A team of nine apprentices at Plymouth City Council are gearing up to become ‘Apprenticeship Team of the Year’ by revamping a community garden.
The award is part of the Brathay Apprenticeship Challenge, organised by the Brathay Trust and the National Apprenticeship Service, which sees teams of apprentices across the UK competing to gain the title.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is hosting some special art and craft sessions this Saturday (9 March) where children can make handmade gifts and keepsakes to give to their mums on Mother’s Day.
The ‘Yummy Mummy’ event is part of the Museum’s ‘Make and Take’ programme, which gives children of mainly primary school age the opportunity to work with their parents, grandparents or...
A Plymouth sailing club has become the first organisation in the city to receive a Community Covenant grant of almost £30,000, from the Ministry of Defence, following a successful bid supported by Plymouth Armed Forces Community Covenant and Plymouth City Council.
Plymouth Youth Sailing will use the money to run a programme of RYA OnBoard watersports activities aimed at further...
A regular sight at its home of London Victoria train station, Orient-Express’ British Pullman train will be leaving the hustle and bustle of the ‘Big Smoke’ for the fresh sea air and sweeping Devonshire coastline, where it will welcome guests at Plymouth and Exeter stations to experience the atmosphere of the era of the Golden Age of Travel.
Species of seabirds could successfully return to their natural foraging habits following changes to European fisheries policies, scientists have suggested.
The European Parliament recently voted to scrap the controversial discards policy, which has seen fishermen throwing thousands of edible fish and fish waste back...
A celebrity chef will be trading top tips with students at a Plymouth school for disadvantaged young people to help them raise cash for Comic Relief.
Chris Tanner will be chipping in to add some celebrity sparkle to brownies for a cake bake sale at Plymouth City Council’s Alternative Complementary Education service, or ACE as it is better known, on Friday 15 March. The school works...
Plymouth City Council are proposing to support a £5.12 million building project to help create hundreds of jobs in the city.
At their meeting on 12 March 2013, the Cabinet will be asked to consider whether the Council can act as guarantor for a loan so the Millfields Trust can redevelop a flagship building on Union Street. The proposals would see 50 new workspace units built in Block...
Devonport Market Hall could come under council ownership and opened for a social enterprise venture as part of an unusual transfer deal offered by the Homes and Communities Agency ('HCA').
Plymouth City Council’s Cabinet is being asked to consider buying the empty grade 2 listed building and surrounding land for a pound and in return, be eligible for £2.57 million funding under the...
Employees with disabilities are twice as likely to be attacked at work and experience much higher rates of insults, ridicule and intimidation, a new study has found.
Research from the universities of Plymouth and Cardiff found people with physical or psychological disabilities or long-term illness reported higher rates...
