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Rowcroft Hospice raises nearly £15k at Live at Powderham concert

Twenty-eight dedicated Rowcroft Hospice volunteers and staff braved soaring temperatures on Friday 26 June to raise an incredible £14,644 during Live at Powderham, where the hospice was proud to be the charity partner for a fabulous performance by Alanis Morissette.

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HLM to invest £250,000 in Training Academy launch

Plymouth-based architects, HLM, has announced the launch of ‘HLM Academy’, a £250,000 investment.

The in-house professional excellence programme will help ensure that all employees have the opportunity and resources to reach their full potential.

The Training Academy will be available to all 240 staff — management, design and administration — based across the company’s six UK...

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Plymouth wins funding for Mayflower Museum revamp

Plymouth City Council and the partnership leading plans for Mayflower 400 are celebrating news that the city has won £35,000 from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to upgrade the Mayflower Museum on the Barbican.

The funding, announced yeseterday by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Sajid Javid, will allow a refurbishment of the museum, based on the upper...

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MEP Delighted by ‘Green Surge’ in SW

South West Green MEP, Molly Scott Cato, has drawn attention to the 'green surge' sweeping across the region following a constituency week in which she met with local communities and visited several “inspirational” projects across the South West.

She said, “The South West is witnessing a political green surge, the Green Party has quadrupled in size in just one year and this goes along...

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Apprenticeship campaign aims to fill hundreds of vacancies

A new campaign is being launched in Plymouth to encourage more young people to take up the hundreds of local apprenticeships that are still available.

The city has a reputation for delivering exceptional apprenticeships but despite there being more than 6,000 apprentices in Plymouth, there are still around 300 vacancies.

The 1000 Club has launched a campaign featuring talented...

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A Service of Remembering Together

On Sunday 1st March, there will be a special service for parents who have experienced bereavement through the loss of a pregnancy or death of a baby.

The service will take place at 2.00pm and will be held in the Chapel on level seven at Derriford Hospital. The Chapel will be also be open from 1.00pm for the opportunity to meet other parents and talk things over with a chaplain or...

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Police appeal to trace wanted man

Detectives from Titan, the North-west regional organised crime unit, are appealing for the public’s help in tracing a Manchester man who they want to speak to as part of an investigation into a drugs conspiracy.

Glenn Phillip Madden (pictured) has links to the Salford, Stretford, Swinton and Urmston areas of Greater Manchester as well as West Yorkshire and Devon and Cornwall.

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Appeal for information after Whitleigh burglary

Detectives in Plymouth are appealing for any witnesses or for anyone with any information about a burglary that took place at 149 Taunton Avenue in the Whitleigh area of Plymouth.

The property, a one bedroom first floor flat, was unoccupied when the offence took place.

Police believe the break-in happened sometime between Tuesday 17 February and Saturday 21 February.

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Makeover for Plymouth Travelodge hotels

The hotel teams at Plymouth Roborough and Plymouth Derriford Travelodge hotels are celebrating news that their hotels are to receive a make-over this year, as part of a nationwide £100 million brand modernisation programme. The makeovers represent a £620,000 investment in Plymouth this year.

The revamp at Plymouth Roborough will totally transform the 40-room hotel giving it a new...

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Book that helped Henry VIII annul his marriage discovered in Cornwall

A book that helped King Henry VIII to build his case against the Pope, and annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, has been discovered at the National Trust’s Lanhydrock in Cornwall.

Now the book is to be the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the house where visitors will be able to see rare and unusual works with Royal themes from Lanhydrock’s library.

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Devon success at 2015 SMK Campaigner awards

A key figure in the campaign to save the Tinside Lido has been awarded for his work by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation.

Kevin Kelway, 52, from Plymouth's historic Barbican collected 70,000 signatures demanding that the iconic outdoor pool stayed open in the late 1990's.

His enduring work won the support of English Heritage and the 20th Century Society, securing a Grade 2...

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