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IMP Software secures investment to accelerate innovation and broaden unified financial management platform for the education sector

IMP Software , the leading platform helping Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) to strengthen their budget forecasting and financial management, has announced a significant minority investment from Partech Growth fund to support its next stage of development.

The partnership with Partech, a...

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Police target motorists who flout traffic laws

Officers from the Devon and Cornwall Police roads policing team are out again this week in unmarked cars targeting motorists who flout traffic laws, in an effort to help keep our roads safe.

This continued proactive activity, where earlier in the month police were primarily targeting mobile phone use while driving, is focusing on the fatal four offences: speed, seat-belts, driver...

Cash and jewellery stolen from Plympton home

Police are investigating after cash and jewellery were stolen from a home in Plympton.

Offenders forced open the back patio door to get inside the property in Woodford Avenue between 2.55pm and 4.45pm on Monday 21 November.

Once inside they made an untidy search of the home before stealing a quantity of cash, a Pandora bracelet containing various charms including a unicorn and...

City council announces further £180,000 available for city projects on pioneering Crowdfund Plymouth

Mayflower Autonomous Ship receives first major pledge of £15,000 and Illuminate receives £5,000 pledge - and smashes its target on pioneering City crowdfunding campaign.

Plymouth City Council and Crowdfunder today confirmed that Crowdfund Plymouth, has received a further £180,000 from the City Change Fund, to enable the Council to pledge on projects that benefit the local community in...

Businesses invited to hear about apprenticeship shake-up

Plymouth businesses are being invited to a free event next week to hear how the new Apprenticeship Levy and apprenticeship reforms will affect them.

Plymouth City Council, in partnership with the Devon and Cornwall Training Provider Network and the Skills Funding Agency, will be holding an event at Plymouth Guildhall on Tuesday 6 December to give businesses of all sizes details of the...

Plymouth Citybus jump on board the Mayflower Autonomous Ship Project

TOP Plymouth firm Plymouth Citybus have jumped on board the Mayflower Autonomous Ship Crowdfunder and pledged a five figure sum to help the project get from blueprint to boatyard.

The firm, which employs 500 people in the city, snapped up a sponsorship reward which will see their name be one of the first big city firms to be on the side of the ship when it makes its historic launch in...

4 Ways Businesses Can Guard Against Theft during the Holidays

There is no doubt about the fact that crime always rises during the holidays, and typically that means theft is something you are going to need to contend with. It is an easy time for criminals to come out from between the cracks simply because there is so much traffic during this busy season. Remember, holiday shoppers are not always willing to pay cash (or credit!) for the gifts they are ‘...

Join in the annual Christmas Jumper Day

The annual Christmas Jumper Day at Drake Circus on December 3 will be a spectacle to behold as the normally fashionable people of Plymouth throw style out of the window to raise money for St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth.

The more outrageous, twinkly and patterned the better as staff join shoppers in an homage to the hand-knitted jumpers once so popular as Christmas presents from mums, grans...

Plymouth explorer aims to raise £150,000 on Crowdcube

A West Country explorer is launching an online platform that will connect school children with people in work, inspired by his solo adventures to the North and South Poles.

Antony Jinman, from Plymouth, skied to the geographic North and South Poles, communicating with thousands of youngsters back in Britain on his journey via satellite phone and email, and using drone imagery to share...

Barbican Christmas lights switch on

This weekend, 19 and 20 November, actors and stage performers will bring the classic tale ‘A Christmas Carol’ to life at the Barbican, with visitors able to follow Ebenezer Scrooge through the atmospheric, winding streets as he meets his past, present and future.

The interactive tours will run every hour from 12 to 4pm from the Tourist Information Centre and participants will discover...

Additional £10 million confirmed for rail resilience

Deputy leader of Plymouth City Council has today welcomed the Government announcmenrt of £10 million for rail resilience in the South West.

Councillor Patrick Nicholson said: “Whilst it is reassuring that Network Rail will be able to continue to develop plans into strengthening resilience of the rail line at Dawlish, these are still only plans.

"This is a timely announcement as...

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