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When kids go home, adults Go Ape this summer!

Go Ape Haldon are launching adults-only sessions for the first time this summer. So you can swear up a storm all the way down the zipline guilt free (guessing that happens a lot).

Landing just in time for VAT Summer, where you can save 15% across Go Ape locations until 1st September...

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Haldons Ltd Construction Consultants Celebrate 10th Anniversary

The team at Construction Consultants, Haldons Limited with offices in Exeter and Torquay, celebrated their 10th anniversary with a specially baked Birthday cake, pictured outside their Exeter office at the Sowton Business & Technology Centre.

Mark Coton, a Chartered Surveyor and a member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, established the company with his wife, and co-...

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Frozen fun skate sessions

For the first time ever this Christmas holiday, Frozen’s Elsa will be arriving at the Plymouth Pavilions Ice Rink on Sunday 28 December for three fantastic Frozen Fun Skate sessions!

Each session will see Frozen fans take to the Ice dressed as their favourite Frozen characters, to take part in a mass Let it Go sing-a-long led by Elsa herself, before skating off amidst a flurry of...

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Top marks for Plymouth’s Bike It Plus schools

The 2013/14 Bike It Plus results are in and Plymouth schools have increased regular cycling and scooting and reduced the number of children regularly driven to school.

Bike It Plus encourages children, parents and staff to travel actively to school through fun activities, safety advice and promotional events. The Plymouth programme is delivered by the City Council and Sustrans and...

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University works with NHS to train future health managers

Plymouth University is working alongside the NHS to prepare the next generation of health managers for the challenges they will face.

The University has signed an agreement to work with the NHS South West Leadership Academy to run a Postgraduate Certificate in Organisational Leadership for aspiring health executives.

The first of a suite of courses, it will aim to provide...

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Iconic buildings set to shine in ‘Light Fantastic’ events

Five of Plymouth’s most iconic buildings will become beacons of light on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November as part of the city’s ‘Three Towns’ centenary celebrations.

‘Light Fantastic’ will see landmarks in Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse brought to life with photos, images, sounds and memories from the last century as well as today.

On Friday community-inspired...

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Plymouth 10K company challenge winners

Staff from race sponsors Mansbridge Balment have been crowned the winners of the Plymouth 10k Company Challenge, after securing an overall winning team time of three hours ten minutes and five seconds.

Businesses entered the Company Challenge, with each overall team time made up of the top four fastest finishers within a mixed male and female team. Darren Lawson, Managing Director at...

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Our Plymouth: one month on

It’s been one month since a project to mobilise volunteers in Plymouth was launched and the scheme is going from strength to strength.

Our Plymouth was launched on 21st October as Plymouth was one of seven cities to be awarded Cities of Service status in the UK. Our Plymouth aims to work with local residents to help them make improvements to the local community through volunteering,...

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Plymouth shortlisted for two regional Green Energy awards

Plymouth has been shortlisted for two regional Green Energy awards.

The South West Green Energy Awards have shortlisted Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Energy Community for two categories at the award ceremony, organised by Regen SW.

The shortlist was compiled from a flood of over 100 nominations for inspiring companies, projects and people pioneering the development of...

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Man attacked by men wearing gorilla masks

Police are investigating an attack on a man in a Plympton car park by two men who were wearing full-head gorilla masks.

The 47-year-old local man was attacked as he got into his silver Audi estate car outside Chaplins Superstore on Galileo Close, Newnham Industrial Estate, at around 5.30pm on Friday 21 November.

Two men had waited for him nearby and watched him as he walked...

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Christmas Fair marks ten years of Fairtrade

Ten years after Plymouth was awarded Fairtrade status, a Christmas Fair is being held to celebrate.

Plymouth was one of the first in the South West to earn the Fairtrade accolade in 2004 in recognition of its commitment to making fairly traded products available in local shops, cafes and other businesses.

The Just Christmas market takes place on Saturday 29th November 2014 at...

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