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Plymouth’s residents are being encouraged to take part in the city’s biggest ever volunteer tidy up as part of this year’s Great British Spring Clean.

Plymouth City Council is backing the national Keep Britain Tidy led campaign, which runs from 22 March to 23 April, which will see up to half a million people taking action to clean up streets, parks and beaches across the country....

The National Marine Aquarium (NMA) in Plymouth will be the only aquarium in the UK to allow its visitors to talk to the divers in its tanks, as part of a brand new interactive Dive Show during the Easter holidays. The new technology will see the divers communicate with each other, as well as the audience for a fully interactive experience.

Throughout the Easter holidays (6-23 April),...

Sixteen is proving sweet for the Plymouth-based projects that have secured second round funding from ‘Mayflower 400 Community Sparks’.

The scheme, which has been set up to support grass-roots community, arts and cultural activities linked to Mayflower 400, is a partnership between The Box, Mayflower 400, Plymouth Culture, Plymouth City Council and Vital Sparks. It’s supported by a...

The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) broadband programme has today announced that it is now offering vouchers through the national BDUK Better Broadband Scheme.

All homes and businesses in the region with broadband speeds of less than two Megabits per second (Mbps), without a published delivery date for superfast broadband within the next 12 months, are now eligible to apply for an...