Parkinson’s UK is looking to recruit volunteers from across the South West, to ensure a fireworks display goes off with a bang.
The charity is asking for local people to give up a couple of hours of their time to sell official programmes and collect donations, at the Annual British Fireworks Championship in Plymouth.
The event, which takes place at Plymouth Hoe on Tuesday 13...
Everyone is invited to bring their sandwiches, blankets and deckchairs to the Plymouth Hoe this weekend for a big picnic.
To help celebrate the end of Co-operatives Fortnight Plymouth City Council has partnered up with lots of local businesses to host a Fairtrade family picnic on Saturday 6 July.
Taking place between 11am and 2pm on the grassed area of the Hoe by Elliott Street...
The Rotary Club of Plympton are organising a Teddy Bear Parachute jump in aid of various charities supported by the Rotary club on Saturday 1 June, and are asking people if they own a teddy brave enough to take part.
The Devon & Somerset Fire Service will be launching the brave teddies from one of their hydraulic platform devices.
Air, sea and land displays will once again wow crowds on Plymouth Hoe as plans are unveiled for Armed Forces Day 2013.
The city is honouring its military connections and will build on the hugely successful Armed Forces Day national event last year that attracted tens of thousands of visitors.
The event on Saturday 29 June will be a wonderful opportunity to see the armed forces...
Plymouth has become the first city in the country to use a new style of welcome sign on its key routes into the city, featuring a large, full-colour picture of a local, iconic landmark.
The new signs were unveiled today and now drivers entering Plymouth on the A38 will be welcomed by the image of Plymouth Hoe, showing Smeaton’s Tower against a backdrop of Plymouth Sound.
A fleet of 40 to 50 historic gaff rigged sail boats starting will be calling into Plymouth on 8 May on their way round Britain as part of the celebrations for the Old Gaffer Association’s 50th anniversary.
At least four of the boats coming are over one hundred years old and most are elderly or modern reproductions of earlier sail boats. Come along to see them at the Mayflower Marina the afternoon of 8 May or on the following morning as they will sail in front of the Hoe and do a circuit of Plymouth Sound.
The fleet will be joined by 20 to 30 local gaff rigged boats...
