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GB baseball stars coming to Exeter

Women’s baseball players from across the region will descend on Exeter next month for a special tournament celebrating the growth of the sport and encouraging more women and girls to get involved.

The event, organised by Exeter Baseball Club, takes place at Winslade Park on Saturday,...

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Keep your Christmas spirit in check

‘Tis the season to be jolly – and that should be towards everyone working to make your nights out enjoyable this festive season. That’s the message from Plymouth Police Acting Superintendent Cath Farrin who says that sometimes the Christmas “spirit” can make revelers rude and abusive to taxi drivers, bar staff, take-away and restaurant workers.

A targeted Christmas Hate Crime Campaign...

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Water Babies raise £500 for Maternity Unit

Local Water Babies have been busy making a splash for Derriford Hospital’s Maternity Unit and have raised a total of £500.00.

The money was raised through sponsored beach party themed swimming lessons, which had babies doing the limbo under a woggle, playing beach volley ball and racing rafts across the pool!

Kate Evans has been running Water Babies classes across Cornwall and...

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Festive fun with new Christmas game by Plymouth business

Award-winning Plymouth company, Sponge UK has created a special Christmas game to spread some festive cheer and test out the latest elearning technology.

Every year, the business, based at Plymouth Science Park, creates an online Christmas game as an alternative to sending Christmas cards.

The highly skilled team at Sponge used the opportunity to put newly released elearning...

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Another illegal tattooist stopped from trading

Tattoo equipment has been seized after information from the public about another 'scratcher' in the city.

Trading Standards Officers along with Devon and Cornwall Police officers, seized a large amount of tattoo equipment including; 19 boxes of out of date needles and unsterile equipment from a Plymouth residential address this week.

The raid happened after information was...

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Volunteers with long term health conditions help each other out in new ‘time bank pilot’

A group of people in Plymouth with long term health conditions are volunteering to help each other and provide mutual support, thanks to a new initiative in the city.

Plymouth City Council and Northern, Eastern, and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (NEW Devon CCG) have commissioned Timebank South West to develop a new ‘time bank’ for local people living with long term health...

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Plymouth one of the worst places for parking in UK

Plymouth is the sixth worst place for parking in the UK, according to a new study by Privilege car insurance.

The findings take into account the number of parking tickets issued, the length of time spent looking for a space and the number of parking-related prangs to produce a cumulative parking score; a measure of how bad it is to park in towns and cities across the UK.

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Christian Aid releases 'Stranger Things' inspired appeal video

Christian Aid has launched ‘A Stranger Christmas Story’, a short stop-frame animation film inspired by the popular Netflix TV show Stranger Things, to highlight the 65 million people who are displaced by conflict and crises this Christmas.

However, the numbers of people displaced are constantly rising due to recent events in places such as Aleppo in Syria, Mosul in Iraq, South Sudan...

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Red carpet welcome for Plymouth youngsters

YOUNG talent from a performing arts school in Plymouth took the West End by storm at the weekend in a performance to support the charity Breast Cancer Care.

Pupils from Stagecoach Performing Arts Plymouth showcased their talents alongside fellow students from various schools in a special charity gala performance at the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End. They were one of ten acts who...

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Learning design talent at Plymouth firm wins national recognition

Plymouth business, Sponge UK has attracted another top award, this time for the design talents of Kate Nicholls, the company’s Head of Learning Innovation.

The former Plymouth College student is Learning Technologies Designer of the Year after winning gold at the Learning Technologies Awards for her track record in the high quality design of effective digital learning programmes....

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Evans Halshaw Plymouth to land haymakaer against cancer

Local Vauxhall retailer, Evans Halshaw Plymouth, is rallying round to raise much needed funds for Cancer Research UK.

The dealership is supporting Service Leader, Greg Shelton, who will be taking part in a charity boxing match on 18th December at the Riviera International Conference Centre in Torquay Devon.

As part of Greg’s sponsorship, the retailer is sponsoring his vest,...

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