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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...

Storms continue to batter Devon

As storms continue to batter Devon, a more severe amber warning has been issued for wind by the Met Office.

Southerly gales are expected to affect the region during today as a small low pressure centre moves north generating an area of severe gales within its circulation. Gusts of 50-60 mph are possible inland and as much as 75 mph along exposed coasts.

The public should be...

Iconic projects win at the Quadruple

Two iconic projects which have transformed the eastern edge of Plymouth University’s city centre campus have each won two accolades at the 2014 Abercrombie Awards.

The House, the University’s new performing arts centre, won the Best New Building Category and the overall Abercrombie award for design excellence and innovation.

Meanwhile, the restoration of the Drake’s Place...

PCSOs praised for saving man's life

Two PCSOs have been praised by paramedics after saving a man’s life in Devonport on Wednesday (12 November).

PCSO Sam Blake and PCSO Sam Welch were flagged down by a member of public on Charlotte Street at around 3.15pm after a 56-year-old man had collapsed and was laying unconscious in the Morice Town Convenience Store.

While running to the store, the officers radioed for...

House prices continue to rise in the South West, but at a slower pace

House prices continued to rise in the South West, but at a slower pace, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey.

In line with slowing momentum, surveyors are now anticipating a much flatter price outlook in the run up to Christmas, but over the course of the next 12 months they remain quite positive.

The level of sales activity was more or less unchanged on the...

Exeter Christmas Turkey Farm Celebrates 75 Years

Father and son farming partnership Mike and Tim Leach of Glebelands Farm, Upton Pyne celebrates 75 years of rearing top-quality turkeys and geese specifically for the Christmas market with the launch of a new website called ‘TastyBird’.

Free-range bronze turkeys and geese roam freely through the fields and are fed with natural cereals from the farm with no growth promoters or...

Drake’s Place Reservoir wins People of Plymouth award

The people behind some of Plymouth’s best-loved buildings were honoured at the city’s Abercrombie Awards on Friday evening.

Drake’s Place Reservoir was awarded the People of Plymouth title at the event which is designed to celebrate the new buildings and spaces that have helped make Plymouth the city it is today. The people of Plymouth award is voted for by the public and well over 1,...

Launch of ten year plan to improve health in Plymouth

More than half of deaths in Plymouth can be attributed to four lifestyle behaviours, and a new strategy is being launched to address the issue across the city.

Local employers attended an event to mark the start of Plymouth City Council’s new ten year plan to improve health in the city, Thrive Plymouth, on Monday 10th November. The scheme is expected to be approved by the Council’s...

SW house price growth of 24% predicted over next five years

The UK housing marketing is entering a new phase. It has been through a boom, a bust and a recovery cycle, and as we head into 2015 and a year that will see the formation of a new Government, we are now entering a more stable, yet still challenging era.

That’s according to leading property consultancy JLL’s new Residential Market Review, published this month which predicts that South...

Christmas Lights Switch-on and Lantern Parade

Thursday 13 November is a special date for the Plymouth diary as the Christmas lights get switched-on announcing the start of the official 2014 Christmas celebrations.

Taking place from 4pm at the top of Cornwall Street, outside Drake Circus Shopping Centre, visitors will be entertained by Heart FM ahead of the anticipated countdown.

Local band Joker will be performing getting...

More guests announced for Christmas lights switch on

Plymouth’s Miss Galaxy representative, Leah Dawes, popular band, JOKER, and Commonwealth diver, Matthew Dixon, are among those confirmed for Plymouth’s Christmas light’s switch-on this Thursday.

Starting at 4pm outside Drake Circus shopping centre, at the top of Cornwall Street, the entertainment line-up has been confirmed.

Deputy Leader of the Council, Councillor Pete Smith...

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