fractures

An apprentice who helped the Council achieve a national award is part of a team getting a pat on the back at Full Council today.

Gregg Black may have just started his career but can already put ‘award-winning’ on his CV after helping the Council’s Customer Services Team win ‘Case Study of the Year’ award in the annual GovMetric awards.

Greg along with fellow apprentices...

It may be almost four months away but Plymouth City Council is already busy preparing for Lord Mayor’s Day and its events team wants to hear from anyone interested in taking part.

This year’s theme will be ‘Plymouth’s Hidden History’ and anyone can get involved – from individual people to community groups, clubs and organisations.

The celebrations will take place in the city...

A registration or licensing system for pedlars and street traders is still needed to protect the city’s more vulnerable residents – that’s the response Plymouth City Council will be giving to a Government consultation.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is looking at repealing current controls on pedlars and changing street trading regulations to comply with EU...

People in Stonehouse are being invited to have their say in shaping the future of Union Street.

The Union Street Big Conversation is being launched by Plymouth City Council on Monday 18th March. Residents and businesses are being asked to give their views on Union Street as it is today and help form a Community Vision for the future.

Councillor Chris Penberthy, Cabinet...

Bluebird Care, based in Plympton, has become the 100th member of Plymouth’s 1000 Club.

The 1000 Club is a city wide initiative aimed at encouraging 1000 businesses to provide a job or work experience to a young person.

To celebrate this milestone, the leader of Plymouth Council, Councillor Tudor Evans will present Bluebird Care with a commemorative certificate.

...

People who don’t use the internet are being targeted in a major new Council project to stop them from losing out on benefits, services and work.

The city is launching a project to target pockets of the population, who are not comfortable using the web, to give them the chance to learn the online basics.

It is estimated 38,000 Plymouth households are not connected to the...

We are, are you? That’s the question Councillor Brian Vincent is asking as Plymouth City Council prepares to mark the year’s biggest climate change campaign, World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Earth Hour.

At 8.30pm on Saturday 23rd March, hundreds of millions of people will turn off their lights for one hour, all across the world in a symbolic show of support for green initiatives....

Plymouth City Council is holding an open day in a search for businesses that can supply white goods.

From April, Plymouth City Council will administer a new Emergency and Welfare Fund to replace the Government’s Social Fund, which is being abolished.

The new scheme will help Plymouth residents that are in extreme financial difficulty.

Residents will be able to apply...

One of Plymouth’s taxi firms has joined the growing ranks of companies signing up to the city’s 'Buy with Confidence' scheme.

Need-a-Cab is the first taxi business to join up to the nationally recognised scheme that aims to take the headache out of finding a reliable and trustworthy local business.

One of the company’s directors, Dave Evans, said: “We’re very proud to be the...

Plymouth councillors have agreed to invest a further £2 million a year to blitz potholes on city roads over the next 10 years.

The extra £20m funding was agreed by the Council at the annual budget setting meeting, which heard it would be spent on lasting...