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Devon Charities invited to benefit from huge weekend of live music

Charities across Devon are being encouraged to get involved in the county’s biggest music event this summer.

TK Maxx presents Live at Powderham runs for four nights from Thursday June 25 to Sunday June 28, featuring headline shows from vocal...

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Plymouth homes at risk of fire this Christmas

As 90 percent of Brits admit to decorating their home and garden in the next few weeks, less than a quarter (23 percent) would consider the impact this might have on the electrics in their home.

The new study, commissioned by the UK’s leading regulatory body for electricians NICEIC and ELECSA surveyed 2,000 UK tenants and homeowners, and has revealed some disturbing facts about the...

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HIV Testing Week and Pledge to go red for World AIDS Day 2015

People across Plymouth are being urged to pledge to go red for HIV Testing Week (21-30 November 2015) and World AIDS Day (1 December 2015)

The Eddystone Trust, the local HIV and sexual health charity, Plymouth City Council which is the strategic lead for Public Health in the city, and Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, which provides GUM services and sexual health screening have joined...

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Frankie Boyle is Plymouth-bound

Frankie has written this new set not to tour, but as a response to Kendrick Lamar's last album. After these stand-up performances the ball will very much be in Kendrick's court.

Come witness this harrowing onstage breakdown at Plymouth Pailions on Friday 5 February 2016.

“'Black-hearted brilliance…the chance to see him at close quarters is not to be missed' Guardian

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Celebration for World Prematurity Day

Families who have stayed on Derriford Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) celebrated World Prematurity Day 2015 this week and helped unit staff to raise £300.

This year, NICU staff decided to highlight World Prematurity Day, on Tuesday 17 November, by inviting Mums, Dads, babies and children, with connections to NICU, to come to Derriford Health and Leisure Centre for an...

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HIV Testing Week drop in clinics

Staff at Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust's Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinic will be supporting National HIV Testing Week next week, by holding drop in clinics between 08.00 and 16.00, from Monday 23 to Friday 27 November, which will offer members of the public a free HIV test, which produces results within 20 minutes.

National HIV Testing Week raises awareness of the importance of HIV...

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Calling budding student entrepreneurs...

A Plymouth University competition is looking for budding student entrepreneurs to submit their innovative business ideas – with a chance to see them become reality.

The annual Formation Zone Business Challenge, which was officially launched today to coincide with National Enterprise Week, provides the opportunity for students to compete for funding to develop their own business....

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Seath Lakeman to play hometown show

Westcountry folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman is playing a hometown show with his band at Plymouth Pavilions on Saturday 19 December. Seth has successfully steered English folk into the mainstream with high-energy performances and a series of best-selling albums including his current album Word of Mouth which entered the charts at No.20 on release last year to rave...

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Let it be the place for #Beatlebums!

Let it be... the place music fans take pictures at the spot where the Beatles sat on Plymouth Hoe.

Plymouth officially unveiled its cheeky memorial to the Fab Four with Council leader Tudor Evans and music writer David Quantick the first to sit in the copper casts of four fab backsides.

The image they are recreating was taken by music photographer David Redfern and shows the...

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Student appeals for ‘Shoes for School’

Adele Paisey-Bruce, 17, is encouraging people in Plymouth to donate pairs of shoes to help children in Gambia go to school.

The City College student was inspired to start this project after visiting a small village in Gambia in February this year as part of a Duke of Edinburgh Award residential trip.

Adele said: “When I was in Bissary Village in Gambia, I taught in the school...

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