Lifestyle

Healthcare students and professionals to benefit from new drug calculations App

Healthcare students and professionals are to be given a helping hand with drug calculations thanks to a new App developed at Plymouth University.

'Mastering Drug Calculations' was designed by Dr Miriam McMullan, a Lecturer of Health Professions at the University, in a bid to prevent medication administration errors, which can have serious consequences, particularly for children....

Crime figures – good news or bad?

This week we saw the publication of the three-monthly crime figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

As police and crime commissioner it is inevitable that the media will want me to comment in simple sound bites - is this good news or bad news news - so I thought I would clarify why I have been guarded in some of the interviews I have carried out this week.

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Hollywood comes to Plymouth! Bake Off star live at Plymouth Pavilions

Paul Hollywood - Get Your Bake On!

TV's Great British Bake Off star Paul Hollywood brings his first ever live show to the UK in 2014

Ahead of the big 'GBBO' final next week, Plymouth Pavilions has announced, Paul Hollywood Live - Get Your Bake On! The tour sees Paul take to the stage for an evening of baking, comedy and fun, heading to Plymouth on Tuesday 20 May 2014....

World class Plymouth University holds Undergraduate Open Day

Prospective students will get the chance to see the combination of first class facilities and second-to-none student experience that has earned Plymouth a place among the world’s top 300 universities..

Around 5,000 students have booked to attend the Undergraduate Open Day on Saturday 19 October, where they and their families will be given a flavour of what the campus and the wider city...

Refurbished Theatre Royal holds family-friendly open days

The newly refurbished Theatre Royal in Plymouth is opening its doors for two exciting family-friendly open days this autumn.

The Theatre is inviting the public to "explore, discover and create" with the 'Theatre Royal Plymouth Open Days' in October and November. The Theatre Royal says the events will offer an exclusive opportunity to explore the new look building, discover how the...

Students jump through hoops to connect with older generation

Croquet may seem a rather rarified sport but a group of Plymouth students have been learning the finer points of the game as part of a pioneering US project to reconnect Alzheimer’s patients with the world around them.

James Creasey and his brother Andrew from 'Through Hoops To Hope' came to Stoke Damerel Community College on Tuesday (15 October 2013) to teach students how to play...

Devon's superior food and drink hailed at Taste of the West Awards

The passion and success of the South West food and drink industry was clear for all to see at the Taste of the West Awards’ Ceremony on Tuesday 15 October. The ceremony took place at The Bristol Pavilion, the home of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, and saw the 166 Gold award-winning products competing for the 22 ‘Best Of’ category awards and prestigious ‘Champion Product’. Six of these...

Plymouth University upgrade enables students to stay better connected

Students at Plymouth University now have access to one of the fastest internet connections at any UK higher education institution.

Technicians have overhauled the wired and wireless networks in more than 1,700 student rooms, and other communal areas across the city centre campus. It means students living in University-managed halls can access superfast networks through their desktop,...

Halloween will be last day for garden waste collection

The last day for the city’s seasonal garden waste is October 31 – Halloween.

Gardeners and 'yardners' are being urged to give their gardens a final weed and tidy up as the garden waste collection rounds come to a close for the season.

Since April the teams have collected over 3,671 tonnes of cuttings, grass and weeds and they expect to collect over 4,000 by the end of the...

Ofcom to monitor quality of live TV subtitling

The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom will begin a regular audit of the quality of TV broadcasters’ subtitles from next year, to help improve the service for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers.

Under measures announced on Wednesday (16 October), broadcasters will be required to measure the quality of their subtitling on live TV programmes every six months, for two years. During that time,...

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