Businesses across Devon will gather at a sponsorship lunch to hear about the Venus Awards, which were specifically created to recognise and reward local women in business.
The lunch, which will take place at the Bishop Fleming offices in Exeter, has been designed to celebrate the achievements of hard working women and to inform businesses on how they can get involved.
The work of the neurosurgical team at Derriford Hospital will be showcased in a drama on national radio on Friday 1 May 2015.
Actor Tristan Sturrock, who was paralysed in an accident, wrote the award-winning one man stage play, Mayday Mayday, to say thank you to the medical teams at Derriford Hospital who helped him learn to walk again. In the play, Tristan performs around 20 roles,...
The British Red Cross is today (Thursday 30 April) launching ‘Shop Drop for Nepal’ to give people another way to donate to its Nepal Earthquake Appeal.
The Red Cross is appealing to people to clear out their wardrobes and cupboards and donate their unwanted clothes and goods to their local Red Cross shop.
Funds raised from the sale of the items will aid the organisation’s life-...
Plymouth University is now ranked inside the top 40 global modern universities according to the most comprehensive league table of its kind, released today.
In the Times Higher Education ‘100 Under 50’, Plymouth is placed at 37 – up five places from 2014 – and fourth in terms of UK institutions under the age of 50. The publication’s Editor-at-Large, Phil Baty, described it as a “...
A report released on Tuesday (28 April) by road safety charity Brake and Direct Line has revealed worrying and widespread disregard for traffic laws among UK drivers, with half (49%) admitting to breaking them.
Half of drivers who admit breaking traffic laws (25% of all drivers) say they do so through inattention, while the other half (23% of all drivers) admit doing so deliberately,...
Just under half of all Brits admit they have secretly checked their partner’s Facebook account and one in five went on to row about what they discovered, new research has revealed.
One in seven said they had contemplated divorce because of their other halves activities on Facebook, Skype, Snapchat, Twitter or What’sApp.
Nearly a quarter or the 2,000 married Brits asked, said...
A couple who lost their baby daughter through stillbirth today celebrated, with mixed emotions, opening a special bereavement suite in the maternity unit.
Greg and Jen Phillips set up the Snowdrop Appeal in 2009, after Jen gave birth to Jasmine, who was stillborn at 32 weeks.
Greg explained: “I will never forget the room we had Jasmine in. It was so drab and the skyblue walls...
This year’s Plymouth's History Festival is set to begin later this week and features a packed programme filled with 125 events.
The festival will run from Friday 1 May to Sunday 31 May and is coordinated by Plymouth City Council’s arts and heritage service, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and a wide variety of local organisations, societies, charities and individuals....
Pensioners are three times more likely to pledge on projects than Britain's digital youth*, says Crowdfunder
The UK's No1 crowdfunding platform has revealed that Britain's senior citizens could be leading the huge growth in crowdfunding as they are more likely to pledge money on projects more than any other age group.
Analysis from the alternative funding website found that...
It’s the second evening meeting of the summer at Newton Abbot on Thursday 30th April with the first race, the Newtonabbotrace On Twitter Maiden Hurdle, due off at 16.45.
With 132 horses having been entered across the seven races, including fifteen in the feature £10,000 Newtonabbotracing.com Handicap Chase over three and a quarter miles, a good turnout is expected.
