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Students invited to shop (and surf) at Drake Circus Student Night!

Drake Circus, Plymouth, is holding a beach themed student shopping night on Tuesday Sept 27 - 6.30-9pm - with lots of exclusive deals and discounts from top high street stores.

There will be a huge range of exclusive deals for students, like 20% off at Top Shop, New Look and Superdry - as well as the chance to catch a wave on a surf simulator.

There will also be a free photo...

Search begins for panto Babes

The search is about to begin to find two teams of 10 talented children to play alongside Lesley Joseph and Duncan James in this year’s classic family pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Auditions for these coveted parts will take place at the Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Production and Learning centre, TR2, in Cattedown, Plymouth on Saturday 8th...

Plympton Academy top performing non-grammar school

Following on from Plympton Academy’s best GCSE results ever, the school, formerly known as Ridgeway, is the top performing non-grammar school in Plymouth.

The ranking of the Plymouth schools, published in a local daily newspaper, is based on the five or more A* to C GCSEs or equivalent, including English and maths, achieved by pupils entered for those exams in 2015.

This year’s...

Stoptober challenge as smoking rates continue to fall in Plymouth

Are you a smoker and could you give up smoking for a whole month?

Next month is Stoptober and people across Plymouth are being urged to take the challenge to quit smoking throughout October.

In Plymouth, smoking rates have fallen by almost 4% in the past four years, down to a rate where around 1 in 5 people currently smoke. Although still higher than England (16.9%) and Devon...

Freshers urged to get Meningitis vaccine

Students in Plymouth urged to get vaccinated to protect themselves against Meningitis

Freshers in Plymouth are being urged to get the meningococcal (Men) ACWY vaccine to protect themselves against Meningitis.

Public Health England and NHS England have given toolkits to universities including Plymouth University and the University of St Mark & St John, urging them to...

Work starts on new Performing Arts Centre

Building work on the new state-of-the-art Performing Arts Centre at Plympton Academy is now underway.

The first part of the build, following the foundation work, is the massive steel frame.

This new building will have music classrooms, practice rooms, recording studio, drama studios and a new performance space.

“The vision is for the facilities to be used in conjunction...

Heads Will Roll!

A Told by an Idiot and Theatre Royal Plymouth production: Heads Will Roll The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth Thursday 6 – Saturday 22 October

Heads Will Roll is a dark epic comedy about delusion, vanity, and the corruption of power from the insatiably curious Told by an Idiot. Inspired by the myth of El Dorado - the fantastical city where rivers ran with gold – the Told by an Idiot and...

More Things to Do in Plymouth: Some Unusual Ideas

Plymouth is a great place to be. It has so many interesting spots to visit, from the Plymouth Hoe and Burrator Reservoir to the Theatre Royal and its great shows. Whether you live in Plymouth or are just visiting, you will have a lot of things to do most of the time.

Plymouth offers so much more than that though. There are some unique experiences and unusual things to do, all of them...

Best Gambling Destinations in Plymouth

Plymouth's casinos are a huge part of the local entertainment scene. They are a stopping point for both tourists and locals.

Inns and taverns have been very popular in England starting from the Roman Empire and onwards. The city`s historic parchments state that Plymouth was the number one trading port with almost every foreign country. People were commonly using it to take a load off...

Learning award for Liz

Liz Curry, 60, from Plymouth, has won the regional Outstanding Individual award for South West England as part of the Festival of Learning. The Festival of Learning Awards showcase and celebrate the wonderful things that individuals, families, communities and employers can achieve through learning. The Festival of Learning is part-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), which focuses on...

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