The LGiU and CCLA are delighted to announce that Councillor Tudor Evans (Leader, Plymouth City Council) has won the 2015 C’llr Achievement Award for Leader of the Year.
The sixth annual Awards Ceremony was held on Monday evening (March 2nd) at the Lord Mayor’s Parlour, in Westminster City Council. The Awards are the only national ceremony to honour the hard work of councillors from...
A new campaign is being launched in Plymouth to encourage more young people to take up the hundreds of local apprenticeships that are still available.
The city has a reputation for delivering exceptional apprenticeships but despite there being more than 6,000 apprentices in Plymouth, there are still around 300 vacancies.
The 1000 Club has launched a campaign featuring talented...
Leader of Plymouth City Council, Tudor Evans has been to see for himself how work is progressing on the mammoth task of installing free Wi-Fi on every First Great Western Train in the region.
The works to make this happen has involved engineers installing a separate aerial on every single carriage across 53 sets of trains!
Councillor Evans along with Plymouth’s business...
Employees across Plymouth are being offered ICT training to help hundreds of people get better skills for work.
Council leader Tudor Evans has written to organisations and companies in the city offering ICT training for employees who would like to get more confident around computers and online.
The initiative follows the Council’s own successful pilot scheme to improve basic...
Plymouth City Council’s leader Tudor Evans is calling on the Local Government minister to explain why Plymouth is being cheated out on millions of pounds of funding for local services.
Councillor Evans challenged local government minister Kris Hopkins on Plymouth’s missing millions during a telephone conversation to discuss the Government’s funding settlement and called for an...
Ocean Studios, Plymouth’s £4.2 million flagship development for the artistic community, has announced the opening of the application process for tenants.
From May 2015, 1906m² will be home to over 30 individual and shared studios as well as an extended hot desking space, specialist workshops, exhibition, retail and education space, all of which will be available for potential tenants...
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone but the Council leader and City Centre Manager have been seeing strange creatures…
Councillor Tudor Evans and Stefan Krause stepped into another world created by Effervescent, the arts organisation, to see for themselves the magical woodland created inside the Radiant Art Gallery at Derry’s Cross.
The unique theatrical experience for the young and young...
A watch tower overlooking Plymouth Sound is getting a new lease of life, thanks to an exciting, award-winning scheme to entice entrepreneurs with cracking ideas.
The ‘Liner Lookout’ stands on Plymouth’s world-famous Hoe and is one of a number of sites in the city centre and on Plymouth’s stunning waterfront being marketed for use under the Plymouth Your Space project.
Visitors are staying longer in Plymouth and spending more money which is good news for the local economy and businesses.
The annual visitor numbers for 2013, released by Destination Plymouth, show that visitors to the city have increased their length of stay to an average of 3.3 nights and that their average spend has risen from £158 per night to £172 per night.
Plymouth councillors have reacted angrily to news that the city’s funding for public health has been frozen by the Government despite years of underfunding.
Plymouth currently receives significantly less funding per resident than most of other cities of a similar size with similar Public Health Outcomes Framework indicators, being allocated only £47 per head public health funding...
