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Devon gardeners called to adopt a pollinator-friendly plant group

Plant Heritage has published its Missing Collections 2025 list, which highlights 16 pollinator-friendly plant groups that aren’t yet part of the charity’s widely respected National Plant Collections scheme.

The charity is calling for gardeners in Devon, and across the country, to...

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Plymouth residents asked to give views on balancing the City Council’s budget

Plymouth residents are being asked to give their views and ideas on how the City Council should balance its budget as its funding reduces and costs rise.

The Council is running a three-week engagement exercise that encourages people to give their views on its ongoing plans to deal with continuously reducing funding.

The Council has delivered more than £65 million of savings...

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Residents asked to give views on balancing the City Council’s budget

BankRUN comes to Plymouth for Art Weekender

Where does money come from? How is its creation regulated? And why is it that the only institutions with the legal power to create money from nothing - the banks - need subsidising?

On Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th September, as part of the Plymouth Art Weekender, artist Lara Luna Bartley will mark 10 years (and one week) since Northern Rock suffered a bank run by hand printing a...

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Plymouth transform entire city centre into a live adventure game

A demanding boss, enough unsolved cases to fill an aircraft hangar, and now one of Plymouth’s leading professors has gone missing. Detective Inspector Ranney is not having a good day…

Do you feel like testing your powers of deduction? Fancy pitting your wits against Plymouth’s most ancient criminal fraternity? Could you solve a centuries old mystery and save the professor into the...

Do you want to make travelling to and from school more fun this year?

Do you want to make travelling to and from school more fun this year? As children return to school for the new term, Plymouth City Council wants to talk to local families about how to make the school journey healthier and more fun. The Plymotion scheme offers a range of support and funding to schools, with input from parents and pupils, to improve the commute to and from school.

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Local gamer turned learning developer named as award finalist

A talented local developer, who transferred his skills from an independent games studio to the world of corporate elearning, is a finalist for a major award.

Jason Butler from Millbrook, who works for Plymouth business Sponge UK has been shortlisted as Learning developer of the year for Europe’s largest learning technologies awards scheme.

Jason, who joined Sponge UK in 2014...

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Local gamer turned learning developer named as award finalist

National Identity Project Exhibition

Monika Fischbein announces The National Identity Project Exhibition in association with Fotonow CIC as part of “Plymouth Art Weekender”. The event will take place over three days from Friday 22nd September - Sunday 24th September at St. Saviours CIC, 41 Lambhay Hill, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2NW. Additional information can be found on the Plymouth Art Weekender site at: http://plymouthartweekender....

Progress on new homes in Plymouth well on track for winter opening

Progress on a new community in the Plymouth suburb of Plympton has been given the seal of approval from one of Barratt Homes’ most senior staff.

Managing director Paul Moran visited the company’s new Redwood Heights development in Plympton this week and gave his construction team the thumbs up for progress being made at the site.

Work is well underway at Redwood Heights, with...

City recycling rates up!

Thank you for helping Plymouth’s alternate weekly collection get off to an encouraging start – that’s the message from the leader of the Council, Ian Bowyer.

New figures show that people across Plymouth are recycling more and throwing away less waste.

The city is trimming its waste line – throwing away nearly 12 kilos less per household – that’s almost two stone (48 pasties)...

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Royal Marines Band to play Last Post at CWGC Plymouth Naval Memorial

A performance of the Last Post will take place at the stunning Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Plymouth Naval Memorial every Friday at 6pm until Friday November 17.

The Royal Marines Band Plymouth, along with the 6 RIFLES Band, will be part of the service and the CWGC are inviting people in Plymouth to come along.

The Act of Remembrance will start with a bugler playing the...

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Bretonside to be reopened early after cable fault repair works

Local electricity company Western Power Distribution (WPD) are embarking on work that involved the closure of a section of Bretonside, in Plymouth to enable repairs to a faulty 33,000v oil filled cable. Commencing on Monday 4th September, it was anticipated this work would take between 4 and 10 weeks depending on the severity of the cable damage, however the opening of the road will now take...

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Bretonside in Plymouth to be reopened early after cable fault repair works

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Devon gardeners called to adopt a pollinator-friendly plant group

Plymouth residents asked to give views on balancing the City Council’s budget

BankRUN comes to Plymouth for Art Weekender

Plymouth transform entire city centre into a live adventure game

Do you want to make travelling to and from school more fun this year?

Local gamer turned learning developer named as award finalist

National Identity Project Exhibition

Progress on new homes in Plymouth well on track for winter opening

City recycling rates up!

Royal Marines Band to play Last Post at CWGC Plymouth Naval Memorial

Bretonside to be reopened early after cable fault repair works

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