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Crucial diabetic eye screening work at Plymouth Science Park

Vital work to help check the eyesight of diabetic patients will shortly be taking place at Plymouth Science Park.


The team, from EMIS Care, has moved to the city’s premier business complex where it can benefit from its excellent facilities – from the well positioned offices and free parking for clients through to the stunning views and the on-site café. The park is also located in...

Wear your PJs for Purple Day

Young Epilepsy appeals to Britons up-and-down the country to get behind ‘PJs for Purple Day’

Purple Day, commonly known as International Epilepsy Day, takes place on Sunday, 26 March 2017

More than 112,000 young people in the UK have the neurological condition

National charity Young Epilepsy is appealing to everyone across the UK to back Purple Day on Sunday, 26 March...

Trading Standards warns of illegal skin lighteners

Illegal skin lighteners, containing potentially harmful products, have been found on sale in our region.

Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service say that the creams are similar to products which have been on sale in London. Trading Standards officers have seized a considerable quantity of illegal skin lightening creams that were being sold over the internet by a Devon-based trader...

Volunteers needed to help Plymouth blind community

A national charity is appealing for volunteers to come forward and help the blind people it supports in the Plymouth area.

British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF) provides specially adapted audio equipment to visually impaired people across the UK.

The charity is looking for radio support volunteers, whose role would be to visit people with sight loss in their homes...

Theatre Royal Plymouth opens National Theatre Hedda Gabler Tour

Following a sold-out run at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre, the NT will begin a UK tour of its acclaimed production of Hedda Gabler on 2 October 2017.

Opening at Theatre Royal Plymouth and running until Saturday 7 October, the tour will journey across the UK.

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free…

This vital new version of Ibsen’s masterpiece by...

Pupil numbers increase at Plympton Academy

More students than ever before have chosen Plympton Academy as their first choice of secondary school.

Last year the school saw a 30% increase for first choice places for September 2016 and this year all first choices for September have been granted.

“The school governors and myself are delighted that we can ensure the young people of Plympton have a good school they are able...

Theatre Royal Plymouth announces summer season

This summer Theatre Royal Plymouth welcomes the best of musicals, drama, dance and family entertainment to the South West. Musical favourites such as highly anticipated Sister Act and the opening of Crazy For You starring Caroline Flack and Tom Chambers.

Critically acclaimed plays such as National Theatre’s production of Hedda Gabler, which will open its UK Tour in Plymouth, and The...

Put the kettle on Devon!

PEOPLE across Devon are being invited to host a Cancer Research UK Coffee Morning and help raise money to fund life-saving research.

Every day, 85 people are diagnosed with cancer in the south west. And that’s why the charity is calling on people across Devon to join together with friends, colleagues and family for a cuppa and a natter while raising funds to help beat cancer sooner....

Jump in a pool and raise funds for Marie Curie

Swimathon, the world’s biggest annual fundraising swim is back for 2017 and swimmers across the UK are being encouraged to jump in one of over 600 participating pools and raise vital funds for Marie Curie, the UK’s leading charity for people living with a terminal illness and their families.

The event will take place across the weekend of 7th-9th April and is extra special this year as...

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