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Healthier Fish and Chips at Harbourside

Harbourside Fish and Chips, named as the South West’s best Independent Takeaway Fish and Chip Shop of the Year in the National Fish and Chip Shop Awards for 2015, is on a mission to prove fish and chips can be a healthier dish.

Co-owned by Sarah Lock and Philip Thompson since 2009 Harbourside focuses on fresh, sustainable seafood, and aim to provide good quality tasting dishes using...

Crowdfunder launched for Palace Theatre

The charity GO! are calling out to people and business’ in Plymouth and Devon to help them raise funds to carry out the first phase of lighting and electrical work in the Palace Theatre before Christmas.

The Charity has been given the green light to carry out the work and now GO! Palace are keen to push ahead to be ready for its first concert in decades.

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Scorpions meeting off

PLYMOUTH have postponed their Premier League match against Scunthorpe, due to have taken place at the St Boniface Arena on Saturday evening, because of an adverse weather forecast.

Co-promoter Ashley Taylor announced the decision shortly after eight o’clock on Saturday morning. He said: "The latest forecast from the Met Office is for heavy rain from 6pm this evening."

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Hop aboard the Chatterbus in Plymouth

Have your say on Plymouth’s bus services and find out more about upcoming changes at a special event being held at the Big Screen on Wednesday 26 August.

Whether you think buses are brilliant or delays are driving you mad, head to Armada Way and hop aboard the Chatterbus anytime from 9.30am to 3.30pm.

You can chat to staff, make a suggestion or complaint or pass on a compliment...

Klindt and Konopka in for Scorpions

Plymouth will again be at full strength for the re-arranged clash against Scunthorpe, which was rained off on May 30, but Scunthorpe will be without three of their regulars.

Ryan Douglas is injured while Zdenek Holub and Nike Lunna are both on World under-21 team cup duty. The Scorpions operate rider replacement for Douglas and have Nicolai Klindt (Sheffield) and Rafal Konopka (...

Children get creative thanks to WHSmith

A big thank you to WHSmith for kindly donating £1,000.00 worth of arts and crafts to the children’s wards at Derriford Hospital.

The donation included a fantastic range of items, including colouring books, paints, sticker books, jigsaws, jewellery making sets, ‘build your own’ kits and much more and catered for boys and girls of various ages.

Anita Dykes, Matron for Paediatrics...

Speedway: Hammer and tongs at Redcar

PLYMOUTH will look to bounce back from Thursday’s 50-42 defeat at Redcar when they meet bottom of the table Scunthorpe in the Premier League at the St Boniface Arena on Saturday evening (7.15pm).

The Skills Group Devils are six points adrift of sixth-placed Ipswich, who won 60-30 at home to Berwick on Thursday evening, but have three matches in hand over the Witches.

Ipswich...

Plymouth GCSE Results 2015

Early figures suggest that 53 per cent of Plymouth students have achieved 5 A* - C Grades. This is a similar result to last year, with encouraging figures for the number of students getting the grades they need in English and Maths.

Councillor Sue McDonald, Cabinet Member for Children, Young people and Public Health said: “Across Plymouth, students from local schools and academies are...

Jail for 'lunatic' Plymouth biker who posted 153mph ride on YouTube

Police have welcomed the custodial sentence given to a 24-year-old Plymouth man jailed for nine months after filming himself travelling at 153mph on a motorcycle.

Ashley Dixon, from Plymouth, used a helmet camera to record himself on motorcycles travelling through rural roads in Devon and was described by the Judge sentencing him as a ‘lunatic’.

Dixon, who pleaded guilty to two...

Enterprise zone confirmed for South Yard

South west to benefit from its second government-backed enterprise zone - which will create hundreds of local jobs.

Visiting Plymouth’s South Yard naval dockyard, the Chancellor confirmed it has now been approved as the site for a new enterprise zone that will be focused on growing the marine industry.

The confirmation comes after an announcement earlier this year that the site...

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