Plymouth University has forged a partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which will see it expanding its role in a major national festival taking place this autumn.
The ESRC stages the Festival of Social Science every November, with the aim of enhancing public engagement with academics and social science research.
A new exhibition opening at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery next week will explore the 10 dramatic days during the summer of 1815 when Napoleon Bonaparte was held as a prisoner in Plymouth Sound aboard HMS Bellerophon.
‘Fallen Emperor: Napoleon in Plymouth Sound in 1815’ will be centred around a popular painting from the Museum’s collections by Jules Girardet, which shows Napoleon...
Newlife Foundation, the UK’s leading charity provider of equipment for children with disabilities, is urgently appealing for help so children in Devon can receive the equipment they need.
Right now there are 11 children with disabilities or terminal illness in Devon who are at risk of worsening pain, injury or their condition deteriorating – while their families are placed under...
Plymouth’s Guildhall is to get new boilers as part of an ongoing programme to make the Council’s buildings more efficient.
Old, inefficient oil-fired boilers are to be replaced with gas boilers and the heat they generate will also heat the Council House, once it has been disconnected from the main part of the Civic Centre.
The current boilers are more than 50 years old and the...
THE MOTHER who sent her children to France and Spain for six months respectively aged 13 and 12 said it was much harder for her to let them go and praised the benefits to their education and confidence.
Anna West from Ivybridge, Devon, sent her son Paddy to Vannes in France to live with a French family and their children and daughter India to Pamplona in Spain to do the same.
A city centre hotel will be the venue for an exhibition as artwork by students at Plymouth University is set to go on display later this month.
From film pieces to mixed media installations, the ‘Emergence’ exhibition, presented and curated by second year fine arts students at the Duke of Cornwall Hotel and the Council House, draws inspiration from the work of Plymouth based British...
Following the resounding success of its involvement in the 2011 and 2013 events, Plymouth Yacht Haven has again been selected as the host marina for the finishing yachts in this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race.
The biennial event; one of ocean racing’s most prestigious, takes competitors across more than 600 miles of mercurial tides and currents over the course of up to 5 days, finishing at...
The world’s first team training programme using aviation techniques and including unique psychological management and performance skills has been launched in Devon.
The course is aimed at businesses who want to develop their teams and is run by fully-qualified, experienced, pilots working with ex Team-GB rower and lifestyle coach Ben Tipney.
Plymouth and Devon Chamber of Commerce has revealed that Thrive Hubs – an innovative network of co-working hubs set to launch at several Plymouth sites – is to be the headline sponsor for the forthcoming Plymouth Business Show.
Held on 17 June at the Plymouth Pavillions from 9.30am to 4pm, the show is in its third year and has grown to be the largest business show in the region....
Detectives in Plymouth are appealing for the public’s help in identifying a man from an Evofit.
Officers would like to speak to him in connection with an indecent exposure offence in Plymouth.
A man exposed himself to a 54-year-old local woman as she was walking alone over a bridge near Manadon roundabout at around 9.30am on Saturday 21 March.
