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Private Business Awards launch for 2026 in the South West

The Private Business Awards 2026, sponsored by BDO, have officially launched, with nominations now open to private or PE-backed businesses in the South West with a turnover of over £10m.

The second year of the awards programme, which serves to celebrate the businesses that drive UK...

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Improvements to residents’ parking in Mutley and North Hill

Proposals to improve residents’ parking in a number of Mutley and North Hill roads will shortly be advertised by Plymouth City Council.

Pay and display bays in Alton Place, Derry Avenue, St Lawrence Road, Sutherland Road, Welbeck Avenue and Winstone Avenue will be made ‘mixed use’ under the plans, meaning they can be used by resident permit holders as well as paying visitors.

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Museum and Art Gallery prepares to close

Things will never be the same again after today (Saturday 3 September) at the City Museum and Art Gallery, which will close its doors at 5pm so construction and development work for the Plymouth History Centre (working title) can get underway.

The Museum building originally opened in 1910 and will be closed until spring 2020 when, along with the Central Library and St Luke’s Church...

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Technique could assess historic changes to Antarctic sea ice and glaciers

Historic changes to Antarctic sea ice could be unravelled using a new technique pioneered by scientists at Plymouth University.

It could also potentially be used to demonstrate past alterations to glaciers and ice shelves caused by climatic changes, a study published in Nature Communications suggests.

The new method builds on an existing technique, also developed by Plymouth...

Celebrating five years of hardworking success

It’s time to reach for some delicious Devon fizz. South Hams’ based RAW PR & Marketing is celebrating its fifth anniversary and five fantastic years of working with the county’s thriving food and drink industry and, more recently, marine leisure organisations.

Established by Hayley Reynolds in 2011, RAW’s team now includes fellow director Jonathan Reynolds, who heads up the marine...

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SW Coast Path set to see more overseas tourists

England has seen record tourism spend in the past year from both domestic and international visitors. The number of domestic overnight trips taken in England grew by 11% in 2015 while visits from overseas tourists have shown strong regional growth in the South West of an extra 6%.

To capitalise on this growing trend of inbound tourism, the South West Coast Path Association, has...

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Plymouth insurance agency named among the best

Insurance Business UK has just released a report recognising Curtis Marine Insurance as one of the insurance industry’s top specialty brokerage businesses. The report showcases 102 of the best brokerage agencies providing specialised insurance services.

In determining the list, Insurance Business UK focused on agencies that are ahead of the game in the specialty insurance space,...

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Obesity crisis in primary schools revealed

AS children in the South West prepare to start school, new statistics released by Cancer Research UK today (Thursday) reveal the scale of the child obesity crisis facing the region.

Every year, around 4,000 children in the South West who started primary school at a healthy weight end up obese or overweight by the time they leave.

This worrying statistic adds to the fact that...

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Final day of this year’s Big Summer Food Tour

After visiting nine different locations around Plymouth, Thursday 1 September is the final day of this year’s CATERed Big Summer Food Tour and, by the end of the lunchtime, over 3,000 freshly prepared, great tasting FREE bagged meals will have been provided to children & young people.

Throughout the summer the CATERed team have been at different locations across the city handing...

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Social housing tenants face £1,000 a year average rent rise

The Local Government Association is urging new ministers to rethink the Pay to Stay policy which will require councils to charge some of their tenants higher rents from April 2017.

It comes as new analysis reveals today that more than 70,000 social housing tenants could face rent rise bills of an average £1,000 a year from next year under government plans to increase rents for those...

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