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Royal Navy chiefs finalising huge deals for refit work at Devonport Dockyard Babcock International is set to sign contracts supporting thousands of jobs in Plymouth - but questions remain about where new frigates will be maintained The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Never miss a big story in Plymouth again with our daily newslettersInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offe...

Torpoint mansion moved brick by brick to become Cornish seaside hotel Torpoint house was dismantled and rebuilt on the coast to become the Whitsand Bay Hotel Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now A mansion was moved brick by brick from a growing Cornish town to be reborn as a seaside hotel more than 100 years ago. Thanckes House in Torpoint, complete with a famed stained glass window, was shifted stone by stone six miles to Portwrinkle. It reopened as the Whitsand Bay Hotel in July 1910 and entertained guests for more than 100 years – before its sad closure in 2018. Thanckes...

The Blitz in Plymouth: Commemorating 80th anniversary with virtual programme of events Over the course of the Blitz, 1,172 people were killed with a further 4,448 injured Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now This year is the 80th anniversary of the Plymouth Blitz that killed more than 1,000 people in Plymouth. The series of 59 bombing attacks carried out by the Nazi Germany Luftwaffe took place throughout the duration of the war, but the five raids in early 1941 reduced much of the city to rubble. Over the course of the Blitz, 1,172 people were killed with a further 4,448 i...

A TALENTED artist took his own life the day after a police interview to inform him of historic allegations he faced was cancelled, an inquest has heard. Alan Leslie Taylor, 59, was found dead at his home in Falmouth by his partner Sheila Rees on October 2 last year. Assistant coroner for Cornwall, Guy Davis told the inquest that he would not go into the details of the allegations as an inquest was not the forum to discuss it. "He was facing unspecified allegations in the final days of his life," he said. "I am not making an enquiry into the veracity of these allegations. They fall o...

Heartbroken daughter is trying to track down friends of her late parents in Plymouth Helen Field wants to let long-lost friends know that her parents have sadly died Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now A heartbroken daughter wants to track down friends of her mum and dad to inform them of their passing. Helen Field's parents were both born in Plymouth and were well-known in the community, with Brian Weeks working at Devonport Dockyard and later joining the Royal Navy. Thelma Weeks, previously Coote, was a girl guider, a chairman for the Young Conservatives and later worked ...