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Womble Bond Dickinson and Plymouth Community Homes partner to boost skills

Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson and Plymouth Community Homes (PCH), Plymouth’s largest social housing landlord, have partnered to deliver free training programmes for PCH residents.

Womble Bond Dickinson is supporting the Career Pathway in Administration, providing a range of courses from Excel training and CV writing days though to career planning sessions where the firm offers advice...

Onecom pledges to boost number of females pursuing technology careers

Onecom has joined forces with many major organisations to take action to increase the number of females taking up technology roles in the UK. The launch of the ‘Tech She Can Charter’ sees the industry commit to work together to reach more young females across the UK to inspire them to pursue technology careers.

The Tech She Can Charter has been founded to tackle the factors behind the...

Pasties and Poliitics with Plymouth MP

Luke Pollard MP today hosted another in his series of ‘Pastries & Politics’, a round table discussion which aims to bring together people from across Plymouth to discuss key topics and areas of interest for the city. Friday morning's meeting, kindly hosted by Shekinah, bought together key stakeholders to talk about rough sleeping and homelessness in the city.

Discussions reflected...

City unveils second commemorative slab in honour of First World War hero

The second of four commemorative paving slabs dedicated to Plymouth and Devonport-born soldiers who received the Victoria Cross for their courage during the First World War has been unveiled on the Hoe.

The slab is located near the Plymouth War Memorial, at the junction of Citadel Road and Lockyer Street, and is in memory of Captain John James Crowe VC (28 December 1876-27 February...

Womble Bond Dickinson celebrates International Innovation Week

Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, which has a large office in Plymouth, has organised an International Innovation Week.

From Monday 19th to Friday 23rd March, more than 19 events took place across Womble Bond Dickinson's UK and US offices, looking at how innovative technology is transforming the legal industry and other sectors, how businesses challenge themselves to...

Local firm announces staff expansion

Plymouth based SSG Training and Consultancy have had a great start to 2018 with five new members joining their head office team.

Strong demand for SSG’s health and safety training and consultancy services has fuelled the recruitment drive across all areas of the business. SSG has seen recent company growth adding over 200 new clients in 2017 and the opening of new training centres...

Business can benefit from counselling skills training at PSP

A training course which helps people support colleagues who may be experiencing stress is being run at Plymouth Science Park.

Devon and Cornwall Counselling Hub holds a number of fully accredited courses and its staff believe everyone can benefit from undertaking a basic level of training.

The team provide students with a skillset which can really help transform lives - and...

PSP firm's washable mattress made from recycled bottles

Mattresses are a huge environmental problem which might be about to be solved thanks to a brainwave by Squirrel Medical, a company based at the internationally renowned Plymouth Science Park.

Currently, the UK sees some 169,000 mattresses dumped into landfill. Hygiene concerns mean many of the parts mean cannot be recycled.

It’s a global issue with industry experts saying...

CCTV appeal after assault at Totnes Station

Do you know who this man is? Officers would like to speak with him in connection to an assault at Totnes station last month.

At approximately 11.45pm to 11.50pm on 11 February, the victim – a 65-year-old man - had just left a train. He had a verbal altercation with another man who left the service.

The offender then approached the victim and assaulted him by punching him and...

The Broadway welcomes community support team

On Saturday 10 March The Broadway shopping centre helped support Plymstock shoppers by hosting a local advice clinic in collaboration with the Devon and Cornwall Police.

Supported by Trading Standards, Plymstock City Council and Age Concern, free advice and confidential consultation was given throughout the day, providing shoppers with direct access to information on a variety of...

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