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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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Plymouth gears up for an unforgettable Christmas

Plymouth is being turned into a Winter Wonderland with everything from giant snow globes and fabulous illuminations to a Santa driven train.

The City Centre Company, Plymouth traders, Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Waterfront Partnership are uniting for a Yuletide to remember, hoping more people than ever before will visit Britain’s Ocean City from November to the New Year....

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Usdaw: 125 Years Strong exhibition opens Plymouth

A pop-up exhibition ‘Usdaw: 125 Years Strong’ will open to the public, free of charge, from 7 to 27 November 2016 at Plymouth Athenaeum.

The Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers is celebrating its 125th anniversary at Plymouth Athenaeum throughout November 2016. The union’s pop-up exhibition reviews Usdaw’s social history and showcases campaigns then and now in the areas of...

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Plymouth calls on Government to take action on Housing Benefit overpayments

Plymouth City Council is working with the Local Government Association (LGA) to call on the Government to tackle the issue of Housing Benefit overpayments, which contributes to a loss of £1 million a year to Plymouth taxpayers.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays a subsidy to councils including Plymouth to administer Housing Benefit, but councils are losing out largely...

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Plans to make Plymouth greener unveiled

Plymouth’s plans to go greener and keep the city’s streets cleaner are to be unveiled at Cabinet next week.

Proposals are being put forward for the city to move to an alternate weekly collection which will lead to a significant shift in recycling habits.

At the same time, clear guidelines will be issued to all households about how, what and when to put bins out.

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The Great Big Rhino auction

A grand charity auction will take place at the Riviera International Conference Centre in Torquay on Thursday 3rd November. For sale? 39 life-size painted rhino figures.

The original, one-off artworks will be raising money to help Critically Endangered wild rhinos in South East Asia.

In 2013, the Paignton Zoo Great Gorillas Project charity auction raised £100,000 when 27 large...

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Lord Mayor's Charity Horse Racing Night raises £850

A great time was had by all those who attended a Charity Horse Racing Night on Sunday 30th October 2016 in aid of the South West Mesothelioma Support Group and Frontline Veterans Support.

A grand total of £850 was raised for the charities.

Members of the South West Mesothelioma Support Group would like to extend their sincere thanks to Plymouth Lord Mayor Councillor Pauline...

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Rory Bremner joins national fishing awards in hunt for best commercial fishermen in UK & Ireland

A national awards programme is looking for the foremost commercial fishermen in the UK and Ireland, and the public are being asked to put forward their nominations. Designed to celebrate the dedication, skills, and ingenuity of those working within UK and Irish commercial fishing, the Fishing News Awards 2017 will shine a spotlight on those fishermen and fishing organisations who have excelled...

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Could DNA from a virus millions of years old be key to new nerve tumour therapies?

Dr Sylwia Ammoun, Senior Research Fellow at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, has been awarded a grant in excess of £65,000 by children’s charity Action Medical Research, to investigate new drug treatments for neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) – and the secret may lie in sequences of DNA from viruses that are millions of years old.

NF2 is a genetic condition...

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Plymouth gang jailed for human trafficking offences

Five members of a Plymouth family have been jailed for 20 years and six months following the first prosecution for human trafficking offences in Devon and Cornwall.

The two men and three women, all members of the same extended family and of Czech origin, were convicted by Plymouth Crown Court on Monday 31 October for various modern slavery offences.

Martin Tancos, 37, and...

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Bonfire Night in Plymouth

With just over a week to go until Bonfire Night, plans are in place for Plymouth to host a family evening of fireworks, fun, entertainment and most of all…..a bonfire!

Taking place on Saturday 5 November on Plymouth Hoe, the evening celebrations will begin at 4pm when fairground rides and catering stands open.

Radio Plymouth will keep visitors entertained with an exciting...

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