liskeard were victims of what the police have described as a "nasty series of events" in Looe on Saturday 13 July.

Devon and Cornwall Police are...

Police are appealing for witnesses following three burglaries in Bere Barton near Bere Ferrers, Yelverton.

The burglaries happened overnight on Thursday 18 July and Friday 19 July.

The first reported burglary took place at a large 14th century grade two listed manor house. The premises include numerous outbuildings and grounds situated on the edge of the rural village of Bere...

A Plymouth man who went missing last week has been found safe in Ivybridge.

Devon and Cornwall Police report that Marius Charalambous was found just before 9.15am this morning (Monday 22 July).

Police had grown increasingly concerned for the welfare of Mr Charalambous, 37, who has not been seen since 17 July 2013.

Plymouth city centre police have vowed to ban glass bottles in troublesome night spots following a spate of late night 'glassings'.

Chief Inspector Ian Drummond-Smith, who is responsible for policing in the city centre, explained: “In the past year there have been 29 separate ‘glassings’ in the city centre at 20 different venues. As such, I have met with many of the local licensees...