Plymouth

Sustainability and innovation are at the heart of Plymouth Science Park’s ethos, and this month the Park is delighted to welcome renewable energy specialists, Eco-Plug , to the community of forward-thinking businesses based at the Park.

Eco-Plug, one of the UK’s first online solar stores offers a range of solar options to customers. The firm was established by renewable energy...

Mother’s Day falls on Sunday 27th March this year, which means it’s almost time to show some love and appreciation to the mother figure in your life.

Whether you’re looking for things to do for Mother’s Day, or you’re on the hunt for the best Mother’s Day gift ideas, their special day starts here at Drake Circus and The Barcode.

Plan the perfect Mother’s Day at Drake Circus and...

Businesses in Plymouth are being warned of a brand new scam where cyber criminals are using very old fashioned methods.

Normally criminals try to hack into a business’s systems through the internet – often by breaking into someone’s email, or looking for weak passwords.

But security researchers have spotted that one criminal gang is now posting out USB drives.

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A new exhibition which has just opened at The Box, Plymouth showcases new responses to the Mayflower story and highlights how some of our most historic craft practices have endured across the centuries.

‘Another Crossing – Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage’ is a transatlantic collaboration between Plymouth College of Art, The Box and the Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts. This...

Trevi, the leading women's charity in Devon, are delighted to announce that their Daffodil Family Centre has been awarded a 'Good' Ofsted Rating on its very first inspection.

The Daffodil Family Centre, which opened its doors in early 2020, is a national parenting assessment centre based in Plymouth. It offers a strength-based parenting assessment that aims to support the parent to...

PLYMOUTH people are being warned about the dangers of taking their hearing for granted.

As World Hearing Day (March 3) approaches, research shows that many people don’t look after their hearing health, so the British Association for Music Therapy and Specsavers have teamed up to encourage people to take steps to protect their hearing.

A third of people in the South West say...

Charities and organisations serving the garrison city of Plymouth have the chance to share in more than £45,000 of funding this April, May and June.

Groups supporting serving personnel, veterans and their families across the city are being invited to take part in a dedicated round of Tesco’s community grant scheme.

The initiative, partnership with community charity...

Open Day: Saturday 5th March, 12:00pm

dBs: The Institute of Sound & Digital Technologies (dBs) and Access Creative College (ACC) will open the doors to their state-of-the-art Plymouth campus next month to showcase opportunities for students to train for careers in the creative industries.

The two organisations have come together to offer students in Devon and Cornwall a range of...

Specsavers is investing £400,000 in its Plymstock store to bring new jobs and increased customer care.

The ambitious undertaking begins on 28 February, with three new rooms being created and more state-of-the-art equipment installed.

In addition to a dedicated Hearcare room, a second hospital-quality optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning instrument will be installed...

A volunteer has secured a special research bursary awarded by The Box each year in memory of a former long-serving curator.

Shannon Lewis has been volunteering at The Box one day a week since the middle of 2021. She’s also an Art History PhD student at the University of Plymouth where she’s specialising in gender studies. She applied for the bursary to help with the ongoing...