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- Crownhill
- Ernesettle
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- Higher St Budeaux
- Leigham
- Manadon
- Southway
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- Whitleigh
Our top stories this week from the Derriford & North edition of the Plymouth Chronicle Newspaper are listed below. You can always keep up with our digital editions on our LATEST EDITION page for Plymouth News. We source our news stories from the local community, do you have a news story that you think our readers will like? Head over to our contact page.
TOP PLYMOUTH HEADLINES THIS WEEK
6Help spread the festive joy by gifting toys this Christmas (P.3)
Tesco customers in Plymouth have the opportunity to give new toys to local children who need it most this Christmas.
Until December 15 Tesco’s Transit Way Superstore is holding a collection for new and unwrapped toys for Children’s Wishes Plymouth, which will then distribute the toys to local children.
5Key milestone reached for Woolwell to The George scheme (P.3)
Work on the first phase of the Woolwell to The George Transport Scheme was expected to finish as the Chronicle went to press.
Testing of the signals at the new Tavistock Road/ Woolwell Crescent junction started on November 17 and involved opening the junction fully and allowing traffic from Woolwell to turn right onto Tavistock Road and travel north for the first time, without needing to use Woolwell Roundabout.
4Busy Bees for Children in Need (P.8)
More than 100 children from the Busy Bees nursery in Plymouth joined a nationwide ‘Great Kindness Swarm’ for BBC Children in Need.
From handmade hug stations and kindness cards to seed-planting and smile challenges, children at Busy Bees nursery in Seaton Court, Plymouth buzzed with excitement as they took part in their very own Great Kindness Swarm – a joyful nationwide campaign created by Busy Bees to inspire 250,000 acts of kindness and raise vital funds for BBC Children in Need.
3Local heroes receive special King’s Award (P.19)
BASICS Devon volunteers are celebrating after receiving the King’s Award for Voluntary Service – the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and equivalent to an MBE.
BASICS Devon was one of more than 200 local charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to receive the prestigious award this year.
2State-of-the-art Health and Wellbeing Hub opens at Marjon campus (P.20)
train the healthcare workers of the future has officially opened at Plymouth Marjon University.
The Marjon Health & Wellbeing Hub was funded with a capital grant to the university by the Office for Students in 2022. The state-of-the-art £5.8m facility features a simulation hospital ward, a simulation community care suite, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) training spaces, IT suites, a Speech & Language Therapy dysphasia kitchen, and classrooms.
1Praise for Derriford’s Liver Service team (P.22)
Derriford Hospital’s Liver Service has maintained accreditation by the Improving Quality in Liver Services (IQILS) programme, a national initiative run by the Royal College of Physicians.
The accreditation recognises the team’s commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, and puts Derriford among a group of hospitals in the UK to meet these rigorous national standards.
