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Choir’s summer smörgåsbord: ‘A Feast of English Choral Music’

Exeter Philharmonic Choir is ending its 2024/25 season with a veritable banquet of some of the greatest English choral and organ music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

‘A Feast of English Choral Music’ at Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 14 June is the Choir’s closing...

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Get the recipe for healthy living at Stoke Library

Stoke Library is hosting a drop-in event on Friday 30 August where people can find out how to eat well and stay healthy on a budget.

The 'Food is Fun Fayre', being run in partnership with the Healthy Living Network, will provide advice on healthy eating and healthy lifestyles, as well as promote ‘10% Clubs’ – a new ten-week healthy living programme launching in the city from September...

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Pick up your new Plymouth Good Food Map - free at Flavour Fest

Food Plymouth has produced a new Good Food Map, listing Plymouth’s restaurants and other eateries serving local food with clear details about where it came from.

The new map is free of charge and can be picked up from Food Plymouth’s stand (SA11 near sundial) at Flavour Fest from Friday to Sunday this weekend (16-18 August). Alternatively free copies will be available from information...

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Digital hub and call centre help thousands confirm their place at Plymouth University

Thousands of prospective students have been helped on the path to higher education thanks to Confirmation and Clearing advisers at Plymouth University.

The University’s dedicated call centre, staffed by 60 specially trained advisers and social media experts, opened as A-level students across the country picked up their results on Thursday 15 August.

On its first day it received...

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Flavour Fest 2013: South West's largest food and drink festival celebrates its 10th anniversary

Starting today until Sunday over 100 traders will line the Piazza in Plymouth City Centre as the city gets ready to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ever popular Flavour Fest.

This year two new high profile celebrity chefs Michael Caines and Anton Piotrowski, winner of Masterchef Professional 2012, will be holding master cookery demonstrations.

The event is the South West’...

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Calling all wannabe comedians in the South West!

Do you think you are funny?! How do you fancy showcasing some of your comedy genius for some BIG names in the business. Not only could you walk away with a £3,000 prize, but you will also have a chance to get your face in front of our star-studied judging panel.

Going from funny guy to comedy superstar takes just one big break, this could be it. You could be the next Stephen Merchant...

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Marine Academy Plymouth's "A" Team

Another set of record-breaking A-Level results and their equivalents were celebrated by students at Marine Academy Plymouth (MAP) as they collected their exam results today.

MAP has seen a surge of 6th Form students completing A-levels and their equivalents this year. Last year, 31 students completed these exams; this year it’s a whopping 53 students. MAP saw 100 per cent pass rates in...

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100% A-Level pass rate for Ivybridge Community College

Ivybridge Community College has recorded exceptional A-Level results, with 100% pass rates across all subjects and one-in-five being either an A or A* grade.

This is an increase on last year’s 99% pass rate, with an impressive 181 students securing places at universities.

“These are terrific results that show exceptional progress in our sixth form,” said Rob Haring, Principal...

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Local residents welcome to Wantage Gardens Fun Day

A fun day is planned at Wantage Gardens in Stonehouse, Plymouth on Friday 16 August, from 2pm until 6pm.

Local police are inviting residents to come along, join in the activities and talk about local issues.

There will be a BBQ, family & children’s activities, emergency service vehicles to look round and a general tidy up of the estate planned.

All residents are...

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Entomologist and chef unite to entice people to eat insects

Insects are no longer a novelty food stuff and could actually be used to feed the world, a Plymouth University academic has suggested.

In May this year, the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation published a report which provided the first comprehensive assessment of insects' current and potential uses food for humans and livestock.

Now Plymouth-based entomologist...

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Back British farming to put more British food on more British plates

In a year when British farming has received phenomenal backing from consumers, the NFU is urging the public to help turn around a decline in self-sufficiency that means the UK produces just 62 per cent of its own food.

Starkly, our current self-sufficiency rate means that today, August 14, is the day when British food supplies would run out if all the food produced in Britain in a year...

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