Lifestyle

Austerity and ‘make do and mend’ necessitated by the war years are being celebrated at an event at Plymouth Arts Centre.

The event, on Saturday 14 December, is the opening celebration of the Looe Street Detectives exhibition at the Arts Centre. Artist, Sara Bowler has worked with a team of Plymouth residents, the ‘Detectives’, aged from nine to over 70.

Together they have...

Plymouth City Council is revising opening hours at its libraries to make them more consistent and better meet customer demand.

The improvements form part of the Council’s library service modernisation plans and follow public consultation carried out last year.

The new timetables will start on Thursday 2 January and will mean the city’s 17 libraries are open an extra 11 hours...

The RSPCA is announcing a change in the way that reports of lost and found animals are logged.

From 1 December, anyone who wishes to report a missing pet or tell us about an uninjured stray they have found will be asked to go to www.petslocated.com to register the animal’s details.

The service already exists to register reports of lost and found animals, but this is the first...

Twenty-five hundred years ago a new Chinese emperor took the throne of the Middle Kingdom. Because he was only 18, he called upon the court’s wisest adviser. “O learned sage. O venerable counselor,” said the young emperor, “you advised my grandfather the emperor for many years. What is the single most important advice you can give me now for ruling my kingdom?” And the adviser, who was the...