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Greendale and Food Drink Devon to host free Love Local Food Festival

A date for the diary, Love Local Food Festival by Greendale, in collaboration with Food Drink Devon, is returning to Exeter Castle on Saturday 9th August from 10am - 6pm.

Free to enter and set in the heart of Exeter, the festival promises a day of delicious food and drink, live...

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Guess who fosters in Plymouth

Plymouth City Council is asking local residents to guess who fosters to raise awareness of the need for more foster carers in Plymouth, as part of Foster Care Fortnight™ 2014.

With record numbers of children (408) coming into care, and the need to recruit at least 40 more fostering families in and around the city, the Council is asking if people have the skills to consider becoming a...

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Campaign urges Plymouth residents to become dementia friends

Plymouth City Council is supporting the new national Dementia Friends campaign to help people develop an understanding of dementia and turn it into action to help people in their community living with the disease.

There are around 665,065 people in England who have dementia, and an estimated 21 million people in England have a close friend or family member with dementia. It is...

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Noel Fielding brings his tour to Plymouth

Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Luxury Comedy) is embarking on his first live tour in five years: An Evening With Noel Fielding, and will be stopping off at the Pavilions on Wednesday 12 November! Of course this won’t be the first time that Fielding has landed in Plymouth, as anyone who came near the venue back in November 2009 will tell you, as hoards of fans...

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MP hopes for better financial education in schools

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, is encouraging more local schools to teach financial education this June, to give their pupils a head-start in financial education before it becomes a compulsory part of the new National Curriculum in September.

The move comes in advance of this year’s My Money Week (9-15 June), run by national financial education charity pfeg (Personal...

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Ocean Crescent: Plymouth’s new lifestyle destination is born

A landmark apartment building at the heart of Plymouth is to undergo a £1 million revamp following a buy-out by luxury property developer Burrington Estates, creating a new residential haven in the city centre.

The developer, which recently acquired the nine-storey Zero 4 tower in the city centre, has renamed it Ocean Crescent, with a view to carrying out a complete transformation....

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Thomson adds Exeter to Rhodes flights

With the first of Exeter Airport’s summer weekly departures to the Greek island of Crete with Thomson this week came news that the tour operator, the UK’s largest, has confirmed that in summer 2015 they will be offering an additional route from Exeter to the popular island of Rhodes.

Exeter Airport’s managing director Matt Roach said: “The announcement that the 2015 Thomson and First...

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Opera comes to Plymouth's big screen

La traviata opens the BP Big Screen season and is broadcast live from the iconic Covent Garden stage and free to 18 towns and cities across the UK, including The Piazza, Plymouth.

2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the partnership with BP which has enabled half a million people to enjoy world-class opera and ballet through free live broadcasts from the Royal Opera House beamed to big...

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Countdown to new play space at Eggbuckland

It’s out with the old and in with the new for children in Eggbuckland who are now counting down the days until they can play on shiny new equipment.

Plymouth City Council has secured £40,000 of funding from developers as part of its Section 106 negotiations to transform facilities at Frogmore Field.

A tired old play area with equipment dating back 30 years will be removed from...

Plymouth Hospitals retains its VTE exemplar status

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has retained its exemplar status as one of only 20 venous thromboembolism (VTE) sites in the country, following a process of revalidation by NHS England.

Plymouth Hospitals was awarded exemplar status in 2008 and was the thirteenth site in the country to achieve this.

Tim Nokes, Consultant Haematologist and Service Line Director for Haematology...

Exhibition highlights World War I and Three Towns centenaries

A new exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One and the amalgamation of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse is now on display at the City Museum and Art Gallery.

‘Plymouth's Great War: Three Towns United in Conflict’ is one of the highlights of this year’s Plymouth History Festival and features information, images, documents and other related items from the...

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