Businesses in the City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) have voted ‘yes’ to a five year business plan that will see millions of pounds being invested into the future of Plymouth’s shopping district.
70 percent of businesses agreed to the new city centre BID which will see many projects take place including; strengthening PARC (Partnership Against Retail Crime), improving...
Plymouth’s South Yard is to become an Enterprise Zone, making the site even more attractive to businesses.
Chancellor George Osborne yesterday announced that the bid put forward by the Heart of the South West Local Economic Partnership (HotSW LEP) on behalf of the city had been successful.
The status means that businesses based there have more freedom to expand and reinvest,...
The number of Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants in Devon increased in line with the national trend by 269 claimants between January 2015 and February 2015.
As a proportion of the working age population, Devon claimants increased very slightly from 0.9% in January to 1% in February, which remains one of the lowest rates on record. Devon’s claimant rate still remains far lower than...
Organisers of Plymouth’s Half Marathon, GO2, are urging runners not to leave it until the last minute to sign up for this year’s race, with less than one week left to secure their place with entries set to close at midnight on Monday 23rd March!
The event has already attracted a phenomenal level of interest, breaking records within the first 24 hours of entries opening, and securing...
Join Newton Abbot Racecourse to mark the start of the new racing calendar for 2015 on Wednesday 25th March.
Racing will start at 2:10pm and gates will open at 12:10pm. The last race will be at 5:10pm.
Once again this season, children aged 16 and under, plus students with a valid photographic student ID / NUS card, can enjoy free entry to all fixtures.
Tickets are priced at £12 for the Course Enclosure and £18 for the Paddock Enclosure. You can purchase tickets online up to 5pm the day before the fixture. Tickets will also be available on the gate on the day....
Local heating controls specialist Drayton recently welcomed Alison Seabeck, Labour Member of Parliament for Plymouth, Moor View, to its factory to discuss the work the company is doing to help reduce energy costs for households by using energy more efficiently.
Alison met staff working on Drayton’s range of heating controls and learned more about how the company is developing...
Doctors from Plymouth will be supporting a study to investigate whether routine heart scans for hospital patients with chest pains will help reduce heart attack rates.
Professor Carl Roobottom, Consultant Radiologist at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and Professor Jason Smith, Consultant in
Teenager Tom Gardner from Tavistock in Devon has won a bike designed to his own specifications from the charity Jole Rider based in Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
The first Bike Draw organised by the education charity, one of the UK’s largest bicycle recycling organisations, raised over £1000. The money will go to Jole Rider‘s Bikes4Africa programme and will be used to deliver bikes to...
More than 970 children from low income families in Plymouth attending Early Years providers will be able to take advantage of the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) from this April.
It was announced last June by the government that the new EYPP worth £300 per pupil, would help narrow the attainment gap between young children from low-income families and their peers.
At approximately 9.25am on Tuesday 10th March, an altercation took place between the driver of red taxi and a male pedestrian at the city bound traffic lights of North Hill and North Road East, Plymouth.
It is believed that a pedestrian walked in front a queue of traffic which was waiting to turn into North Road East and an argument ensued, resulting in the pedestrian pulling a chisel...
