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Cranbrook to Host First eat:Festival Food and Drink Event

eat:Festivals will be hosting a food and drink festival in Cranbrook on Sunday 13 September 2026.

The festival will be happening in the heart of the town, on and surrounding the Tillhouse Road. eat:Festivals are a small social enterprise who have been delivering one day food and drink...

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Racing home with a WIN for Beach Schools South West at the RuralBusiness Awards!

Community Interest Company, Beach Schools South West won the accolade of Best Rural Educational Business at the prestigious finals event held by the Rural Business Awards at Bath Racecourse.

Company Directors Tess Stuber and Alexis Bowater represented the Beach Schools South West team as they attended the event, being one of five businesses in their category to reach the finals....

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Racing home with a WIN for Beach Schools South West at the RuralBusiness Awards!

Third of Brits are putting themselves at risk if extreme weather hits the UK

New research revealed this week, shows that across the UK people aren’t in a position to combat the effects of extreme weather this winter, and over a third (35%) of Brits admit to not being prepared at all.

Despite national disruption from storms such as the Beast from the East earlier this year, 36% of people still don’t have an emergency kit in their cars containing supplies to...

Eight arrested linked to County Lines drug supply

Officers in Devon and Cornwall have made a number of arrests as part of a joint operation to tackle the supply of drugs across the country.

Eight men, aged between 19 and 53 are currently in police custody and all were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply Heroin and Cocaine; the arrests were made at a number of locations across the region including Plymouth, Exeter and...

Plymouth students help blood cancer charity celebrate 20 years of lifesaving

Volunteers from University of Plymouth will be celebrating 20 years of students saving lives with blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan this academic year – and the remarkable 3431 potential stem cell donors recruited to the UK stem cell register.

‘Marrow’ is the name for Anthony Nolan’s student volunteer network. Plymouth Marrow at University of Plymouth will hold a series of...

DIT supports Plymouth company producing 2.6 billion products a year

The Department for International Trade’s (DIT) Minister of State, Baroness Fairhead, was in Plymouth on Friday (9 November) to celebrate the international success of life sciences company, Becton Dickinson (BD).

Renowned for their high quality medical technology, BD have operations in the likes of the US, Japan and the Middle East, employing 65,000 people across the world. In the UK...

Healthcare is top priority among citizens in Britain, finds new global study by the Economist Intelligence Unit

Citizens don’t often think about resource constraints when they vote or think about the kind of society they want to live in. Many want free education and healthcare, security, high incomes, low taxes, a clean environment, and affordable housing. However, resource constraints mean that societies need to prioritise their focus areas. And citizens’ opinions have become an increasingly relevant...

Are the people of Plymouth luckier than other Brits?

Regardless of how strongly you believe in the benevolent hand of fate, there's no denying that blind luck plays a huge role in all of our daily lives. You may have gotten where you are today through plenty of hard work, determination and grit, but there's no doubt that you owe a chunk of your success to simply being in the right place at the right time or just having a lucky day at the right...

Auction house to sell rare miniature of Thomas Fones, Mayor of Plymouth in 1620

Cheffins in Cambridge is due to sell a rare miniature portrait dating back to 1612 of Thomas Fones, Mayor of Plymouth in 1620, the year the Mayflower sailed. The sale will take place on the 28th and 29th November.

Painted by Isaac Oliver, one of the leading artists of the period, miniatures of this quality are a rarity on the auction market.

The work is being sold by the...

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Cambridge auction house to sell rare miniature of Thomas Fones

Mayor of Plymouth in 1620

GWR honours WW1 fallen workers with specially commissioned Armistice train

Great Western Railway marked 100 years since the end of the Great War with a special ceremony to commemorate the 2,545 railway workers who were lost in battle.

The centrepiece of the ceremony at Paddington Station on Friday 9 November was the unveiling of a special Intercity Express Train featuring the names of all 2,545 men who worked for the GWR and were killed during the war....

Paignton Zoo keeper hatches conservation success

This is the extraordinary moment the hatching of a rare Mauritius pink pigeon chick was caught on video – and the moment the hard work started in earnest for Paignton Zoo bird keeper Tom Tooley. Senior Bird Keeper Tom is currently 6,000 miles away on the island of Mauritius. But if you think he’s dodged the English winter to relax on a tropical island, think again. He’s spending time with...

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