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The Quiet Value Hiding among Books on Stuffed Bookshelves

Full bookshelves bring warmth and comfort into the home environment. In many Devon homes, there are plenty of books accumulating in a corner over the years; old literature from schools and university, recipe books, books to read when you travel, tales for kids, and expensive heavy books that...

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Plymouth friends in Best Friend of the Year UK

Your best friend is more likely to criticise your new hairstyle or your weight, than to reveal your partner is cheating on you. These are the findings of a new survey, examining 1,700 friendships across the UK in 2015.

Just 29% of people would tell a best friend if that friend’s partner had been spotted doing something bad. However 54% would admit to disliking a best friend’s...

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Native American chef to lecture in Plymouth

An award-winning Native American chef, food historian, and photographer will provide an insight into centuries of culinary tradition when she gives a public lecture at Plymouth University in June.

Dr. Lois Ellen Frank, adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), will take to the stage to talk about using ancestral Native American foods as a ‘New Paradigm for...

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Funding awarded to research impact of music making on people with barriers to communication

Plymouth University and Plymouth Music Zone have been awarded more than £150,000 to explore the potential of music making to enhance the lives of people impacted by dementia, autism, strokes and other conditions which affect their communication.

The two organisations have received funding from the Arts Council Research Grants Programme for a two-year project, titled Beyond Words: The...

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Carers Week events in Plymouth

Carers in Plymouth are being celebrated with a week of events to mark Carers Week 2015 (8 – 14 June).

In Plymouth there are an estimated 27,000 unpaid carers, and nationally it is thought that unpaid carers save health and social care services around £120 billion per year. Around 42 per cent of unpaid carers do this for more than 20 hours per week and many carers are children.

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Council committed to helping children improve their reading and writing

Plymouth City Council will now be working more closely with schools to help more 11 year olds to reach the standard of literacy they’ll need to be successful learners.

In May 2014 the Council's Cabinet set out 50 new pledges all aimed at making Plymouth a better place to live. One of those pledges was to increase the number of children leaving school with the ability to read and write...

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Non-animal research charity awards studentship to Plymouth University

Professor Oliver Hanemann, Director of the Institute of Translational & Stratified Medicine at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, has been awarded a ‘Summer Studentship’ by the Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT), the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity. The DHT scheme enables undergraduate students to extend their studies over the summer by gaining practical...

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Planning underway for Ivybridge Lions Funday

A LIVELY day is planned for Ivybridge’s annual Lions Funday this July and organisers are looking out for people to take part.

The Funday, set for Saturday, July 4, is open to all and will have Circus Skills, Fairground Rides and a slide as well as a ‘Funtasia jungle run’.

Ivybridge Rugby Club will host the event, which is in its thirteenth year. Lion President Adam Winzer said...

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Progress on new CCTV control room

An old unused kitchen in the basement of the Council House is being transformed into a base for the city’s new CCTV control centre.

Contractors Ryearch have been on site for several weeks and have already completed much of the shell of rooms that will soon have aCSI-style bank of CCTV screens, together with servers and facilities for the team.

A separate corridor is being...

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Plymouth's Ocean City Festival set to return

Plymouth will once again be hosting the annual Ocean City Festival from 7 to 27 September 2015 across the city and businesses and the local community are invited to get involved.

This fun and vibrant festival will focus on all things relating to the ocean and anyone who has an event that fits with the ocean theme can be part of the spectacular Ocean City Festival, whether that’s water...

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Plymouth to host Marvel-lous event

Special guests including Dalek’s from Dr Who, the Ghostbusters and Film and TV Special Effects expert, Graham Brown, will be among those attending DEV CON – Plymouth’s biggest sci-fi and Marvel comic fair.

Organised by Events Frontier this family event is a one stop shop for all sci-fi fans. Taking place in the Plymouth Guildhall on Saturday 30 May from 10.30am to 4pm visitors will be...

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