Environment Agency minded to issue environmental permit for Plymouth incinerator

Devonport incinerator protest

Environment Agency is satisfied Devonport incinerator ‘will be constructed and operated in a way that will not significantly pollute the environment or harm human health’

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Plymouth University students help create the university's first allotment

Plymouth University Allotment group

Plymouth Univeristy students have helped create an allotment as part of the university’s commitment to the Plymouth Food Charter

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Highways Agency has no objections to contentious Devonport incinerator

Highways Agency

Contentious Devonport incinerator has no objections from the Highways Agency

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What are the health implications of incinerators?

Plymouth incinerator film

The short film called ‘Plymouth Incinerator – masking the truth?’ asks about the health implications of project, and of incincerators – sorry, waste to energy plants

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Not many days left to keep Moor View in Plymouth

Cllr Alison Casey

The time is running out to get your objections in about the heavy handed Boundary Commission changes which will see Moor View taken out of Plymouth

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Scavenging to keep the long, cold winter at bay

Astana Scavengers

The foreign nationals in Astana, Khazakhstan are taking part in a US Embassy-organised scavenger hunt to help endure the long, hard winter. With memories of the annual family scavenger hunt in Plymouth, Claire McCarthy is smitten

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Why I’m opposing the Boundary Commission over my ward

Cllr Alison Casey

The Boundary Commission’s proposed changes to Plymouth Moor View – that it falls under the Dartmoor constituency of Okehampton – is being chastised by Plymouth City Council Alison Casey

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Plymouth MP Oliver Colvile asks a cancer question

Oliver Colvile

Plymouth MP Oliver Colvile has been criticised for taking hospitality from one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies. Now he’s asked a question in Parliament about cancer, but it’s not about lung cancer

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Carers Champions to assess need for autistic spectrum carer group in Plymouth

Carers Champion

Carers Champions are inviting all carers of adults with a condition within the autistic spectrum to get in touch and let them know whether there would be support for setting up a carers group specifically for these carers in Plymouth.

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Under 30 days left to keep Moor View in Plymouth as Boundary Changes deadline looms

Plymouth Moor View consistuency

Keep Moor View in Plymouth campaign aims to stop the Boundary Commission’s plans to chop the constituency out of Plymouth and put it in Okehampton

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Keep Moor View in Plymouth campaign begins

Boundary Commission

Plymouth Moor View will be taken away from a Plymouth MP if Boundary Commission changes are to go through. A campaign has started to keep Moor View in Plymouth

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Chas Pik – rush hour in Astana. How to travel in the Kazakhstan capital

Astana buses

Plymouth’s Claire McCarthy is Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, and she’s finding out the best ways to get around

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Why isn’t the NHS called the NHS asks Labour

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A new company running NHS services in Plymouth has dropped the NHS brand to their communications – has privisation begun already?

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Plymouth's carbon footprint has reduced for the fourth year running

Smeaton's Tower, The Hoe, Plymouth

Plymouth has reduced its carbon footprint by 218,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide

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