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Fun family beach festival promotes serious environmental message

The Venus Company’s first ever beach music festival will take place at Blackpool Sands on Saturday 8th July and, in line with The Venus Company’s strong commitment to the environment, the theme for the festival is ‘Loving the Beach’.

Michael Smith, co-owner of The Venus Company explains: “Our mission is to be the greenest café and shop operator and we are always looking for ways to...

War Horse Event with Michael Morpurgo at Pentillie Castle

On Sunday 2nd July Michael Morpurgo will be telling the powerful and deeply moving story of War Horse accompanied by the highly acclaimed and former War Horse National Theatre songman, Ben Murray atPentillie Castle in Cornwall.

War Horse Only Remembered is a Story Concert of songs and readings retelling the well-known and much loved story of War Horse. Songs were specially composed by...

Plymouth at cutting edge of culture nationally with huge funding boost

Plymouth’s vision of powering the regeneration of the city through culture is paying off with £16 million worth of Arts Council funding coming to the city.

The amount of ‘National Portfolio Organisation’ investment from the Arts Council England coming to Plymouth is set to almost double with 10 thriving arts organisations to receive regular funding from 2018 to 2022.

The...

Calling all beauty consultants

National charity, Look Good Feel Better, is in urgent need of Beauty trained volunteers to help run their Workshops for women with cancer in Plymouth

Look Good Feel Better (LGFB) is a charity that provides practical advice for women and teenagers struggling with the visible side effects of cancer treatment. Their confidence boosting skincare and make-up Workshops and Masterclasses are...

Thousands to get superfast broadband connections

Thousands more homes and businesses across northern, central and west Devon will be able to connect to superfast broadband following a major contract announcement by Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS).

CDS, a local government-led partnership, has signed a £7 million investment deal with superfast wireless broadband provider Airband that will give 13,000 rural homes and businesses in...

Police and partners tackle Dartmoor driving offences

On Saturday 24 June, a large scale Special Constabulary led policing operation took place on Dartmoor National Park to help combat the causes of fatal and serious injury collisions, to help promote road safety by delivering ‘The Honest Truth’ campaign, and to proactively disrupt criminality.

As part of the Operational Alliance with Dorset, Devon and Cornwall Police with support from...

Top prize for Plymouth art student

Devon Artist Network (DAN) is proud to announce the Jane Pine as the winner of a brand new annual award “The Devon Artist Network Student Award for Excellence in Painting, Drawing & Printmaking,” awarded to a student in their final year of the Plymouth College of Arts BA (hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking course, who in the view of the judging panel, has demonstrated excellence in...

Construction firms urged to help SW back in to work and tackle industry skills crisis

The RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) is calling on construction firms in the South West to help tackle the skills shortage in the industry by helping some of their community’s most vulnerable people get back into work.

It has been predicted that the UK construction industry will create around 190,000 new jobs by the end of 2018 but there is a growing fear that there will...

Plymouth builders scoop top industry award

Plymouth builders Mercury Construction scooped a prestigious Master Builder Award, taking the prize for best Commercial Project in the Federation of Master Builders’ (FMB) South West region.

Now in its 13th year, the Master Builder Awards continues to be a flagship for high-quality building work. Organised by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), the awards programme is unique in...

Record numbers of wild swimmers do The Swoosh

More than 800 wild swimmers took to the waters of the river Avon at Bantham in Devon this weekend for the now-annual ‘Swoosh’ event which sold out in record time this year. Organisers The Outdoor Swimming Society said that 900 tickets sold out in just 90 minutes when they were made available in March.

‘The Swoosh’ involves swimmers going into the water at Aveton Gifford and swimming...

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