Plymouth

Amazon delivery station opening in Plymouth

Amazon will open a new delivery station in Plymouth later this spring to meet increasing customer demand.

The new 6,000 square metre delivery station in Thornbury Road, Estover, will replace the current operation in Broadley Park Road which opened last summer as a temporary facility while Amazon secured a site to meet its longer-term needs.

Amazon Logistics is helping...

Plymouth set to experience a fantastic Spring season in The Lab at Theatre Royal Plymouth

The Lab is a creative space in the heart of Theatre Royal Plymouth for developing and showcasing exciting new talent. Local young people and communities, as well as emerging and professional artists using it as a space to meet, experiment and discover, whilst creating and sharing their work.

This Springs season is set to be a special mix of performances with something for everyone....

Babcock and Citybus sign up to support The Box

The Box has secured two new sponsorship deals with Babcock and Plymouth Citybus.

Babcock has signed up as the venue’s first Corporate Gallery Partner, while Plymouth Citybus has become its first Figureheads Sponsor.

Babcock’s sponsorship is for the ‘Port of Plymouth’ gallery. Spread across two rooms, the gallery highlights Plymouth’s development from the Bronze Age to the...

Taylor Wimpey proud to start a positive cycle in Sherford

Taylor Wimpey Exeter is encouraging buyers to start a positive cycle this year, by teaming up with Plymouth business The Bike Cellar to offer a 15% discount on new bikes to those who make a reservation at the Sherford development.

Customers who reserve a property before the end of 2020 will receive a voucher for 15% off a new bicycle at The Bike Cellar in their reservation pack*....

Tickets now available for family films of the year at Vue Plymouth

Vue Plymouth is encouraging families to round up the crew, grab some snacks and Get Lost in some great upcoming family stories.

The wait is over for fans of Peter Rabbit and his bunny buddies as tickets for the highly awaited sequel, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway are now available. Peter escapes his mischievous reputation and flees the countryside where he runs into an adventure-loving...

Panto without a cast appeals for new recruits

A Devon village panto, with a history spanning more than four decades, is facing the final curtain unless it can recruit new members.

Shaugh Players, based in the parish of Shaugh Prior near Plymouth, was founded in the early 1970s and stages an annual pantomime involving volunteers from the local community.

Despite attracting a full house for performances and praise from...

Harley Quinn returns to Plymouth as Birds of Prey finally lands at Vue

Fans of Gotham City’s top lady supervillain Harley Quinn can now see the hotly-anticipated Birds Of Prey: And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn at Vue Plymouth.

After splitting up with her frequent accomplice and lover Joker, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is ready for a new start and heads off with a group of fiery females; Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Huntress...

Spectacular live production The Hatchling coming to Plymouth

The Hatchling, a spectacular live performance combining ancient myth with innovative puppetry will take place in Plymouth from 22 - 23 August 2020.

The Hatchling will see an extraordinary, larger-than-life visitor roam through Plymouth City Centre, exploring its new surroundings and the people it encounters. Taking place across the weekend, the performance will culminate in a...

GP praises care at Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre

When Dr Susanne Charlton, 56, a GP at Port View Surgery, Saltash, cellist and novelist, needed treatment for trigger thumb and a carpal tunnel decompression, she turned to Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre in Plymouth.

Susanne, who lives in Launceston, and is also a clinical assistant in radiotherapy at Derriford Hospital, had been experiencing pain in her arm and hand on and off for...

The Box secures significant funding to keep rare work of art in the UK

The Box has raised nearly a quarter of a million pounds from five key funders to save a rare piece of 19th century studio pottery for the nation.

The work of art is a large sculpture of an anthropomorphic crab. It’s a humorous object measuring almost half a metre long with grinning eyes, a curling moustache, cropped beard and smile of uneven teeth.

It was made in June 1880...

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