Ridgeway School in Plympton has seen a significant increase in its GCSE results as shown by the official ‘Department for Education Secondary School League Tables’ published on Thursday 21 January.
54 per cent of Ridgeway School pupils achieved five A*-C including English and maths – an increase of 10 per cent on last year’s figures.
The world’s oldest solo transatlantic race makes its return to Britain’s Ocean City this year. From 24 April to 2 May 2016 Plymouth’s waterfront will come alive with events and entertainment for all ages.
Preparations are in full swing in Plymouth as the city gets ready to host one of the most famous and gruelling transatlantic races, The Transat. Setting sail from Plymouth competitors...
More jobs are heading to Plymouth after the Council secured its first tenants for new business units at Langage Science Park – and they are taking the lot!
Contracts have just been signed between the Council and Dartmouth Foods who plan to take over all nine units available at the park as part of its exciting business expansion plans.
Police are trying to trace the driver of a red car that stopped to offer assistance during an unprovoked attack on a group in Plymouth at the weekend.
Officers were called to Honicknowle Green shortly after 12.30am on Sunday 17 January after a group of men and women were reported to be assaulting another group in the park area.
A 28-year-old local man was taken by ambulance to...
Plans to sort out the Quality Hotel on Plymouth’s waterfront are moving at a cracking pace, with the sale now complete and demolition contractors appointed.
Plymouth City Council has appointed Westcountry firm Gilpin, who start work on site this week to take down the building that has blighted the city’s waterfront.
Hoardings will be the first change that people will see as the...
Over one quarter (27%) of people in Plymouth confess to having both tried and failed healthy eating plans time and again at the beginning of each year and 36% of people are putting pressure on themselves to battle the bulge left by Christmas calories, according to new research.
With people in Plymouth having pledged to be healthier this January – one quarter (25%) concentrating on...
One of Plymouth's leading wealth management firms recently celebrated moving to its new premises within the city centre with an official opening by Johnny Mercer, MP for Plymouth Moor View. Sound Financial Management spent £400,000 acquiring the Grade II-listed building near the Hoe in Plymouth and has invested a further £350,000 into a year-long renovation project working closely with...
Cluttons, acting on behalf of Hanover Housing Association, has completed the sale of a 20-apartment residential building in the heart of Plymouth’s Barbican area to Bunny Homes for £1.3million.
Built in 1967, the five-floor premises known as Hanover Court includes 14 studios and six self-contained apartments. It also benefits from off street parking.
