Shoppers at Drake Circus will be treated to a pop-up museum for a chance to stock up on some interesting local history and culture in between bargain hunting during this half-term break.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is teaming up with the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA) and the South West Image Bank (SWIB) to provide a pop...
The newly refurbished Theatre Royal in Plymouth is opening its doors for two exciting family-friendly open days this autumn.
The Theatre is inviting the public to "explore, discover and create" with the 'Theatre Royal Plymouth Open Days' in October and November. The Theatre Royal says the events will offer an exclusive opportunity to explore the new look building, discover how the...
A brand new city centre shop premises for the City of Plymouth Credit Union was unveiled on Thursday 17 October. The shop at Frankfort Gate has been chosen so people can get easy access to the credit union and financial services and will be open to all.
The not for profit credit union offers affordable lending, savings, budget accounts and direct payments for landlords. All saving are...
Croquet may seem a rather rarified sport but a group of Plymouth students have been learning the finer points of the game as part of a pioneering US project to reconnect Alzheimer’s patients with the world around them.
James Creasey and his brother Andrew from 'Through Hoops To Hope' came to Stoke Damerel Community College on Tuesday (15 October 2013) to teach students how to play...
National Crime is down by the largest ever recorded amount according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today.
The period between June 2012 to June 2013 saw the number of recorded crimes against households and resident adults drop by 7% nationally, the largest single drop since the survey began in 1981.
Well over 500 businesses have now signed up to Plymouth's 1000 Club – just days after it celebrated a year of success.
The club set itself a target of attracting 1000 companies and organisations to give the city’s young people a head start with their careers. Now it has shot passed the half way mark with 580 companies now on board and more signing up all the time, with opportunities...
A number of Plymouth's schools will be closed (scroll down for an alphabetical list) on Thursday 17 October due to industrial action by the two largest teaching unions, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and NASUWT, over pay, pensions and conditions.
The NUT wil be holding a rally in Home Park from 11am.
The strike action relates to a dispute with the Government over...
Plymouth City Council has chosen Plymouth Guild to lead a funding bid for a new social enterprise run by older people for older people.
The bid which is worth up to £6 million over six years is being submitted to the Big Lottery Fund’s Fulfilling Lives: Ageing Better programme. It funds community-led projects that enable older people who are most at risk of social isolation and...
Labour’s Luke Pollard, parliamentary candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has called on the Government to give greater protection to shop workers in Plymouth who are threatened with violence
Last year 4% of retail staff across the country were attacked at work and 34% were threatened with violence. Shop workers in Plymouth also reported violence and threats of violence...
Plymouth's Twofour Group, one of the UK’s leading independent media groups, will be merged with Welsh production company Boom Pictures in what they are describing as "a transformative deal which sees the creation of a major new Nations and Regions player in independent media production."
The merger sees Twofour Group’s global business – comprising Twofour Broadcast, Twofour Rights and...
