Plymouth

Plympton Library launches a new ‘HeadSpace’ for young people

Plympton Library is launching an exciting new project for 11 to 19-year-olds who love writing, performing music, reading and the arts.

HeadSpace Plympton will offer free sessions every week, including film making, meeting authors, movie nights, crafts, dance, music, songwriting, fashion, photography, poetry workshops, Manga comics and more. There will also be opportunities to volunteer...

£74k - the price of council transparency?

Plymouth City Council approved a proposal on Monday (16 September) to continue to offer live webcasts of its meetings. The cost of the four or five year deal is estimated at £74,000.

Members of the Council's ruling Labour group voted to support the webcasting after a 12-month trial gain approximately 100,000 hits.

Labour council leaders argued that it would offer increased...

Masterchef's new website looks good enough to eat

Winner of the BBC's MasterChef: The Professionals 2012, Anton Piotrowski is revealing his latest recipe for success with the launch of a new website for the Treby Arms in Plympton, Devon.

With the help of digital agency Creative Network , which has a presence throughout the country and a head office in Cheltenham, Anton’s website for the Devon pub looks good enough to eat.

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Stagecoach Gold roadshow paves the way for new premium bus service

  • Stagecoach Gold roadshow to visit five locations from 23 to 27 September
  • Premium ‘5 star’ services launches following Monday (30 September 2013)
  • Gold route connects the English Riviera with Plymouth or Dartmouth
  • £2m investment in luxurious fleet of 9 buses, featuring leather seats and free Wi-Fi
  • Accompanying ‘Customer Promise’ offers
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Commisioner highlights £300m regional cost of alcohol-related crime

Police and crime commissioner Tony Hogg has vowed to put the cost of alohol-related crime at the top of his agenda.

With the bill currently running at more than £300m in Devon and Cornwall, Mr Hogg called upon all organisations affected by the 'booze culture' to create a strategy to reduce both the cost and the effect on society.

On Monday (16 September) over 60 delegates...

Concern continues to grow for missing Plymouth man, Desmond White

Police report that a Plymouth man missing since last Thursday (12 September) has not yet been found.

Police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of Desmond White who was last seen in the Ernesettle Lane area, Ernesettle, Plymouth, near to the Vi-Spring factory on the morning of Thursday 12 September 2013.

Desmond is described as male, white, aged 45 years, 5’8”...

Record numbers take to the water at the Ecover Blue Mile

The sun shone on ‘Super Saturday’ at the 2013 Ecover Blue Mile, as hundreds of people took to the water off Plymouth’s historic Barbican to raise money for the Marine Conservation Society.

A record number of people signed up to take part in this year’s event, which saw almost 300 enthusiasts swim, kayak and stand-up paddle (SUP) a mile from The Mayflower Steps and Commercial Wharf to...

Leading Plymouth e-commerce company ICO3 seeks 12 new partners

Plymouth based e-commerce company ICO3 have doubled their recruitment target of new retail partners from six to 12 in the next three months following substantial growth of their existing partners this summer; among them Simply Cornish Hampers of Redruth, Catherine Best Jewellery of Guernsey and Austen Knapman Steel of Paignton. They plan to launch the new partners by Christmas 2013 bringing...

RICS launch guide to help small businesses manage their property assets

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has today launched a guide to help small businesses take better control of their finances through managing their property assets differently.

Property costs – such as business rates and rent – are one of the most significant expenses incurred by SMEs and failure to take professional advice as to how to manage them could costs businesses...

Council announces Plym Valley improvement work

A muddy, messy section of footpath along the River Plym will be getting dried out as part of a programme of improvements along the river valley.

A half-kilometre stretch of riverside path that runs from under the A38 toward the sewerage treatment works at Plympton is prone to flooding and during wet weather is often passable only with wellingtons.

Now Plymouth-based Four...

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