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Plymouth lifeguards shortlisted for water safety awards

A team of local lifeguards from Plymouth Life Centre have been shortlisted for the UK’s most important awards in water safety in recognition of their dedication to keeping the public safe around water.

The team beat competition from across the UK to be selected as finalists for the prestigious Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) and IQL UK Awards 2016.

The awards recognise...

Billy Ocean: Here You Are - The Best Of tour comes to Plymouth

Billy Ocean has announced he is bringing his new tour Here You Are - The Best of Of to Plymouth Pavilions next March.

His latest album ‘Here You Are: The Best Of Billy Ocean’ has soared to number 4 in the charts, becoming his highest charting album since 1989.

The ‘Caribbean Queen’ star is Britain’s biggest selling black artist of all time, with a string of multiplatinum hits....

Bid writing company launches in Plymouth

A new start-up based in Plymouth is aiming to make a real difference to schools and charities throughout the South West.

Trust Bids, founded by Clive Martyn, is a specialist bid writing company based at the new Thrive Business Hub in the heart of Plymouth City Centre.

Trust Bids was established to help schools, academies and charitable trusts find and win the grants, funds and...

Pioneering hub to keep Efford and Laira folk healthier

A pioneering health and wellbeing hub could be on the cards for people living in Efford and Laira.

People may be able to access a wider range of health and wellbeing advice and support in one place under exciting new plans being unveiled for Douglass House this week.

Pathfields Practice is teaming up with the Council, healthcare commissioners and other service providers to look...

The Dreamboys

he Dreamboys are back and hotter than ever with a brand new Show and UK Tour for 2016.

The Dreamboys are without a shadow of a doubt the UK's top Male Strip Show, perfect for a girls night out with all your friends. Their showcase is unquestionably the most famous Male Stripper act the UK has ever produced. With special guest appearances on some of the UK's biggest TV shows such as The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Celebrity Big Brother, Loose Women, This Morning, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and The Only Way Is Essex, plus massive sold out Worldwide Tours, it's no wonder The...

Let It Be

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Monday, July 25, 2016 - 20:30 to Saturday, July 30, 2016 - 20:30
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The international hit show that celebrates the music of The Beatles is coming to Plymouth! Let It Be showcases the music of the world’s most successful rock ‘n’ roll band, in a spectacular concert charting the band’s meteoric rise from their humble beginnings in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, through the height of Beatlemania, to their later studio masterpieces. The show is packed with over forty of The Beatles’ greatest hits including: Twist and Shout, She Loves You and A Hard Day’s Night, as well as global megahits Yesterday, Hey Jude, Come Together and of course, Let It Be.

Running...

Breakfast at Tiffany's - The Play

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 20:30 to Saturday, June 25, 2016 - 20:30
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the classic tale of Holly Golightly written by Truman Capote and so memorably portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in the iconic 1961 film, is being given a new lease of life in 2016 as a stage play with music in a sparkling, sophisticated production starring the multi award-winning Pixie Lott as Holly.

Adapted by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg and directed by Nikolai Foster, this tale of vivacious, good-time girl Holly Golightly and her fantastical existence in 1940s New York City, is told through the eyes of...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 20:30 to Sunday, June 19, 2016 - 20:30
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Watch out! The most fantasmagorical musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, lands in Plymouth in 2016. One of the world’s favourite musicals, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will have audiences of all ages flying high with its mixture of madness, intrigue and exuberance.

Can the loveable but whacky inventor, Potts, along with his two children and the gorgeous Truly Scrumptious outwit the bombastic Baron Bomburst who has decreed that all children be banished from his kingdom? What happens when the children are caught and imprisoned with the other youngsters by the evil Childcatcher? Will it all...

1972 - The Future of Sex

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 20:30 to Saturday, June 18, 2016 - 20:30
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t’s 1972. An era of possibility, polyester and pubic hair.

Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Christine is watching Deepthroat. Brian is confused.

The Wardrobe Ensemble tell the story of the class of ‘72 with a handsome funk guitarist and some spacehoppers. Was it easier back then? Where did we go wrong? A brisk romp through the ins and outs of those excellently awkward first sexual encounters.

http://www.theatreroyal.com/whats-on/2016/1972-the-future-of-sex/

Introducing Yard Sessions in Plymouth

Every Friday throughout the Summer, starting from this Friday 17 June, Urban Splash are hosting Friday night live music sessions at Royal William Yard, an ideal way to wind down from the working week and kick start the weekend.

Each week, the sessions, will feature a different local live music act from 5pm - 7pm on the green outside either Rockets & Rascals or Le Vignoble. There...

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