Plymouth is bidding for Government funding to provide improved cycling and walking links through the city centre and along its spectacular waterfront.
As one of the cities applying for a ‘City Deal’, Plymouth has been given the opportunity to bid for a share of up to £30 million being made available through the Department for Transport’s Cycle City Ambition Grant. The grant scheme...
The Plymouth Daily is delighted to be backing our city's bold and exciting bid to become the UK's City of Culture in 2017.
Plymouth's initial bid for this honour will be submitted today alongside 10 rival cities across the UK. There will then be an anxious wait until June while a panel of judges considers and finally shortlists 4 cities to go forward to a full and final bidding...
Plymouth’s iconic landmark Smeaton’s Tower will become a beacon for culture on Tuesday 30 April.
The tower will be lit up by the Council that evening to mark the deadline for the bid for UK City of Culture 2017.
Council Leader Tudor Evans said: “We wanted to do something symbolic to mark the handing in of the bid. Smeaton’s Tower is such a well-known landmark it only seemed...
I was asked... As it generally falls to me, in the absence of a 'Laureate' poet for the city, to deal with any 'municipal' poetry required by the City of Plymouth; to write a poem to support the bid...
Here it is - and is entitled: 'Art & Artifice..'
‘Art & Artifice..’
In the kiln’s wild, white infernos; molt glass fishes dart and...
With the continuing decline in its traditional marine and industrial infrastructure and the near catastrophic reduction in the size of the Naval Dockyard; Plymouth's future social and economic well being will likely both depend and centre on its potential as a tourist and leisure destination, in which an active, accessible and flourishing creative arts community will be nothing short of...
Historic features in the Plym Valley could be restored as part of an exciting package of ideas being put forward for Heritage Lottery Funding.
Plymouth City Council is leading a partnership of organisations to bid for up to £3 million to restore and improve the links between the city and the Plym Valley.
Cabinet Member for the Environment, Councillor Brian Vincent said: “This...
"Back Plymouth's bid for the City of Culture 2017 at Twitter and Facebook by searching @plymouth17 and saying why Plymouth should win!"
So says Councillor Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council, as the city embarks upon an ambitious and exciting journey towards its future. The Plymouth Daily looks forward to being a part of it all. Cllr Evans has sent us the following message...
