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Duru Tanir from Plymouth College and Ashlyn Watts and Isobel Battley from Devonport High School for Girls have each been awarded first prize for their respective age groups in a ceremony held at Plymouth College of Art for the Rotary Club of Plymouth’s Young Artist of the Year 2019 competition.

For the second year running, thanks goes to The Clemas Trust, as students from the Quay...

Plymouth Tesco stores will be providing sunflower lanyards to promote disability inclusion for customers and colleagues in 2020. This comes after the supermarket chain become a signatory to the Valuable 500 group of companies and pledged to create another 27 Changing Places toilets next year.

The sunflower lanyard acts as a discreet sign that the wearer has a hidden disability and...

Local community group Read Easy Plymouth is celebrating after being awarded £6,000 in National Lottery funding to support its work teaching local adults to learn to read, or to improve their reading skills. The group will use the cash to recruit and train more volunteer coaches, provide reading books and other literacy resources for the coaching sessions, and publicise their work more widely...

This weekend the medieval Great Barn at Buckland Abbey, near Plymouth in Devon opened its doors for Christmas to reveal a forest of two hundred twinkly trees and a Christmas star constellation created by visitors and volunteers.

The Christmas star constellation was inspired by the guiding stars Sir Francis Drake followed to circumnavigate the globe before he returned home to Buckland...